The Summer Of 1960 [1 of 4]

A spare hour spent recently at Durham City library delving into the records of the Durham County Advertiser brought some interesting results and if you like I will share them with you in four instalments. So here is part one.

Homing Returns. This is obviously a pigeon topic but I can only guess what the following information tells us:

Ushaw Moor, Letchworth: Pearson and Partners 1056, Burnham and Sons 1022,

Ryans and Craggs 1020,  Burnham and Son 1019.

Does for example 1056 refer to pigeons returning from Letchworth to Ushaw Moor at four minutes to eleven in the morning or is it maybe some sort of mark for performance?

Ushaw Moor Women's Institute:

It was reported that an enjoyable talk was given by Mrs Rochester regarding her holiday in Italy. Mrs Thirwell presided and Mrs Moralee read the correspondance [was that Jim's mother?]. The Oakbridge Group were responsible for the social half-hour which took the form of a whist and beetle drive. Mrs Stephenson thanked the group.  A competition - button hole of wild flowers- was won by Mrs Lough [husband a shoe repairer?]. Mrs Hardy won the lucky number prize.

Ushaw Moor Cricket Club suffered a defeat at Etherley in what was a vital game for both teams. It was a see - saw game that left Etherley as favourites to win the Mid-Durham Senior League championship although Ushaw Moor remained in contention. It was Harry Allen that did the damage by scoring 47 runs and taking five wickets for thirty one runs. Raymond Ayre [39] and G [Gordon?] Luke [34] were Ushaw Moor's chief batsmen:

A Gillespie 5 runs

G Thompson 10

J McEleavey 11

R Ayre 39

A Whitfield 14

G Luke 34

F Proctor 0

K Thompson 0

K Golightly 0

J McDermott not out 12

J Wood 0

Extras 5

A few days earlier a youthful N Ferguson scored 25 not out in a very low scoring second team game. Ushaw Moor found 57 for 9 more than sufficient to beat Willington's second eleven.

More soon.

WB