Unveiling of `marra` in Horden Welfare Park
On a blustery day Marra was unveiled in Horden Welfare Park on Saturday 21st November 2015.
Artist is Ray Lonsdale.
The wind was howling so I have removed the actual sound and replaced it with a brass band playing `Gresford` (The Miners Hymn)
Horden. Co Durham
Horden Past and Present.
Horden welfare park Saturday 8th July 2017
Performance near marra before heading to durham big meeting
Horden miners banner parade, Peterlee, County Durham. England.
Horden miners banner parade with the 2nd Rossendale Scout Band 12th July 2014 before setting off for the Miners Gala at Durham.
horden ravers part 2
horden ravers part 2
HORDEN RAVERS
HORDEN RAVERS
Tourist guide to horden!!!!!!
Horden 17 11 14
A great day flying at Horden.
horden colliery 1986ish part1
from a old video excuse the quality HAVE A LOOK YOU MAY SEE SOME ONE YOU KNOW includes the big club and durham big meeting the pit was just about to shut theres a lot of bad hair and fashion have a laugh have a look
Horden Parade
Durham Miners Gala 2015
Sons of Horden by Ribbon Road
From the album 'Our Streets Are Numbered'
When Horden pit closed in 1987, the houses were passed on to a Housing Association who, despite many promises over the years, have not seen fit to invest in keeping the properties in a good state of repair. Most of the houses are now empty, many of them vandalised – plumbing and electrics stolen. The few owner/occupiers are surrounded by empty houses and many social problems, issues of alcoholism, drugs and anti-social behaviour. People talk of how friendly and clean the streets used to be. The Housing Association are now selling off the properties at auction, with no interest in who it is that buys them, resulting in further feelings of insecurity about the future. In this ex-mining area it is easy to see the results of lack of investment coupled with the government housing policies over the years. They are called The Numbered Streets because they have no names, they are just numbered from 1 - 13, 14th Street is the cemetery. ‘Our Streets Are Numbered’ is the result of our Leverhulme Artist In Residence post in Horden through Durham University Geography Dept. in 2016.
SONS OF HORDEN
Our project was ‘Disposal - in the Numbered Streets’. It wasn’t just the disposal of the colliery housing, it was getting rid of the people who lived there. The strong community of mining families were thrown to the four winds. The waste of much-needed houses and the waste of generations of people is shocking to say the least. The sons of Horden have been driven down by political prejudice and pure neglect – the ruined colliery houses in Horden’s Numbered Streets tell the tale – ‘wasted like the Sons of Horden’.
Song written by Brenda Heslop (c) 2016
Films by Carl Joyce (c) 2016
ribbonroadmusic.com
carljoyce.co.uk
Sea Coal - Low Water
Sea Coal - Low Water
The story of the harsh life of the men who gather sea coal from the bleak beaches of County Durham 1966
Low water sea coaling Horden blackhall
Sea coaling 1960s
horden 1980ish i think
blackhills road and seventh street i think it is in the 1980s but when the camera looks down third street i cannot see nimmos
The Stars Look Down on Horden
Song written by Brenda Heslop, film by Carl Joyce.
This song/image piece has been produced as part of a research project called ‘Song Lines to Impact and Legacy: Creating Living Knowledge through Working with Social Haunting’ - made possible by Arts and Humanities Research Council Connected Communities funding. The project has been led by Dr Geoff Bright of the Education and Social Research Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University, and co-produced by a team of artists, academics and community partners including Unite Community and the Co-operative College. Working in community Ghost Labs in Staffordshire and across the north of England, it has used the idea of a ‘social haunting’ and a range of arts methods to inquire into how difficult feelings, carried into community life from contested pasts, can be harnessed as energies for benevolent and productive change.
The Stars Look Down on Horden The last Ghostlab session was on familiar ground in the Salvation Army Hall in Horden in East Durham.
The Numbered Streets with intro
From the album 'Our Streets Are Numbered'
When Horden pit closed in 1987, the houses were passed on to a Housing Association who, despite many promises over the years, have not seen fit to invest in keeping the properties in a good state of repair. Most of the houses are now empty, many of them vandalised – plumbing and electrics stolen. The few owner/occupiers are surrounded by empty houses and many social problems, issues of alcoholism, drugs and anti-social behaviour. People talk of how friendly and clean the streets used to be. The Housing Association are now selling off the properties at auction, with no interest in who it is that buys them, resulting in further feelings of insecurity about the future. In this ex-mining area it is easy to see the results of lack of investment coupled with the government housing policies over the years. They are called The Numbered Streets because they have no names, they are just numbered from 1 - 13, 14th Street is the cemetery. ‘Our Streets Are Numbered’ is the result of our Leverhulme Artist In Residence post in Horden through Durham University Geography Dept. in 2016.
THE NUMBERED STREETS
This song is a comment on the underhand treatment that the residents of these streets have received from ‘Accent’, the housing association who were gifted these houses after pit closure. It speaks of their empty promises and of Tory resentment, still alive and well and aimed at these mining areas. What is left of the original community are unable to leave due to the low value of the houses they bought with redundancy money, and the newer residents are people who have little to no hope of anything else. Their lives can be troubled and dark, and because of the actions of Accent, have become dangerous.
Song written by Brenda Heslop (c) 2016
Films by Carl Joyce (c) 2016
ribbonroadmusic.com
carljoyce.co.uk
Horden Coms Classic 2010 Final Tony Eccles vs Paul Jennings 3rd Set
PilotLight Project: Horden Youth & Community Centre
Small feature on the BBC of the PilotLight project that I'm working on
golden oldies horden rugby club
Owen + Micheal sing Delilah with a twist
Community clean up - Horden - October 2017
We've worked with Durham Constabulary, County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service, and local people to clean up an area of Horden, County Durham, to address issues including large amounts of rubbish being left in alleys and back yards.