THE HAYDON NEWS ON LINE
Jeff Marshall, Gordon Brown and Sid Bell visit the remains of Whinnetley Drift where they each spent part of their working lives. (See Historical Notes)
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Parish Council Notes 3/14 Historical Notes 4 to 9 August Correspondence 9/16 Dr. Steve Ford 10/11 2008 Church Pages 12/13 Life Cycle Challenge 14 Shaftoe Green/Langley WI 15 www.haydon-news.co.uk Bypass Update 16 Flower & Veg. Show 17 e mail: [email protected] Poets’ Corner 17 Crossword 22 Next issue: October 2008 HAYDONPublished NEWS by The Friends Of Haydon Bridge Page 1 THE HAYDON NEWS ON LINE EDITORIAL COMMENT
The Haydon News was Established in 1979 and preceded It’s summer 1989. on and off for over forty five years by a church Parish The proposed conversion of the Land Army Hostels to an Aluminium Processing Plant worries Woodhall residents. Magazine, The Haydon News is published by the Friends The Council is concerned about the polluted state of the river. of Haydon Bridge and is written, printed, collated and The printing machine has broken down so August’s Haydon delivered by volunteers. News will appear in October.
Around 1,000 copies of The Haydon News are distributed Andy Shield has taken over the butcher’s shop in Church St. The recently completed Health Centre is now in use. free of charge, ten months of the year, throughout the In one of his occasional articles for the Haydon News, Dr High parish of Haydon in Tynedale, Northumberland. is fulsome in his thanks for the generosity of local people in The Haydon News on line doesn’t replace this traditional their response to the Health Centre Appeal. He also announces publication but allows those living outside our delivery the departure of Dr Graham from the Practice, bound for New area, who have a connection with or an interest in the Zealand, and the arrival of ‘Steven Ford, his wife Jean and two parish, to keep in touch. young children on August 14th’. It’s summer 2008. Welcome then to The Haydon News On Line, a web site The departure of Dr Ford from the Health Centre is imminent. that will build throughout the coming months and already In this edition of the Haydon News we publish the final ‘Dr includes an archive of earlier editions. Steven Ford’s Page’. From brief reports on Health Education Meetings at the Health Contributions to The Haydon News in the form of articles Centre in the 1990 editions of the Haydon News, to the or letters are welcome, especially from those with a introduction of the first dedicated Health Centre Page in family connection within the parish. December 1991, Dr Ford’s regular monthly contribution to our village magazine has become something of an institution. I am Please email us: sure that for many readers it has been their first port of call email: [email protected] when they receive the Haydon News. Not one to mince his words, or avoid often sensitive subjects, I Dennis Telford. (Chairman) know that on occasions eyebrows have been raised at some of Friends of Haydon Bridge. Dr Ford’s forthright offerings. However, his page has always been essential reading, topical, informative and peppered with humour. IF YOU ENJOY THE HAYDON NEWS, PLEASE HELP On behalf of our readers and the Haydon News editors, past and US PAY FOR A NEW PRINTER BY MAKING A present, we wish him a healthy, happy and active DONATION TO THE FRIENDS OF HAYDON BRIDGE. retirement. Thank you Dr Ford. MP
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31st July 2008
As the mist rolls in across the Tyne valley, the steelwork for the first lift of the South Tyne Viaduct is placed in position. The lift takes place at midnight on Saturday 2nd August.
Technical details: Height of crane with jib: 120ft Weight of first lift: 237tonnes Length of steel: 50metres
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THE HAYDON NEWS Editors: Mike Parkin. Dennis Telford. www.Haydon-News.co.uk Site construction by Henry Swaddle. Page 2 HAYDON NEWS PARISH COUNCIL NOTES from the meeting in July 2008
Public Participation. Council meeting. Development Group are to have a A replacement for the seat at the corner 7 councillors were present. meeting with Tynedale Council officers of Church Street and Strother Close was A Tynedale councillor arrived later in and with the North Pennines Partnership requested once again. The Council is to the meeting. to look at ways in which they can consider using the money given to the support the implementation of the Council by the builder of Old Foundry Tynedale Minutes. priorities identified in the Parish Plan. Court to provide a seat. The money was Hadrian’s Wall Heritage Group are given as a goodwill gesture following As no Tynedale councillor was present coming to the village on August 4th to the loss of the Council owned bus shelter at the meeting at this point there was discuss the support they can give to and seat during construction of the flats. no report on Tynedale Council matters. businesses and to advise on how tourism The poor condition of the pavement and can be promoted in Haydon Parish. curb at the corner of Church Street and Highways. Strother Close, and the overgrown Library. condition at the start of the path from A letter had been received from a Page Croft to the Old Church were Chesterwood resident regarding water NCC Library Services have taken on the drawn to the Council’s attention. Both flowing onto the lane near lease of the library building for a further these issues are to be reported to NCC Chesterwood Grange. It was reported year. This will give the Council time to Highways Dept. that local residents have the matter in complete the necessary enquiries before hand. deciding on whether or not it will take A Showfield resident asked if the Following the erection of the tourist on responsibility for the running of the Council had received a response to the signs for Haydon Bridge on the Alston library. letter sent to the ombudsman and road at Esp Hill, a query was raised Planning Inspector about the decision to about similar signage for Langley. Shaftoe Green. grant permission for the development of A councillor is to approach the North 40 houses at the Showfield. No response Pennines Partnership about requesting The Council was informed of the has yet been received. a tourist sign for the North Pennines at progress made, and problems incurred, The Council have however been the bypass junction with the Alston in restoring the Toddlers’ Play Area. informed that the Planning Inspector can road. However, it is the responsibility (See report on page 15). only deal with appeals lodged by the of individual businesses to request developer against planning decisions their own tourist signs. Spa Well. Concern was expressed about the Showfield construction traffic using the Correspondence. It was suggested that the Council Alston road and negotiating the difficult consider asking the Community Police right-hand turn into the Langley road at The Council was informed that the about using offenders, sentenced to carry Esp Hill. The dangers presented by the Highways Agency has issued a road out Community Service, to improve the hidden dip beneath the bypass bridge closure notice for the A686 Alston path to the Spa Well. The Council is to across the Langley road just south of the road at its junction with the A69, to follow up this idea. entrance to the Showfield were also allow the bypass junction to be mentioned. constructed. The notice covers the War Memorial. The clerk read out a letter sent in period August 26th to 19th December The bayonet on the War Memorial is to response to the Council’s 2008. It is likely that the road will be correspondence with NCC Highways closed for a continuous period between (Parish Council Notes continue on last month regarding the hidden dip. In August 26th and October 10th. Page 15). the letter it was suggested that ‘hidden The Council received letters from dip’ signs be erected and ’slow’ Tynedale Council and Northumberland markings painted on the road. The PARISH COUNCILLORS National Park Authority requesting Council felt that this would not be information on sites for Strategic Esmond Faulks (chairman) adequate and that further measures Housing Land availability. Mr. D Charlton 684505 should be taken including; moving the There was also a request for the Mrs. E Charlton 684505 30mph signs further south to include the Council to consider its Local Transport Mrs. V Fletcher 688872 approach to the dip, painting double priorities for 2009/10. Mr. M R Parkin 684340 white lines on the road to prevent Mr. D Smith* 684480 overtaking etc. NCC Highways to be The Boundary Committee is to look at Mr. R Snowdon 688871 contacted. [Eds’ note. CVC construction the wards in the new unitary authority Mr. E Brown* 684084 vehicles have used the Alston Road route to ensure elected members represent Mr H Oliver 688856 and negotiated the Esp Hill junction to populations of similar size. Ms J Males access their site during the building of Mrs J Thompson 684376 the bypass.] Parish Projects. (* also a Tynedale Councillor)
A request was made for a handrail by the Parish Plan. Parish Clerk steps on the path beneath the railway The Parish Council was informed that Mrs. C McGivern between the riverside and Station Road. 688020(after 6pm) members of the Parish Plan HAYDON NEWS Page 3 HISTORICAL NOTES OF HAYDON BRIDGE - Dennis Telford
I left you last month with the thought to work at Whinnetley Drift Mine and and dig out the coal from below the that there is no better way of it is there where his experiences are limestone. A putter would shovel the recording our history than listening relevant to these particular ‘Notes. coal from behind the miner to the main track and then each miner had to do his to those who were part of it. The journey from Haydon Bridge to own filling into his tub. This month I hope you enjoy my Whinnetley was made by bicycle extended Historical Notes, reflecting unless Ernie Hall, coalman and haulier There were seven tubs lowered down the on Whinnetley Drift in the company from Hall Bank, was in the village, in drift on a steel rope and each tub held of three Haydonians whose working which case the Whinnetley employees 7cwts., the employees were paid per cwt. memories there cover a period from would climb up onto the back of his on the number of tubs they filled. the late 1940’s to 1964. lorry with their bicycles and make the “When the tubs were pulled up to bank journey to work “in style”. Apart from Where possible I have avoided again and if the coal had vibrated down the section from Standalone to duplication in this record of their in the tub and it wasn’t filled up to the Chesterwood, the return journey was individual experiences. line, and so didn’t look as if it held the almost wholly free wheeling. The stories overlap of course so you full 7cwt. for which we expected to get will recognise a familiar theme Sid’s colleagues when he started in the paid, we soon got to know that Jack throughout. late forties at Whinnetley were: Jack Routledge wasn’t a happy man and he Routledge and Frank Johnson who would hold back some of our money!” SID BELL were on bank and in charge, having Each miner had a token fixed to a chain Having joined up on Christmas Eve been responsible for re-opening the pit. which they put into the bottom of their 1939, Haydon Bridge resident Sid Bell, Billy Brown, Bob Hodgson (Butt tub before filling the coal over it. In this now ninety two years old, came to Bank), Billy and Jackie Philipson, way when the tubs were emptied at bank Haydon Bridge in 1940 as a member of Billy and Tot Pickering, Kit Routledge each individual miner’s output was the Royal Tank Corps on training and Archie Thompson. recorded. Sid expected to fill about ten exercises in readiness for the Second tubs each day. World War. Sid was stationed in the By the 1950’s Whinnetley was Elmfield Methodist Church school room, privately owned by P.W. Sharp of “Married blokes tried to get ten tubs a and Langley Castle and Ridley Hall Haltwhistle and traded under the name day out, but a single bloke like Archie were also commissioned. The Town Hall of Whinnetley Coal Co. Ltd. and Thompson was happy with seven tubs. was the Corps’ headquarters. Sid was to Charlie Brown (who eventually took Billy Brown was another that wasn’t meet Haydonian Peggy Brown during over from Barnie Dabb as licensee at bothered that much. We only had his stay and they married in 1942. the Scotch Arms) was manager. quarter of an hour for bait but Billy would have his bait then fall asleep and Sid and Peggy settled in Haydon Bridge Sid describes the drift at Whinnetley as Charlie - his faather - would have to kick after the war, initially at No.4 Smith’s running downwards to the north and him up the backside to get him to wake Terrace. Sid’s neighbours on the row being over half a mile underground up again.” included John Waite and Kathy (nee and like the veins on a leaf. Usher), Tommy Usher, and the Curry But one thing was for certain. “There was such a lot of water that had and Duffy families. “If we didn’t get the coal, we didn’t get to be pumped out with an old Sid was a butcher by trade but as a paid owt.” fashioned diesel pump afore we could married man sought employment that This meant that even in bad winter go in.” paid better wages than could be weather when snow was piled high, the expected through butchering. A short Each miner had his own winning, or miners would do their utmost to get to time at Fourstones Paper Mill, where “low” off the main drift and they were work, walking through drifts of snow twelve hours day and night shifts were allowed to mine the coal there until from the village to get to Whinnetley. not to his liking, was followed by a spell they reached the boundary with land “If the North Bank was blocked we’d try at Langley Coal & Fireclay Company - owned by Prior House to the west and to get a lift along the main road to or Langley Barony as it was generally Hill House to the east. Once they Lipwood Hall and then we walked up known. reached the boundary the “low” was the fields to the pit at Whinnetley. closed and they moved down the drift Sid worked as a kiln man at Langley and It was hard work but I will say we were and opened another section. among his fellow employees were on a canny shift. From eight in the Geordie Briggs who was in charge, Jack “And after a few weeks you would get morning to quarter past three, when six Leathard, Lance and Peter Spooner, mebee fifteen yards in.” of us would pile into the last tub and get
Harry Swallow and Ken Lax, chief kiln The little limestone seams were 18” to pulled up to bank - even though it wasn’t operator. 24” high and occasionally as low as allowed really! Mind nobody had a After a confrontation between Ken Lax 12” and, especially in bad weather, watch in those days, except mebee Kit and Geordie Briggs, Ken was sacked on they would be very wet on the bottom, Routledge, and if we came out early by the spot and eventually Sid was offered although a pump was in permanent mistake, we were soon telt about it.” the top job of head kiln man, with the use. “On a good week we could make mebee promise of a £2 a week increase in £13 and that was good pay compared to wages. Sid however, encouraged by The miners would blast out the most labouring jobs.” Billy Philipson who lived in Whittis winning and then lie on their sides Crescent, had by then accepted an offer with pneumatic drills - “windy picks”- Each miner had to timber his own Page 4 HAYDON NEWS winning although it was the spare man, to get your pay.” Whickham. Gordon’s recollection Frank Johnson or Jack Routledge, who Sid eventually left the privately owned suggests that “Mr. Glass” is a forgotten was responsible for providing them with pit at Whinnetley to go to the Bardon short term link at Whinnetley, in the their timbers. Occasionally a miner Mill NCB colliery. early 1950’s, between Frank Johnson & would cut corners with the timbering in “Still hard work, but a cake walk Partners and P.W. Sharp.) order to speed up his production and compared to the way we were treated increase the quantity of coal won and for Gordon’s first impressions of his early at Whinnetley. And we got a days at Whinnetley, where he worked on which he was paid. guaranteed wage as well as getting Sid tells of one day when going for his bank, were underwhelming. paid for the coal we got out.” bait he noticed that Billy Brown’s “The drift wasn’t owt special you know. winning had no timbering at all and Bardon Mill pit closed on November It looked as if it had been put together in when they all got together for their bait 5th 1973 and Sid retired then to kind of a hurry. And they had old they heard the stone above the mined concentrate on his hobbies, particularly wooden hoppers, that’s all they were and coal, slip. gardening and the Haydonian you had to sho’el the coal into the
“Billy’s winning had collapsed Workingmen’s Club. wagons by hand. completely and his windy pick was lost Sid Bell is the oldest living member of We had an old petrol hauler or winch under the fall. Had he been working in the ‘Club and was a founder member. when aa started and it had four tubs on. there he would certainly have been Along with other miners or ex miners, They eventually got the electric in and killed. his experience was put to good use in then you could put six or seven tubs on The mine was inspected every few the early days by digging out the earth the hauler.” below the floor behind the Bar to make weeks mind, by independent safety Gordon described to me his work on people. You never knew when they the cellar. bank. were coming and if you didn’t have your “We took up the floor boards, behind timbers in properly you would get fined. the Bar you know, and just dug and “There was an embankment and the tubs But most miners valued their own safety dug to get rid of the soil. Then Sammy were pulled up it by the hauler onto a and didn’t cut corners very often. Gilchrist built the walls and supports. flat bit on the top, where we unhooked Especially those men with a wife and Sid Thompson, Tot and Billy the line of full tubs off the steel rope. family.” Pickering, meself and one or two Then we put a line of empty tubs on it others were on over two weeks digging and sent them down to the ‘dip’ end for There are no fatalities recorded at the putters to send them to be filled up Whinnetley although Sid recalls an it out.” where the blokes were working, incident when he was very lucky “Aye; the club. It’s been good for We would push each full tub into a himself. Haydon Bridge!” cradle thing that used to tip itself up and
“I was in the dip in the drift and heard a Aye. And that’s another story for the coal would go down the screens. - great roaring sound that was getting another day Sid! The screens didn’t shake or owt you louder and louder. It was obviously a ______know. We just had to push or rake the tub that had broken loose at bank and coal along like. - The big bits would gan coming at a tremendous speed down the GORDON BROWN into one hopper and the small coal drift on the rails. I pulled myself into would gan into another. The big coal the ‘low’ and just got me legs in when it Gordon, or perhaps as likely to be fell onto the bottom and when the came crashing past full of coal. known by old Haydonians as ‘Nipper’, wagons came in we had to load them by By mind, I was gay lucky that time. The left Shaftoe Trust School in 1952 as a hand. tub hit the bottom with such force and fifteen year old and went straight away When we got a bit more mechanised the heavy steel sides just crumpled up to work at Whinnetly Drift where his like, (an ironic laugh from Gordon here) and the coal flew out everywhere. father Charlie was manager, having the wagons would come under the I found out later that the banksman was moved there from Bardon Mill Pit a hopper and they would be filled up from short time earlier. uncoupling the tubs near the hopper and there.” one got away. It should have had a “When aa started, the pit belonged to a Although Gordon worked on bank at safety rope fixed to it.” fella called Mr. Glass. R.W. Glass. Whinnetley there were occasions when it He used to come to the pit every now According to Sid, the mine owners did was necessary to go into the drift; to and again; mebee once a month. Aa very little if anything to improve the lot help move a fall of stone that had remember he used to come with a of the workers and this didn’t improve jammed the rope from the hauler or black Labrador and we used to have to when P.W. Sharp of Haltwhistle took winch, or if the tubs had come off the put a bag of coal in the barrow and over the pit, although there was a ready track. customer for as much coal as they could wheel it across to his car. get out. The coal from the seam was Sharps’ of Haltwhistle took it over “We just had to guess what was good quality and very clean and Sharps’ when Mr. Glass packed in.” happening on the rope underground mind, by a change in the sound of the sold it to Carlisle Power Station. (It is interesting that Robert William electric hauler. Sometimes we would “Other than a few folk from the Glass does not feature in the scant gan doon and there was nowt wrong. village, all the coal went to Carlisle official records of Whinnetly Drift, Just too heavy a load mebee.” Electric. A six ton wagon would come although his name does appear in and fill up two or three times a day. records of Priestman Collieries Ld., Water in the drift at Whinnetley seems But Percy Sharp wasn’t the best to work and pits at Axwell Park, Swallwell: to have been a regular problem and one for you know. You always had a job on Blaydon Main: and Watergate at hundred and fifty yards down from the HAYDON NEWS Page 5 entrance to the drift there was a dam, down. It was mebee just for the farmer stop, hoyed me oot onto the top of the just off the main track in an old working. to get coal for himself.” embankment.
“There was a lot of water used to come Or maybe the original 19c drift from Aa was rushed to Hexham Hospital and out of old workings from years ago, and where coal was mined to be used at patched up with stitches. There’d been a if it rained, water would run down from the Honeycrook Lead Mines? few fellas hurt at Whinnetley but aa’m the drift mouth as well. So we had a I wonder? sure that was the worst accident. dam made of wooden boards and a pump Mind aa was determined to go back to just in front of it, to pump the water out Gordon Brown’s first pay, working at work as soon as aa could, but when aa and save it from gannin doon to the Whinnetley, was “about £2 - 8shillings did aa was kind of nervous ‘cos the bottom of the drift. We had to gan doon a week.” He travelled there and back system was just the same. Aa still had to and start this pump, and a big electric like almost everyone else, on his push stand with the big pinch bar forcing the pump at the bottom an aa’l.” bike; unless there was deep snow in moving steel rope, with the ‘hedgehogs’, the winter - as there often was in those into position.” Gordon also describes a second air days - when they would go by bus to When Gordon’s father, Charlie, left tunnel running alongside the main drift. Lipwood Hall and walk to work from Whinnetley to run the Scotch Arms there. “It was blocked off at the entrance and public house in Haydon Bridge, Gordon Gordon laughs now as he recalls the incorporated a big fan that used to suck soon followed. In September 1961 return from a shift, waiting for a bus at the air out of the drift, and it was Gordon and Joyce married, after they Lipwood. replaced by good air from the top, had met in the Scotch Arms and in outside.” “Sometimes we’d all be waiting at the 1962 Gordon joined Marsh’s, the
According to Gordon, by the time he left bus stop in mucky clothes and all black contractors who were putting in a cross Whinnetley it was nearly a thousand with the coal dust. The bus driver country water pipeline. Gordon tells me yards from the entrance of the drift to would just give us one look, turn away, he was pleased that he wasn’t going to the underground ‘dip’ on the main track. and gan straight past. No; he wouldn’t have to spend the rest of his working stop and we used to have to set off life at the pit. “Beyond that aa think they hit a ‘hitch’ walking to Haydon Bridge then.” as it was called; when the coal After eighteen months, Gordon joined disappeared and the stone had to be On a more serious note, it seems to me Newmans’ the builders and had five blasted away with gelignite, then the that a miner’s life at Whinnetley was happy years there before going on the coal would suddenly appear again. never without an accident of one kind railway, where he worked with Dennis or another and Gordon knows he is Ayre, Geordie Hope, Eddie Johnson, It was dangerous down there in the main Alan Moy, and Lennie Tait. drift mind. Just old wooden props and lucky still to be with us after a frightening incident with the tub hauler After twelve years on the railway, the conditions were really difficult. Aa Gordon started for Hexham Council mean, Sid Bell, Kit Routledge, Terry on bank. where he became a well known and most Noble - who lived up on the Military “It was Tuesday 13th April 1954. The popular figure on the streets of Hexham somewhere - Archie Thompson and steel rope from the drift came up the until his retirement in 2006. Billy Pickering, all biggish fellas lying embankment at an angle and to keep it on their sides working on the face in in line we had to stand holding a big Gordon now divides his time between seams no higher than 19”. They all pinch bar against it when it was pulling his California allotment and his family worked with windy picks when aa the tubs. like everything else at and grandchildren, the traumatic days at started, but me faather organised to get a Whinnetley the rope was in poor the pit a distant memory; but now part of coal cutter down and that made a big condition and bits of steel wire were the recorded history of Haydon Bridge’s difference for some of the blokes. It had sticking out where it was worn Whinnetley Drift. And rightly so. like a swordfish blade with teeth on and through. - We called these sharp Thanks so much Nipper! it just went from side to side cutting into spikes, ‘hedgehogs’. the coal. Aa was holding the pinch bar against By they earned their money down there the rope keeping it in position this day. mind! The wind was blowing and aa had an
As well as the face workers, there was old coat on. As the rope came past, a Billy and David Brown, Clive Calvert, ‘hedgehog’ caught on me coat and Bob Hodgson, Matty Irwin, Raymond dragged us in towards the hauler wheel Nixon, Albert Ridley and a Danish fella that was pulling the steel rope in. Me called Axel Ankelberg from Allendale. brother Charlie was there - he worked He was the electrician and when he left, at Whinnetley for a while when he George Broughton came in.” came out of the Navy - and if it hadn’t been for him aa would have just been It is interesting to me that Gordon mangled up. remembers another abandoned drift at Luckily, aa was pulled on top of the Whinetley. rope but me head and around me “In another little field about a couple of mouth and chin was all bust open. hundred yards from where our drift was When Charlie saw what was there must have been another little drift happening, he knocked the thing off A young Gordon ‘Nipper’ Brown coming out there ‘cos you could see the straight away and the force of the tubs of the Whinnetley Drift in 1953. The rails, steel hauler rope and pipes embankment where the tubs used to go coming off the track, when it came to a from the water pumps can just be seen Page 6 HAYDON NEWS no less exciting and heart stopping for hard it nearly killed us. By they were he open, unattended entrance of a drift T that. hard workers at Crindledykes; especially mine, leading to the wildly imagined ______John Rogan. He just worked away on mysteries of a dark tunnel burrowed his own, never bothering anybody.” deep into the earth, was an irresistible invitation for a ten year old to EXPLORE! JEFF MARSHALL After joining up with the Mineral n the early 1960s and just married, a Treatment Company again for a short And so it was that on my regular visits to I chance to save a few bob on fuel (or time, at Carrshield, it was on his my grandparents’ house at Haltwhistle, seventeenth birthday on 11th November my instinct frequently led me up the anything else for that matter) wasn’t to be sniffed at and I would take my old 1957 that Jeff started work at Haltwhistle Burn, following the path of Ford van up to Whinnetley on a Whinnetley; having heard from Lance the narrow gauge mineral lines that had Spooner, an employee there, that they served the South Tyne Colliery and Saturday morning when Jeff was working at the drift there. Jeff would wanted somebody to work on bank. Cawfields Quarry, to the fireclay drift where I would ‘dare’ to enter; a box of be manning the pumps to keep the “Whinnetly belonged to Percy Sharp matches as my only means of lighting ‘tide’ from Haresby and Whinnetley from Haltwhistle, but Charlie Brown Moss at bay. the way. was in charge and we never hardly saw It was on one of those visits, after two My early if unauthorised experience Percy. Aa think aa got £2 -10shillings a underground, pressed tightly against the or three good cwt. measures of week pay when aa first started.” sides of the adit as a line of clay filled Whinnetley coal had been bagged up, that I followed Jeff into the drift. Charlie’s son Gordon ‘Nipper’ was tubs drawn by a pit pony rattled past in already working on bank when Jeff the gloom, was no doubt a dangerous Not until that Saturday morning in started and there were seven on the face: way for a young lad to spend an 1963, half a mile underground, did I Archie Thompson, Billy Brown, Billy afternoon and my parents would have fully appreciate the stories of pain and and Tot Pickering, Frankie Brown, Sid been mortified had they known where I hardship endured by my coal mining Bell and Kit Routledge, - who always was. But what a thrill! ancestors. Stories that many years had the wettest place and always had to The South Tyne Fireclay Company ‘up earlier had been repeated time after wear waterproofs, according to Jeff. the burn’ was managed by Haydonian time as I sat on my grandmother’s There were two putters: Peter Brown Alan Moffat. Alan, who had previously knee in No.3 Meadow Terrace, and Dennis Ayre and the others worked as clerk/accountant for builder Haltwhistle; my grandfather in his underground and on maintenance were Adam Nixon, lived in ‘Lynwood’, one early grave having worked Harry Swallow, Lance Spooner, Bob of the houses on the south side of John underground in South Tyne and Fell Hodgson, Percy Charlton and electrician Martin Street built by Nixon, whose End collieries. George Broughton. business went bankrupt in doing so. Jeff Marshall was to spend more than “They were all hard workers mind, and The Haltwhistle works were on the site six years at Whinnetley Colliery until they were happy days. We all got on of the 500’ deep shaft of the South Tyne its closure in February 1964, but not well together and we all got into the Colliery, one of our area’s best known before he had been employed at one of ‘Club for a pint at the weekend. coal pits until its closure in 1931. our other famous industrial sites. We all used to bike to Whinnetley, Incidentally, the Haltwhistle Burn has a except for Charlie. He had an old Jeff left Shaftoe Trust School in 1955 remarkable industrial heritage involving Morris Shooting Brake and used to to work for Mineral Treatment Ltd., at woollen mills, quarrying, coalmining travel up and down in that. and ‘Alan Moffat’s’ fireclay / pipeworks the Honeycrook site of the former You probably remember it. Charlie used which remained open until finally unable Langley Barony Lead Mines site, to park it outside his pub. The Scotch to compete with PVC drainage pipes. trawling through the waste heaps, or Arms. (I do Jeff. And I could tell a story gangue, from the old workings, By the late 1950s early 60s however, the or two about boozy trips in it as well!) searching for lead and zinc that was Haltwhistle Burn’s historical association Mind later on aa sometimes got a lift on then transported to rail wagons in the was less important for the lads from the Raymond Nixon’s Velocette motorbike. Haydon Bridge goods yard. Jeff’s ‘Bridge, than the wooded seclusion It cost us a packet of tabs a week!” fellow workmen at Honeycrook provided in the gorge for those who included Jack Milburn, Bill White, Later, Ken Lattimer took over from chose to do their courting there. — You Geordie Osselton, and Wilf Marsh. Charlie Brown when he left; and know who you are! More ‘at it’ than Richard Marshall, Colin Edwards, ‘adit’. More ‘cuddles’ than ‘buddles’. “Wilf would come up to work with a George Barron, and Geordie Beswick, More ‘petting’ than ‘putting’. And by little box, selling cigarettes and all Alan Stokoe and ‘Haver’ Bell from the way; more ‘losing’ than ‘winning’! kinds of stuff brought from his shop on Ratcliffe Road.” Haltwhistle also worked at Whinnetley Again, another story for another day - Drift during Jeff’s time there. but this one will probably never be told! (For a Brief history of the lead mine, see The HN Feb. and March 2008 editions ) “We were on a flat rate but the face Anyway; this tale leads me onto my workers were all on bonus. That was the When the Mineral Treatment company second (and last) visit down a working only pay they got. They all had their moved on from the Leadbitter and mine; at Whinnetley from where I own bits of the face in gateways off the related Sid Bell’s and Gordon Brown’s Joicey Shaft spoil heaps, Jeff spent six main track and they all had to fill their experiences earlier. My unofficial months at Crindledykes Quarry, with own tubs. There were often arguments underground ‘tour’, made possible by John Rogan, Charlie Frankland and about their tokens that were fixed to the Freddie and Robert Stanners. Haydonian and Whinnetley employee tubs, ‘cos that was how their coal was Jeff Marshall, was guided this time but “The work at Crindledykes was so measured and how they got paid. And HAYDON NEWS Page 7 mind, they had to fight for every penny rolled back for any reason, the iron bar Geoff Duffy would take a load away and they got! When aa started aa think the or ‘the bull’ as Jeff calls it, was bag it himself away from the pit, but not face workers got five shillings for a full expected to dig into the track and bring Ernie. Ernie would let it all drop on the seven cwt. tub, and the coal sold for five the line of tubs to a halt or off the ground and he had a drum with no top or shillings a cwt.” track. Lives of those underground, bottom in it. He would put the drum
Jeff Marshall’s work on bank included ‘hanging by a thread’ comes to my into a cwt. sack and shovelled the coal emptying the coal down the screens, mind. into it. When the drum was full Ernie sharpening ‘windy picks’ and Fortunately, while neighbouring pits would pull it back out of the sack and controlling the electric winch to set the had their share of fatalities, there were start another. By what a strong fella only narrow escapes at Whinnetley. Ernie Hall was. And what a worker! tubs up and down the drift. I was fascinated by Jeff’s explanation of Jeff related one such escape when he Mind what a grubber he was as well. the system for passing messages from was underground helping lift a Ernie’s bait box was a lot bigger than anybody else’s aa’ve ever seen.” underground to those on bank. de-railed tub back onto the track. According to Jeff, most of the workers at “To send a signal from the face to the “If the tubs came off the track aa used Whinnetley carried their bait wrapped in winch hut, they had two bare electric to go down and help to lift them on neckerchiefs and their tea was made up wires. Aa suppose they should have had and then Geordie Broughton would in tin cans and they would warm it up a button or switches really, but they just splice the rope. One day aa was down with a candle down the pit at bait time. crossed the two live wires underground putting a tub back on and aa said to Jeff carried his own tea in a Murrays’ and the controller of the winch on bank, Colin on the winch, ‘mind don’t send pop bottle, well wrapped up to act as a knew the code when the bell went. them tubs back down until aa come flask. Crossing the wires once was for; stop the out’. Once it was fixed and the line of tubs going up or down. Crossing the tubs winched up, aa started to walk Although the conditions were appalling wires twice was to tell us to send the away up to bank and aa got so far and there was an apparent disregard for tubs lower. And three times was to when me lamp went out. Aa was in the workers’ safety and well being - For bring the tubs up. We had no other the black dark and suddenly aa heard example, according to Jeff, until the later contact with the men underground this bloody rumbling and aa thowt, years, “There was no office, no phone, except for any written messages on the ‘the stupid bugger he’s sending them no nowt.” And until later on, “The men side of the tubs or the tram. Timber or back in!’ even had to buy their own carbide for props used to come from Jacksons and There used to be little archways along their lamps, from the Co-op store in the the tram was used for sending the the sides of the track where you could village” - Whinnetley was clearly a timbers down the drift. The men get in and let the tubs past. Luckily aa happy place to work. underground would write messages on had an idea where aa was and feeling It seems to me that despite the hardships the side of the tram to let us know what me way up in the dark aa just got into and a recognition that their lives were in they wanted sent down.” the side when the tubs came shooting past. By aa was lucky!” constant danger - or perhaps because of Jeff described his work on the winch to that - there was a strong bond between me. Whinnetley seems to have been a the men. It’s doubtful, unless you have worked down a pit, whether you can “It was a gentle slope in until you got much more difficult place to work in fully appreciate the camaraderie that gets nearer the bottom, then there was what after the 1960 closure of Morwood pit. the miner through the most difficult of we called ‘the dip’. When aa was on the “The water used to build up overnight circumstances. winch you always knew when the tubs after they closed Morwood and the two were getting into the dip. They used to pumps could hardly cope. That was Whinnetley Drift closed on February 3rd slow down and you used to have to let why aa was in on a Saturday. Nipper 1964 and the underground water that the brake right up so the tubs would go and me used to share weekend work on was partly to blame for its demise faster to get up the bit incline on the the pumps to keep drying it out ready remains on the surface to this day. other side of the dip.” for the men going in on the Monday; Marking the spot where our local 20c and we used to help Lance and Percy miners toiled for over twenty years. It is a mystery - and a delight - to me with the maintenance on a Saturday as Jeff Marshall finished work at that there weren’t any serious accidents, well. other than Gordon Brown’s, at Whinnetley on February 3rd 1964 and Once onto bank, the screened coal was Whinnetley Drift. That there were only on Monday 6th he started work on a tipped into the hoppers and loaded relatively minor incidents must have Northumberland County Bridge Gang from there into wagons. with Billy and Tot Pickering, with been down to a large slice of luck and the resourcefulness of the men, rather “Sharps’ had two of their own wagons. Haydon Bridge’s Billy Adamson in than any serious attempts by the owners Small stuff used to go to the Carlisle charge. Other Haydonians who worked to provide a safe environment. power station and the good coal was for the council, repairing and building I still recall my amazement, during my shared between the power station and the county’s bridges, were Derek first visit there in 1963, at the primitive local coal men like Geoff Duffy and Beavers, Maxi Beavers, Matty Brown, method used to stop a runaway tub. Ernie Hall. - Other people, individuals Jack Davies, John Oliver and Geordie Brown from Plankey. A piece of iron rail fixed to the back of like, would come in for a bag or two as the last tub in the line, trailed along the well. Like the folk from ‘Seldom Jeff had left Whinnetley and was sleepers as the tubs were being winched Seen’ and they would always bring us working for the bridge gang when he up the slope and out of the drift. If the home made scones, so aa would put a met and married Margaret, at Aberdeen steel winch rope snapped or the tubs bit extra coal in the bag for them! - in 1965. Page 8 HAYDON NEWS From leaving school until his retirement PIT OWNERS CORRESPONDENCE in 1997 Jeff had only one week off work am aware that the owners of our coal I I wonder! Do we really appreciate the through illness. mines do not come out too well in my attractions on our own door step? “There were plenty of times aa should recent Historical Notes and perhaps the have been off but you had to go to work directors of Stublick, Mid Tyne, and Our next contributor reminds me of a or you didn’t get paid.” Whitechapel Collieries. R.W. Glass; holiday in Italy where we visited Venice, Florence, Assisi, Pisa and its leaning Jeff is sure that there were those who P.W. Sharp and others would view the situation differently. However, I spent tower, and Rome. didn’t appreciate this situation. Standing in the shadow of the awesome For example after an accident at a year at Huddersfield in 1967 and recall the impressive buildings, parks, Colosseum, our reverent Italian lady Whinnetley, when he was lifting a tub guide informed us that it was her life’s onto the track and crushed his hand terraces of old folk’s houses and the civic pride generated in memory of the ambition to save enough money to when the roof came in, he was enable her to travel to England and visit determined to get back to work as soon Yorkshire mill owners. an historic site of which she had dreamt as possible. Doctor Bell was most As far as I am aware, there was no about for years………….Vindolanda! sympathetic. “Have yourself another such philanthropy shown by the pit week off Jeff. And then have another owners of Tynedale - nor perhaps right I had to admit, with just a hint of week off, and another.” across the Northumberland and embarrassment perhaps, that I lived but a few Roman miles from Vindolanda and “Aa said. Aa cannot man. Aa’ve got no Durham coal fields - and other than Shaftoe Trust School and Shaftoe yet hadn’t set foot in the place for five money and if aa stop off aa divvent get years or more. An omission I put right paid!” Terrace, built in memory of a religious benefactor, our original community immediately on my return, incidentally. That was how it was in the good old buildings in Haydon Bridge, such as ______days! the Odd Fellows Hall, the Town Hall, ______the Reading Room and the Wesley Canberra, Hall, were each the result of public Australia.
subscription and involvement in Dear Editors, raffles, jumble sales and the like. Last year when visiting the U.K. with a Perhaps the coal owners thought that friend, we walked from Haltwhistle to their commitment to the population Vindolanda (in all that rain!) along was satisfied by providing Hadrian’s Wall. employment, however dismal the This year I have returned and am having conditions were for their workers. two weeks at Vindolanda, doing what I Or perhaps they just didn’t think! have always wanted to do, excavation of an archaeological site. TIMES PAST Although my days at Haltwhistle this I note with amusement that three year have been spent back and forward legged races and sack races have been on the bus to Vindolanda, I have enjoyed banned during Beamish’s Edwardian my stay. God willing, I will be back themed sports’ days. from Australia again next year for a ‘In case those children taking part fall longer stay of four weeks, getting dirt over.’ under my finger nails finding things
What is the world coming to? from the past at Vindolanda.
They’ll be stopping us throwing Finding coins, brooches, nails and small jumping jacks and penny bangers at pieces of pottery and other items gives Jeff Marshall at Whinnetley Drift in 1960 (ish) each other next. And as for stone one the feeling of opening up the past fights on the river side ……..!!! for future generations to see how the Romans could make such beautiful My sincere thanks to Sid, Gordon and buildings and craft objects for everyday Jeff, for allowing me to share with THE HAYDON NEWS life, without modern technology. I am you their memories of Whinnetley The Haydon News is not sure that digging up any items from the Drift and those who worked there. published in September past gives the volunteers satisfaction. And thanks to Gordon and Jeff for so we wish you all well until their original photographs. our next issue in October. To be part of uncovering history for all the world to see is worth travelling half winch or hauler The original way round the world. embankment wooden hopper and hopper from the drift built up embankment Yours sincerely, at Whinnetley Drift. Fay Tarlo ______The tubs were hauled up the embankment out of the drift and pushed up to the This month’s correspondence hopper and tipped. continues on page 16
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THE FINAL LOAD OF A. The tides are a fight between the A. A Roman Emperor.
GLITTERING CODSWOLLOP earth and the moon. All water tends to Q. What is a terminal illness? flow towards the moon, because there A. When you are sick at the airport. Eating oddly. is no water on the moon, and nature Q. Give an example of a fungus. What is There is a condition called ’pica’ which abhors a vacuum. I forget where the a characteristic feature? affects children mainly. It is diagnosed sun joins the fight. A. Mushrooms. They always grow in when a child persistently eats materials Q. What guarantees may a mortgage damp places and they look like that are largely or entirely non-nutritive company insist on? umbrellas. or even actively harmful-usually soil but A. If you are buying a house they will it could be almost anything. One of the insist that you are well endowed. Q. Use the word ‘judicious’ in a more consistent causes for the disorder sentence to show you understand what it is iron deficiency. Q. In a democratic society, how means. In a recent copy of The British Medical important are elections? A. Hands that judicious can be soft as Journal there appeared a report by a A. Very important. Sex can only your face. retired doctor who had developed a happen when a male gets an election. Q. What does ‘benign’ mean? striking habit of crunching up ice cubes Q. What are steroids? A. Benign is what you will be after you from his drinks with remarkable A. Things for keeping carpets on the be eight. regularity, enthusiasm and vigour. Sure stairs. enough, it turned out he was short of Q. What is a turbine? iron and he lost his urge to crunch ice Q. What happens to your body as you A. Something an Arab or Shriek wears when it was replaced. age? on his head. A When you get old so do your Sit and suffer. bowels and you get intercontinental. Hazards and benefits of smallholding.
A survey in New Zealand has show that Q. What happens to a boy when he the risk of clots in the leg veins increases reaches puberty? There’s no doubt about it. Home grown by ten per cent for every hour sat. A. He says goodbye to his boyhood eggs, from chickens enjoying a very Immobility is actively bad for you! Keep and looks forward to his adultery. natural and fully organic lifestyle, taste a moving at all costs! great deal better than those that are If you must sit down for long periods of Q. Name a major disease associated commercially available. time then get your feet elevated, with cigarettes. Our two chickens produce an egg each preferably above your heart (which is A. Premature death. day, usually. One of them is consistently more or less under your nipples-if you’re Q. What is artificial insemination? producing eggs in the ninety gram a bloke). Reclining chairs are readily A. When the farmer does it to the bull range-that’s super-extra-jumbo sized. available nowadays and don’t have to instead of the cow. It’s easy to tell which of them it is cost a fortune. because she has that fashionable There is a major campaign going on in Q. How can you delay milk turning wide-eyed look that is so often New York at present to encourage sour? encountered on maternity wards. everyone to walk and use the stairs A. Keep it in the cow. We briefly had a third chicken, adopted rather than drive or use lifts. Q. How are the main parts of the body from Debbie our extra practice nurse If you were told that sitting still categorized? (eg abdomen). who has now decamped to Dubai, but increases your chance of getting a A. The body is consisted into three something broke into the run and made broken leg by ten per cent per hour I bet parts-brainium, the borax and the away with it. A trail of feathers lay you’d make more of an effort to walk abdominal cavity. The brainium across a neighbouring field to the small about every ten minutes or so. A clot in contains the brain, the borax contains hole in the netting. We are considering the leg is, of course, very much more the heart and lungs and the abdominal the purchase of a bazooka! dangerous. cavity contains the five bowels. Apparently the edible plant with the A,E,I,O,U. most iron in it is nettles. Try some fresh Hmmmmm! nettle tips-just the tender new leaves Q. What is the fibula? from the top of the stems in spring-cook The following questions were set in last A. A small lie. them like spinach. year’s GCSE examination in Swindon, Q. What does varicose mean? No excuse soon Wiltshire. These are genuine answers A. Nearby. (from 16 year olds). On our summer trip to Germany this Q. Name the four seasons. Q What is the most common form of year we again noticed how almost A. Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar. birth control? everyone either walks or bicycles around A. Most people prevent contraception towns and villages-young and old, male Q. Explain one of the processes by by wearing a condominium. and female, fair weather of foul. Tiny which water can be made safe to drink. children either get towed in trailers or on A. Flirtation makes water safe to drink Q. Give the meaning of the term their own attached saddle-on –wheels. because it removes large pollutants like ‘Caesarean section’. Tandems, tricycles– both upright and grit, sand, dead sheep, and canoeists. A. The caesarean section is a district in recumbent and recumbent bicycles were Rome. also in evidence. When our bypass is Q. What causes the tides in the oceans? Q. What is a seizure? Page 10 HAYDON NEWS finished it will be so easy and so much JAMES (aged 4) was listening to a Well timed. safer to get around the village on foot or Bible story. His dad read; ‘The man by bicycle. I really hope that as many as named Lot was warned to take his wife You know how it is. Aunt Agatha starts possible will take the opportunity of and flee out of the city but his wife reminiscing again and, with a ghastly becoming more active. looked back and was turned to salt.’ inevitability, the same old story starts- How about a village sports day? Doesn’t Concerned, James asked, ‘What ’When I was a gel…’ have to be in the least bit serious. Any happened to the flea?’ ideas for weird and wacky races that we I have strived to avoid repeating myself TAMMY (aged 4) was with her could hold? Welly wanging and cowpat in these epistles and, until the other day, mother when they met an elderly, throwing are popular in some rural areas. I thought I’d succeeded. However, it has rather wrinkled woman her Mom What could we wang/throw here? been drawn to my attention, that the knew. Tammy looked at her for a Another idea we have brought back from poem that appeared last month-’When I while and asked, ‘Why doesn’t your Germany is the ’Kalorienweg’ or born, I black…’ skin fit your face?’ ‘Calorie path’-lots of references to it on -seemed suspiciously familiar. the internet and translations readily The sermon I think this Mom will available from Google. never forget...this particular Sunday You know it’s time to go when you start At Inzell, in the town centre, there is a sermon.. ‘Dear Lord,’ the minister to repeat yourself. large map of the surrounding area with began, with arms extended toward paths showing typical diet items marked heaven and a rapturous look on his Thank you for having me. out in metres. To burn off coffee and upturned face. ‘Without you we are but cake so far, to burn off a hamburger and dust…’ He would have continued but Steve Ford. fries a good deal further and so on. at that moment my very obedient Whilst bicycling round the area we daughter who was listening leaned found signposts along the paths with over to me and asked quite audibly in pictures of the individual diet items at her shrill little four year old voice. A POEM FOR the relevant distances from the town. ‘Mom, what is butt dust?’ DOCTOR FORD. A thousand metres for a glass of wine Memo to self-organize your spare will give you some idea. time: The pen is mightier than the sword Perhaps we could recalibrate the John Martin Trail in calories. Serving wench brings tea in bed with Or so the saying goes, We really do eat vastly too much (and morning paper-freshly pressed. I believe that may be so, the wrong things) and exercise too little- Having read the words of Doctor Ford. Leisurely bath. You tell it just the way it is it’s no surprise that we ail so often and so predictably. In some parts of Glasgow Full English with all the trimmings. On health and better food. the life expectancy of males is 54 but in Although at times, I must admit, Stroll around the estate to collect eggs the wealthy parts it is 84. These are You get a little rude. from hens and give the ornamental shocking Dickensian statistics that ought But all is taken in good fun, peasants their days orders. You give us all a lift, not to be tolerated. It will be interesting to see what, if any, Fresh coffee and biscuits whilst To put a smile on any face effect the rising cost of food has and scanning the post. Is a very special gift. what, if any, effect the Prime Minister’s You’ve helped so many people Check emails and the markets, instruct thoughts on food waste have. For quite a lot of years brokers. The moans and groans you’ve Have a think about your own eating habits and take a glance in your larder Sherry. listened to and fridge-is there scope for And often dried the tears. Light five course luncheon. Your patients all will miss you improvement? Are you wasting money and/or eating Siesta on the stoep. It just won’t be the same, less thoughtfully than you could? No twinkling eyes and lovely smile Sunny cycle ride round the Parish Our Parish is heaving with rabbits and To ease away the pain. admiring the flower strewn meadows grey squirrels-let’s eat ‘em. I think I speak for most of folk and listening to drowsy birds calling in That’s on the practice list, Ahhhh! the bosky glades. Good luck, Good health and happiness
SUSAN (age 4) was drinking juice when Compose a few light hearted stanzas You will be greatly missed. she got the hiccups. ‘Please don’t give on the moral improvements work Whatever future plans you have me this juice again,’ she said, It makes brings. We hope you will succeed my teeth cough.’ As a doctor you’ve been great Cocktail and exchange of witty A special man indeed. DJ (aged 4) stepped onto the bathroom epigrams before- There’s only one thing left to say scales and asked, ‘How much do I cost?’ With pen and not with sword, Dinner. MARC (aged 4) was engrossed in a For all the help you’ve given us Fall into a light coma in front of TV. We THANK YOU DOCTOR FORD. young couple that were hugging and kissing in a restaurant. Without taking and so to bed. his eyes off them, he asked his dad, An endless vista of brainless hedonism Mrs Eileen Porrett ‘Why is he whispering in her mouth?’ beckons… Haydon Bridge.
HAYDON NEWS Page 11 CHURCHES WORKING TOGETHER AUGUST & SEPTEMBER 2008 CHURCH PAGE
CLERGY MESSAGE
From
Les Hann
Dear Friends, WHO AND WHERE
As I write this the sun is shining. One of those rare days The names and phone numbers of the this year but we live in hope. Clergy who minister in Haydon Bridge
It's July and those who take holidays are perhaps anticipating days of relaxation and thinking of all those Rev Judith Hampson, things they are going to do during the fine weather. with St Cuthbert’s Anglican Church The Vicarage, Station Yard Some one said to me quite recently this life is not a rehearsal for the real thing, this is the real thing. Tel. 01434 684307 Some one else remarked this is the only chance we get. It's not best out of three. Rev Les Hann, We need to live every God given day with enjoyment of his world, encouraging and caring for one another and with the Methodist Congregation being thankful to God for what he has given us in Wesley Manse, Moor View, Haltwhistle scenery and people. Tel. 01434 320051
We make a positive effort to "enjoy" our holidays, to do things and perhaps see people. We can also make a Father Leo Pyle , positive effort in the ordinary days of our life. with St John’s Catholic Church
In the past, perhaps the not too distant past, Church and St John’s Presbytery, North Bank chapel folk were seen by others to be against everything Tel. 01434 684265 for God sake. Like all generalisations this was not the whole picture, but impressions remain. Do you remember the old story of the preacher who was leading worship in a chapel, somewhere, and a villager asked a member of the congregation about the preacher's subject. "He spoke about sin" came the reply. "And what did he have to say on the subject" was the next question. ST. JOHN OF BEVERLEY "I don't know, but he was against it". CHURCH SERVICES.
In a conversation earlier in the year, it was not a sunny day the cloud was down and it was wet and cold, a visitor remarked how do you manage through the winter Mass each Sunday in weather like this. He was told "You should see it 9.30am. Haydon Bridge 11.00am. at Haltwhistle when the sun shines it transforms the place, it's beautiful. Mass on weekdays A smile transforms the human face it becomes (except Mondays) welcoming, encouraging and beautiful. 10.00am. St John’s or Haltwhistle So go and enjoy the goodness of God..
Les Hann
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August 3 August 3 10.00am. Morning Worship Henshaw August 3 Joyce Short 9.30am. BCP Communion 11.00am. BCP Communion 6.00pm. Evening Service Rev Janet Flawn August 10 August 10 11.00am . Joint Service 11.00am. Joint Service August 10 At Haydon Bridge Family Communion 10.00am. Family Service Valerie Anthony August 17 August 17 11.00am. Communion 6.00pm . Evening Service Henshaw
Rev John Wall 9.30am. Communion August 24 August 17 9.30am. Joint Service 10.00am. Morning Worship August 24 Beltingham At Beltingham Patrick Eavis 9.30am. Joint Service 6.00pm. Evening Worship August 31 Christine Caddy August 31 9.30am. Joint Service Belttngham At Beltingham August 24 9.30am. Joint Service 10.00am. Morning Worship September 7 11.00am. BCP Communion Joan Histon September 7
6.00pm. Evening Worship 9.30am. BCP Communion Kevin Williams September 14 September 14 11.00am. Joint Service August 31 11.00am, Joint Service Family Communion 10.00am. Morning Worship At Haydon Bridge Doug Hogg September 21 6.00pm. Evening Worship September 21 11.00am. Communion Margery Gazzani Beltingham September 7 9.30am. Communion September 28 10.00am. Morning Worship 10.00am. Joint Service Rev Les Nevin September 28 Harvest at Henshaw Evening United Service Henshaw 6.00pm at Wylam 10.00am. Joint Service Harvest Communion October 5 September 14 11.00am. BCP Communion 10.00am. Family Service Rev Les Hann October 5 6.00pm. Evening Worship Henshaw Daniel Foreshaw 9.30am. BCP Communion
HAYDON OLD CHURCH September 21 SERVICES 10.00am. Morning Worship Rev Jim Errington 6.00pm .Evening Worship Methodist Church Rev Marian Olsen Sunday School 31 August has a Summer Break 6.00pm. Evensong September 28 10.00am. Morning Worship Next meeting 28 September Rev David Perkins 7th September 10.00 am 6.00pm. Harvest Evensong 6.00pm. Evening Worship Evelyn Charlton
HAYDON NEWS Page 13 Life Cycle Challenge evolved, eventually returning to live in Life Cycle Challenge has captured the Haydon Bridge, for several years. imagination of the Maltese people and From 16th to 25th August 2008, David Many of you may remember Carmen each year since, a demanding cycle Armstrong will be taking part in a from that time. challenge has taken place and it has mountain bike challenge from Lourdes Carmen unfortunately suffered grown in stature and numbers as the in France, through east-central Spain to years have progressed. It has even been Gibraltar and on to Casablanca in deteriorating health and eventually they felt that she would benefit from a endorsed by the Prime Minister of Morocco, to help raise funds for those Malta. move to Malta. Following that move, suffering from kidney failure. th Carmen suffered renal failure. She This year is the 10 Anniversary of the This is a genuine extreme challenge, spent a considerable period under inception of Life Cycle Challenge. involving a distance of 1,350 miles over dialysis treatment, before eventually The Challenge visited Haydon Bridge 10 days, through 4 countries, 2 receiving a kidney transplant. Happily again a few years ago, when the route continents and crossing 4 mountain she has since been able to return to a took it through England and Scotland ranges. It will require an average of 10 - normal life. but as yet, despite Life Cycle 12 hours cycling per day; one day will Challenge’s strong links to the village, involve 250km (155 miles). Alan and Carmen were so appreciative of the attention and care that she no-one from Haydon Bridge has To put that in perspective, the longest received from the renal unit and its participated in the event. In fact no-one stage of the Tour de France this year was staff that Alan was determined to give from outside Malta has participated. a mere 210km. And they are on something back so that others, David Armstrong feels that it is time for super-lightweight hi-tech road racing suffering as Carmen had, could receive someone from Haydon Bridge to take up cycles! treatment and have the chance to the Challenge and give the village the
Evenings will be spent on the floors of return to a healthy life. opportunity to show its support for a tremendous cause, started by one of its local sports centres and village halls Those who know Alan will also know along the route. With mid-August own, and which has become a vital o that he never does anything in halves. source of funds for the local renal unit in temperatures expected to reach 40 So in 1999 to raise funds for the renal centigrade, as an (ex!) ginger-haired 48 Malta. centre he decided to cycle from his year-old, with asthma, you may think he home in Malta, through Europe and David is hoping villagers will support is a bit mad to attempt this! back to his birthplace and family home the cause by sponsoring him for the Well, maybe, but there is a close in Haydon Bridge. He was joined on Challenge. Any sum that you feel able to personal reason for doing it...... the adventure by five other cyclists, a donate would be greatly appreciated. van driver and a volunteer cook. David is paying his own flight costs to The origins of Life Cycle Challenge.... and from Malta to join the Challenge Many of you will know a fellow native Having arrived late at night in Haydon and so 100% of the amounts raised will of Haydon Bridge, and lifelong friend of Bridge, following a cycle from Hull on go to the charity. David’s, Alan Curry. Alan was born and the final day, the team received a bred in the village and his father Ralph heroes’ welcome from village folk and Anyone wishing to support the Life and sister, Helen Easby still live here. they were provided with free Cycle Challenge can contact David For those that don’t know Alan, a bit of accommodation in the village; Alan directly on: background may help put the challenge stayed with his family and the into perspective. remainder of the team stayed with [email protected] David & Pam Armstrong, Steven & Whilst serving in the RAF, Alan met and Christine Brown, Audrey Phillips and Or you can find a sponsor form married a Maltese girl, Carmen. For Rene & Maurice Armstrong. many years they lived in the UK as at Claires Newsagents on Church Alan’s career with the RAF and MoD Life Cycle Challenge was born! Street. HAYDON NEWS DELIVERY
The success of The Haydon News’s unique circulation, free of charge to the majority of houses in the parish, is due to our volunteers who distribute the ten issues each year. We are grateful to all those who deliver The Haydon News, but a special thanks this month to Maurice Gamble, who took over the delivery area previously covered by Mrs. Garrow. Mr. Gamble regrets he is unable to continue with the delivery
and we thank him for his support in the past. For those residents living in the Springfield, West and East Mill Hills and Altonside areas, we are pleased to report that we can continue our delivery service. Gordon Liddle has volunteered to distribute the monthly copies of The Haydon News to your doors from this August edition, and for that we are most grateful.
Many thanks Gordon and to all our distributors.
Dennis Telford (Chairman FoHB)
Page 14 HAYDON NEWS CVC HIGHWAYS HELP REPAIR SHAFTOE GREEN ACCOUNTANCY PLAY AREA & TAXATION SERVICES Fully qualified Professional Advice Confidentiality Guaranteed
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Alan Anderson returned to Langley with the clay pigs members had made during the March meeting. When each pig had been reunited with their maker the choice had to be made as to which base colour the pigs were painted. Once painted and dried various coloured spots were painted on the pigs. Alan then took them away to be finished and they will be returned next month After being closed for several months, work began in mid July to get the Toddlers’ completed. Play Area at Shaftoe Green open in time for the summer holidays. Plans have been made for a summer The Play area was closed having been vandalised earlier this year. ramble in August. Exploring locally this CVC Highways, at present constructing the Haydon Bridge bypass, stepped in to time. Members will be exploring the help, providing equipment and the workforce, when the full cost of making good the path ways at Langley Garden Station damage to the Toddlers’ Play Area became known. Without their support the full before enjoying a meal together. th cost of repairs would have had to be borne by the Parish Council, whose income is 9 of September is the AGM. provided by the residents of Haydon Parish. However, the Council did purchase the new play quality bark costing about £1,500. A grand total of £1042.14 was raised at th the plant sale on 26 May. This will be At the time of writing the work has not been completed as the new bark delivered is shared between Langley WI, Langley of poor quality, totally unsuitable for a Toddler’s Play Area. The Council are still Village Hall and Langley Chapel. Many waiting to hear from the suppliers about getting it changed. Hopefully the job will be thanks to everyone who helped or completed in early August. supported the sale.
Our picture shows workmen from CVC Highways removing the glass strewn bark. Cathy Duffy MP
Parish Council Notes (cont’d from page 3) support/help of many people in the replacing all the dislodged stones. The village to make it a success. council have discussed the repair of this be repaired by a local metal worker in The following points were made; wall on several occasions in the past and the near future. Sponsorship would be required to raise it is hoped that repairs will be carried out Councillors were informed that the funds to cover some of the costs; soon. names on the War Memorial Plaque are The Parish council have set aside The Council was informed that the roots now difficult to read as they have faded about £1000 to help towards costs; of the tree set into the pavement near the over time. The Council is to contact the Christmas trees may be donated by a old bridge are lifting the paving stones. War Memorials Trust to request a grant local land owner; Someone had recently tripped on the to renew the plaque. Lights and cabling have been sourced raised paving. It was thought that the Christmas Lights. and costed; tree may have to be removed. Barrels or similar large containers Work has started on repairing and A councillor gave a report to the Council would be required to accommodate the replacing the stones set into the riverbed on enquires made about Christmas trees; beneath the Old Bridge. Repairs to the Lights in Haydon Bridge this year. The Anchor Hotel has provisionally Old Bridge itself will not start until the It was pointed out that this will be the agreed to run the power from the Hotel bypass is open as the bridge will need to last Christmas that traffic on the A69 but it will need a meter so that the be closed for several months. All passes through the village and that this Hotel can be reimbursed for the pedestrians will be required to use the was an opportunity for Haydon Bridge electricity used. new bridge to cross the river during this to present itself as a welcoming and More on this in the October Haydon period. friendly location. News. Approval has been given to line the Old Next meeting. September 25th at Any other business. Bridge with free standing Christmas 7.30pm in Haydon Bridge Community A councillor suggested that the small Trees decorated with small lights. The Centre. corner wall near the Co-op could have councillor said that it would need the MP a planter set into the top rather than HAYDON NEWS Page 15 CORRESPONDENCE cont. BYPASS UPDATE LAND ARMY GIRLS
closed for up to 12 weeks. The We have a request from Mr. Dick Reed The compound at the west end of the of Northumberland this month, for bypass is a scene of much activity as the contractors will do their best however to reduce the number of weeks the information about the Haydon Bridge steel is being prepared and the jib of the Land Army and its home at the crane pieced together, in readiness for A686 is closed. In the meantime the contractors and junction between the Elrington Road and the ‘super lift ‘ on August 2nd. the A69. NCC Highways Dept. will meet to South TyneViaduct determine the best way to minimise Mr. Reed’s wife’s mother, Kathleen traffic congestion on John Martin Nairn, spent the war years in the Land At midnight on Saturday 2nd August, Street, Shaftoe Street and the Langley Army at Haydon Bridge and Dick would the contractors’ 1,000 tonne crane will (Cemetery) Road. be grateful for a photograph of the old be commencing the opening operation of Land Army buildings and any memories the ‘super lift’ that positions the first of Kathleen. steelwork of the South Tyne Viaduct. Working day and night, all the Information in the first instance to the steelwork should be in place by the end editors please. of August and further construction will continue throughout September; this will HAYDON BRIDGE NATURE CLUB also include some night working. AUTUMN AND WINTER TALKS Andrew Harding, Project Manager for 2008/09 the contract, apologises for any inconvenience caused to residents, but 18th September: Sarah Bennett and will ensure that night working is kept to Scott Dixon. a minimum. ‘Allen Banks.’
Spectators will not be allowed on the site 2nd October: Ruth Robards. during the construction of the South Tyne Viaduct but we expect to have ‘Kapiti Island and South Island photographs of the ‘super lift’ for our New Zealand.’ next issue (October). Talks are at 7.15 p.m. East End Tie-In in the Methodist Church every other Thursday Immediately following the August Bank Coffee/tea and biscuits provided Holiday, work will commence in earnest on the east end tie-in. From this date HAYDON BRIDGE NATURE CLUB WILL until Christmas there will be traffic CELEBRATE ITS 40th YEAR IN 2009 lights on the A69 at the east end of the ALL ARE WELCOME INCLUDING bypass and the Alston A686 road will be The jib of the crane has been erected in the West Rattenraw compound. NEW MEMBERS
The river and embankment piers are in place ready to support the structure forming the South Tyne Viaduct of the Haydon Bridge bypass. This rural scene, virtually unaltered for hundreds of years, is about to change for ever. Author and historical researcher Nancy Ridley once informed her readers that the view south from the unclassified road from ‘Peelwell’ to ‘The Buildings’, was one of the finest in the county. After tomorrow (2nd August 2008) it will take a little more imagination to justify Miss Ridley’s famous words. The residents of Haydon Bridge need a bypass, of that there is no doubt. But let’s be clear, there are winners and losers in most construction projects, including this one. Page 16 HAYDON NEWS POETS’ CORNER THE RAILWAY HOTEL Here is a poem for the kids, based on HAYDON BRIDGE the antics of six stoats observed on the grass borders and the stone walls of our street. 3rd ANNUAL FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SHOW
SATURDAY, AUGUST 23rd
£2 PER ENTRY. ALL ENTRIES MUST BE BENCHED BY 10.30AM JUDGING WILL TAKE PLACE AT 1.30PM Six Spinning Stoats
In and out and CASH PRIZES Round about Sleek amber bodies RAFFLE Twine and twirl Whirl like dervishes EVENING ENTERTAINMENT WITH SINGER JOHN Pause for skirmishes HODGSON Coiling and pouncing Stretching and prancing FREE SUPPER Four kits, brothers and sisters, GRAND RAFFLE DRAWN Give Mum and Dad A twist of their whiskers AUCTION OF ENTRIES AT 12 NOON ON As they zig-zag like mad. Off they all shoot SUNDAY 24TH AUGUST Along the dry stone wall, Born sure of foot MONEY RAISED TO BE DONATED TO CHARITY. Impossible to fall As they wind over capstones, RAILWAY HOTEL FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SHOW Through nooks and crannies, CATAGORIES No time for mousey Or his gramps and grannies. A COLLECTION OF 3 MIXED VEGETABLES
Leaping off moss, LARGEST ONION AND BEST PAIR OF ONIONS Ripping along the ditch, Down round a post, 3 TOMATOES (2 SECTIONS - CHERRY & ORDINARY)
Diving head first BLANCHED LEEKS Right into the most VASE OF FLOWERS (SINGLE FLOWER TYPE OR MIXED ) Enormous tunnel Deep underground CHUTNEY - JAM Through a long, long funnel, HOME BAKING (Any description) Noses twitching in sidings White bobtails scattering ENTRIES ACCEPTED UNTIL 10.30 a.m. ON SATURDAY AUGUST 23rd. Screeching and scrabbling, As the bunnies form a phalanx, but … RAILWAY HOTEL’S POTATO CHALLENGE With a huge burst of energy AND TASTIEST TART COMPETITIONS Out they all shoot This has just been a warning The Potato Challenge on the 6th July was won by Mick Smith with Tommy Cunningham and Cliffy Eales second and third. They’ve got no loot! Carolyn Pigg’s Strawberry and Raspberry Sundae and Brulee Black tips a waving with Walnut pastry won the ‘Tastiest Tart’ competition on the The posse makes off; 13th July. The long grasses fall in - Thanks to all who entered. Bunnies splutter and cough Donations from the events were made to the RNLI. With relief as the spin And speed recede, Peace once more prevails. Mick‘s trophy is The stoat brigade leave ‘Majestic’ and Just a quiver of seedheads Carolyn’s tasty berries As the coneys creep back come out on top To their beds. at the Railway Hotel June Henriksen 28-06-08 HAYDON NEWS Page 17 HAYDON BRIDGE DANCE CLUB VICTIM SUPPORT NOTICES SEQUENCE DANCING Working for victims of crime.
EVERY If you are a victim of crime, we are HAYDON & ALLEN VALLEYS MONDAY NIGHT able to offer support in practical and emotional ways. Just a phone call MEDICAL PRACTICE 7.30 to 10.00pm away. Call Leanne at: TEA & BISCUITS 01661830770 ( Haydon Bridge Health Centre ) ONLY £1 82, Front St. Prudhoe. NE42 5PU Monday to Friday: The Health Centre is open continuously DANCING IS FOR FUN or from 8.00am until 6.00pm (except for the Ask for details at: 01670822334 afternoon of the second Wednesday of (Bedlington office) 01 434 684 459 every month)
Doctors consult between: 8.00am and 11.00am THE MEETING PLACE 3.00pm and 5.30pm at THE METHODIST CHURCH Come and Join your friends for Coffee and Refreshments All phone calls for appointments and visits, including ‘out of hours’: 01 434 684 216 on Tuesdays and Thursdays 10am – 12 noon FAX facilities All phone calls for dispensing or prescriptions:01434 688351 Warm welcome to all E-mail address:[email protected]
HAYDON BRIDGE UNITED MUSIC AND MOVEMENT
ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL CLUB Calling all parents/carers! Did you know that there is a Music and Movement group running in Haydon Bridge? HBUAFC hold their monthly meeting on the first Thursday of We meet at the Methodist Church on Friday afternoons ( 1.10pm and 1.50pm ) every month at 7.30pm in the Lounge of the Railway Hotel during term time. where representatives of every football team in the village are This is a fun get-together for parents/carers and pre-school children alike which invited to attend. involves singing, instrument playing and movement with coffee and orange juice served afterwards. This meeting is also open to members of the public. Please contact Julie Finch on: 01434 607 490 for further details.
WHIST DRIVES HAYDON BRIDGE JUDO CLUB. WEST TYNEDALE JUNIOR RUGBY CLUB HAYDON BRIDGE JUDO CLUB. Langley Village Hall FOR BOYS AND GIRLS AGE 6yrs–11yrs Keep Fit, Have Fun! Young and Old welcome. On Tuesdays at Haydon Bridge High School Fortnightly on Saturdays TAG/CONTACT RUGBY Juniors: 6pm ––– 7pm at 7pm. Seniors: 7pm ––– 9pm 50p entrance MEET AT HAYDON BRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL BJA Qualified Coaches ON SUNDAYS 10.30am– 12.00noon (Everyone welcome) Contact Michael on: 01 434 684 783 CONTACT SUE BELL 688534. ALL WELCOME.
NORTHUMBRIA POLICE HIRE POLICE COMMUNITY SURGERIES HAYDON BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTRE at The Methodist Church Hall, Haydon Bridge. FOR YOUR FUNCTION OR GROUP between 10am-11am MAIN HALL £12.50 per hour on Thursdays, 21st August, 11th Sept, 2nd Oct MEETING ROOM £8.25 per hour All welcome. Reduced rates for affiliated groups. Your opportunity to meet our community police. Contact Val Bell 01434 684 705
HAYDON BRIDGE CARPET BOWLS CLUB
FOR THE CARPET BOWLS CLUB IS LOOKING FOR NEW MEMBERS. SALE WE MEET AND PLAY CARPET BOWLS ON THURSDAY EVENINGS IN HAYDON BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTRE. BROADWOOD UPRIGHT PIANO IF YOU ARE INTERESTED PLEASE Medium mahogany. Overstrung. Regularly Tuned. Serial number 27001, approx 25years old. CONTACT FREDA or £1,595 ALLEN ON 01434 688411 Tel (01434) 684642
Page 18 HAYDON NEWS ‘SCOTCH CORNER’ HAYDON BRIDGE PLAYGROUP AND HOLIDAY COTTAGE TINY TOTS. English Tourism Council**** TINY TOTS from Birth upwards
Available to accommodate your Tiny Tots sessions run on Thursday mornings, from 9.15 to 11.15 at visiting friends and family Haydon Bridge Fire Station, These sessions are for parents and carers of young children and provide an opportunity for a coffee & chat, whilst the 10% discount when booked by children play. Cost:£1.50 per family and includes a drink & biscuit.
Haydon Bridge residents Excellent quality PLAYGROUP - From 2 years professional childcare in For more details please contact Playgroup runs on Monday and Friday mornings from 9.15 to 11.15 at Haydon Bridge Fire Station Haydon Bridge. Pauline Wallis The sessions give children a chance to learn through play and to experience Call Gayle on lots of different activities. Playgroup is lead by a fully qualified Playgroup Scotch Arms Leader & assistant(s). Cost per session is £5. 01434 684446, Shaftoe St. Haydon Bridge Playgroup is a member of the Pre-School Learning Alliance for or a prospectus. Haydon Bridge . Ofsted registered For more information on the above sessions or an informal chat please Tel. 01 434 684 061 contact Kathryn McHarg on Tel; 01434 688718 “The child minder has an excellent understanding of the Fed up with running out of milk ? children’s educational LOGS FOR SALE. Have it delivered to your door. development putting into practice skills and methods Soft and hard wood Areas covered: gained from experience and Free delivery in Haydon Bridge NEIL PATTISON Haydon Bridge training.” (OFSTED inspection DAIRYMAN Fourstones report May 2005)Report can be Call George on 683 631 01434 683905 Newbrough viewed at the setting or 07802 210 705 Humshaugh
Allendale’s friendly, reliable, family run, taxi & coach hire business Ernie Swinburn Photography for
baynestaxis Weddings, Studio Portraits and • From saloon cars to luxury coaches Special Occasions • Wheelchair accessible vehicles • Local and long distance 01434 684 489 • Contract work welcome www.ernieswinburnphotography.co.uk www.baynestaxis.com Tel 01434 683269 AAA VILLAGES AIRPORT TAXIS WEIGHT WATCHERS & METHODIST CHURCH HALL EXECUTIVE CAR SERVICES CHURCH ST, HAYDON BRIDGE. More than just airports Mondays at 6.30pm 01434 688799 Why not kick start your 2008? All major credit cards accepted Tel 07711 110 850 for more information Visa, MasterCard, American Express, etc
SHUTTLE SERVICE SQUEAKY CLEAN ALL TYPES AVAILABLE IF REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL CAR VALETING SERVICE OF VEHICLES
VEHICLE SERVICING & SALES GARDEN MACHINERY SERVICING BRAKES, OIL CHANGES, WELDING, PRE MOTS LAWN MOWERS, STRIMMERS, HEDGE CUTTERS, EXHAUSTS, CAR ACCESSORIES ROTAVATORS NEW HOT JET WASH LOCAL FREE RANGE DIY HARDWARE SHOP £1.50 PER TOKEN. EGGS GARDEN TOOLS, PLUMBING TOKENS ONLY. FOR SALE. PAINTING & DECORATING ASK IN STORE TOOLS, LIGHT BULBS
HADRIAN BUSINESS CENTRE, CHURCH ST, HAYDON BRIDGE, HEXHAM. NE476JG OPENING HOURS MON-SAT 9AM –7PM TEL/FAX : 01434 688 563 SUN 12 NOON–7PM EMAIL: [email protected] HAYDON NEWS Page 19 OLD LOCK AND KEY Co. S & B LANGLEY CONSTRUCTION
Comprehensive key cutting service BUILDING Locks fitted and repaired & MAINTENANCE
Tel 01434 683078 www.oldlockandkeyco.co.uk. Stonework; brickwork; extensions; patios. Concreting, pointing, garden walls, demolition etc. MUSIC TEACHER
Adults. Have you always wanted to play the piano? I am an experienced teacher in Haydon Telephone. Bridge with daytime and a few evening 01434 684685 vacancies for piano and flute pupils. Mobile
Contact; Dr Lisa Hardy. PhD, BA(Hons). Cert Ed, LTCL. 07726007249 01434 684642 or 07808620382
Lewisburn Properties 12, St Like’s Road, Hexham
£ Need a mortgage or re-mortgage? We can search the best deal for you AND we’ll beat any current deal by at least £100* (Terms and Conditions apply). £ 1st time buyers, re-mortgages, buy to let, loans and more. We can help you buy your council property and can find deals where no deposit is required. £ Poor credit history? We can help. £ WE charge NO FEE for our service. £ So if you want a friendly local service from a family run Business Tel ; 01434 606708 or 07719 067536 Free home visits available. Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority
THE BOWEN TECHNIQUE HAYDON BRIDGE TAXIS. EFFECTIVE TREATMENT FOR SPORTS / WORK RELATED INJURIES LOCAL TAXI SERVICE MUSCULAR & SKELETAL DISORDERS, AIRPORT TRANSFERS STRESS & TENSION, GROUP PARTIES AND OUTINGS HAY-FEVER & BRONCHIAL SYMPTOMS
GENERAL RELAXATION AND BODY BALANCING Tel. 01434 688 808 Phone: Bridget Enever-Raine on 07963 429 739
JULIA TEASDALE BA., D.Pod.M., SOLAR WARRIORS and Associates State Registered Chiropodists & Podiatrists Members of the Society of Chiropodists & Podiatrists QUALIFIED SOLAR PANEL Treatment available at the Haydon Bridge Health Centre INSTALLERS. and 25, Burswell Avenue, Hexham A Home Visiting Service is available For more information contact Tel no: 01434 608612 Let the sun Neil Pattison on 01434 683905 or Registered with the Health Professions Council shine on you Allan Smith 01661 830305
PENNINE WAYS
MICHAEL HAGGIE ARCHITECT TOWN AND COUNTRY PROPERTIES 9 Alexandra Terrace Haydon Bridge Selling and letting property in COUNTY DURHAM, CUMBRIA & 01434 688100 [email protected] NORTHUMBERLAND For a free valuation tel 01434 381808 Michael Haggie BA(Arch), Dip Arch. RIBA www.countrycottages.net Page 20 HAYDON NEWS NEIL PATTISON Property Maintenance General repairs around your home.
including roofing, joinery, fencing, paving. washing machines & dish washers fitted.
Come and join in our fun classes at Call 01434 683905 HAYDON BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTRE
TUESDAYS 12.00noon-1.00pm PILATES SETTLINGSTONES ENGLISH TUTOR 7.00pm-8.00pm AEROBICS FRAMING Fully qualified secondary school teacher currently
Bespoke framing & mounting working at QEHS, available WEDNESDAYS 6.30pm-7.30pm PILATES for private tuition evenings and service for paintings, Saturday mornings. photographs, certificates etc. Contact; LORNA 07747 842364 or 01434 684424 For students from11yrs old to Quality work adults. Quick turnaround Tel. C. Murray 01434 688678 Country Cleaning Services Competitive prices For all your home needs, much more than only cleaning! Wide range of frames and WANTED Scrap metals now offering: mounts. Cars/trucks/coaches Ironing service Robin Jowett Cash paid for copper/lead/ pick up and drop off Tel: 01434 674218 aluminium, Cookers/washers taken locally Mobile: 07929 870773 Garden Maintenance Tel: 01434 684313 weeding, grass cutting, edging, fencing, path cleaning, shed repairs Mobile: 07941964784
Home maintenance decorating, tiling, plumbing, plastering, DIY odd jobs
As always excellent customer services and standards, honest staff, flexible working patterns No job too small Contact Deb 07801 336 010 email; [email protected] JOBSONS ANIMAL HEALTH
SEPTIC TANK EMPTYING SERVICE LEAP INTO JOBSONS Macdonald (East Land Ends) REAR OF 6 CHURCH STREET
Tel: 01 434 684 491 HAYDON BRIDGE Mobile: 07 801 308 006 Everything for your pet For a competitive quote 01434 684248
D.C. OIL HEATING AND Patricia Haggie R.S. Hom F.S. Hom PLUMBING SERVICES. Registered Homoeopath Oil Central Heating 9, Alexandra Terrace Service—Repairs—Installation Haydon Bridge Tel 01434 688 687 Oil Tank Installer HAYDON VIEW OFTEC REGISTERED SERVICE ENGINEER. Residential Care Home North Bank, Haydon Bridge CHIMNEY SWEEP
D.C. COOMBES. 3 ALLEN VIEW, CATTON Long Term Residential Care QUICK AND CLEAN Respite/Holiday/Day Care HEXHAM. NE47 9QQ ELECTRIC VAC For more information please contact Tel 01434 683719 Mobile 07762 823843 Chris or Audrey Kay Tel: 01 434 344 364 Tel 01 434 684465 HAYDON NEWS Page 21 The £10 Crossword
NAME: ……………………………………………………………………. .. . ADDRESS: ………………………..………………………………………… 35 ………………………………………………………………….
ACROSS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1. I snore explosively and get older.(6)
5. Traced around me and was reduced to ashes.(8) 9 10 9. Inmate can meet toff for deputation. (10) 10. Widespread and common in 11 12 Tenerife.(4)
11. Agent went to Rhode Island the
night before to get pardon.(8)
13 14 15 16 12. Abridge a creed you affiliate with. (6) 17 13. Rode around Germany and Poland going to the Baltic. (4) 18 19 15. A rich and confused creature.(8) 20 18. Current drawback gives direction to the islands.(8) 21 22 23 24 19. Spiritual person who is, animatedly,
smarter than the average.(4)
21. Very dry man becomes vicious.(6) 25 26 23. American agents are absolute
rockies.(8)
25. A single thing, a small part of the 27 28 exquisite multitude.(4)
26. Two animals and a singer get the SOLUTIONS TO JULY’S DOWN fender.(10) CROSSWORD. (34) 27. Some star about old models.(8) ACROSS. DOWN 2. Arouse when well in the night
1. Dabchick 2. Approve before.(5) 28. Desuetude issued wrongly(6)
6. Wigeon 3. Carrion crow 3. Reproduced in the group between
9. Paraphernalia 4. Impel bishop and socialist.(9) 14. A GI tried a blend to find the grace 10. Social 5. Knee pan 4. Chartered from a different edifice. of God.(3,6) 11. Prelactic 6. Winged elm (6) 16. Giant old wrestler stays around 13. Re-entrance 7. Gal 5. Brave clowns lend medley to football team from Teesside, no, with confused journalist.(9) 15. Scar 8. Ocarina over there.(9,6) 17. Conductor will take endless care 16. Ebor 12. Assuagement 6. Ten relax about being outside.(8) for rising transport.(5,3) 18. Scrimmages 14 Resurrect
20. Golfers find bunker hard around 21. Stewards 17. Bittern 7. Primitive instincts after crashed Arizona.(6) 22. Diedre 19 Risible car can become bitter.(5)
23. Easter bonnets 20. Eurasia 8. Feign about force etc. and become 22. I am, in short, in setback for the period.(5) 25. Intent 22. Dante influencing.(9)
26. Eventual 24. Sue 24. Hears about American birds.(5)
NUMBER OF ENTRIES THIS MONTH’S WINNER Entries in by SATURDAY, 20th. SEPT 2008 2 (both correct) T. Corbett Please hand your entry to Claires Newsagents
Page 22 HAYDON NEWS HAYDON NEWS. W.M.H. FARM FRESH MEATS HAYDONIAN The Anchor Hotel Church Street, Haydon Bridge. Social Club Haydon Bridge Shaftoe Street, Telephone: 01 434 684 227 QUALITY HOME Haydon Bridge.
PRODUCED BEEF & LAMB S&N and Coors Beers TRACEABLE FROM FARM TO Traditional Ales MEALS MENU TABLE AVAILABLE Draught Guinness Catering, Freezer orders Served daily Barbecue packs, sandwiches We cater for Weddings Birthdays 12.00 – 2.30pm Cooked meats, Salads 6.30 – 8.30pm Home-made pies Funerals and Anniversaries ALL ORDERS LARGE OR in the Village fund raising welcome SMALL WELCOME BAR or RESTAURANT Tel: 01 434 684 990 Bingo: “Special Occasions” catered for. Sunday and Wednesday at 8.00pm & 8.30pm. En suite accommodation.
THE READING ROOMS. SUE ZELLAS welcomes you to **** LANGLEY CASTLE GILL VALENTINE WELCOMES YOUR FRIENDS THE HOTEL AND FAMILY TO HOME FROM HOME B&B RAILWAY HOTEL and Restaurant. Haydon Bridge.
Sunday Lunches 01434 688802 Real Ales www.thereadingroomshaydonbridge.co.uk Bed and Breakfast Free function room. Morning Coffee Quiz night Tuesdays fortnightly Afternoon Teas
PAUL BROWN Woodie’s Coffee Shop Table d’Hote Dinner WALL AND FLOOR CERAMIC TILING. the village café KITCHENS, BATHROOMS CONSERVATORIES. Accommodation at the corner of Church Street ALL TYPES OF CERAMIC TILE AND NATURAL STONE open (Tuesday-Sunday) Not only for that RELIABLE AND FRIENDLY SERVICE. for morning coffee, lunches “ special occasion” FREE ESTIMATES. and afternoon teas. For reservations call Call; 01434 684890. mobile 07821 828495 Telephone: Email [email protected] 01 434 684 254 01 434 688 888
CLAIRES NEWSAGENTS HAYDON CARTS BOG INN 11, Church Street Tel: 01 434 684 303 Langley BRIDGE 01434 684338 Mon - Sat: 6.45am - 6.00pm Sunday: 7.00am - 1.00pm TANDOORI Real ales Real food NEWSPAPERS Open until 7:30 WIDE RANGE OF MAGAZINES (Finest Tandoori Takeaway) Real people on Wed. & Sat. Confectionery and Tobacco, Toys & Games Food served 7 nights per Birthday & Special Occasion cards, Stationery Odd Fellows Hall week from 6.30pm-9pm And lunches 12 noon-2pm Shaftoe Street Tues-Sun CO-OP LATE SHOP Haydon Bridge Bar opening hours : Ratcliffe Road Tel: 01 434 684 327 OPEN 6 DAYS A WEEK Monday 5pm-11pm Fresh and Frozen foods, general groceries Tues-Fri 12noon-2.30pm (closed on Monday) 5pm-11pm Housewares ~ off-licence Monday - Saturday: 8.00am. - 10.00pm. (open Bank Holiday Monday) Saturday 12noon-11pm Sunday: 9.00am. - 10.00pm 5.30pm to 10.30pm Sunday 12noon-10.30pm
( Post Office closes at 8.00pm except Wednesdays 7.00pm ) We look forward to seeing Telephone: 01 434 684 755 you soon.
HAYDON BRIDGE FISH & CHIP SHOP The General Havelock Inn John Martin Street, Haydon Bridge. Joanna & Gary Thompson : LUNCHTIME, TEATIME & EVENINGS Offer reductions for village groups and clubs. Monday - 5.00 - 9.00 We are in various guides including: AA Pub Guide (2007) Tuesday CLOSED FOR ALL OF THE DAY Good Food Guide (for 5 years) * Good Beer Guide (2007) Wednesday 11.30 - 1.30 5.00 - 9.00 Thursday 11.30 - 1.30 5.00 - 9.00 ‘Rough Guide to Britain’ and ‘England Passionate about Food’. Friday 11.30 - 1.30 4.30 - 9.00 We support local businesses and source all produce and beer locally. Saturday 11.30 - 1.30 4.30 - 8.00 Tel. 01434 684 376 Tel: 01 434 684 289 Email. [email protected]
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A. SCUDAMORE HENRY WATSON & CO. Shaftoe Street, Haydon Bridge. ANCHOR GARAGE
All makes of car repaired. All cars welcome for M.O.T, Repairs and Service. Body work and Paint spraying. Batteries - Tyres at Competitive Prices All makes of Exhaust supplied and fitted. Computerised Wheel Balancing Crypton Tuning and M.O.T. testing Unleaded and DERV
Tel: 01 434 684 345 Tel: 01 434 684 214
D. ROBSON SHOTTON TRANSPORT LTD P. COATS GARY Landscaping, Tidy-ups, Pointing, Concreting, Stockists for: PAINTER AND CUNNINGHAM Stone walling BALMORAL TANKS DECORATOR.
Trees felled/logged SEPTIC TANK EMPTYING Free estimates. Decorator Light Haulage DRAIN CLEARANCE Free Estimates Tel.01434 688739 Tel: 01 434 688 930 01 434 681 219 (Day) Mobile 07940 429920 Time Served Tradesman 01 434 684 877 (Night) Painting - Paper Hanging Graining
Free Estimates D. CHARLTON BASIL J. YOUNG J. P. WESTALL LTD Slater & General Builder TIMBER CONSTRUCTION Plumbing & Heating - For all household Engineers maintenance, guttering High Class Joinery STRIPPER FOR HIRE pointing, roof repairs, Purpose Made Woodwork Central Heating, exterior painting etc Fitted Kitchens & Bedrooms Bathrooms & Showers The quick and efficient way to Free Estimates uPVC Windows, Doors Quality work and prompt strip off your old wallpaper & Conservatories attention Tel: 01 434 684 505 Tel: 01 434 688 007 Tel: 01 434 602 740 Tel: 01 434 684 041
KEN TULIP HAYDON HAIR SALON Fluid-Direct (Electrical Contractor ) T.E.S. Audio & Video Equipment All types of electrical work Repairs to TV's Videos, 35A Ratcliffe Road undertaken . Haydon Bridge Disco & Party Equipment Cookers, Washers and most FREE estimates. Free estimates Friendly atmosphere New installations guaranteed for other domestic appliances 0560-089-8219 one year K. Moore Tel: 01 434 684 573 07912625300 Tel: 01 434 684 742 Tel: 01 434 684 736 www.fluid-direct.co.uk ‘Portree’, Land Ends Road, H/B
CALOR GAS, CRAWFORD & JERRY TAYLOR OLIVER. PROPANE FURNITURE RESTORER ELECTRICIANS or BUTANE Free estimates. Stripping & Polishing of Delivery if required - Call or - no call out charge Furniture, Floors & Banisters phone Tel: 01 434 607 870 Desk Leathers fitted or: 01 434 688 132 Free Estimates POPLARS CARAVAN PARK Tel: 01 434 688 821 Haydon Bridge Mobile: 07860 954 324. Tel: 01 434 684 427 Mobile: 077 871 24 005
GEOFFREY JACKSON STEPHEN BROOKS (formerly W. G. DUFFY) CABINET MAKING AND SPECIALIST JOINERY. Approved Solid Fuel Merchant FOR KITCHENS, BATHROOMS, LIVING ROOMS. Old Coal Cells – Haydon Bridge PORCHES & CONSERVATORIES. Tel: 01 434 684 348 ALL TYPES OF FUEL AT COMPETITIVE PRICES Tel: 01434 684487 (home) 01434 688977(work) SMALL COAL DOUBLES NOTTS DOUBLES
Conservatories Made Superior Local suppliers of quality UPVc products. Conservatories, Doors, Windows, Porches, Fascias, Sofits, Cladding, White, Golden Oak, Rosewood. Specialists in Stable Doors and Sliding Sash Windows. Also Dormer Window Replacement. We NOW supply Garage Doors manual, electric or remote control Tel. Chris Sim 01434 684704 . Mobile 07916 334154
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