HEAR ALL SIDES: Letters to the editor
TWO cheers for John Gilmore’s Bishop bashing letter (HAS, Jan 22).
It would have been three cheers but I take issue with his claim that “Historically Bishop Auckland was never particularly a mining town”.
The most miner-friendly Bishop of Durham was I believe David Jenkins and I doubt that he ever shopped in Bishop with his Doggarts’ clubs and Co-op “store divi”.
I never saw him in the queue outside the Odeon or standing freezing waiting for a bus in the marketplace.
Now there are no miners, there is no Doggarts’, no Co-op and no pictures.
I rest my case.
M. Eason, Darlington.
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