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TOWN could finally see a new swimming pool, ten years after the closure of the previous one. Crook could see a new swimming pool as Crook Community Leisure move forward with ambitious plans to extend leisure facilities in the area. Plans to extend the facility at Peases West comprising of a pool, function suites and 3G outdoor area have been submitted to Durham County Council together with plans for new affordable homes for veterans, the disabled and the wider community. If approved, the housing scheme, working alongside a local social housing provider will provide revenue towards the new leisure facilities making them sustainable for generations to come.
FLAGS flew, bands played, people cheered and Locomotion No 1, saved from the scrapyard, stood quietly by as Joseph Pease laid the foundation stone of the pedestal on which the historic engine was to be placed. As the first part of the day-long proceedings on June 6, 1857, came to an end, Henry Pease, Joseph’s younger brother who was the newly elected MP for South Durham, took to the plinth and said that “he rejoiced at seeing the first locomotive about to be placed in a suitable position, so as to hand down to posterity a memorial of one of the greatest events the civilised world ever witnessed”.