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 aContinue reading “Coxhoe & Cornforth Co-operative Society.”
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Coxhoes Railway History Pt.II
The Great North of England Clarence and Hartlepool Junction Railway Coxhoe’s Clarence Railway had opened at the north of the village in 1833. In direct competition this railway was conceived in an attempt to prevent mineral traffic from west Durham being funnelled to Teesside via the ‘Stockton and Darlington’ and ‘Clarence’ railways—it could connect theContinue reading “Coxhoes Railway History Pt.II”
Coxhoes Railway History
The Clarence Railway At our January meeting speaker Martin Peagam’s ‘The Railway Men’ presentation included information on some of the key people involved in the development of the ‘Stockton and Darlington Railway’ which celebrates its 200th Anniversary this year – it opened on 27th September 1825 when Stephenson’s Locomotion No 1 hauled the train fromContinue reading “Coxhoes Railway History”
Publicans, Public Houses,Inns, Taverns and Hotels in Coxhoe.
(Copyright Coxhoe Local History Group) Part 1. By Barbara Leo History of pub signs Pub signs and names are good indicators of history. Pub signs go back as far as the Romans when a ‘Tabernae’ (tavern) in England would have a small evergreen bush outside to show they sold wine or an ale stake toContinue reading “Publicans, Public Houses,Inns, Taverns and Hotels in Coxhoe.”
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