Teesdale Mercury – August 1st 1928 WOODLAND ASSEMBLY ROOMS. claim for ownership in the county court. verdict for the plaintiff. The question of ownership of the Assembly Rooms, Woodland, was the subject of an action in Barnard Castle County Court, on Thursday,...
Another story from William Chapman as featured in the Teesdale Mercury in February 1927… Next came an incident at High Copley Colliery, a landsale colliery, from which coal was taken in carts or on ponies with panniers. One day, when the colliery yard was full...
Mr. Chapman, like many more young people in those days had comparatively little schooling. “I started work when I was about nine years old”, he said, “leading coals from Mr. John Hardy’s Crake Scarr Colliery to Mr. Steel’s tan pits, at Barnard Castle. The tan pits...
Mr. William Chapman told an amusing story of the days when the song of the nightingale was said to have been heard in the Lead Mill Woods, Copley. The news soon spread far and wide and large numbers of people came from various parts of the district, some as far as...
Another recollection from the Teesdale Mercury article written in February 1927. When Mr. William Chapman was born Lynesack Church had not been long built, nor Lynesack parish formed. He was the fourth child to be baptised there. One of the first burials in Lynesack...
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