Sedgefield News

Sedgefield Development Trust

This website is a community enterprise, one of the projects of Sedgefield Development Trust Limited (SDT) and is the online version of the Sedgefield News.

Sedgefield News is distributed at the end of every month by a team of over 80 volunteers. This web site is updated on the 1st of each month inline with each monthly edition.

Produced by volunteers for the people of Sedgefield, Bradbury, Mordon and Fishburn

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FRONT PAGE NEWS

Ball Game Cancelled
It’s a few minutes after 1pm on Shrove Tuesday. I’ve just walked back from an almost deserted High Street, rendered silent for the first time in the history of our famous Ball Game, by COVID-19.

No longer simply a contest between mechanics and agriculturists, these photographs reveal just how significant, to every part of village society, this event has become during the last century. In the last few days, users of social media have been treated to an astonishing feast of Shrove Tuesday memories, so we decided that readers who don’t use Facebook deserved a glimpse too, and that is possible thanks to Sedgefield Local History Society, who provided these superb images from their extensive archive. I hear they have attracted a few new recruits recently!
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