WATERHOUSES COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
Village Hall, Station Street, Waterhouses, County Durham,
DH7 9AS, Telephone 0191 373 9113
You can find the regular programme of events here.
Unveiling the King Charles cipher
Waterhouses village hall has been given a King Charles cipher, hand carved in stone by Steve Mann.
The cipher has gone on display alongside an official letter of commendation from King Charles’ mother, the late Queen Elizabeth, awarded as part of her Golden Jubilee celebrations, in 2002.
Steve is one of a team of eight masons working by day on the continual maintenance of Durham cathedral’s nine centuries-old structure, but who created the royal cipher stone carving in his spare time.
Future Events
| Saturday 22 March 2025 | 7.00 – 11.00 | Ceilidh |
| Sunday 20 April 2025 | 2.00 – 4.00 | Duck Race |
| Saturday 17 May 2025 | 7.00 – 11.00 | 70s Night |
| Saturday 21 June 2025 | 2.00 – 4.00 | Summer Fair |
Update: Woodlands progress report January 2025
Woodland Work: if you want to join in with some woodland work, come along to the hall at 1.00pm on Fridays. All Welcome.
Cinema, Wednesday nights.
Check facebook for details of the Wednesday film – doors open 6.45, film starts at 7pm. See cinema page for programme of classic films.
For more information email eventswaterhousesvillagehall@gmail.com
Hiring the hall: Follow this link if you want to find out about hiring the hall
Waterhouses – a very short history
Five hundred years ago, Waterhouses was a wild and uninhabited place. It was sufficiently out of the way to become a haunt for recusant Catholic priests who, during the reign of Elizabeth I, were discovered, imprisoned and then executed in Durham. Since then, things have been somewhat more peaceful! The Black Horse Inn, a coaching stop, was built in 1820. When coal was discovered here in the 1850s, the modern village took shape, bringing a railway line and, by 1880, approximately a thousand people.
A long period as a pit village came to an end in the 1960s, when both the mines and the railway closed. The railway line is now a footpath which leads directly to Durham. Stretched along the Deerness Valley, Waterhouses is bordered by extensive ancient woodland and conifer plantations containing miles of footpaths. With two playgrounds and a football club, the village is well served for sporting activities. The village hall also offers a wide range of activities every week, ranging from playgroups for children, Cubs, film-nights, quizzes and much more. The hall also contains a bar and is available for hire.
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