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 be part of developing some new ideas for the area

For more information please contact Sam Gallilee on 0191 385 2822 or 07885210159 or speak to the detached youth workers on Tuesday Wednesday or Friday evenings on 07512687203

Project funded by Fence Houses YMCA

Exhibition 2010 at North Shields

Believed to be the first time they have played each other

9th October 2011

K.O 10.30am

Result Burnside 4 Dubmire 2

Burnside football ground

Come one come all support your local lads top of theVillage verses the bottom

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Station Hotel, Morton Crescent, Fence Houses. DH4 6AD

Breakfast served from 7.30am

Pots of tea and coffee

Hot and cold sandwiches

Eat in or Takeaway

Great value lunch specials

Kids menu with healthy options

Sunday Roast with 6 veg

2 yorkshire puddings £5.00

Play area in a secure sun trap garden

enjoy reading a daily paper

watch TV or listen to the radio

forthcoming events are BBQ’S, steak nights, pie and peas outside catering available and function service.

Till June Kids eat free

For Bookings/enquiries tel 0191 584 5678

email secretgardenfencehouses@hotmail.com

1 free child meal with every full adult meal bought (under 12 years old only)

Come on anyone know who is in this picture?

Thanks Barry any more gems in the wardrobe? At least this is one photo saved for posterity

By VICKI NEWMAN
Published on Thursday 31 March 2011 17:46

A SOUTH Tyneside couple are celebrating the diamond wedding they thought they would never see.

Eddy and Ena Hannen, of Edgeworth Close, Boldon, tied the knot six decades ago today, but five years ago they were almost separated forever.

Mr Hannen, 82, a retired clerk collector, was diagnosed with cancer and told by doctors he would need an operation to remove his kidney and part of his bladder.

Going under the knife meant that he could live to celebrate 60 years of marriage to his wife.

Mrs Hannen, 80, a retired ministry worker, said: “We’re so thankful to Mr Armitage and his secretary at South Tyneside District Hospital for what they’ve done for us.

“This time five years ago, we never would have thought we’d be celebrating our diamond wedding. Mr Armitage gave Eddy an ultimatum. He said if he didn’t have the operation, he didn’t know how long he would last. We feel so lucky to still be together.”

The couple, who have a daughter, Carole, 55, first met at the Fence Houses YMCA in Sunderland, when they were just 16 and 18 years old.

Mr Hannen was drafted into the RAF shortly afterwards, but they stayed together through his two-years of service. He proposed on his return, and they moved in together.

Mrs Hannen said: “The opportunity came up and we just grabbed it, then we went straight into town to buy rings and see a vicar, and set up our wedding for 10 weeks’ time.

“My mam thought we were nuts when we got back home and told her, she thought we’d never be able to get everything together in time, but we did. We had a big white wedding with more than 200 guests.”

On the secret to a long and happy marriage, Mrs Hannen said: “We’ve just always done everything together and it’s kept us strong.

“We’re best friends as well as a married couple and it’s really important. Our daughter Carole is disabled, so we’ve spent a lot of time together looking after her. We’re just so happy to have seen this day.”

http://www.shieldsgazette.com

Middleton has already captivated the world’s imagination with her Cinderella story of going from middle-class girl-next-door to queen-in-waiting, but until recently few knew of her family’s connection to coal mining, once a prime source of Britain’s prosperity that has now fallen on hard times.

Her great-grandfather left coal country nearly a century ago in pursuit of a safer way of life in the London area, but his siblings stayed behind and spent their working lives in the coal pits. She still has relatives in the area who expect her to bring a practical, no-nonsense approach to royal life once she and Prince William tie the knot at Westminster Abbey on April 29.

John Harrison, a cousin who still lives in Hetton-Le-Hole — once a bustling mining center now down on its luck — doesn’t expect Middleton to act all high and mighty when she officially becomes a princess.

Kate’s wedding dress details to be revealed on official website

Harrison believes she still has a bit of the coal country in her, a head-screwed-on-straight practicality more common to the grit of northeast England than the gilded parlors of Buckingham Palace, with its priceless art collection and stifling protocol.

“I think she’s going to stamp her northeast way of life on William,” said Harrison, who has lost touch with Middleton’s side of the family but still plans to celebrate the royal wedding with his family’s own party-of-the-year. “She’s told him they’re going to be more normal, more down to earth.”

The fact that the offspring of a coal mining family will soon be a princess — and a likely future queen — is taken by some as proof that Britain’s once-rigid social system has become more malleable.

Will and Kate invite exes to their wedding

“They certainly wouldn’t have done that in the hundred years before that. They went from the bottom to the top.”
The upward mobility — tabloids are calling it “From Pit to Palace” — began when Middleton’s great-grandfather Thomas Harrison, fed up with the grim prospects of life in a coal town, packed up and took his family to the London area, not with any grand plans, but simply to get cleaner, safer work.

Harrison, using his carpentry skills to avoid the coal pits, left behind most of his brothers and sisters, including his brother George, who became John Harrison’s father. Thomas Harrison moved first to Ealing, a suburb west of London, and his granddaughter Carole eventually married Michael Middleton, who came from a successful family of lawyers and businessmen.

No royal wedding invite? Get a job at the palace

That was a distinct step up in the world. Their daughter Kate Middleton went to the best schools, and met a prince. They had an eight-year, on-again-off-again courtship that — finally — led to an engagement in November.

It was not unusual for men to leave the coal regions if they could, said Kate Reeder, a curator at the Beamish Museum that documents the region’s history. She said coal mines in the Hetton area reached their peak in 1913 — when miners were relatively well paid — but then went into a sharp decline that prompted some men to abandon the mines in search of better jobs.

Raise a glass of Will and Kate commemorative beer!

“It was a really, really unhealthy activity,” she said. “Just being underground for most of your life is not a healthy thing to do, plus there’s the dust and the noise and the repetition of their work, and a lot of dangers from the machinery, and from explosions and gas incidents. So it’s not unusual for people to leave.”

Many who left did well for themselves, but the Harrison story is unprecedented.

“I suppose it’s a bit like winning the lottery,” said John Harrison. “You’re not going to get any money out of it, but at least you’ll have memories. We’ll still be working class, but it’s a nice feeling to know there’s something there in the family, that we’re going to be related to royalty.”

Read the full story by going to this link  http://www.today.com

http://www.lambtoncastle.co.uk

AN aristocrat has announced plans to transform part of his North East estate into a wedding and entertainment venue.

Renovation work is being carried out by Lord Durham on the grade II-listed Lambton Castle, near Bournmoor, County Durham, to turn it into a venue for upmarket civil weddings, classical concerts and parties.

Biddick Hall, an impressive grade I-listed country house that was home to the Lord’s mother, Lady Lambton, until her death in February 2003, will also stage small weddings, celebrations, weekend breaks, a monthly supper club and it will also host the bridal party for weddings in the nearby castle.

The estate is also home to a small chapel which will be available for religious wedding ceremonies. Estate chiefs have been in touch with the Bishop of Durham to have it re-consecrated.

They are also looking into licensing a walled garden and a pavilion for a variety of entertainment as well as a large field by the river where they hope to hold proms in the park-style events and large concerts.

Edward Lambton, the 7th Earl of Durham, hopes transformation of the 1,400-acre private estate will generate income which will go towards the vast upkeep of the historic properties and land.

Estates manager Bob Duff said: “The estate has always been owned by different generations of the same family. The area of Washington used to belong to them before it was compulsory purchased from the family to build the new town.

“The Lord of Durham’s mother lived in Biddick Hall until her death a few years go. After that the home was just used by the family periodically.

“Lord Durham got in touch with me about a year ago about the progression of the estate. Estates such as this get more expensive to run and difficult to keep. The family has an estate in Northumberland and a home in Italy.

“The plans were his idea and he employed me to oversee the development.”

Lambton Estate has already set up a number of events. These include a music night on April 15 featuring tenor George Bartle, soprano Susan Parkes and pianist Warren Mailley-Smith and Universal Horror on April 16, a film night hosted by Oscar-winning film maker Kevin Brownlow. On May 8 Lord Durham will open the estate to the public when they stage the Lambton Run, a 5k and 10k race, in aid of Willow Burn Hospice in Lanchester, County Durham and The Rainbow Trust.

North East chef Anthony Brown is also holding monthly supper clubs and cookery classes.

Lord Durham inherited the Lambton estate after the death of his father, a one-time Tory MP for Berwick, in 2006.

The current Lord married for the third time earlier this year, wedding 29-year-old model Marina Hanbury at a register office in London.

Lions Lived in grounds of castle

LAMBTON Castle, the family’s ancestral seat, is steeped in history

In 1800 the first Lord of Durham commissioned the building of the structure which was built around the existing Harraton Hall, an 18th Century mansion.

The Lord – also known as “Radical Jack” and a son-in-law of Earl Grey – wanted the property to be in the style of a Norman Castle.

The family lived in the property but there was a problem with subsidence, ironically caused by the mineworking in the area on which the family fortune was built. It was rebuilt in the 1860.

In 1930 the family moved out of the property following further issues with subsidence and it fell into disrepair.

In 1972, Lambton Lion Park opened on the estate. It closed in the early 1980s due to lack of funds and problems with escaping animals.

Mr Duff said: “The county council took it over as a teacher training centre for a while then in the seventies the estate was ran as a safari park.

“There are wonderful stories about baboons on the A1 and hippopotamus in Chester-le-Street.

“People still talk about the safari park now with the giraffe house and the bear pit.

“A lot of people came to the estate back then and they still think of it like that today.”

For more information please goto http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2011/03/16/lambton-castle-to-become-wedding-venue-61634-28343663/2/