Tudhoe Village

Tudhoe & Spennymoor Local History Society

Spennymoor High Street

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Aircraft

Ernie Brooks, from Tudhoe Colliery, designed a one-seat gyroplane, the Brooklands Mosquito, in his garden shed and then built it in his garage at Coulson Street, Spennymoor. He was planning to open a factory in the town but tragically Ernie died on March 9 1969, aged 40, when his Brookland Mosquito crashed 150ft at Teesside Airport. A blue plaque is now displayed on his house at 45 Attwood Terrace, Tudhoe. Click to see a film of Ernie Brooks flying his Gyrocopter.

The extraordinary story of Ernie Brooks in the Northern Echo

  • Brookland Mosquito Gyroplane c.1966
  • Brookland Mosquito Gyroplane c.1966
  • Brookland Mosquito Gyroplane c.1966
  • Brookland Mosquito Gyroplane c.1966
  • Ernie Brooks in his Brookland Mosquito Gyroplane c.1968
  • Brookland Mosquito Gyroplane c.1960

Trevor Brooks, Ernie’s nephew, has rebuilt a Mosquito gyroplane which was revealed at a lunch at the Daleside Arms in Croxdale to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Ernie’s death. It was then taken to Teesside airport and will be displayed at the Sunderland Air Museum next to the Nissan factory. Shirley Jennings, a gyropilot and instructor from Cornwall, chronicles the early days of gyroplane flying in Britain in her book Spinning on the Wind: A Gyronaut’s Tale.

  • A rebuilt Mosquito gyroplane
  • A rebuilt Mosquito gyroplane
  • A rebuilt Mosquito gyroplane
  • A rebuilt Mosquito gyroplane
  • A rebuilt Mosquito gyroplane
  • A rebuilt Mosquito gyroplane

Bikes

  • Early Motor Cycle c.1920's
  • Early Trike c.1926
  • Alan Watson & brothers on Motor Cycle in Byers Green c.1930s
  • Allan Bike Byers Green

Family Transport

  • Early Form of push chair c.1900's
  • Park Parade Typical Family Transport c.1900
  • Horse & Trap
  • Horse drawn Mission Caravan parked at Page Bank.
  • Blanche and Flora with their cut-out car made of cardboard c.1909
  • Motoring Club 1920's
  • Mr. Barrett in his Car August 1932

Funeral Transport

  • Funeral King street c.1915
  • Vincent Carnival Cart 1920's
  • Vincents Funeral Cart 1916

Commercial and Heavy Vehicles

  • Pickup Pop Steamer c.1905
  • Furniture Van of the Spennymoor Co-op 1910
  • Baker's Horse & Cart
  • Harrison's Bakers c.1923
  • Edward Bros Flower & Potato Merchants Delivery Vehicles in Queen Street c.1924
  • Spennymoor UDC Steamroller  c.1930's
  • Spennymoor UDC Steamroller in a hole c.1930's
  • Harry Williams Haulage c.1940's
  • Santucci Alonzi's Horse-drawn Icecream Cart
  • Alonzi Van
  • Roma Café Ice Cream Van c.1950
  • Dent's Road Haulage Transport Fleet 1960

Coaches

  • Early Charabanc Trip
  • Early Charabanc Trip
  • Early Coach
  • Jewitt's first bus 1920's
  • Early Jewitt's Bus c.1928
  • Dennis autobus which ran between Croxdale and Spennymoor 1929
  • Spennymoor Bus Drivers 1939-45
  • A Shaw Brother's Bus of the 1950s on Byers Green to Spennymoor route
  • O'Hara's Bus
  • The Favourite Bus, c 1900.
  • Eden Bus, High Street, Spennymoor

Railway

  • Train Poster
  • Railway Station
  • Spennymoor Railway Station c.1940's
  • Railway Plaque
  • Spennymoor Station
  • Last Stockton train at Spennymoor 29/3/1953

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