Heritage Open Day: Wheatley Hill Heritage Centre will be hosting an exhibition to the memory of miners leader and county councillor Peter Lee in view of the Peterlee '75 event held at the end of 2023 - marking 50 years since the opening of the new town. Peterlee bears the distinction of being the only new town in the UK to be named after a person, the prominent local miners’ leader Peter Lee (1864 - 1935), who is laid to rest in Wheatley Hill Cemetery.