Wednesday, 23rd Februaiy, 1>7J THE TEESDALE MERCURY. £ 1 2 ,0 0 0 LIGHTS Health Centre Won't Give Routine Checks S C H E M E P Complaint that Doctors FOR 6 VILLAGES should give service though several different types chcck-up. He thought people Plans have been drawn up for new street of medical facility will be avail­ eniitieo to have a check-up, but x able at the new health centre present a person could only getoi lights in Startforth, Lartington, Cotherstone, planned for Barnard Castle, it will it he compiained to his doctor fe not be possible lor appaientiy he was ill. Romaldkirk, Mickleton and outside Middleton- healthy people to go there lor a Dr. Wilson said there were in fouline check-up. enough medical staff in the cou* in-Teesdale at a total cost of £12,141. Coun. W. McCrickard, of Gain- to provide a check-up service | This photograph of Bar­ recognise in it quite a few ford, complained about this omis­ this kind. S- I sion after the centre had been de­ Coun. McCrickard asked: "k At Startforth the scheme has the North Riding County Council Lighting at Bowes is being dealt nard Castle Infants' School people who still live in Bar­ scribed at a meeting of Barnard this a health centre, a minor jg| been divided into three parts. One will accept liability for energy and with separately by the County 1923 was sent by Mr H. nard Castle. He adds that PEEPS INTO Castle Rural Council’s general pur­ pital in fact, or is it just a cenb part is along the road from County routine maintenance when the Council and Department of the Waine, of 47 Victor Road, he has found the old pic­ Bridge to Deepdale Bridge. Here lights are switched on. Environment. Bradford, who says he can tures in the Mercury very THE PAST poses committee on Wednesday. for the convenience of the dot seven lights are proposed in addi­ interesting. Dr. A. S. M. Wilson, the M.O.H., tors? ” The doctor replied that i tion to the present two, and the □ reported that the centre will have was primarily a local authority cost is estimated at £610. 10 years ago five surgeries, five examination health centre, and the dodos * <§» rooms, a treatment room, a minor would work from it. The second part is Deerbolt WHY SHOULD PUBLIC Cricketers paid high tribute to ailments room, and a dispensary Coun. J. L. Armstrong said ot Bank up to the junction with Corn Mr Roy Watson, at the completion for use by G.P.s. provision was made in the Nation Close estate road. Nine lights are Home and Country Nows of 40 years’ service to the game in The council section of it will in­ Health Act for anyone who waabj planned on this stretch and the FOOT THESE BILLS? Barnard Castle. He was presented clude a doctor’s consulting room a check-up. You had to see yov cost is estimated at £760. The third with a statuette of a bowler in and an examination room, a room own doctor, and if you were| part is from the County Bridge . . . Irom the Institutes action. for use in connection with hearing, along the Sills road, with fourteen GRANTS PAID TO REPAIR you got a check-up. Otherwiseyoi □ eyesight and speech, offices for had to pay a doctor's fee for ad lights ending at High Startforth by our correspondents «§><§»<§»<$HgHg»«f»«gMgMp The Victoria Hall Cinema is to health visitors, social workers and a service. Road. The cost here is £1,785, HOUSES CAUSE DISSENT close on Saturday. mental welfare officer, a health making the total for Startforth Coun. McCrickard retorted thz Marwood and Winston □ education room and a store for £3,155. while the health centre was a gooi Should ratepayers be expected to pay to Langleydale 20 years ago nursing items. thing, it only went half way to g| Mrs Matthews presided at the At Lartington 13 lights are pro­ improve privately-owned houses which will only There will also be a pram shelt­ ing an all-round medical service first meeting of the year held in There are plans to turn Beacons- posed, running from the gates of 1 he president, Mrs Stoddart, er, play room, staff common room He meant to pursue this throng! be used as week-end cottages, or which are the village hall, and Mrs Swindle field House, Barnard Castle, into Lartington Hall to the junction with opened the meeting and attended and reception office. the county council and local Mii read the minutes of the last meet­ licensed premises, but the urban Moor Road. The estimated cost is very old and decayed? This question caused to the business before welcoming Coun. McCrickard asked why j as it was very difficult for peopfc ing, the county letter and other cor­ council is opposing them. £1,340. the speaker for the evening, Nurse there was no provision for anyone | in middle years who felt in nee some strong comments when it was raised in respondence. □ At Cotherstone it is proposed to Donald. Her talk, entitled “Life in the district to go for an annual I of a regular check by a doctor. Mrs Matthews is to go .as dele­ Lartington (H. Stoddart, W. T. provide 30 lights, starting at Dam Barnard Castle on Wednesday. with the Eskimos” and illus­ gate to the annual meeting in Lon Tarn, T. A. Jackson and J. T. N. Bridge and ending near Balder It started when the rural coun­ said the cottage was listed as being trated with cine film, was most don in June and Mrs L. Hodgson Raine) beat Mickleton (W. Clark-, View. The price for this stretch is cil’s housing committee was con­ of architectural or historical inter­ interesting. WHAT CAN THIS BE? is to be delegate at the meeting in son, A. Atkinson, J. E. Peacock' given as £2,518. sidering requests for house im­ est. Members learned much about the the Baths Hall, Darlington. Three and J. Walton) in the billiards! At Romaldkirk the plan is to put provement grants totalling thous­ rigours of life in the Arctic. Mrs Coun. Reg. White commented members are to go to the birthday league. up 17 lights, between Hollin Cresc­ ands of pounds. Preston thanked Nurse Donald, that it was a ruin, but he under­ party at Staindrop W.I. □ ent and Beerbeck High Bridge, at One was from Mr K. Head lam- who was then called upon to judge stood that when it was improved Several members and friends Prizes in a potato growing com­ a cost of £1,635. This is an exten- Morley, of Whorlton Hall, for a the competition, a bowl of bulbs. it would be occupied regularly. It went carol singing in December petition in the Gardeners and tion of the original proposals. grant to improve the 150 year old Mrs E. Stoddart exhibited the was not intended to be a week-end and raised £38-50 for the Richard­ Allotment Holders Association At Mickleton the scheme in­ Bridge Cottage, which stands winning bowl. Mrs Morton won cottage. He would not spend £3,000 son Hospital. The Christmas part­ went to: 1, R. Tiplady; 2, S. S. cludes 34 lights. They start between empty at the foot of the hill beside the surprise parcel and Miss Mor­ on it, but if someone had that ies were enjoyed by members and Croft; 3, R. Blount Icaron Bridge and High Green, and Whorlton Bridge. The cost of the ton arranged the domino drive money he thought they should be children, the main attraction at the □ end just beyond Newton Lodge, job as submitted was given as which formed the evening’s social allowed to spend it on improve­ children’s party being the Punch with a cost put at £2,428. £3,461. Of this £3,000 was approv­ half-hour. 30 years ago ment. and Judy show. At Middleton, it is proposed to ed, and the maximum grant of Final arrangements were made At an ambulnace class exam at put 11 lights between the Holwick £1,500 was recommended.' Coun. C. Sykes said he could not Ovington for the 24th birthday party in Eggleston those successful includ­ Road junction and Middleton But Coun. H. Brentnall said it see for the life of him how such March. Mrs Featherstone volun­ ed Mary Bainbridge, Dora Burney, Bridge, at a cost of £1,065. was idiotic in his opinion to give a grant could be justified. There Mrs Robinson presided at the teered to make the cake and Mrs Joan Grier, Maureen Hunter, Mar­ The proposals, which have been a grant for this cottage, which was did not seem to be enough ground February meeting. Mrs N. Thomas, Swindle will ice it once more. Mrs garet Hazel Morris, Dorothy Park­ put forward by N.E.E.B., were at the bottom of a hairpin bend. for improvement, without a mas­ assistant secretary, read the min­ Matthews welcomed a group ol in, Ethel Brigham, Joan Carlisle, described to members of Startforth It would only be a distraction sive excavation of the hillside. utes and correspondence. Invita­ ladies from Darlington who per­ Alice Forster, Joan Ha ward, Esther Rural Council on Wednesday by for motorists travelling down the Mr Anderson agreed that there What are they building? It is within a few miles of Barnard tions were received from Staindrop formed two short plays, and were Tam, Jean Wearmouth and Jack the surveyor, Mr C. D. Hunter. bank, and at best could only be were certainly problems over the Castle, and can be seen from a main road. It has nothing to and Winston for members to thanked by Mrs E. Swinbank. Wearmouth. He explained that this will bring used as a week-end cottage for application. As it was listed, the do with farming, or sports, or the army. Try to puzzle it out attend their birthday parties. The competition for six home­ □ the lighting in all the villages up somebody. owner was bound to keep it in before looking at the upside-down answer below. Two members are to attend a made ginger biscuits was won by Elected to the committee at to the highway standard, and that good repair. There was a problem • Mr A. Anderson, the surveyor, course on paper sculpture at Middleton-in-Teesdale workmen’s! of drainage, and it would require i. Mrs FLintc^; 2, Mrs Phillips; Houghall. A letter of thanks was 3, Mrs Porter. The surprise parcel club were Messrs A. Shepherd, T.; a septic tank. received from Winterton Hospital was won by Mrs M. Brown. Host­ Bellas, A. Smith, A. Allnison and The cottage had been there for for Christmas gifts given to pat­ esses for the evening were Mes- J. Watson. 150 years and as far as he knew ients. It was also decided to send dames Swinbank, Tomlinson and had never been damaged by traffic. □ a donation to the Lifeboat Institu­ E Watson. M. W. & E. JENKINSON The owner proposed to sell it. He 40 years ago tion. thought it might be advisable to Mrs Robinson is to be the dele­ ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS defer it and get in touch with the Whorlton became the first gate at the Spring council meeting owner and potential buyer. If the church in Lower Teesdale to have to be held in Darlington. Mrs DRIVER 625 lines Black & White TV to RENT or BUY county were prepared to drop the electric light installed. In this re­ Molyneux of Darlington gave a cottage from the list, it might ease spect it has beaten the parish most interesting talk and showed 27 G A L G A T E 'the problem. BANNED church of Barnard Castle. films on A Year in Paradise. Mrs Coun. Brentnall said that if the □ BARNARD CASTLE A. Bro.wn gave the vote of thanks. cottage was listed and had to be A Barnard Castle badminton The competition, your oddest AFTER Telephone 3385 maintained, the owner could get team which has beaten Reeth twice piece of brass, was won by Mes- aid. But this did not mean the consisted of Mr and Mrs J. Q. dames Thomas, Simpson and Wil­ CRASH council should spend £1,500 of the Heslop, Mr R. Shortbridge, Miss liams. Mrs Dixon was the winner ratepayers* money. It was agreed to I. Rickinson, Mr R. Brownless, of the mystery parcel. Hostesses A driver who caused a crash on *uo;)n||od uiojj jsjbm eqi peioid defer the decision. Miss N. Robinson, Mr E. Ander­ for the evening were Mesdames the A66 road between Bowes and oi u o jsu im Jeeu jjOAjesaj 8i|} uo jsaoo b 6u;und are Xaqi When another application from son and Miss F. Storey. Dixon and Pooley. Brough was fined £20 and banned Mr W. A. Bainbridge, of The from driving for six months by □ § SALE of Ladles Fashions I Green, Eggleston, was being con­ Greta Bridge magistrates on Wed­ 50 years ago at the Turk's Head, Market Place, Bd. Castle sidered, Coun. J. L. Armstrong said nesday. David Stones presents it seemed likely that this would Robert Gove, 36, a foreman car­ The full song of a thrush has “REVIVAL SPECTACULAR” WEDNESDAY, 1st MARCH only be used as a week-end cot­ penter, of Middlesbrough, pleaded been heard in the castle gardens. DID NOT □ BILLY FURY p.m . tage. guilty to careless driving. As his 10 a.m. - 5-30 Coats, Dresses, Slacks, Skirts, A large gathering assembled in Tunic Tops, Trouser Suits, Crimplene Dresses up to The request was for Braeside, licence had been endorsed twice New Gamblers - VIN CE EAGER - Clockwork Toys Eggleston. The approved cost of before during the last three years Baldersdale school to say farewell ROCKN’ ROLL ALL STARS - FUMBLE 54" hips, Eye-catching Boutique Range at Bargain BRAKE to Mrs Walton, the head teacher, Prices (Special concession to O.A.P.S) the work was given as £1,800, and he was liable for disqualification From America - Memphis Boogie Man Little Shelton a grant of £885 was recommended. under the totting up procedure, but who is resigning. The Rev. J. W. Presented by Lanes of Priestgate, Darlington But Coun. Armstrong said it would he asked the court to find a spec­ Brent presided. Mrs Walton had BOOK NOW be wrong to allow this without WHEN HE ial reason for not doing so. been head for 23 years. She was Newcastle City Hall - SATURDAY, 26th February, 7-30 pJB* knowing more details. There were He said he had to travel all over given a purse of notes. Phone: 20007. Seats at 50p, 60p, 70p, 80p. too many cases where large grants the country with his work, and if were given, and the improved cot­ SHOULD he lost his licence he would earn This solitary visitor to High tage was only used for about 20 far less money. Force has chosen a precar­ week-ends in a year. As 71 year old Mr Ernest Met­ However, the chairman, Major ious spot to stand. Is he BROADLOOM Coun. Brentnall said he agreed calfe was driving down a cinder J. D. Cooke-Hurle, said the magi­ contemplating a spectacular FOR ALL TYPES OF with this principle of finding out track into Bamingham at night, he strates could see no real reason dive into the pool below? If the owner’s intentions. But it failed to put on his brakes at the v'hy Gove should be allowed to m he was he must have chang­ ELECTRICAL needed a firm policy on the part right time before going into a road. retain his licence, and he would ed his mind, for he stepped of the council. If it was decided As a result he collided with a therefore be disqualified. INSTALLATIONS m back to safety after the not to allow a grant for a week­ car being driven from Newsham Mercury took the picture. CONSULT end cottage, it would have to by a Mr Eamshaw, and this led apply to everyone. It was no good to him being summoned at Greta HARRY COOPER giving it to 50 people, and then Bridge Court in Barnard Castle on 21 Birch Road, Barnard Castle telling the next applicant that he Wednesday, for driving without TEL. 3391 Rolls 12 ft. couldn't have a grant. due care and attention. It was agreed that this applica­ Mr Metcalfe, who pleaded guilty Cookers, Refrigerators, Waterheaters, etc supplied wide tion should be deferred until more by letter to the offence, was said 9 CORD CARPET in Fawn and Red. Built-in Foam Back. is known about Mr Bainbridge’s to have been dealt with during Price £1-371 sq. yd. intentions. 1970 for another case of careless B.M.K. THISTLETEX. Estoril Quality. Gold Scroll ■ Another application for Mr D. driving. T. S. Rutter for improvements at He was said by Inspector James. sat £2-98 sq. yd. SURPLUS AND MISFIT CARPETS 8a High Row, Gainford, showed Kane to have pulled out of the the cost of the work as submitted cinder track into the path of the Luxurious Bargain Offer direct from Mills, consisting of 3’ 0" DIVANS to be £6,037, though only £1,400 other car. Mr Earnshaw had seen Nylon, Wilton, Axminster and Tufted. Broadloom at a complete with of this was approved. The surveyor the lights of his vehicle coming fraction of cost. Carpet your entire House at Mill Prices. Headboard at said that it was a big house and a down the track and expected him £16-251 Jot of work was proposed, but only to stop, but he did not. With Quilted CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH HALL, essential jobs had been accepted Mr Metcalfe, of 5 The Manor, Top £19-85 for grant. 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