1902

John Carss was also involved in the 1911 coronation - see below.

James Fenny was the son of Samuel Fenny, a leather dealer with a shop in Saddler Street. It was, until recently, the Butcher’s Deli. The Fennys were one of the first families to occupy Wood View (the current Number 5, to be precise) when it was built some time in the 1890s. Samuel Fenny, the owner of the shop, became Mayor of Durham in 1902 but had to retire due to ill-health, around the time of the King’s coronation in August of that year. 

1911

The esteemed committee (there appear to be no women involved!) comprised Alan Aylmer Luxmoore, a prominent lawyer who lived in Prospect House. His wife, Lucy, was very much from landed gentry in Shropshire. Indeed, he adopted her name upon marriage and this was probably to do with her inheritance of land in Salop.

Jonathan Willis was the postmaster and grocer in Bank Top. It is now the site of Betty Bee’s.

John Carss was also a grocer and general dealer in Bank Top and it is likely that his shop was situated near Shincliffe Station where there was quite a community around the station and the saw mills. Carss also lived in Prospect Terrace at this time.

Finally, there was John Morton Carr, the enormously influential Headmaster of Shincliffe C of E School. If there was a committee formed in the village, he appeared to be on it.