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Bowes Railway Museum - History of the railway and information about the exhibits of locomotives and wagons.
Washington - Information about the town and its history. Provides links to sport and leisure, education and the local business forum.
Washington Old Hall - A brief history of the Hall and an account of the Ghost of the Grey Lady.
Washington Then and Now - Comprehensive photo gallery of the area in times past and present.
The Village Community Centre - Provides information on hall and bar hire, upcoming events and details of the clubs which meet there.
Davy Lamp Folk Club - Club details and events list.
Washington - What's in a Name? - An article about the village's possible connection to Druids and Ancient Egyptians. Also links to an article about the USA connection to the Washington Old Hall.
Rickleton Primary School - Information about the school, its staff and policies, with useful links for teachers, parents and students. Includes a school prospectus.
Pets At Peace - Individual cremation for all family pets. Details of services.
Washington School Reunion Site - A comprehensive site enabling former pupils and staff members to contact old friends and keep up to date with news and events.
Washington Old Hall - Traces the history of the 12th Century manor house; with information about the "de Wessington" family, their Coat of Arms and the Preservation Committee. Also includes a photographic tour.
Washington Glebe Colliery - Records of the mine 1904 to 1972, including owners, output, employment, seams worked and a list of miners killed in the 1908 disaster. There are links to the Washington "F" Pit and the Washington Colliery.
Genuki - Washington - Local genealogy which includes marriage indexes 1603-1837, the 1801 census, church history and a description of the parish in 1891.
Washington, Tyne Wear, England - A nostalgic site about the local area, its history and its people. Includes photographs and a links page.
Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust - A brief description of the wild-life area and its facilities at Washington. Includes opening times, annual highlights and a link to the main WWT web site.
Washington Flower Club - Details of meeting times, fees, age requirements and vacancies for new members.
Classic Introductions - Information about a Washington based social club, covering the North East, for singles over 30. Includes profile, calendar and photo gallery.
St Josephs Primary School - Located in Washington Village. Displays of work by students in the Nursery through to Year 6.
St George's Church, Fatfield - Brief information on Church's Mission Statement, services and facilities.
St Robert of Newminster RC Comprehensive School - Information on staff, exam results, events, official reports and photo gallery.
Washington Baby Boomers - A nostalgic site about the 1957 to 1959 student intakes at the Washington Grammar School. Includes photographs and recent updates.
The Holy Trinity Church - Photos and historical details. Includes additional information on the Anglo-Saxon and Norman churches erected on this ancient Celtic site at Washington Village.
Washington Millennium Centre - Community centre run by local people with council support. Details of facilities, events and room hire information.
Washington Village Playgroup - Information about session times and fees, and a description of the various activities the children are involved in.
Sunderland International Kite Festival - Held annually in Washington in the first week of July. Details of kites, music, street theatre and event information.
Oxclose Ministocks - The Full Mini - Offers information about a radio controlled model car racing club, based in Washington. Includes details of meeting times, a special events calendar and a picture gallery of car kits.
History of Usworth Aerodrome - Outlines the history of this airfield on the outskirts of Washington, from October 1916 to its closure in May 1984. Includes photos and information about its role in World Wars One and Two.
Columbia Grange School - Provides information and picture galleries about a new school situated at Oxclose Road, Washington, which facilitates the education of children with learning difficulties and/or autism, aged 2 to 11.
Washington Glebe Pit 1901 to 1972 - Outlines a history of the colliery, including details and photographs of the 1908 Disaster, and personal recollections of working down the coal mine.
Lambton Primary School - Provides information about the curriculum, school events and homework help. Also includes examples of students' work, contact details and a Washington links page.
If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr Washington Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Washington "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein I hate work. That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Washington We have only one person to blame, and that's each other. -- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Washington Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Washington "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her. -- Benjamin Tillett Washington Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Washington Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. -- H. L. Mencken Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill Washington Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. -- Niels Bohr Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Washington "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Washington Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name." -- Mike Binder Washington "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Washington Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. -- P. J. O'Rourke Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Washington Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Washington It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins Washington "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend. -- Benjamin Disraeli "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Washington Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain. -- Lyster Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin Washington My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Washington Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards Washington Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint. -- Robert Browning "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Washington "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln Washington When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux Washington
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