Boldon - Down Your Way

Members of Boldon History Group welcomed Larry Hetherington and Rose Roberts, both long serving members of the Sunderland Volunteer Life Brigade, to their meeting last Tuesday.
Some History Group members at the talk about Sunderland Volunteer Life Brigade.Some History Group members at the talk about Sunderland Volunteer Life Brigade.
Some History Group members at the talk about Sunderland Volunteer Life Brigade.

Between them they related a very interesting and comprehensive history of the Brigade, which dates back to 1877, accompanied by TV footage, old newspaper coverage and photographs of rescues off the North East coast over that time. The Sunderland Brigade is only one of three left in the country and it continues to serve the coastal and harbour areas of Sunderland by providing a 24-hour Search and Rescue Team and a Coastwatch, based in the Brigade’s Watch House at Roker. Sunderland VLB is a registered charity and recruiting volunteers is always ongoing. Training is open to adults of all ages, the young and the more mature and training as part of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme to young people under the age of 18 years of age is also available. The Brigade opens the Watch House to the public as a museum to commemorate the service it has provided over its 135-year history every Sunday from noon to 4pm between March and December or call 0191 567 2579 if you would like more informartion.

Pupils at East Boldon Infants School will visit Beamish Museum next month as part of this term’s topics and to enrich the curriculum.

Councillor Tracey Dixon with mentors and pupils from Boldon School.Councillor Tracey Dixon with mentors and pupils from Boldon School.
Councillor Tracey Dixon with mentors and pupils from Boldon School.
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Local Folk Band Seganainm will host the Folk Club in The Grey Horse in East this Thursday starting at 7.30pm. Admission is free and all are welcome. On Saturday, the band will be playing at St Mary’s RC Church in Jarrow. The band will then host the folk club at The Cricket Club on Sunderland Road in East Boldon on Thursday, February 11, starting at 8pm and again admission is free.

Last October Councillor Tracey Dixon and Senior Learning Mentors joined students at Boldon School to mark national Hate Crime Awareness Week in the Borough. Hate crime is a criminal offence where a victim is targeted because of their race or ethnicity, religious belief, disability, gender, gender identity, age, sexual orientation or any other actual or perceived difference. To mark the week the council’s safer communities team worked in partnership with Your Voice Counts, which coincided with the school’s Wellbeing Day, to deliver classroom-based sessions to Boldon School students. These sessions have helped students gain an understanding of how and why disability hate crime is wrong in the eyes of the law and that it is unacceptable as a social norm as well as empathising with the victims of such crimes.

Messy church will be held on Saturday from 11am to 12.30pm at St Nicholas Church in Hedworth Lane, Boldon Colliery.

West Boldon Residents’ Association will hold this month’s meeting on Wednesday, February 10, at 10am in The Wheatsheaf Hotel in West Boldon. Items on the agenda will include the following future social events: An Italian Night in Leonardo’s in West Boldon on March 16 and a fish and chip supper and Dutch Auction on May 18. The date of a coffee morning in April and talk to be given by Major Anthony Tate on events during his time in the Household Cavalry, will be announced at a later date.

Councillor Tracey Dixon with mentors and pupils from Boldon School.Councillor Tracey Dixon with mentors and pupils from Boldon School.
Councillor Tracey Dixon with mentors and pupils from Boldon School.
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Boldon Auction Rooms on Front Street, Boldon, will hold an antique & interiors sale on Wednesday, February 17, at 10am.

A quiz night with fish & chip supper is being held at St George’s Church on Front Street in East Boldon on Friday, February 12, at 7.30pm. Cost is £6 per person including supper.