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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Hamsterly and Milkwell Burn/Video The Reunion</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2016 19:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>My Story: I suppose I should be grateful really, I was given one year to live one year ago and I&#8217;m still here, thank GOD. Since my semi-retirement a good&#8230; </p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1>My Story:</h1>
<p>I suppose I should be grateful really, I was given one year to live one year ago and I&#8217;m still here, thank GOD. Since my semi-retirement a good few years ago, I&#8217;ve been limping along, getting by, just existing really.<br />
It was so long ago now since I came to Leadgate, it seems like another world. Believe it or not, I was quite a sight to behold in my youth, young, strong, full of faith in my future, shining like a new pin, along with my brothers and sisters, God rest their soles.<br />
I was made by the best people, from the best stuff, stout, hardy, reliable, and in my own little industrial way, quite beautiful. Up until my full retirement last year, I didn’t have time to even think about it., too busy getting on with my job.<br />
My job was my life, not that it hasn’t been a good life, standing strong immovable, doing exactly what I was put on this earth to do and doing it well, if I say so myself, groaning and creaking from time to time, but never complaining, not even once.</p>
<p>It’s been a pleasure, carrying you on my shoulders for longer than any living soul can remember. I’ve carried you in prams, by bicycles, charabancs, horses and carts, then buses, in thousands of wedding cars and countless coffins, I’ve carried you to play, to school, to work, to be born and to be buried. I’ve twice carried you to war. Despite all of that and despite the fact I was built in the time of the horse and cart, I think I’ve held up reasonably well. I know I’m no Sydney Harbour or Golden Gate but I was a good bridge in a good place, with good people, no one worked harder than me, at times it was non &#8211; stop.</p>
<p>Millions of tons of steel, coal and just about everything else has passed over my back at one time or another, not to mention the countless tons of iron ore dragged beneath me, shaking me to my core for a century or more. It’s amazing I’m still here really, quite the little survivor me!</p>
<p>For a huge part of my life, I had a dark, dangerous, smoky and fiery underside, seldom seen by anyone but train drivers and track workers, not to mention the kids playing the nick from school, then there’s the villains and vagabonds using my shadows for their various skulduggery. I always kept my silence. Then there’s my favorite of all, the hundreds of clandestine courting couples coming into my shadows to do what they were forbidden to do anywhere else. Yes, you know who you are! More than one or two of you have been conceived under my shelter and safety and Yes, I know who you are, I promise I won’t tell.</p>
<p>Sadly, like most old men looking death in the eye, I’m battered and broken, ugly and shoddy, cheap temporary repairs have left me as you all know me today, a mess. My walls smashed from hundreds of collisions, cars, buses, lorries, you name it, it has bashed into me over the years, although this was never a problem when my good friend The Railway was still alive, then I was pampered, even cherished, the slightest knock or loose stone was put right immediately.</p>
<p>Now that he has gone and my other good friend, the road, has gone too, God rest their soles, I just stand here alone, awaiting my ultimate fate. If a bridge could cry, I probably would. So next time you walk or ride your bike under me, stop for just a moment and take a look at me. Look through the grime, the damage, the weeds, and the dodgy repairs; you just might catch the last glimpse of my long-gone magnificence.<br />
I know it’s too late and it’s all over for me, but I just can’t help thinking, after all, I’ve done for you and yours, you should have at least tried to save me. I have stood sentry over all of you for more than a century. I’ve kept you just slightly different from the rest. You don’t realize it now but you will miss me when I’m gone.</p>
<p>Hopefully, Leadgate will keep its character and individuality, but without me, I think that will be very difficult. Not that I’m complaining.</p>
<p><strong>Yours steadfastly,</strong></p>
<p><strong>Leadgate Bridge</strong></p>
<p><strong>1896</strong></p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2016 18:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
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									<h1>LEADGATE NEWS</h1>
Leadgate Area Partnership
Charity No. 1098479
No. 01/16 – January
HAPPY NEW YEAR
The festivities are once again over for another year, I hope everyone enjoyed themselves and I should like wish all our readers a very happy, healthy and prosperous 2016.
HAPPY RETIREMENT:
On 31st December, 2015 one of our village’s doctors hung up his
stethoscope for last time. Doctor David ASTLEY, who saw his
last patient on New Year’s Eve, 2015, came to the Leadgate surgery
in 1987</div></div></div></div></div></section></div> <a href="https://leadgatevillage.com/leadgate-news/#more-22314" class="more-link elementor-more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading LEADGATE NEWS">(more&hellip;)</span></a><p>The post <a href="https://leadgatevillage.com/leadgate-news/">LEADGATE NEWS</a> appeared first on <a href="https://leadgatevillage.com">Leadgate Village</a>.</p>
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		<title>Update on Leadgate Bridge and Opencast Site</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2015 09:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Leadgate/Villa Real Bridge We are extremely concerned to hear that the scheduled work (relocation of all utilities; construction of new road &#38; demolishing the bridge) is now to take more&#8230; </p>
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									<p><strong><u>Leadgate/Villa Real Bridge</u></strong></p><p>We are extremely concerned to hear that the scheduled work (relocation of all utilities; construction of new road &amp; demolishing the bridge) is now to take more than 12mths with the access via the bridge restricting through traffic into the village expected to take +9mths.</p><p>&#8211;          <em>Cllrs have scheduled a meeting with the relevant DCC Officers to try and resolve the issue</em></p><p><strong><u>GoNe Bus Service</u></strong></p><p>We are extremely disappointed that since the closure of Villa Real bridge the rerouted bus service particularly the V6(Bradley, Pont Circular) &amp; X71 (Consett-Leadgate-Medomsley-Gateshead link) are using the Werdohl Way/Bradley Shops route, meaning passengers are no longer able to alight in Leadgate, which is having an effect on the various commercial traders in the village.</p><p>GoNe have stated that the number of passengers using this service is extremely low and have declined to meet with Cllrs to try and resolve the situation</p><p>&#8211;          <em>Cllrs have held meetings with DCC Passenger Transport Officers and will be meeting with the DCC Director asap</em><em>.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><strong><u>Bradley Open Cast<em>  </em></u></strong></p><p>The Planning Inspector has decided to uphold the appeal by UK Coal and thereby grant their application to Open Cast on the Bradley Site – there is no further right of appeal or judicial review. This is extremely disappointing to all concerned which means that the local communities will be affected by the environmental conditions – noise, dust, traffic etc. during the duration of extraction.</p><p>As UK Coal are technically in administration it will be interesting to see how they can resolve their financial difficulties to cover the operational costs and the bond required to cover the full costs of restoration of the site once the coal extraction has been completed.</p><p><b>Regards</b></p><p><b>Alan</b></p>								</div>
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