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The Story of Gilling Castle

by webmaster | Jul 2, 2008 | Book Reviews, Religious Communities

Fr Anselm Cramer, the Monastic Archivist at Ampleforth Abbey has written a new book entitled ‘Gilling Castle, The Story of the House and its Families’. The book starts, as it should, with the first family the Ettons who started building Gilling Castle...

Carers in the Community

by webmaster | Jul 2, 2008 | Organisations, Parishes, Sacred Heart, Middlesbrough

Please note that the July monthly meeting of the support group for families and carers of people with mental illnesses has been brought forward from July 31st to July 24th. Subsequent meetings are will be at the normal dates. The group meets at Marion House, 336...

‘Noah, where were you when we needed you?’

by webmaster | Jul 2, 2008 | Miscellaneous

So said the caption on a photo display showing the effects of the great flood visited on Hull last June. The monsoon like storm brought several months of rainfall on the city in just a few hours. Result. Thousands of homes and businesses were severely damaged and the...

McEwan Cup 1958

by webmaster | Jul 2, 2008 | Miscellaneous

This team photograph from 1958 may be of interest to readers. It is of the football team that won the McEwan Cup for St Philomena’s Boys Club in that year. St Philomena’s is now the Sacred Heart, of course. The team played in the Middlesbrough and District...

“Oh Boy!” that was some wedding!

by webmaster | Jul 2, 2008 | Miscellaneous

Fr Pat Keogh, along with 140 or so people from Teesside, set off recently for the beautiful village of Arpino in Italy to marry Lucia Rovardi and Chris Tomlinson, both of whom hail from Middlesbrough. Lucia, a former student at Newlands School, is a singer and...