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Article: John North - Jam jar citizens gather
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- The Northern Echo
- Article date:
- July 27, 2000
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IN WITTON Park, known not unaffectionately as Jam Jar City, you
were posh if you had a back garden, rich if you had a flush toilet.
If you had both a back garden and a flush toilet you'd shifted, and
ultimately almost everyone did.
The county council's post-war Category D policy - D for
devastating, perhaps, or dehumanising just as likely - inexorably
accelerated the emigration.
Last Saturday, however, Jam Jar Citizens from all over the world
returned to their roots for a joyful reunion called The Gathering.
"There was a film called The Gathering," said the taxi driver
from Bishop Auckland, "the one where they all got their heads
chopped off."
It wasn't like that at all.
Witton Park's in ...