The condition in Ingleton Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT DOZENS of schools open to the children of key workers have been forced to shut their doors following heavy snowfall earlier today. Durham County Council has issued a full list of school closures which have been caused due to adverse weather conditions. See the list below:
Annfield Plain Infant School The school will close on Thursday, 14 January 2021 (All day) and re-open on Friday, 15 January 2021 (Morning). Reason for closure: Due to the heavy snowfall overnight and the daily forecast, school will be closed to those who would have been accessing it. Online working will be available for all as normal. Apologies for any inconvenience.
THE main news in the first week of 150 years ago was that the region was experiencing its coldest weather in a decade, with a temperature of minus 19 being recorded on the thermometer at Ferryhill Station. The Tees had frozen, preventing ferry boats from crossing from Stockton to Middlesbrough, and in Darlington the Skerne was a sheet of ice on which large numbers of boys and men have daily disported themselves . Communal pumps froze in Bishop Auckland and Durham, despite fires being continuously kept burning around them; locomotives froze, and, of course, people froze. Mr Gallagher had been drinking in a pub at Sleetburn, near Waterhouses, on New Year’s Day and got lost on the way. Despite his wife searching for him much of the night, he was found dead the next day, “ultimately killed by the severity of the weather”, according to the Echo.