Playscheme 2003

Our three-week Playschemes this year were held at

Egglescliffe CE & Durham Lane Primary schools where

about 90 children each day enjoyed the sunshine and the company of busy Playleaders who organised an

excellent programme including a day trip to Monk Park Farm. All in all a complete success.

Bearing in mind that if this Council did not provide this service - completely independent of any other bodies,

youngsters of the Parish would lose out.
Well done everybody.

EAGLESCLIFFE MEMORIAL PARK

Victoria Road

(Tittybottle Park)

Once a favourite with nannies of yesteryear, the Park was looking a little forlorn.

Friends of Victorian Eaglescliffe formed one year ago to raise funds to renovate the area. Working with

Egglescliffe and Preston Parish Councils, who own the Park, progress is now in hand to begin the “tidy-up”.

The first stage is bulb planting for a colourful spring. A bulb-planting day will take place - watch out for the

notice in the Post Office and come and join us.

Our next stage is to have new paving around the

Memorial itself. Our thanks go to Stockton Residents

Community Groups Association Ltd for their generous

grant of £4,000 towards this. As funds are raised and

money becomes available, it is anticipated that all paths will be renewed, railings will be stripped and painted

black and new seats and litterbins will be
purchased - Victorian style.

WAR MEMORIAL & GARDEN

The land adjacent to Egglescliffe War Memorial has now been cleared, levelled and seeded.

Opening this area of land to public view should stop the secret drinkers and vandals.

In due course we will be planting shrubs and trees and installing a bench or two where residents will

be able to sit and enoy the view over the river.

We are currently looking into funding to extend the railings along the field boundary .

On Remembrance Sunday residents will be able to participate in the service more comfortably by using

this extra space.

We hope residents will see this as completing the

work that was begun with the renovation of the War Memorial.

TESCO STORE - Tesco’s Head Office have confirmed to

this Council that they hold an open freehold on their property on Urlay Nook Road (formerly Strikes) . They have no plans

for closure, despite the many rumours and a recent letter printed in the Evening Gazette!

Published by Egglescliffe Parish Council 1 Dunbar Drive, Eaglescliffe, TS16 9EG

Tel:

01642 785951 Fax

01642 784319

e-Mail - EPC@egglescliffe2002.freeserve.co.uk Website - uk.geocities.com/egglescliffepc

Office is generally manned Mon - Fri mainly mornings

Councillors take a ten minute break at 8pm and

residents are welcome to raise any issues at that time.

COUNCIL MEETINGS - are held in Egglescliffe School,

Urlay Nook Road. Press and public are welcome to come and listen.

Meeting Dates:

November 6th & 20th, December 4th,
January 8th & 22nd, February 5th

March 4th & 18th,

April 1st

Meetings normally start at 7pm. Occasionally we have a

visitor who is invited for 7pm with the meeting delayed until 7.30. Again, press and public are more than welcome.

EGGLESCLIFFE CEMETERY

reserved. Officers are considering the possibility of an area for cremated remains in the Cemetery.

Since time immemorial all parishioners (whether churchgoers or not) had the right to be buried in Egglescliffe Churchyard, until in 1981, it was closed to burials (except in existing graves and of cremated remains) by order of the Queen in

Stockton Council to become the Cemetery.

We understand that no individual cremation plots now remain in the Churchyard. A fresh area there for cremated remains, which are poured into the ground, has been in use for about a year.

The Church is having a commemorative stone engraved to place there.

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