This page contains photographs of Crookhall throughout the ages, thanks go to Chris Tilney for help in sourcing the photographs. There are more photographs of the development of the village on the Local History Page
Crookhall and Surroundings
Crookhall People
Crookhall Foundrymen
Sports
Crookhall Colliery Band
Crookhall Colliery Band was founded in 1924 as the Victory Pit Crookhall Colliery Band, it led the championship tables in the North-East in the 1950s and 60s. Known as Crookhall Bradley Band in 1966/7. Following the colliery’s closure sponsorship came from Patchogue Plymouth, a fibres division of the American oil company Amoco, and the band became the Patchogue Plymouth Amoco Band. The parent company were impressed with the band to the extent it took over the sponsorship and the band became the Amoco Band in around 1976. However it did not last and the band folded around 1980 (information from the Internet Bandsman’s Everything Within (IBEW) website.
The Band was known by various names over the years these being: Consett Iron Works Crookhall Colliery, Crookhall Amoco, Crookhall Bradley Band, Crookhall Colliery (Durham), Crookhall Colliery Welfare, Crookhall Patchogue Plymouth, Crookhall Welfare, Patchogue (Plymouth) AMOCO, Patchogue Plymouth Crookhall, Victory Pit Crookhall Colliery Band