Alan Marron's Pictures of Spennymoor

Spennymoor Heritage Banner at Durham Miners Gala 2008

Made it at last. And as the band plays, what can I say except - this is really what 'playing to the balcony' is all about!

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Spennymoor, Festivals and Events

Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 10D

Spennymoor Heritage Banner at Durham Miners Gala 2008

Spennymoor Town Band leads the banner from the park, along Dundas Street.

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Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 10D

Spennymoor Heritage Banner at Durham Miners Gala 2008

Rev Lynda Gough led a short prayer. Councillor John Marr, deputy leader of Spennymoor Town Council is 2 places to her left. The memorial was opened during his Mayoral Year (1990 - 91) and features an eternal light. Plaques are engraved with the names of men and boys who lost their lives in Spennymoor's mines.

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Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 10D

Spennymoor Heritage Banner at Durham Miners Gala

Rev Lynda Gough, vicar of St. Paul's Church, Spennymoor led a short devotion at 'The Tubs'

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Spennymoor, Festivals and Events

Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 10D

Spennymoor Heritage Banner at Durham Miners Gala

The banner began its day at the miners memorial in Victoria Jubilee Park. Called 'The Tubs' it uses real tubs (originally used in Ellerington Colliery, Northumberland on a genuine piece of rail (track). A feature of the memorial is the 'eternal light' and plaques on the tubs are inscribed with the names of those who lost their lives in Spennymoor's mines.

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Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 10D

Spennymoor Town Gala 2008

These 'Friends of the Gala' bring their military vehicles, uniform and equipment to the Gala every year.

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Spennymoor, Festivals and Events, Transport

Camera Make: FUJIFILM Model: FinePix S7000

Spennymoor Town Gala 2008

Gala Parade Marshall Barry Summers brings up the rear in his vintage Pickfords vehicle.

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Spennymoor, Festivals and Events, Transport

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Spennymoor Town Gala 2008

You can see the concentration on the face of this young Jazz Band musician.

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Spennymoor Town Gala 2008

More Juvenile Jazz band musicians.

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Spennymoor Town Gala 2008

Spennymoor Town Band in High Street.

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Spennymoor Town Gala 2008

Veteran ex-servicemen march with their standards in the Gala Parade. This was their first year in the Parade, but they were given a terrific reception by the crowd along the route.

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Spennymoor Town Gala 2008

A juvenile Jazz Band.

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Spennymoor Town Gala 2008

A modern day Fire Appliance from the local Station. The fireman put on displays in the park.

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Spennymoor Town Gala 2008

This vintage 100 year old Carousel proved to be the subject for the last picture the Fuji camera will ever take. Not at all pleased about having to work in the rain, the camera became waterlogged, and the motor refused to operate the lens.

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Spennymoor Town Gala 2008

Spennymoor Town Band leads the Gala Parade into Cheapside.

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Spennymoor Town Gala 2008

Ferryhill falcons were one of three Juvenile Jazz Bands to appear at the Gala this year. Undeterred by terrible weather the JJBs went on and did their display in the park. Other parts of the programmme of planned events were cancelled due to the weather.

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Spennymoor Town Gala 2008

'Who's a good dragon, then?' Spennynews' Anne Robinson doesn't look too keen on getting any closer to the ferocious beast. She's probably waiting for St. George to show up.

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Spennymoor Town Gala 2008

Tudhoe Moor Nursery regularly enter a float. This year 'float' seemed very apt. If it had rained much harder or much longer the procession would have really floated!

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Spennymoor Town Gala 2008

Members of the Spennymoor Heritage Banner Association parade their banner. The Banner, unfurled in 2006, unites all of the Spennymoor lodges, replacing banners which are now too frail to withstand the elements.

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Spennymoor Town Gala 2008

These tandem riders travel from Sunderland every year to take part in the Gala - even in heavy rain.

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Spennymoor, Festivals and Events, Pedal Power - Bicycles

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