The multi-million-pound rescue of Durham’s Miners’ Hall, to be formally unveiled to the public later this year – will be fronted by a key feature funded by a £3,000 gift from the city’s freemen. The transformation, which has breathed new life into the dilapidated Redhills building in Flass Street, was launched nearly a decade ago […]
A GREAT grandmother, believed to be the oldest woman freeman in Britain, has died peacefully just days short of her of her 104th birthday. But her trip was brought about by pure chance – the result of a north east ancestry search carried out by her son Ian, a Durham University graduate. During the trawl […]
SENIOR members of Durham City Freemen will this year take part, for the first time, in a country-wide event celebrating England’s “fantastic heritage and culture.” Wardens and deputy wardens, from the freemen’s eight surviving craft guilds formed at the end of the Middle Ages, will be available across four days in mid-September will meet members […]
A LATE-night weekend refuge in the centre of Durham, offering a helping hand to anyone in distress, has been given a renewed boost by the city’s freemen. Last year they made a £1,000 donation to the Durham County Council-led Hub @ St Nic’s operating from St Nicholas’s Church in the Market Place – and have […]
THE world of high finance and artistic exercise, performed within a loop suspended from a ceiling, are unlikely bedfellows. But they both feature in the life of insurance specialist Daryl Metcalf – the freemen’s latest new recruit, where she joins dad Alan in the Cordwainers’ Guild Thirty-one-year-old Daryl, born in Esh Winning and educated at […]
An urgent public appeal for volunteer car drivers has been launched by the County Durham-based ambulance charity, Supportive, to help people of all ages – including children – reach both vital and routine health-related appointments and social activities. The charity, based in Ferryhill, operates a two dozen-strong fleet of crewed ambulances and ambulance cars, committed […]
A long-established community hub on the outskirts of Durham, facing rising costs and the threat of losing out to advancing technology, has been provided with a low-tech solution to high-tech problem by the city’s Freemen. Part of the core business of the Framwellgate Moor Community Centre, a charity launched in the late 1960s, provides “wellbeing” […]
A LIVELY summer afternoon tea party in the former Durham pit village of Waterhouses has proved yet another hit with local residents. The launch of this latest event complements a range of popular activities which earned the community association a commendation from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth as part of her Golden Jubilee celebrations. The party, […]
DURHAM-based members of the region’s only pro-active prostate cancer support and promotion group are taking their message on tour – thanks to the financial backing of the city’s freemen. The work of four dozen members of the group, who have all undergone prostate treatment, had been restricted to regular meetings at the Brawn’s Den public […]
ORGANISERS of a successful performing arts festival, planning their fifth successive annual event in Durham City, are focusing attention on children and young people in the surrounding communities to help build on dramatic rises in audience numbers. Last summer the five-day Durham Fringe Festival sold 7,500 tickets – an increase of forty per cent – […]