No. 90 www.interchange.bowburn.net March / April 2019 Bowburn gets People’s Vote on “Totem Pole” new survey will decide decided to keep going. Further Fun new banner was then added, to mark could be used. Joanne Ashworth, for whether Bowburn has Days were arranged and, in 1996, Bowburn’s centenary in 2006. Groundwork, began consultation A Bowburn Interchange was founded. Later that year a memorial to the with residents in September 2018. a controversial new piece of A village appraisal (survey) asked 52 men who died in the quest for coal She called at the 30 nearest houses, public art. how the village could be made better at Bowburn Colliery was unveiled to ask what nearby residents thought The “Coal Column” was designed and funding was found for some in the Community Centre. In 2007, and inviting them to look at plans in to honour our mining heritage. But environmental works as a result. the coal tub memorial, dedicated to the communal room in Bede Tce. some people think it disgraces it. Marking the village’s mining herit- ‘Mick’ Milburn and all who worked Anyone interested was also invited, Plans that have been nearly twenty age became a priority because of that at the colliery, was installed opposite via Facebook. But only three turned years in the making could fall at the survey and ideas were invited, via the the War Memorial, thanks to Mick’s up. Two were for the Coal Column, last fence. Or they might produce Interchange (see no. 15). Residents son, Jim Milburn. one against. Of the 12 people who a unique object of admiration or were invited to join a bus tour, to The Coal Column idea was revived answered the door to Joanne, 11 dismay for years to come. look at projects elsewhere. in 2009 after Dunelm Homes won were in favour, one was against. This Bowburn Village Celebration planning permission to build the first seemed to show support for the pro- (BVC), publisher of Bowburn • What does it mean? houses on the former Cape site. (See ject (or, at least, little opposition). Interchange since 1996, has a close Interchange no. 51.) That permission However 27 people posted messages interest in this. Its editors always aim • How would it be paid required a “Per Cent for Art” contri- on Facebook, most of them nega- to promote the village and its won- for? bution to pay for a piece of public art tive. So the Parish Council decided derful strengths. They try to avoid • What can you do? on the new estate or nearby. further consultation was needed. taking sides, where any issues seems Meanwhile, in 2004, the Bowburn It agreed that a questionnaire controversial, and their motto has Your questions answered & Parkhill Community Partnership should be delivered to all 2,670 long been “News, not views”. – Page 3 (B&PCP) had been formed, as part houses in the Bowburn area, to be Readers should note, however, that of the wider village regeneration cut out of December’s Interchange, it was BVC that first raised the idea In 2001, an arts development project. (See Interchange no. 27.) with an article about it by Joanne. of marking Bowburn’s mining herit- officer told BVC about works of B&PCP now took up the chance to She also ran an on-line survey. age, back in 2000. It was BVC that art commissioned by community get the Bowburn Coal Column. Its Residents were asked if they wanted organised meetings to discuss possi- groups elsewhere – and about the officers, Richard Cowen, Jan Blakey, a new piece of art to celebrate the vil- ble ways to do this. And it was BVC possibility of funding for one in Janet Blackburn and Mike Syer, went lage’s mining heritage; if they agreed that was introduced by arts develop- Bowburn. An example, described as to see Geoff Woodcock and Paul with the Mary Terrace location, and ment agency, Durham City Arts, to a Coal Seam Column, was pictured Armstrong, of the Esh Group. They if they supported the Coal Column. Colin Rose – the artist who created in the Interchange in August 2001 agreed to contact Colin Rose, the Only 73 people voted. Of those, the idea of the Coal Column. (no. 17), with a short questionnaire artist, and to work with the County 11 didn’t want any public art. Of The Interchange has tried hard to for readers. Council to see the project through… the 62 who did, 39 wanted the Coal inform residents about progress on Then things went quiet. This was But then things went quiet again. Column and 23 wanted something this project and to involve them in partly because of a low response to The next that B&PCP heard else. With this apparent evidence all decisions. We promise to report that questionnaire and also because was that the Esh Group had paid that the vast majority of Bowburn only the facts on this matter. But, in Durham City Arts closed down, with its Percent for Art money to the residents didn't really mind, while these days of “fake news”, it is only likely help to find funding. But a Council and would not themselves the majority who had voted were in right that we point out BVC’s early bigger reason was perhaps that other be taking the matter any further. So favour, the Parish Council decided involvement in this project. things were happening to honour in December 2016, B&PCP's offic- in January to go ahead. Early origins Bowburn’s mining heritage. ers met Stephen Reed, of Durham Then there was an outcry on BVC was formed in 1994 to plan In 2005, two of Bowburn’s County Council. He said the money Facebook, where an alternative poll celebrations of the 50th anniversary original Miners’ Lodge banners was available to build the Coal was organised. It asked, “Totem Pole of the end of World War II. The were returned to the village. (See Column, but that the Council itself type Statue for miners or something Bowburn War Memorial was dedi- Interchange no. 32.) These were would not commission the work. else?” 380 people voted “Yes”. No cated on VE Day 1995 and a Fun Day repaired and conserved and – thanks They could only pay money to some Parish Councillor (even those who was organised. The World War II to the wonderful craftsmanship of one else to do that. were not personally that keen on Book of Remembrance (in Bowburn the late John Johnson and the dona- Groundwork gets involved the Coal Column) tried to reverse Community Centre) was produced tion of pews from the “Pineapple B&PCP found that Groundwork the decision, the next month. But then. And a newsletter (“BVC Church” – they are now on perma- would be pleased to manage the they did not want to go ahead if News”) went to every household. nent display, in magnificent cases, project but there was concern about this opposition really represented After the celebrations, it was in the Community Centre. A brand long-term legal responsibility for the views of the village. Indeed, the Column, including land rent, the artist himself, with his own insurance and maintenance. The mining community background, Parish Council was asked if it could was known to be unlikely to pro- take this on and, in February 2017, ceed, if he didn't think his creation that was agreed, subject to all costs was wanted. Moreover, the Percent being covered by the Percent for Art for Art money will only be granted money from the County Council. if there is evidence of community Groundwork was invited to be the support. Parish Council’s agents and the artist The Parish Council decided on was contacted again. The County yet more consultation, hoping for Council’s legal officers checked a larger response, in a more reliable and confirmed that the proposed survey. It asked for a questionnaire site, near the top of Mary Terrace, to be delivered with this Interchange.
page 1 Crowtrees Tilery uncovered embers of Bowburn Local History Society (LHS) had a special treat on 8th March when they visited what archaeologists had discovered within Mthe site of the new Integra 61 business park development. It was known from old maps that there had been some tile works there in the 19th century. But no one knew that there Amazon’s “big shed” at Rugeley, was anything left of these, till they were Staffordshire uncovered by Mark Randerson and his colleagues from Durham University. Is the cat out of the bag about Nor had anyone realised how much of these extensive buildings still remained, Amazon secret? revealing the history of tile and brick (Above) Coal bunker and furnaces first making by employees of David Birkett used to bake high stacks of roof tiles. ystery still seemed to surround the identity of the distribution com- and his son, Thomas, and then Robert (Below left) An early “bottle kiln” (for drainage pipes) gave way to a brick kiln. Mpany lined up to use the planned “big shed” near Tursdale, when this Lee, between the 1820s and 1890s. Interchange went to press. But was the cat out of the bag? The works were possibly twice as large boiled water for their tea and a worn Until contracts are exchanged, site- businesses of other parts of the site. as the more famous Potteries at Coxhoe, floor between the two! owners Citrus Group are legally pre- When Citrus representatives attended which were excavated in 2015, and Mark Thanks are due to Citrus, who own vented from revealing the name of the the Community Partnership’s February showed how the dig had revealed that the site, for their permission to visit the firm looking to use this site. meeting (see page 11), much of their first roof tiles, then bricks and profitable remains of Crowtrees Tilery before they They have described as “speculative” news was about highways arrangements. pipes had been made in the different are demolished, and to Mark Randerson, a report in The Northern Echo (on (See page 9.) kinds of kiln there. who has kindly agreed to give a talk in 13th March) that “Amazon is expected “Despite the varied weather con- Bowburn, about the finds, in the near to open a… warehouse… at Integra ditions”, James Taylor, of Nathaniel future. 61, near Bowburn”. Nor will they have Lichfield, Citrus’s planning agents, told Meanwhile Bowburn LHS has liked a report in The Chronicle (on 13th the Interchange, “progress on the first announced details of its next three open February) that Amazon had “swooped phase of road and drainage infrastruc- meetings. This year’s programme has for a … site… at the Integra 61 site… in ture works are on target and it is now already started with two very successful a £147.3m deal which is set to be the big- evident on site where the roads will run talks – one on 12th February, by archae- gest of its kind outside the South East”. alongside drainage ponds and swales. ologist Richard Annis, about Tyne Citrus owns the vast site between “Essential services are also now at the Brewery site in Newcastle, and one on Bowburn and Tursdale – with areas site boundary running north from Metal He explained the layout of the fur- 12th March, by Jane Gibson, about the approved for housing (just west of Bridge; these have been installed by util- naces, flues and chimneys, and pointed Durham World Heritage Site. Bowburn) and others, further south, ity infrastructure provider Harlaxton.” to what was left of the walls, pillars and The next three meetings will be: allocated in outline for a hotel, retail “Last year planning permission was doorways of the original buildings – and Tuesday, 9th April: Coxhoe Local use and industrial, storage & distribu- granted for a large distribution ware- even what may have been a “smokers’ History Group: “Keep the Home Fires tion purposes. It is believed that the “big house for a specific operator; it is corner”, to judge by the number of dis- Burning”, a drama production about shed” contract is important not least as expected that works will commence on carded clay pipes that had been found Coxhoe during the 1st World War; it could influence the take up by other this unit later in the year.” beside it, a fireplace where they perhaps Tuesday, 14th May: Margaret Hedley: “Women of the Durham Coalfield in the 19th Century”, and THE Tel.: Tuesday, 11th June: Bill Armstrong: RAY’s SCHOOL OF MOTORING 0191 “The Pineapple: the building of a local Calm, expert tuition with church”. experienced driving instructors HAIR 377 Non-members are welcome to all meetings, which take place on the second Your Local driving instructors HUT 3391 Tuesday of each month. Admission £3. 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page 2 Banner Group prepares for Crowd Coal Column – your questions answered this year’s Big Meeting appeal for What does it mean? pay, as a condition of getting ocal plans are taking shape for this year’s Durham Miners’ The artist’s inspiration came planning permission, would Gala Day, on Saturday 13th July. Residents will again take homeless from seeing the core samples cover the entire cost of this LBowburn’s three banners into Durham, after parading round from a geological borehole project, if it goes ahead. No the village. We will again be led by the top-rated Kippax Band, person drilling, laid out on the ground. Council Tax will be spent on it. from Yorkshire. ollowing reports of two Such drillings were used to How much would it cost? This year’s proposed route Interchange readers to send it any Fmen sleeping rough at find how deep and how thick The estimated cost in through Bowburn is to start out- comments they have about this a bus shelter in Shincliffe, coal seams were, deep under- October 2018 was £74,597 (+ side Bowburn Infant & Nursery route, c/o Bowburn Community Bowburn residents rallied ground, and through what VAT, which the Parish Council School – possibly for the last time Centre or by e-mail to bowburn kinds of rock a shaft would can reclaim). The Percent for to keep them comfortable have to be sunk to get at them. before it closes – and then go [email protected], before an and find them somewhere Art money available is £78,019, of which £35,000 came from down Wylam Street and round application is made for permis- to live. the green behind Charlesworth sion to close these roads to traf- housing on the Cape site and One gentleman soon can only be used on or near Close, up the footpath to the fic, between about 8am and 9am, found suitable accommo- Youth Centre, round Runcie during the parade. that estate. th dation. The other, a man Road and Monteigne Drive into The night before that (12 July), known as Peter, did not, and Could the money be spent on Surtees Avenue, then up Edward there will be another free Eve of continued to sleep rough in something else? Avenue and along Prince Charles Gala concert in the Community cold conditions. This money can only be Avenue to the Coal Tub Mining Centre, for all the family, starring However, local resident spent on public art. It cannot Memorial, where a wreath will the fabulous singer, Alex McRae. Kevin Griffiths organised a be used, for instance, on youth be laid while the Miners’ Hymn, (Many Bowburn residents will fundraising drive, which col- or community facilities, envi- “Gresford”, is played. know him better as Andrew lected £400 from the people ronmental improvements or Then it will be on to buses to Graham. But he has rightly made of Bowburn as a deposit on local services. It could be used join Durham Big Meeting. a name for himself with his new a flat. for a different art project, if The Banner Group has asked stage name, since he lived here!) Kevin accompanied Peter the Coal Column does not go to meetings with landlords ahead. However some one Have you carried one of Bowburn’s and housing providers, and would have to do the work to managed to find him tempo- organise that. banners? rary accommodation. Well A geologist examining If we get the Coal Column, borehole core drillings Specially invited to the concert The Banner Group would like done, Kevin, for your hard does that mean we can’t will be anyone who has carried to present them with a special work in helping someone Colin Rose’s Coal Column have any other tribute to Bowburn’s banners, or taken memento card but does not know less fortunate. is designed to show the coal Bowburn’s mining heritage? the ropes, since the Centenary who they all were. They are sure seams beneath the village. He No. We already now have Banner was unfurled in 2006. their list (below) is not complete. wanted them to be as thick as historic miners’ lodge ban- Bus shelters they really are, because they ners in the Community Centre were where Bowburn’s miners and two mining memori- to be worked – and were all too often als. Bowburn Community injured or even lost their lives. Association hopes to obtain a reviewed For the whole coal column to pit wheel, or some other mining be to scale, however, it would machinery, anyway. Percent CC officers will start for Art money can’t be used for a review of bus shel- have to be some 700 feet (over D 200 metres) high. Colin origi- this but it is known that other ters in the area in coming nally thought a shorter column funding can be found. weeks. might be possible. But that How did the Parish Council After several reports of would have so reduced the come to be involved? damage to shelters, whether thickness of the layers of clay Originally, it was expected through natural causes or and rock between the seams that the Esh Group would deliberate action, all shelters that it would give no idea of pay for the Coal Column, as in Bowburn and the sur- how deep underground the its Percent for Art contribu- rounding area will be looked miners worked. tion, and would do much of at and repaired together. The Coal Column has been the engineering and landscap- Hopefully this will lead to nicknamed a “Totem Pole”. ing work, keeping costs down. much nicer environments That term may have been This did not happen, however. for Bowburn bus users at intended as an insult. However After the houses were built, their stops. a totem is a sacred object serv- the money was paid to the ing as an emblem of a family, County Council, which was clan or tribe. If this artwork left to get on with it. The AGMs goes ahead, it will be just such Community Partnership was t is the season of an emblem:: a memorial to the invited to commission the Ben Barber Rhiannon Girling Kelly Pickering annual general meet- men who worked in deep, dan- work, and apply for the money, Darren Barber Kacey Girling Craig Prince ings,I as many local groups gerous seams below where it but was unwilling to take legal Jack Barber Rhys Girling Ryan Prince stands. responsibility for such a large and organisations come to project. The Parish Council Joan Beck Michael Graham Jack Prince the end of their financial How can we find out more Mal Bell Emma Graham Steve Raine about the Coal Column? agreed to take it on, as long as Forthcoming annual Janet Blackburn Julie Gray Luke Ridley years. News about the Coal Column all costs would be covered by meetings include: Alan Blakey Matthew Gray Martin Ridley was reported in Bowburn the Percent for Art money. Joey Cairns Les Hann Natalie Ridley • Bowburn & Parkhill Interchange eleven times What can you do? Community Partnership – Brian Carruthers Sue Hann Jim Robinson st between Aug 2001 and Dec Please VOTE! Let the Parish Wendy Michelle Hurton Joan Robinson 21 May 2018. All past issues are on- Council know what you think • Bowburn Art Group – Carruthers Jimmy Hurton Maureen th line. It has also been reported about the Coal Column. Graham Cook June Hurton Robinson 25 June in minutes of B&PCP – 35 Without public support, the • Bowburn Banner Group – Ryan Curtis Robbie Hurton Beverley Rogers nd times between March 2013 and Coal Column won’t go ahead: Bethan Curtis Pat Hurton Eliza Beth Rogers 22 July June 2017. All past minutes are if the residents of Bowburn • Bowburn Community Abbie-Leigh Gary Hutchinson Jack Rogers th also on-line. Copies of recent really don’t want it, it won’t Curtis Pamela O'connor Lucy Heather Association – 26 March Parish Council minutes are happen. If you want it, say so. Nicola Dixon Hutchinson Rogers • Bowburn Village also published on-line. If you don’t vote, it may be Holly Dunn Skye Hutchinson Andrew Shutt Celebration (BVC) – assumed that you either want it 8th May Is the Coal Column a piece Kieron Dunn Joanne Jones William Smalley of art or a memorial to or just don’t mind. Ryan Dunn Linda Jones Jake Stone • Cassop-cum-Quarrington th Bowburn’s mining heritage? What if some like it and some Richard Evans Orla Jukes Michael Storr Parish Council – 15 May th Both. It is designed to honour don’t? Poppy Ferguson Jordan Kennedy Joe Syer (Council) & 19 June our mining heritage. But it only That will depend on how Freya Ferguson Laura Magee Martin Syer (Electors) qualifies for the Percent for Art many people vote. The Caitlyn Galloway Jimmy McGrath Mike Syer • Christ the King Church funding because it would also Pineapple Church was loved by Elliot Galloway Olivia Mussett David Teasdale Annual Vestry Meeting and be an artistic creation: original, some and hated by others. The Alan Gardener Tim Neasham Richard Walsh Annual Parochial Church th imaginative and thought-pro- Angel of the North was fiercely Jack Gibson Simon Neasham Calvin Ward Meeting – 28 April voking… but not necessarily controversial… before it went Becky Gibson Brian Peaden Duncan Wilcock • Crowtrees Workmen’s Club – April/May (to be beautiful! (But see below.*) up. (Some people still don’t Please tell the Banner Group if you know of any others that should arranged) Who would pay for it? like it. But it is now a symbol be added to this list… and make sure those banner carriers know that • U3A (University of the The “Percent for Art” money of the North East, recognised they’ll be special guests at the Eve of Gala concert on 12th July! Third Age) – 28th March that housing developers had to around the world!) *NB: After this edition of Bowburn Interchange went to print, its editors have received further clarification in relation to the page 3 Council’s Percent for Art policy. It has been confirmed that money received from developers for this purpose can be used to fund a mining memorial which is not also a work of art, as long as it enhances the village’s visual amenity and has community support. Nature Notes Bowburn Junior School News by Richard Cowen by Mrs Jackie Glass, Head teacher. uring this winter, work has been pring term is well underway and we have been as busy as ever at Bowburn Juniors, with much going on in the class- Ddone to clear much of the reed- rooms as well as outside. mace in the Ponds in the Nature Re- SWe also welcomed Mrs Clark our SENCo back to school in January after the birth of her daughter. serve. This has meant much more Ofsted Inspection February. There was a great turn-out of water is now clear. We had our Ofsted inspection on 17th parents to see the four year groups pre- Since this has been done, I have seen January, and we are very pleased to say sent their work and share the e-safety two species of duck on the ponds I have it went very well indeed. We remain a messages. The internet is a great place not seen here before. Gadwall is a rather “Good” school and safeguarding is effec- to have fun, keep in touch with friends plain, brown duck with a black rear. tive. The HMI Michael Reeves high- and find information, but the children There has been a pair here on at least lighted the very good work which has reminded everyone about the need to two occasions. been completed since the last inspection be safe by not sharing passwords, not The other duck was a pair of wigeon. in 2014, including raising standards, agreeing to meet up with people they A more colourful duck than the gadwall, especially in reading and improving out- might meet online, and of course think- the drake has a reddish body and head comes for all pupils. Enhancing the cur- ing about what they say online and how with a cream stripe down the middle riculum is key and we put high empha- it might hurt or upset others. The par- of his crown. Quite a striking duck, its sound is also unusual for a British duck. sis on ensuring pupils enjoy learning. ents were given a “’Digital Parenting” would fly with the force of air pressure. More a whistle than a quack. The full report is now published on the booklet at the end of the assemblies, with We had the most fun with a target com- Ofsted website:
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Cassop-cum-Quarrington Parish Council 33, Scargill Drive, Spennymoor, Co. Durham, DL16 6LY. Quarterly Parish Council Mobile no.: 0798-631-9443 E-mail: peter.thorpe@ mypostoffice.co.uk Newsletter No. 42 (2019) Parish Council Website: www.ccqparishcouncil.org 27th February 2019 Dear Parishioners, Retirement of Parish Clerk Parish Councillors. Joanne Ashworth of I informed readers of previous Quarterly Groundwork UK summarised the general Parish Council Members’ Newsletters that I am retiring as Clerk to themes of the comments as follows: - the Parish Council on March 31st 2019, • Concerns around anti-social behaviour Names, Addresses and Contact Telephone Numbers by which time I will have completed 18 and vandalism years’ service. I am now running on the • Money should be used for something Cllr Andrew Shutt, 27, Park Hill Estate, Coxhoe, Durham, DH6 4JH home stretch with the departure date fast else (Tel: 0191-377-0904; e-mail: [email protected]) looming up before me. • Don’t understand/like the suggested My final duties will include preparation design (Chairman, re-elected at the Annual Meeting, May 2018) of the Parish Council’s Final Accounts • Would prefer something more tradi- Cllr Sylvia Raine, The Grange, Old Quarrington, Durham, DH6 5NN for the Year ending March 31st 2019 and tional like a tub/pit pony/pit wheel/ Balance Sheet as at March 31st 2019. I miner etc. (Tel: 0191-377-2728; e-mail: [email protected]) will prepare the Annual Governance In conclusion, Members of the Parish (Vice-Chairman, re-elected at the Annual Meeting, May 2018) & Accountability Return 2018/2019 Council felt that there needed to be an (AGAR) to be forwarded to the Parish educational aspect to the development Cllr Janet Blackburn, 10, Grange Park Crescent, Bowburn, Durham, Council’s External Auditor (Messrs. of the Artwork and that involving school DH6 5BW Mazars LLP). Finally, I will be preparing children at as early a point in the process (Tel: 0191-377-0653; e-mail: [email protected]) the Annual VAT Reclaim for 2018/2019 as possible was very important. to send to H.M. Revenue & Customs. The concerns of local people about the Cllr John Johnson, 10, Horton Crescent, Bowburn, Durham, DH6 5EJ design of the artwork were well under- The Coal Column (A New Piece of stood by the Parish Council. However, it (Tel: 0191- 377-0004; e-mail: [email protected]) Art for Bowburn) was felt that interpretation panels and an Cllr Paul Leake, 16, Tunstall Avenue, Bowburn, Co. Durham DH6 5EE Groundwork UK, on behalf of the Parish engagement programme with the Schools (Tel: 0191 377 2985) Council, undertook an initial public con- would help to address some of these con- sultation exercise in September 2018 to cerns. Joanne Ashworth advised that the (Co-opted on to the Parish Council in August 2018) gauge public support for the Coal Column costings of the Project would be revisited Cllr Dawn Love, “Hillcrest”, Old Cassop, Durham, DH6 4QB Project. Attendances at a Publicity Event to include the interpretation panels. at Bede Terrace Communal Room on Members of the Parish Council finally (Tel: 07835 677081; e-mail: [email protected]) th September 20 2018 were disappointing. resolved to proceed with the Artwork Cllr Jason Marsden, 24, Luke Avenue, Cassop, Durham, DH6 4RD Although there was no evidence of sig- Project at a Special Meeting of the Parish nificant opposition to the Artwork, there Council held on January 30th 2019. It was (Tel: 01429-821329) was no great turnout of local people in hoped that work with Schools could begin Cllr Dennis Morgan, 26, Durham Road West, Bowburn, Durham, DH6 favour either. Consequently, Members in the summer term this year and the of the Parish Council have recently dis- Artwork would be unveiled in Summer 5AU (Tel: 0191-377-0553; e-mail: [email protected]) cussed the options of using social media 2020. and publicity in the Bowburn Interchange Cllr Alan Richardson, 61, Ramsay Street, Tursdale, Durham, DH6 5NS as further consultation with Bowburn res- Parish Council Budget 2019/2020 (Tel: 0191-377-9957; e-mail: [email protected]) idents about the Coal Column. Members Members of the Parish Council of the Parish Council met the Artwork resolved at their Monthly Meeting in Cllr Jackie Richardson, 27, Monteigne Drive, Bowburn, Durham, DH6 Sculptor, Colin Rose, prior to the Monthly January 2019 to seek an Annual Precept 5QB (Tel: 377 3574; e-mail: [email protected]) Meeting of the Parish Council on January of £62,198 from Durham County Council th for the Financial Year ending on March Cllr Martin Ridley, 27, Durham Road West, Bowburn, Durham, DH6 16 2019. st There were 73 responses to the survey 31 2020. This will require a Band “D” 5AU (Tel: 0794-912-3886; e-mail: [email protected]) published in the last Bowburn Interchange Council Tax Rate of £38.55 (an increase received by the closure of the public con- of 3% over the current year’s Band “D” Cllr James Robinson, 4, Steavenson Street, Bowburn, Durham, DH6 sultation period. Council Tax Rate of £37.43). The increase 5BA (Tel: 0191-377-1655; e-mail: [email protected]) The majority of respondents (62) agreed is being sought to help maintain the level that a new piece of art should be installed of service provision for Local Youth Cllr Frank Salisbury, “Woodside”, 5, Wylam Terrace, Coxhoe, Durham, in Bowburn related to local heritage and Services, Local Allotments, Cemetery, DH6 4JA (e-mail: [email protected]) 55 people agreed with the suggested loca- maintenance, insurance of the new Coal tion. When asked if they were happy with Column Artwork and completion of the Cllr John Spoors, 8, Grange Way, Bowburn, Durham, DH6 5PN the design of the Coal Column, opinion Local Neighbourhood Plan amongst (Tel: 0191-447-5970; e-mail: [email protected]) was split with 39 respondents in support other items. and 34 against. Peter Thorpe Cllr Mike Syer, 8, Clarence Street, Bowburn, Durham, DH6 5BB A number of comments were also Clerk to Cassop-cum-Quarrington (Tel: 0191-377-1491; e-mail: [email protected]) received and had been provided to the Parish Council Introducing Gillian Kelly, our new Parish Clerk assop-cum-Quarrington welcomes its new Parish Clerk this April. Gillian Kelly (pictured left, with Bowburn’s 1920 Edith Cavell banner) takes over from Peter Thorpe, who is retiring at the end of March after 18 years of service to the CParish Council and the people of Bowburn, Cassop, Old Quarrington, Park Hill and Tursdale. Gillian comes with loads of experi- delighted to have the opportunity to do years. (“Black & white or red & white?”, ence, having worked in the Democratic this with a much closer connection with we asked. She wouldn’t say and was diplo- Services departments of Gateshead and the people I serve.” matically neutral. But she did hint that her then Sunderland Councils for the last 19 Gillian is no stranger to community grandfather was a Dawdon miner, who years. So she knows all about working involvement, though. She became a parent loved football.) with councillors, preparing agendas for governor at her daughter’s primary school “Cats or dogs?” “Both. We have a cat their meetings, minuting their decisions nine years ago and has been chairper- but my daughter would love a dog and we and passing those on to the relevant offic- son, as a community governor since her often take a friend’s one for a walk.” How ers, in those much larger bodies, to carry daughter went on to secondary school, diplomatic is that?! them out. since 2016. Gillian also loves art – she recently took Now she becomes the executive officer A keen sports spectator, rather than a her daughter to the Yorkshire Sculpture of a much smaller, more local council and sportsperson herself (“but I do go run- Park, for instance. she welcomes the chance to be involved in ning!”), Gillian enjoys watching rugby, So we are sure that she’ll take a close this lowest tier of local government. snooker, golf and all other sports. interest in the recent Coal Column con- “Public service is about doing things “I love sports events”, she said, list- troversy in Bowburn and (like her coun- that help people and serve their wishes”, ing some of the open and international cillors, we hope) will want what is best for she told Bowburn Interchange, “and I’m events she had been to watch in recent the village and the parish. page 6 Printed locally by The Coronation Press Ltd., Coxhoe Cassop-cum-Quarrington Parish Council Annual Parish Council Report (2018)
11th February 2019 Dear Parishioners, in a flash! Groundwork UK, on behalf of the guard duty” at the War Memorial Site. The Coal Column (A New Piece of Parish Council, undertook an ini- They have been installed to mark the Welcome to the new Parish Clerk! tial public consultation exercise in Regular readers of the Quarterly Centenary of the end of the First World Art for Bowburn) September 2018 to gauge public sup- Parish Council Newsletter will be aware War. Discussions have been ongoing for port for the Project. Unfortunately, that I am retiring as Parish Clerk on some considerable time between the attendances at a Publicity Event at Bede Local Care and Maintenance of March 31st 2019 after 18 years’ service. Esh Group, Durham County Council Terrace Communal Room in September Local Footpaths & Rights of Way My successor is Gillian Kelly and she and Bowburn & Parkhill Community 2018 were disappointing. Although Readers of the Quarterly Parish hails from Washington, Tyne & Wear. I Partnership about the source of funding Newsletter will recall that the Parish wish Gillian good luck in her new role there was no evidence of significant for a Piece of Art to be known as “The opposition to the Artwork, there was no Council’s Application for a Grant under and I hope that she stays with the Parish Coal Column”. The Artwork will show the County Council’s Parish Paths Council for many years. great turnout of local people in favour a representation of the seams of coal either. Consequently, Members of the Partnership Scheme to strim the grass Summer Flower Baskets, Barrels beneath Bowburn to reflect the Village’s Parish Council discussed the options of on various Local Rights of Way was and Tubs in the Parish Area Industrial Heritage. The Artwork will be using social media and publicity in the approved for the 2018 Season. I am sure that all residents in the prepared by Mr. Colin Rose. In addition, Bowburn Interchange as further consul- The first and second comprehensive Parish Area will have enjoyed the won- a pathway leading up to the Artwork tation with Bowburn residents about the grass cuts were done on various Local derful Summer Display of Hanging will also be constructed. Funding for Coal Column. A Survey Document sub- Footpaths in June and August 2018. The Flower Baskets, Tubs and Flower Trees the Project Cost will be provided from sequently enclosed within the December works were undertaken by the Parish provided once again by the Parish moneys received from the Developers Bowburn Interchange received a number Council’s Allotment Superintendent. Council in Bowburn, Cassop, Parkhill by virtue of Section 106 of the Town & of replies. The majority of these written This Scheme allows the Parish Council and Tursdale in 2018. Country Planning Act 1990. responses were in favour of construc- to choose which Local Footpaths require I am sure that, once again, every- After much debate, the Site agreed tion of the Coal Column. It is hoped that the most attention and WHEN the grass one will agree that Messrs. Thinford upon for the Artwork is near the junc- work on the Coal Column will com- strimming should be done. Nurseries have done a splendid job in tion of Mary Terrace, George Street and mence in the Spring of 2019. I am sure that the Parish Council will preparation and maintenance of the Dallymore Drive, Bowburn on the other apply to the County Council for Grant Seasonal Display for the last thirteen side of the A177 from the Cape Site The Tommies have arrived! Assistance to strim Local Footpaths once Summer Seasons. They also prepare Development. Plans to install one or more life size again in 2019 for the fifth year running. Winter & Spring Bedding Plants now Careful research has ensured that metal figures in the shape of World War for Bowburn and Tursdale. there are no power lines or water pipes One Soldiers at the War Memorial Site Peter Thorpe As 2018 has been my last full year of underground at or near the proposed in Bowburn have now been completed. Clerk to Cassop-cum-Quarrington service, it seems to me to have gone over location for the Coal Column. The Figures stand on “permanent Parish Council
Long-serving Clerk retires by Sylvia Raine, Vice-chair, C-c-Q Parish Council eter Thorpe, Clerk of Cassop-cum-Quarrington Parish Council since January 2001, is retiring at the end of March 2019. PPeter’s arrival coincided link road from devel- with the beginning of a lot opment, which is now of changes for the Parish enshrined in the County Council, many of them to Durham Plan – though do with new technology, this is still a long way which was gradually infil- from being constructed, trating the slow-moving of course. The Parish is world of this lowest tier of now close to completing local government. All cor- its Neighbourhood Plan, respondence in January which when adopted 2001 was by post, though must be taken into con- a personal computer was sideration by the County purchased for the new Council when making Councillors Dunn and McKeon hold Clerk’s use. Agendas Peter Thorpe is seen here presenting an award in decisions about any surgeries for residents before each were sent out to Parish Durham City district ’s “Britain in Bloom” new development in the of the four Parish Councils in Coxhoe Councillors by first class competition and Cassop-cum-Quarrington’s Parish. This plan covers mail until January 2008, “Beautiful Parish” competition.* such things as protec- Division. These will be at 5.45pm on after which time they tion of green spaces in the third Wednesday of the month at were sent out by e-mail two Wards, East & West: to make them easier the Parish, preservation Bowburn Community Centre to those Councillors who the East Ward covers to walk. Our owner- of historic sites, posi- had e-mail facilities. In Cassop, Park Hill and ship of the allotments tion of any new develop- (or at Cassop Community Centre in 2019 the majority of cor- Old Quarrington, and and garage sites (pur- ments and design of new December, June and August, when respondence to the Parish the West Ward covers chased from CISWO in properties. arrives by email and is Bowburn and Tursdale. 1999, just before Peter Peter’s previous career the Parish Council meets in Cassop.) forwarded by the Clerk Very few of the Parish took over) has contin- was in local government to members as soon as Councillors who were ued, with improvements finance, so his exper- If you’ve got any issues, he receives it: obviously serving when Peter being made to all the sites tise has always been come along... a big improvement, as became Clerk are still on and the Bow/Burn Street helpful in keeping the we can all read it well in the Council (three out of site, which was never in Parish Council’s finances advance of the next meet- fifteen). demand as allotments, healthy and well-gov- ing, instead of having first Peter has overseen being turned into the erned. One of his last sight of it then. Cassop- much progress during Doorstep Green. tasks was to oversee this cum-Quarrington Parish his time as our Parish There has also been year’s Final Accounts and also took the brave step of Clerk: recently the Parish much development in Balance Sheet, which he having its own website in has provided much- Bowburn since 2001, not has done with his usual 2006, and since 2008 Peter needed funding for Youth all of it welcome, but the quiet efficiency. has produced quarterly Services in Bowburn, Parish Council has been We shall miss Peter’s newsletters, published supporting the Youth able to influence some guiding presence at our in Bowburn Interchange Club when funding from of the developers, e.g. future meetings, and all and printed separately for the County Council was members have joined a Parish Councillors wish distribution in Cassop, so no longer forthcoming. committee to establish him a long and happy parishioners could read We have also helped to a Nature/History Trail retirement. what was going on at the make our villages more around the Park Hill Thank you, Peter, for Parish. attractive, with floral dis- development, and we your loyal and produc- The Parish Council still plays in the summer, and have successfully pro- tive service. All our good consists of 15 members, have obtained grants for tected the route of the wishes go with you for though we are now in strimming the footpaths, proposed Business Park your future. * Our apologies for reporting in the printed version of this Interchange that the page 7 prize-winner shown in this photograph was Mrs Jacqui Robson. – Eds. Charity cyclist will ride Tour de Bowburn Youth FC News by Anne Grendale France stage ur Under 15s team are currently top of their division, and have reached raig Hodgson, of Bowburn, will be riding in the Grand Départ Classic – O the Final of the League Cup. the first stage of this year’s Tour de France – in June, to raise funds for Our Under 14s Futsal division and winning Cooper Stott Solicitors, CProstate Cancer UK (PCUK). team are top of their promotion in the summer ECR Ltd, Esh Group With about 200 other riders, he will league. competition and finish- Trust, Hendersons, K cycle 120 miles on 29th June… as long as Both of the Under 13 ing third in their winter & S Davison’s Fish and he has raised enough money before then teams are doing well, competition. Chip shop, Kerr Timber, to be allowed to start. with Under 13s United The Under 13s and LGSE motors, North East Last year, Craig raised £1,800 for second in their division Under 14s are also prepar- Installations, Oaktree PCUK and he has pledged to raise at and the Under 13s cur- ing for their annual trip Homes, Partnership least £1,000 this time. He is not a pro- rently third/fourth in the to Blackpool, in May, for Construction, Paxton’s fessional athlete. (The pros will be Premier division. a National tournament Sandwich shop, starting the Tour de France a week The Under 11s are sit- they have won on many Persimmon Group, later!) Approaching 56 years of age, he ting midway in their occasions previously. Taylormade, The Barber describes himself a “slightly chubby division. We’d like to thank Shop, The Stephen grandparent”. The Under 8s have again our many spon- Thompson Foundation He can regularly be seen walking, just completed their first sors and donators who and our latest spon- riding or driving around the village, full year, and are also sat have helped us keep the sor for the coming having joined his younger daughter as a midway in their division. Club going and providing season, Family Shopper, partner in Alpha Pet Care, a dog walking The Under 9s football much needed financial Bowburn. business. is divided into thirds, support: Many, many thanks to Prostate cancer is the most common ending top of their Anderson’s Bakery, them all. cancer in men in the UK. One in 8 men will get it in their lifetime and one dies of it every 45 minutes. PCUK fights to stop prostate cancer being a killer and to help To help Craig fight for this New shop supports young men who have it enjoy a better quality of cause, donations can be made at: life. More information can be found at
Supermarket plan would bring extra traffic lights s expected, a planning application has been made to renew per- mission for a supermarket on the Bowburn South Industrial Es- tate,A beside the Durham road. The application is to build a 4,184 would be formed with the A177. m2 (45,036 sq ft) foodstore, with Some nearby residents are natu- associated parking and servicing rally concerned about the impact facilities. on their lives of extra traffic. The prospect of a large super- Not least with this in mind, market remains popular with most both the Parish Council and the people in Bowburn – as it has been Community Partnership have since permission was first given for urged that a customer access also be one on this site (and, indeed, before assured from the business link road that). The main concerns about this (and therefore from the Tursdale development seem, so far, to be road, the A688) when that is even- about traffic and access. tually built – however long in the Goods vehicles will (if the appli- future that may be. cation is approved) deliver via A decision on the application the existing traffic lights and the must be made by a planning com- entrance to the industrial estate. mittee, at County Hall. 07731 742 325 The proposed customers’ entrance When this edition of the Unit N7C Tursdale Business Park, Durham, DH6 5PG would be from opposite “Eden Interchange went to press a date Street” (the original name for the for that decision had not yet been street that goes between Romaine announced. Square and the carpet shop and Full details can be found on-line The house of becomes Surtees Avenue), with new at
Prince Charles Avenue (near Co-op), Bowburn, DH6 5DJ page 10 Slow d-o-w-n! Community Partnership News olunteers are invited to join a new Community by Janet Blackburn, Secretary VSpeedwatch scheme, to monitor speeds of vehicles, owburn & Parkhill Community Partnership has not seen any new faces at with the support of the Police, using speed detection de- its meetings, lately, which is disappointing. Your questions can be asked, vices. The scheme aims to: Band the Partnership will make every effort to find an answer to them. • reduce death and injury on In the New Year there was It will contain the name of unlimited the roads; an update on the air quality in the Partnership and its slogan items, but • improve the quality of life Durham Road which is fortu- “Friends working together”. The links have for local communities; nately lower than the national token will be fixed to what used been created to B&PCP, • reduce the speed of vehicles average (see
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