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Durham / Re: Pubs in Dipton, Co Durham
« on: Wednesday 03 April 19 21:36 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

Surely y'all are  not telling me that St. John's Church
has gone the distance - you've got to be wrong?

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Durham / Re: Pubs in Dipton, Co Durham
« on: Wednesday 03 April 19 15:07 BST (UK)  »
Thank u for the 'Red Ox' info. I've been trying to sort-it -out for months - I worked at the pub once or twice but I was beginning to wonder if the pub had ever existed?
But, I was in Dipton Tuesday a.m. 'looking at things' & was parked immediately opposite what had been the 'Red Ox' not releasing what I was looking at.
Thanks once again.

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Durham / Re: Pubs in Dipton, Co Durham
« on: Tuesday 02 April 19 21:34 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

Thank u for showing an interest.  When I mentioned 'clean & tidy' I meant the old 'The Fox pub, not the follow-on' Fox Flatlets'.  Your comments re. 'shabby & run down' are valid,
W & B Millhouse (the owners & lessors of the Flatlets) were o.k. to work for (they gave me no hassle!) but were known in the trade as 'a hard outfit to work for'.
I lived in the village back then (happy days!) but the Flatlets 'made-the-papers' on more than one occasion - evictions, fires, drugs, police raids etc.  Millhouse Builders would be intolerant indeed regarding such as rent arrears, 'pay-up or out you go'!
Have you any info regarding another 'back then' Vaux pub that was located just up the road from 'The Fox' called either 'The Ox' or perhaps 'The Red Ox' gone decades ago.
I went through Dipton today 2nd April to have a look around but everythings changed beyond recognition.

Regards - ADL

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Durham / Re: Pubs in Dipton, Co Durham
« on: Monday 01 April 19 17:17 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

The 'fox' pub in dipton, I know a bit about it.

The pub, at least until 1958, was a vaux breweries
'house, - I don't remember when it closed, ditto the' just-up-the-road'  (also owned by vaux)!? 'black bull' & 'the red ox'.
The 'fox' was a well-built red-brick building loacated in the dip of the main gateshead road.
After closure it remained unsold for some considerable time until purchased by millhouse builders (long gone) of consett.
W & b millhouse completely altered the building & I think built additions thereto?
Back then, being a joiner by trade, I worked for vaux (long gone) & w & b millhouse.
I worked at 'the fox' several times & well remember how clean & tidy it was, it also had two snooker tables on the 1st floor.
One thing I remember well was the wall-seating in the bar - being holed 'heat-moulded' plywood 'seat & back' this to make for easier cleaning after being sat-on by shift-finished miners.
The 'pub as altered, become kwown as' the fox flatlets' sadly long since demolished with the site being redeveloped.

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