Clara Vale

Comments. The local communities walked from either end of the trail and met at Old School Clara Vale, Clara Vale Church Grounds for the launch of the walk. The Avonmore Way provides a pedestrian link with train and bus services in Rathdrum to Laragh.

Officers working in the Outer West area of Gateshead launched Operation Avail after receiving a series of complaints from residents in the Clara Vale , Crawcrook, and Ryton areas about lawless drivers. And last week seven vehicles were seized and ...

Start and Finish: A short distance from Clara Vale church just off the R755 about 8km from Laragh. Time: About two and a half hours. Distance: 9.5km. Map: Not necessary. Suitability: Most people ...

Deep trenches have been dug to protect a golf course from being engulfed by an underground fire. Smouldering in the former Clara Vale mine workings in Gateshead, the fire is thought to be spreading with firefighters powerless to put it out. Due to ...

They believe the land was part of the Clara Vale Colliery, which opened in 1896 and employed more than 1,100 people at its peak in the 1930s. The mine's production declined in the 1950s and it employed fewer than 600 people by the time it closed in 1966.

Michael Hardy of Crawcrook, The Ryton and District War Memorials Project, tells his story: George was the son of George and Sebbie Jane Bird, of 6 Maryside Place, Clara Vale, Ryton on Tyne, Co. Durham. George was a native of Longtown, Carlisle, ...