Which Durham new town is named after a miner's leader?
Peterlee Peterlee Peterlee is a small town in County Durham, England. It was founded in 1948, and built under the auspices of the New Towns Act 1946. It has economic and community ties with Sunderland, Hartlepool and Durham. The case for Peterlee was put forth in "Farewell Squalor" by Easington Rural District Council Surveyor C.W. Clarke, who also proposed that the town was named after the celebrated Durham miners' leader Peter Lee. Peterlee is unique among the new towns which came into being after the Second World War in that it was the only one requested by the people through their
Jack Miner April 10 each year. The first school to be named after the legendary conservationist was built in 1956 and renamed Jack Miner Public School in 1968. It remains to this day, just a few miles from Miner's sanctuary in what was Gosfield South Township. Each year the graduating students participate in the yearly banding activities at the sanctuary. A school in the name of Jack Miner was created in 2001 in Whitby, Ontario, administered by the Durham District School Board. There is also a Jack Miner Senior Public School in Guildwood in city of Scarborough,ON. The Town of Kingsville Ontario