FOR four generations, Cleveland Bridge was led by members of the Dixon family: they founded the company, they saved the company, they made it a family firm and a global concern, and one of them owned one of the very first motor cars in Darlington. Cleveland Bridge is now, sadly, in liquidation, and we told in Thursday’s paper how it had been formed in 1877 by ten employees of the defunct Skerne Ironworks, which had collapsed on Albert Hill in Darlington. They had started their new business on Polam Hall’s strawberry field on Smithfield Road, off Neasham Road, backed with finance from Henry Isaac Dixon, of Stumperlowe Hall, in Sheffield – he was the youngest son of James Dixon & Son, a “Britannia metal” (or pewter) maker which had started in 1802 and had grown into one of the steel city’s leading manufacturers.
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Amelia Davies, from Darlington, died in January, about four months after being diagnosed with neuroblastoma. The eight-year-old, who loved swimming and mixed martial arts, was a pupil at Polam Hall School, which is planning to create a garden, with buddy bench , to remember Amelia. Her mum Rhiannon Davies, who wants to raise awareness about the cancer and its symptoms, described her as a cheeky girl with a big personality. Amelia Davies, 8, from Darlington, who died from neuroblastoma in January Amelia, who underwent chemotherapy last year, had been responding well to treatment and had been due to have an operation to remove an 11cm tumour from her abdomen on February 8.
Share I rang the doctors because she couldn t finish her sandwich and was in quite a bit of pain.
After calling the GP, Amelia was booked in for an ultrasound at Darlington Memorial Hospital where they were called back the following day for more testing.
Rhiannon continued: We were told we needed to come back for further investigation, they couldn t tell me much over the phone. They said they had found something attached to her left kidney so we didn t know the full extent of it.
Rhiannon took Amelia to the doctors after she began to experience constipation and stomach aches. Pictured: Rhiannon with Amelia
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