Posted on 25 January 2012.
Come along for FREE cup of Tea or Coffee Fence Houses Sreetz Project Open Community Drop In Tuesday 7th February, 2012 1:00 PM -4:00 PM At St Johns Methodist Church (Tin Chapel) Pop along for a FREE cup of tea or coffee and cake to hear about the exciting new changes in Fence Houses to [...]
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Posted on 06 February 2011.
Houghton Neighbourhood Community Team – PACT – Dubmire Primary Scool, Fencehouses (12 Mar 11 at 09:30) When: 12th March 2011, 9:30am Where: Dubmire Primary School, Fencehouses Location: Dubmire Primary School, Fencehouses Start Time: 09:30 AM Date: Saturday, 12 Mar 11 http://www.police.uk/
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Posted on 12 January 2011.
POLICE are appealing for witness after four electricity poles were damaged, causing one to collapse into a field. The incident happened between midnight on Sunday, January 2, and 10am, on Sunday, January 9, on Golf Course Road, Houghton. The offenders had partly sawn through the base of four poles which carry high voltage electricity. Police [...]
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Posted on 06 October 2010.
THE transformation of a heavily contaminated colliery and cokeworks site into a green oasis was celebrated yesterday. Elba Park, formerly the site of the Lambton pit and cokeworks, was officially opened, with its colliery past remembered in a mining memorial artwork unveiled by ex-Sunderland and Newcastle United star Paul Bracewell. The Homes and Communities Agency, [...]
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Posted on 23 June 2010.
A TERRIFIED woman smashed a window to flee her home following an early morning arson attack. Firebugs sparked the blaze by setting fire to a recycling bag and placing it up against the back uPVC door of the house on York Terrace, Chester-le-Street, County Durham. And when smoke began spilling from the blaze, the homeowners [...]
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Posted on 21 May 2010.
A WOMAN has died after being hit by a reversing refuse van in a busy shopping street. Pedestrian Alison Rodger was hit by a council-owned flatbed van in Front Street, Chester-le-Street shortly after 2pm on Wednesday when the area was crowded with shoppers. The 44-year-old, from Great Lumley, was taken to the University Hospital of [...]
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Posted on 19 March 2010.
Coun Kath Rolf (left) with residents of Durham Street, Fence Houses, who have sent a petition to Sunderland Council about the state of their back lane. Fed-up neighbours say a road outside their home has been left in such a bad condition that even the binmen have to wear wellies. Residents living in Durham Street, [...]
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Posted on 19 March 2010.
Here are some photos and programmes which cover the period from 1967 to 1971.Many of us who lived in Fencehouses at that time were very much influenced by the Youth Theatre and Mrs Green.
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tech: Hello Billy, I hope you are still playing the Fenc...
Billy Waites: Hi Norman,
i dont think you will know me but im s...
Billy Waites: Hi Ian,
I was brought up in Fence Houses and stil...
Peter Curran: Shirley, you are right. The first unfinished house...
norman sweeting: Was Morris Hahn any relation to you, I remember Mo...
