Your local interest & advertising magazine | January 2017 | Edition 13 Tow Law, Sunniside, Stanley Crook, Billy Row, Crook, Willington, Wolsingham & surrounding areas
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Years gone by - page 6
Spotlight on local singer Paige Seymour - page 12
Hickory Dickory Dock! with local amateur historian Aaron Cowen - page 8
Northern League football fixtures - page 16
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Years gone by...
We want your old pictures!! Send us your old photos of places & people from years gone by and we will publish them. Email them to: ads@outandaboutmagazinenortheast.co.uk
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Hickory Dickory Dock! Story by Aaron Cowen
Carlos Borromeo Mazzuchi was born into a Catholic family in 1834 somewhere in Italy. himself, made in 1877 at his workshop in Crook. Carlos has engraved the inside with his signature.
He was the son of Gaspert Mazzuchi, a Farmer. In 1862 he was living in the Newcastle area and married Elizabeth Ann Cole. At that time described as a jeweller.
Carlos also made this Grandfather Clock, which is housed in a local museum.
Between 1868 and 1870, Carlos moved to Crook, where he had a shop at numbers 60 and 61 Hope Street. There, he was a Jeweller and Silversmith, more notably he made watches and clocks. There are a number of examples of his work. Below is a watch which recently sold on Ebay, by the man
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Perhaps his most notable piece of work was one which was most central to Crook. The members of the Co-op in 1875 paid £40 to have a non striking clock installed. Non striking because the members were concerned the vibrations would endanger the building structure. The clock was lit up every night until 10 o’clock and on
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Saturday nights until 11 o’clock. Carlos died on 8th April 1905 leaving £7558 4s. 1d. in his will. The business went to his eldest son Charles Edward Mazzuchi who was born in 1867 in Houghton-le-Spring but died in 1917 leaving £5085. 8s. 8d. It is unlikely that the business continued beyond 1917, however the Mazzuchi family kept a prescence in the town for many more years afterwards. Another watch and clock maker was Alfred Yarrow Talbot who was born in 1838 in Warwick, Warwickshire. Albert ran his business at 21 Hope Street, Crook, (currently Walkers Opticians) since at least 1861 until his death. For many years a Clock made by Talbot hung on the wall above the shop which can be seen on some old photos. He died on 7th September 1918 and left £2309 11s. 7d in his will. Today the modern building on the Royal Corner has a blue faced clock, which I know very little about. The Catholic Church has two clocks once affectionately known as Paddy’s clock on account of the many Irish Catholics in attendance there. This clock was made by Potts and Sons of Leeds in 1898, along with a set of chimes. But I will save that for the next issue of Out and About. Aaron is 34 years old, is a keen amateur historian and one of the admins of the Crook Town and District History Group Facebook group, he is also Chairman of the Empire Electric Palace group.
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Tow Law singer Paige Seymour to perform at the O2 Academy. This month we take a look at Paige Seymour, a 19 year old singer from Tow Law. Alongside her music Paige works full time in a day nursery as well as being a student at the University of Sunderland. How long have you been into music? I have been into music completely for as long as I remember, but I started singing at around the age of 10. I had my first professional singing lessons at the age of 11. Who’s your musical influences and what’s your favourite song to perform? My musical influences differ quite a lot, the artists I take inspiration from are all very different, such as Carrie Underwood, Paloma Faith and Lady Gaga. I love all of the big artists who make themselves stand out from the crowd! My favourite song to perform right now is Explosions by Ellie Goulding. How would you describe your style for those who haven’t heard you? For those who haven’t heard me, I’d describe my style as quite unusual and unique, I like to take other artists songs and turn them into my own, make them sound so different that you would struggle to recognise it as theirs. In February you are performing in the final of the Soundwaves Music competition at the O2 Academy in Newcastle, tell us a little bit about it. Yes I’m performing in the final of the Soundwaves Music competition, which is one of the biggest competitions for unsigned acts in the North East. The event will be held at
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the O2 Academy in Newcastle on the 4th February 2017, doors open at 6pm and close at 10pm. I went through 3 tough audtitions to get to this stage, a closed audition, a live audition and a video audition. I’ve been chosen from over 300 contestants to get through to the final 12, it’s going to be an amazing show and it’s such an amazing opportunity. There are also going to be lots of other high profile acts performing, so I recommend everybody comes along! Where do you see yourself musically in the next 5 years? In the next 5 years I would like to see my music spread to a wider audience, I’ve enjoyed
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performing on stage for large crowds more regularly these past few months and would love to be able to take up doing that as a career! Hopefully experiences such as this one will be a way for me to get my voice out there for more people to hear! Why should people come and see you? People should come and see me because I just want to show people, especially people local to the area I’m from just what I can do. It would be great to have the support of local people alongside me as well as my family and friends, it’s always nice to have people
People can contact me either on Facebook, where I go by the name Paige Seymour or also on my mobile number which is 07780 998 112. Tickets for the Soundwaves Music competition final on 4th February 2017 are £7.00 each, doors open at 6pm.
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Hall Lane, Willington, County Durham, DL15 0QG Tel: 01388 745 912
Saturday 7th January (eNL2) (H) Brandon United
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Saturday 21st January (eNL2) (A) Team Northumbria
Saturday 21st January (eNL2) (H) Thornaby
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Saturday 4th February (eNL2) (H) Ryton & Crawcrook Albion
Saturday 28th January (eNL2) (A) Bedlington Terriers
Saturday 4th February (eNL2) (H) Team Northumbria
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1st Birthday celebrations January sees Out & About Magazine celebrate it’s first birthday after a full year of supporting local businesses, organisations and showcasing local talent. Initially created to fill a gap in the local market for a 3 month trial, Out & About has grown into something that, hopefully residents of the 10,000 homes in the Wear Valley area that receive it like to read. I’d like to say a big thankyou to all of the people that have helped over the last 12 months by writing and providing content that appeals to the readers. Malcolm Reed, thanks for providing the first article on the Empire Theatre, Chris
Clark for providing copies of his books to run in competitions month after month, Marshall Rippon of Crook Town AFC for providing me with CrookFest tcickets to give away, Aaron Cowen for his fantastic monthly history articles, all the businesses that have suported us by placing adverts each month and lastly the general public for embracing Out & About and providing me with lots of great old photographs to use. Thanks!
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