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Ever Ready Band - Provide details of player profiles, future engagements, latest recordings, news and contest results.
Ampion Electronics Ltd. - Manufacture high voltage products specializing in thick film resistor networks and hybrid circuits.
The Tanfield Railway - Working historical railway. Includes its history, train timetables and events diary.
Tanfield School - A mixed comprehensive school for pupils aged 11 to 16. Provides information on sporting facilities, events, competitions, and contacts .
Rondean Machinery - Machine tool dealer specialising in engineering, sheet metal and woodwork machinery. Information on products, second-hand items, news and items wanted.
Ronco Engineering - Precision engineering mainly involving ferrous, non-ferrous and stainless metals as well as the mass production of small components to the semiconductor and electronics industries.
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"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings Tanfield Lea A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier There's too much blood in my caffeine system. -- Seen on a bumper sticker He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln Tanfield Lea When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - Buckminster "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Tanfield Lea A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley Tanfield Lea "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. -- Anonymous "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons Tanfield Lea Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. -- Oscar Wilde You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde Tanfield Lea Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Tanfield Lea Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson Tanfield Lea Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -- G. K. Chesterton Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Tanfield Lea You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. -- American Proverb Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Tanfield Lea This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre Tanfield Lea I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. -- Virginia Woolf Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Tanfield Lea Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. -- James Reston If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. -- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life We must believe in free will, we have no choice. -- Isaac B. 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(Ralph Waldo Emerson) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James Tanfield Lea Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. -- Garry Trudeau As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 Tanfield Lea
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