Published at: Friday 17th September 2010 First Floor, Town Council Offices, Issue 477 Civic Hall Square, Shildon, RIER DL4 1AH. N C Telephone/Fax: 01388 775896 Shildon W Duty journalist: 0790 999 2731 ric t O & D i s t T At the heart www.shildontowncrier.com of our wonderful community email: [email protected] Locomotion welcomes Residents celebrate millionth visitor village ‘Gateway’ An event is being held East runs between 1pm this Saturday (18th and 3pm and will include September) to mark the music from a brass band, completion of an im- the opportunity to get up provement project in the close to barn owls and village of Eldon. have a photograph taken The Gateway project in a with them and create a wooded area adjacent to bird box to take home. the crossroads in Eldon Food and refreshments has been improved with will also be provided. funding from Community Joanne Morley, Senior Spaces, a Big Lottery Project Officer at grants programme Groundwork North East managed by Groundwork said, “A lot of hard work UK, which aims to help has gone into this project community groups create from securing the funding or improve green and to getting contractors open spaces, and the on the ground and this County Durham Environ- event aims to celebrate mental Trust. this achievement but also New paths, a seating area, welcome people to the shrub beds and new solar new site and encourage lighting have all been future use of it”. The Lancaster family were delighted to be told they were the 1,000,000th visitors to the installed. The Big Lottery Fund, the Shildon museum. The site is also marked by largest of the National Locomotion: The National aged 10 months, from Laxton, Head of Libraries, an artistic stone entrance Lottery good cause dis- Railway Museum at Shildon Greenside, near Ryton, Learning and Culture at feature which residents tributors, has been rolling was delighted to welcome were delighted to be Durham County Council. helped to design. Bulb out grants to health, some very special guests told that they were the They were treated to a planting is also earmarked education, environment on Friday 10th September – 1,000,000th visitors to steam train ride behind for the autumn to further and charitable causes the 1,000,000th visitors to Locomotion. Furness Railway No. 20, enhance the area. across the UK since the museum. The family were greeted the oldest standard gauge The event which has its inception in June April and Stephen by Steve Davies, Director steam locomotive still been organised by Eldon 2004. It was established Lancaster and their sons of the National Railway working in the UK and Community Partnership by Parliament on 1st Ben, aged 2½, and Sam, Museum, and Rosemary the museum’s current and Groundwork North December 2006. operating locomotive in residence. They also enjoyed a complimentary lunch at the museum’s Platform Seven Café; and were presented with goody bags containing museum souvenirs. Locomotion is the first national museum to be built in North East England. A joint venture between the National Railway Museum and Durham County Council, the museum allows more vehicles from the National Collection to be housed properly and enjoyed by the public, and also celebrates Shildon’s key role in the development of modern railways. The museum, which opened in September 2004, was initially set a target of attracting 63,000 visitors a year, however it has taken just six years to reach a million visitors. Fully archived online at: www.shildontowncrier.com Email us at: [email protected] Shildon & District Town Crier Issue 477 Friday 17th September 2010 Page 1 N CRIER Shildon OW Classifieds istri c t & D T All about local people ... Passed Away Birthdays Birthdays Birthdays Birthdays Jack Woodward Sophie Mae 13 Tony Edward Dickinson Ebony Leach Died 11th September, 2010 16th September Kallum Stewart 16th September 15/09/94 Happy 4th Birthday 15 / 9 / 1997 Sadly missed by all the family Lots of love and kisses, Nana Anne, Granda John & David xxx Birthdays Sophie Mae Elena Cook Happy 4th Birthday 16th September to our gorgeous niece Lots of love and kisses from Holli, Jessica, Darryl, Happy 29th Birthday Happy 16th Birthday Ebony Mark & John xxx Hip Hip Hooray Kallum’s 13 today! 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