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

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)

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/

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, is its best yet.
It is the hilarious duo’s 35th year working together – and they still show no signs of retiring.
Bob said: “It certainly doesn’t feel like we’ve been doing this for 35 years.
“I don’t really count the years – I do it because I love it. I love getting on stage and entertaining all our friends, old and new.”
Returning to perform alongside Ray and Bob are Graham Overton (King Boris) and Peter Darrant (Osborne The Ogre).
Lucy Rafton and Afnan Iftikhar also make welcome returns to play Princess Cheryl and Much The Miller’s Son.
* Puss In Boots runs until January 8. Tickets start from £7. Call the box office on 454 1234.

GLASS slippers, laughs and romance are on the cards at Durham’s Gala Theatre.
The Durham City venue is hosting Cinderella until January 8, with a host of familiar faces and a real horse-drawn carriage.
Fence Houses actor Donald McBride will return for his third consecutive Gala panto outing, and this year appears as Sarah, one of the ugly sisters, alongside Spennymoor’s John Carter as Clara.
Joining Donald and John once again will be Seaham-born actor Neil Armstrong, who has been in pantomime every year since 1987.
Neil will play Cinderella’s step uncle, the evil Baron Gristle.
Completing the line-up of old friends will be Paul Hartley and Jane Deane as the comedy double act Buttons and Dishes.
Joining these Gala stalwarts will be some new faces.
Helen Embleton, pictured right, plays Fairy Marigold, having appeared last year as Narcissus in Sleeping Beauty at the Customs House, South Shields.
Australian Tom Caley plays the dashing Prince Charming with Sophie Michaels as his Cinderella.
* Tickets are available from 332 4041.

http://www.jarrowandhebburngazette.com