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Esh Leaves Your Newsletter from Esh, Langley Park, Quebec and Ushaw Issue 13, November 2004 Esh Leaves Your newsletter from Esh, Langley Park, Quebec and Ushaw Submit articles for the March 2005 edition to: The Editor, 8 Long Garth, Durham City, DH1 4HJ or email to [email protected] or leave at Esh or Langley Park Post Office by 30 January 2005 are achievable, and also Exhibition, to be held on DECISION TIME FOR A that a fair amount of Thursday 25th November NEW STATIC LIBRARY remedial work is required. from 1.30pm to 7.30pm in IN LANGLEY PARK the Church Street The cost of this work, and Community Centre, Langley Following decommissioning for the second option, a Park. This will be of the Trailer Library service new library building, has immediately followed by a last year, the County now been prepared. Public Meeting, at 7.30pm, Council has been looking at Discussions are still taking at the same venue, to agree two options for a static place with Derwentside the preferred option. library service within the College concerning the village, either converting the possibility of a site for the Discussions have also been Church Street Community new library, within the car taking place with the Centre, or a new library park of the old fire station. College to allow for the building within the grounds temporary library service, of the old Fire Station. A County Councillor Joe which has been provided feasibility study on Armstrong has been from a mobile library, to be converting the Church actively involved in transferred into the room in Street premises, involving supporting the pleas, from the old fire station visual condition inspections many quarters, for a static previously used as an IT of the building, suitability of library service in our Ward suite. Agreement is nearing the heating and electrical and has now made completion and hopefully systems, and possible arrangements for a Public this accommodation will be structural alterations has Exhibition to display these in use towards the end of been carried out. options. November. The room, whilst Architectural advice has being small will give much shown that the space Residents are therefore better access for all library requirements for the library encouraged to attend the users, as there are no steps to climb. The car park of the old Fire Station and Church Street Community Centre are options for a new Library ESH SPACE FOR SPORTS AND ARTS FACILITY In the March 2004 edition of Esh Leaves we reported that work was due to commence on the new multi purpose Hall at Esh. We are now able to advise our readers that the work has been completed and the building handed over by the Wates the Builders to Durham County Council. We asked our local County The old Hall in the process of demolition Councillor for an update and here is his response. "The new £600,000 facility financed by the Department for Education and Skills, Department of Culture Media & Sport, the New Opportunities Fund, Arts Council of England, Sport England and Durham County Council, will be opening in November for use by the two village schools and the local communities. The new Hall It is one of seven new facilities provided by this school hours. This top class planned when the facility is programme throughout accommodation can be in full use. County Durham Design and used for physical education, construction was by the sporting activities, teaching NEWS FROM OUR NEW County Councils' Strategic and also provide meeting BEAT OFFICER Building Alliance in rooms for clubs and other conjunction with Wates. The community based groups". accommodation includes a Hello to all Residents. I am multi purpose hall, an arts If any local community the new Beat Officer for and meeting room, kitchen based group is interested in Langley Park. My name is and changing rooms. using these premises then PC Christopher Dover. I they should contact Esh have 6 years service with Local schoolchildren will Laude RC Primary School the Durham Constabulary have preference during the on 0191 3731205 having previous postings to; school day with access Stanley, Consett, Blackhill, available to community We also understand that an Lanchester and most organisations outside official opening is being recently the new Force Control Room at Police Esh Leaves Page 2 November 2004 Headquarters Aykley I can be contacted by working men were serving Heads. I currently work telephone on 01207 504204 in the First World War. He from the Police Section or by E-Mail:- worked at the Louisa Office off Kitswell Road, christopher.dover@durham. Colliery for a short time, Lanchester. pnn.police.uk then moved onto Blackett's cobbler's shop in Stanley. I was a resident in the I look forward to hearing This was to be his life-long village until the age of 17 from you. trade. Later he worked in and some of you may Langley Park and recognise me when I'm Chris Dover Burnopfield, returning to his pounding the streets! So I beloved Hill Top in 1939 to do have a unique “I REMEMBER HILL TOP” the cobbler's shop at Ushaw perspective of some of the College with his brother current issues in the In the July 2004 edition of Aloysius, where he spent village. Esh Leaves we mentioned the rest of his working life. a publication entitled Tom died in 1999, and I plan to host a drop in “I Remember Hill Top” Aloysius in 2004. surgery in the village. I'm written by a former resident open to suggestions as to Thomas Goundry. With the These are extracts from 'I what times and locations kind permission of his Son Remember Hill Top', first would be most appropriate Terry Goundry we set out published from his diaries for residents, so if you have an extract from Chapter 1 of for family members in 2001. any ideas, please let me his Journal which sets the know. My contact details scene for the rest, gives Chapter One can be found at the bottom some of Tom's family of the article background, and mentions “I remember” With the run up to virtually all of the villages in Christmas and the our area. I was born at No 1 Hill Top, shortening of daylight Esh on 23rd July 1903. I hours, I would like to take The Goundry Family can remember nothing the opportunity to remind about that. I do know that people about home three days later I was security. There is a national registered and baptised at trend that indicates the level St Michaels Esh Laude by of dwelling house burglaries Father Samuel Harris, and increases during the christened Thomas Francis Autumnal and Winter Joseph Goundry. My Father seasons. Everyday items was Frank Goundry, a can be purchased from our craftsman tailor at Ushaw community safety College. My Mother was department at Stanley Margaret Blanche Clare Police Office or your local Back Row L/R Joe, Lizzie, Allie, Tom Wrangham, daughter of hardware store to help Front Row L/R Celia, Bert, Gerard Thomas Wrangham who protect your home; these had been in service at Raby can include timers for lights Tom was born and lived in Castle, and came to Ushaw and shed alarms. the Durham area all his life. College as a caterer in He left Hustledown School, charge of the beef mutton If you need any advice Stanley, aged 12 in 1916, and pork. Both families lived regarding home security under a government in Hill Top. My Father and please feel free to contact sponsored scheme to help Mother were married in myself, or any officer, at the the national effort – his January 1900 at Esh Laude community safety father and many other by Father Harris. My department at Stanley. godparents were Uncle Esh Leaves Page 3 November 2004 Tommy Wrangham and about half a minute minus accommodation. Our water Aunt Sarah Goundry. They its head before dropping supply was ‘on tap’ and carried me between them down dead. situated in the coalhouse the four miles journey on which Mother also used as foot. Old Barney had many a a wash-house. I remember brush with the college lads the huge iron mangle with The date of my birth of the time who frequented the big wooden rollers, also coincided with Grand Week ‘Jones’ tuck shop on the hill the ‘poss’ stick and the at Ushaw College. This was above this house. barrel wash tub. sometimes called Exhibition Complaining once about his Week, when the end of the roof being bombarded with In the lane on the north side college year was the time Nestles Milk tins and other of the well was a spring (we for prize giving, speeches, discarded tuck shop called it a well). In Mother and entertaining guests. receptacles, Barney asked and Father’s young days all About 100 priests with Mgr Broadhead (Procurator) the water had to be carried laymen are invited to stay to do something about from these springs or wells from the Monday to the stopping the mischief. The of which there were several Thursday. Then as now Reverend gentleman said in Hill Top village. The employees of the College “You know Barney boys will cottage itself was were expected to help with be boys”. “Yes” Barney excessively damp, and very ‘waiting on’ at table. My answered “and men will be cold in the winter. I Father was no exception to men”. I don’t think the remember Dad saying the this and as the days were mischief ever stopped in old only time it was cosy in long, from early breakfast to Barney’s time.
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