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November Meeting
6th November 2025 Presented by Barbara Leo, the groups archivist and one of our researchers who has undertaken extensive work to discover the history of the public houses that were once central to social life in Coxhoe.
Keep readingOctober meeting
Women who changed the world We welcome Carol Dean to our next meeting on 2nd October 2025.An author of childrens books, Carol has had a rich and varied career as a teacher, fundraiser and working with Durham Constabulary as a special constabulary recruitment officer and became a special constable herself. Following early retirement Carol concentrated…
Keep readingCoxhoe Front Street
A Different Perspective A recent visit to Whitfields Chemist we spotted an image we’d not seen before, an ariel view probably taken in the 1960’s. The shop staff kindly loaned it and after scanning it and putting it through a restoration app we thought you might like to see the before and after images. We…
Keep readingCoxhoe & Cornforth Co-operative Society.
How it began. In 1870 a group of men who worked at Tursdale Coke Ovens had heard about a Co-operation in Crook. They all met at the Brickyard at Thinford Lane, then known as “Snowden’s Cabin” where they decided to canvas the district for financial support to start a store of their own. Initially about a…
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