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.