The Charles Church development on the Feethams football field site has proceeded slowly and somewhat painfully, but it seems that we are past the worse of wagons and mud. Now we are in to the 'marketing' stage.
Feethams Green is now accessed by Greener Drive (Ron Greener), leading to Peverell Walk (John Peverell).
Quaint but unimaginative! Whatever happened to Lance Armstrong Lane or Arthur Wharton Avenue?
Maybe we should take issue with the 'Quakers' and request a change of name?
With the development, we seem to have acquired a new garden. Residents are non-too-sure who will maintain it, but perhaps Darlington Guerilla Gardeners can be persuaded?
On the other side of Victoria Road, we hear that the £30m leisure complex is now 'topped out'.
The development will provide a nine-screen Vue Cinema, an 80-bed Premier Inn hotel, a Nandos, Purple Pig, Hungry Horse, Prezzo, Bella Italia and a Chinese buffet. We need never go hungry! Whilst residents have mixed feelings concerning the development, it has to be an improvement on the locality, compared with a derelict bus station or a large car park.
My letter to the developers requesting free tickets for the cinema opening clearly fell on deaf ears...almost as deaf as ours' following the thumping of the pile drivers. When the cinema is about to open I will have another go!
And now, the news that you have all been waiting for....the results of 'South Terrace in Bloom' Spring Edition.
There were five gardens in the short-list. Nos 5
(Les & Joan), 18 (Jim), 19 (Yvonne), 20 (Gary) and 23 (Lorraine) - note I have named the gardeners responsible! A late vote from Miles Twist has resulted in a dead heat between no 5 and no 20. The prize is a pint in the club.
'The Best Gnome' award goes to Jim!
