Your local interest & advertising magazine | July 2017 | Edition 19 Tow Law, Sunniside, Stanley Crook, Billy Row, Crook, Willington, Wolsingham & surrounding areas
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Pit ponies of County Durham - page 10
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Tow Law Family Festival in aid of Tow Law Community Centre. This year Tow Law Community Centre celebrates the 30th anniversary of the opening of the new Community Centre and they are holding a weekend of fantastic events to help celebrate. This month we speak to Tow Law Lunch Club, who along with the Community Association are organising the bumper event. So, it looks like you’ve been busy doing lots of organising, tell us a little about what you have planned?
a funfair (provided by Carnival Funfair’s), bouncy castles, a penalty shoot out, climbing wall, pantomime, side stalls and games, hair braiding, body art, face painting, reiki and tarot, family fitness taster sessions, taekwondo, a dog show, plus lots more.
Yes we have been very busy! The Community Association has a fantastic weekend of events to celebrate its 30th Anniversary. On Friday 18th August there will be a roller disco from 2pm till 3.30pm for under 11’s and 4pm till 6pm for over 11’s Entry £2. On Saturday 19th August there will be a family Ceilidh Dance with the Joint Stock Ceilidh Band which will be held at the Community Centre. Tickets are £6 per adult, £3 per child or a family ticket £15. Finally on Sunday 20th August we have our BIG event. We have been helping to organise a family festival to be held on the Millennium Green and Recreation Ground in Tow Law from 1pm.
There will be food available all day, a BBQ, Fish and Chip van, Ice Cream van and a licensed bar! Plus Live music from 5pm.
There is a huge amount of activities on offer,
What sort of stalls will be there?
We even have the Durham Escape Rooms attending with a break the safe game and a visit from the Police Interceptors!!!!
There are over 20 stalls already attending the event with a whole range of different items on offer. We have edible items like homemade bread and a beautiful cake stall, preserves and sweets plus various stalls selling handmade items and gifts including jewellery, toys, beauty products, health products, candles and a huge book stall. The stalls will be housed in a large marquee just in case the weather fails us. 6
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What part of the weekend are you looking forward to most of all? I’m looking forward to the family festival most of all. I’m hoping that the community of Tow Law can get together and have a fun filled day. The whole family is catered for at this event. We have some great live music provided by talented people from Tow Law and the surrounding areas, which I’m really looking forward to seeing. Hopefully we can create something like we had years ago with the Carnival and the festivals we used to have on the green. Entry is free and more information can be found on the facebook page for Tow Law Community Centre or Tow Law Lunch Club. Lastly tell us a little about what goes on at the community centre and how can people get involved? The Community Centre is the hub of Tow Law and without it social isolation would increase even more in this area. There is already lots going on at the centre beaver, cubs and scouts, North East Taekwondo, Bespoke Pilates, Clubbercise and bootcamp by inspiration fitness, keep fit, music, knit and natter, an art club and stained glass workshops and drop in I.T. Our computers are also available for Job Search. We have the ROAD (reaching out across Durham) service running from there each week as well as smoking cessation sessions. Onepoint hold courses there and holiday sessions. There are regular taster
sessions on offer like our recent ceramics course. Events organised by community groups are regular. We also hire the centre out for events and parties. We are soon to be undergoing some refurbishment to the building so hope to be able to hold more music events there. We also have the Wear Jammin CIC as part of the community centre which is a fabulous music facility with sound and recording studios and music tuition available. For more information on that contact Michael Walker on 07880 705 127. We also have an excellent timetable of events coming up for the school summer holidays from activity days to family trips. Find out more on our facebook page or by calling the centre on 01388 731 444. Also pop in and have a look on our notice board.
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS Friday 18th August Roller Disco Saturday 19th August Family friendly Ceilidh
Sunday 20th August Family Festival spread over the Millenium Green & Recreation Ground
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Pit Ponies of County Durham Story by Ramsay Nattrass
Horses have been used for a variety of tasks in and about coal mines since there was a need for coal in the 13th century. They were first used in the coal industry as “pack horses” carrying approx 2 cwts of coal each from the pits to the customers. As roads improved or were built specifically for the trade they pulled carts carrying up to a ton each. The demand for coal continued to increase, which meant other means of transport had to be created. This included the building of canals with horses pulling the barges and the building of properly constructed track, known as wagon ways, these followed the contours of the land, along which horses pulled a number of wagons. The gradient of the wagon way was usually in favour of the load as the full wagons were lowered by hand to their destination while the empties were hauled back to the collieries by the horses who were sometimes transported on specially made empty vehicles attached to the rear of the full trains. As mines developed, horses were used either to haul the coal to the surface where the mine entrance was a roadway or to operate the winding apparatus (known as gins) where the coal had to be got out via a shaft. From the early 19th century horses were being replaced underground by mechanical haulages and at the same time with the development of the steam engine they were being replaced on the surface by 10
steam winders, static engines and locomotives. Then with the development of the petrol engine and the availability of lorries after the 2nd World War meant that the horse became almost obsolete as far as the mining industry was concerned but it is true to say that I was still having my coal delivered by horse and cart at Chopwell Colliery as late as 1960. Animals over 15 hands (one had equals 4 ins) were usually classed as horses, where as under this height they were usually classed as ponies. Ponies themselves can be sub divided into two groups known as “putting” and “driving” ponies the former being the smaller usually ten or eleven hands and hauling one tub at a time in the low roads from the coal face to small assembly points and the later being approx 12 or 13 hands pulling sets of tubs from these small assembly points to larger collection points or even to the surface if conditions were right. If conditions warranted it, horses were used to haul the tubs from the main assembly points to the shaft or the surface. The number of tubs pulled by a “driving” pony being governed solely by the fact of how many they could pull safely. As a general rule horses were normally employed on the surface and the main underground roads where as ponies were almost always used underground. Therefore ponies were not really required until the demand for coal could not be met by human endeavour as it was the mid 18th century before we saw the introduction of ponies into the mines in significant numbers. The number of ponies employed varied a great deal rising rapidly as more and more coal was needed to satisfy a growing demand until it peaked in 1913 when some 287 million tonnes of coal was produced and up to 70,000 ponies were employed. This number decreased even more rapidly not only because of less production required and the mechanisation of some jobs, but also due to the fact that people became more aware of the plight of these poor animals in the late 19th and early
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20th century and started to successfully campaign to have them removed from underground work. Shetland and Moors ponies were the types usually used in the mines but as the number required increased in the 18th century, ponies had to be imported from other countries such as Ireland, America and Russia to satisfy demand. As mentioned above the number of ponies employed underground peaked in 1913 at about 70,000 this number was approx halved by 1937, 10,000 of them in Durham, and was some 20,000 nationally when the mines were nationalised on the 1st January 1947. The National Coal Board on “taking over’’ the collieries intimated that they would endeavour to remove all animals from underground work as soon as possible. The NCB succeeded in reducing the numbers but it took nearly 20 years to get the number down to 3,000 and a further 10 to get it down to 150 in 1977. The “target” of no ponies in NCB mines was not achieved until
improvement with the introduction of the 1887 Coals Mines Act which made it law, among other things, that inspectors had the power to examine the care and treatment of all animals employed underground. It was not however until the passing of the Coal Mines Act of 1911 with its special section covering the treatment and care of animals did the ponies become properly protected. This section of the act became known as the Pit Ponies Charter. From personal experience of a “life time” in the mine I can honestly say that I never once saw or had reported to me an incident of ill treatment to a horse or pony on the contrary men usually made sure that they were well fed by taking tit bits to work for them and their treatment was of the highest order by making sure handlers behaved properly and the ponies were not over worked. The surface stables at Roddymoor, Chopwell and Sacristan among others and the underground stables at Marley Hill and Boldon were as good, if not better, than any I have seen on any farm. Good stabling and excellent treatment however did not alter the fact that these animals were forced to spend their working lives in conditions completely foreign to their natural environment. What they must have felt like by being walked into a mine let along being lowered down a shaft in a cage for the first time defeats the imagination.
Ellington Colliery closed in Northumberland in 1994 thereby taking the NCB (now British Coal) nearly 50 years to reach its objective. In County Durham the objective was reached a few years earlier when Sacristan Colliery closed in 1985. From the early days of mining men, women and children were treated like slaves working up to 12 - 14 hours per day in terrible conditions so it is understandable I suppose that some of the animals suffered the some fate by being ill treated by their handlers because their wages and in effect their standard of living depended on the effort of their ponies. It took Acts of Parliament to improve the lot of men, woman and children employed in the mines and so it had to be with the ponies. There was an
At Roddymoor where the ponies were stabled at the surface and I was a pony putter for a short while they would obediently follow us, the drivers, into the pit even though they must have known that there was a very hard days work ahead. It should also be said that at the end of the shift, and they know exactly when that was, if they weren’t watched they would hurry back to the surface stables finding their own way along the pitch black tunnels of the mine and back to the surface. I’m sure that if the ponies had not been content or were badly treated at work they would have shown some sort of stubbornness when taken from their stables to do their daily toil.
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Years gone by...
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Calling time
Story by Ritchie Coatsworth
We all have a favourite pub or haunt as we grow up, mine was always Nicky’s or the Miners Arms as it was previously known prior to opening as Nicky’s from 1996 to 2001. Sadly the pub only exists in people’s memories now as it was demolished a few years ago. I’ve always had a personal affiliation with the pub as my mam worked both behind the bar and as a cleaner there as I was growing up, I myself worked there during it’s last run while I was studying at University and as a child I fondly remember going with my Dad on a Sunday. It’s funny but I still see a lot of the men from those days as I sit in my shop on Hope Street, although they are now much older, in my mind they look exactly the same. Back in those days it was jam packed every Sunday with men playing dominos and full of smoke, as of course back in the early 80s nobody minded if you couldn’t see the person sat next to you for tobacco smoke whether you were a smoker or not. The Former landlord John Wilks. pub was full of funny characters that I still remember as if it was yesterday, Bobby Willis who used to light the fires everyday and called me “Ricky” for some reason and swore like a trooper, Sid Pearson and Ronnie Tomlinson.
Nicky’s after it reopened in 1996.
My Dad took my Mam there early on in their relationship, back in the days when Nicky was still the landlord and the bar consisted of old bus seats, a kitchen table and a bare light bulb. My Dad had been calling it Nicky’s Nightclub so naturally my Mam was expecting something a little different as she asked for a Barcardi and Coke upon entering and was promptly laughed out of the pub. You see in those days all they served were half’s of beer only a couple of regulars drank from a pint glass. During my time manning the bar in the early 00s I regularly had to act as referee to many arguments, an old regular from Stanley Crook, Tommy Carter would almost always end his debates by telling the other party (normally Sid Pearson) that they, “Weren’t worth a stick in the clay” and that he was, “Round the clonker”, 2 phrases that I’d never heard before and I’ve never heard since Tommy sadly passed away, but one thing is for sure I will always remember them. Sadly so many of the local pubs are closing, the Derby at Stanley Crook reopened last year then promptly closed as there wasn’t enough support to sustain it. The Royal George on Billy Row bank closed over 10 years ago and The Green closed it’s doors in March but hopefully this one is just a temporary closure. All that is left is Billy Row Club, now a private club after it ceased being a CIU club a good few years ago.
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