Dear Editor,
The absence of any feeling of heritage or aesthetic obligation to one’s own town is perhaps the saddest change in Shildon today.
We have allowed and sat by while almost all current publications have dropped the word “COMPANY” from the Stockton and Darlington Railway Co., implying it was the start and finish of the line. Not just a company name!
How many times do we have to complain about the derelict buildings and lack of care around the town – Commercial Inn, Armitages Corner, Forsters Main Street, Adamson House – to name just a few? Safety barriers broken and not fit for purpose at the King William and Hancock’s Chemist corner. The full hedge planted along Middleton Road not cared for – alas only three scraggly bushes remain. I could go on.
The new hall of the Locomotion Museum is sadly more of a shed. A museum should be fun, imaginative and thoroughly absorbing. A little background sound of steam engines working with posters and photos on the walls would go a little way to improve it.
Should we turn over the running of Shildon to the Busy Bees for more effort and commitment?
To settle for what we have is to embrace stagnation.
Regards
Keith Tweddle, Shildon
Shildon & District's local community newspaper.
