Who produces Bowburn Interchange?
Bowburn Interchange has been produced by Bowburn Village Celebration (BVC) since December 1996, when it replaced its previous A4 newsheet, “BVC News”. Bowburn Interchange is now BVC’s only main project.How do you contact us?
Correspondence can be sent c/o Bowburn Community Centre, Durham Road, Bowburn, Durham, DH6 5AT.
Or please e-mail: bowburn.interchange@icloud.com
Who is BVC?
Why does BVC now only produce a newsletter?
…except when we do other things too…
Also in 2006, thanks to a grant from Awards for
All, BVC organised a ceremony to dedicate a new
memorial, in Bowburn Community Centre, to those
who gave their lives in the quest for coal.
The memorial itself was donated by Bowburn
Labour Party. It listed the 52 men and boys
who were fatally injured at the local colliery and
a further four who died at other collieries having
transferred from Bowburn after it closed in 1967.
BVC, with the help of Bowburn Banner Group
and local churches, arranged a suitable service
which was attended by numerous banners from the
Durham coalfield and some 200 friends and
relatives of those honoured and remembered by the
memorial.
In October 2017, BVC organised a ceremony to
honour the “Aycliffe Angels” – women who worked,
in often very dangerous conditions, at the
munitions factory at Aycliffe during World War II.
A plaque in their honour was unveiled, and
certificates and medals were presented by the
Mayor of Great Aycliffe to one “Angel” who still
lives in Bowburn and to relatives of many others
who once did so.