Events 2024

Great Aycliffe Town Council is proud to host a number of free annual events for the community. As a town council we work with local entertainers, organisations and businesses to bring exciting and magical events for everyone, young and old. We also organise commemorate events marking important dates in our national calendar.

Please see below a list of the annual events Great Aycliffe Town Council organise:

Some funding for your own community events is available from the Council, please contact us for more information.

In 2024 we will be commemorating the 80th Anniversary of D-Day.

The Big Brass Bash which is organised by Durham County Council and funded by Great Aycliffe Town Council, will take place on 11th July 2024.

We also help voluntary organisations to plan some events, e.g. 10k and Fun Run.

Your Memories

Environment Read more about 3204

I moved to Aycliffe in 1953, because my dad was a police officer at the then headquarters. There were very few facilities, one shop in an old building. I particularly remember when the queen visited, I was in the Guides, and kept seeing my dad on duty! I also remember the night the Bakelite factory blew up!

Resident from 1953 to 1965

Environment Read more about 3196

My parents and I had been living in a bungalow in Foundry Row, Coxhoe when my Dad started a new job at ENV Engineering on Aycliffe's new trading estate in early 1953. We soon moved into No.69 Bowes Road in the town, a brand new council house in a quiet area, with a green hill at the end of the street where kids could run up and down all day and which is still there. When we moved in, there was a huge tree in our front garden, just a few feet from our living room window. The branches used to clatter against the bedroom windows when it was stormy, keeping everyone awake, and my Dad asked the council several times to remove it. After more than a year he finally reached the ears of the formidable and fearsome Miss Hamilton, who came straight around to see it for herself and then summoned workmen within days to cut it down. The photo shows me aged about three in front of the tree.

I lived there from age 7 months in 1953 until June 1977 when my new wife and I moved to Teesside

Events

I was one of the first people to get married at St Clare's church and we had our wedding reception at the Gretna.

S G

I lived in the town when I was young and moved away for nearly 40 years and now I’m back at the age of 87

Your Memories

Other pages in this section