Fence Houses

I think this was taken from Rainton Arena looking across to now what is the Evolve

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To Morton Grange now a small Forest look closely you can see the young saplings

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Willmott Dixon, the UK-based construction and development expert, plans to develop UK’s first BREEAM ‘outstanding’ health facility in collaboration with NHS South of Tyne & Wear. Willmott Dixon’s £17 million ($28 million) Houghton-Le-Spring Primary Care & Leisure Centre scored more than 86% in its design stage assessment to achieve the highest sustainable accolade possible for [...]

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PLANS for a multi-million pound road scheme to boost Wearside’s economy have been shelved after council chiefs accepted there is no cash available to pay for it. The 3.5-mile Sunderland Central Route would link the A182 near Shiney Row with the B1284 near Rainton Bridge, cutting congestion in Fence Houses, Philadelphia and Newbottle, improving access [...]

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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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RESEARCH will take a back seat when an acclaimed academic comes from Down Under for the Wear-Tyne derby. Gavin Kitching is normally 10,400 miles away, in his role as Professor of Politics at the University of South Wales in Sydney, Australia. The internationally-renowned political scientist has written books on revolutionary philosophers, economic history and Third [...]

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First New Year baby in Sunderland was Georgia Ann Henry, pictured here with parents Allan Henry and Hannah Wood. SURPRISE arrivals gave parents double cause for New Year celebrations as their newborns were delivered on Wearside. The first 24 hours of 2011 were busy for Sunderland Royal Hospital’s maternity unit, with nine births on the [...]

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IT’S panto season again, with a host of tops shows vying for your custom around the North East. Here’s a round-up of what you can see, and where. PANTO legends Ray Spencer and Bob Stott are leading the Christmas capers at the Customs House. The South Shields venue reckons this year’s show, Puss In Boots, [...]

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Two rare birds have been spotted at a County Durham nature reserve for the second year running. Two bitterns have been seen at Rainton Meadows, near Houghton-le-Spring, the headquarters of Durham Wildlife Trust. They are on the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds’ (RSPB) red list, making them one of the most threatened in [...]

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    　    Rob Gray is gearing up for the fight he never dreamed he could have.The 17-year-old was born with talipes – a painful condition where his feet were back to front. But after endless operations on both legs throughout his childhood, Rob, of Ravensworth Avenue, Fence Houses, is now in training for [...]

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