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Recharging the battery

2:12pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

A QUICK note because Bob Wilson might just have explained one of the mysteries of Tudhoe.

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Two and two don't always make five

11:26am Tuesday 16th March 2010

THERE are times when readers amaze me, and this is one. It would also appear that I owe one of the Tees Valley's most eminent minds a huge apology.

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The mysterious walk of Wlliam C Browne

5:36pm Friday 12th March 2010

COLIN Bainbridge has sent this interesting postcard on which the caption says: "William C Browne, Military Medallist, Darlington, Durham on his 8,000 miles' walk which he has undertaken to complete in 10 months. Commenced 17th October 1924."

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Tales from the Dingly Dell

5:23pm Thursday 11th March 2010

DON'T mention the car! I did in Wednesday's column, and I didn't get away with it. I got my Populars and Prefects muddled again. Sorry.

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Under the Covered Market

12:04pm Wednesday 10th March 2010

THE Memories room is undergoing a little of a tidy-up and, disgracefully, there are too many items that people have sent in that have never seen the light of day.

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Disgraceful proceedings by a mob

12:09pm Tuesday 9th March 2010

IN my talk and book, Of Fish and Actors, which is about theatre history in Darlington, I have a little go at the Quaker rulers of the town who, in the mid-19th Century, were avidly anti-theatre.

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Hard on the tail of the Prince of Rome

5:02pm Sunday 7th March 2010

YOU may have seen the Memories ten days ago telling the definitive story of the Prince of Rome, probably the North-East's most famous homing pigeon. Given that pigeons have been such an integral part of the County Durham culture, it was surprising that the story wasn't better known - or perhaps more widely published - and the role of a column like Memories is to prevent these stories fading away with the human memories that sustain them.

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A dingly dell with a footballer but no highwaymen

2:50pm Friday 5th March 2010

TOMORROW'S Saturday column was supposed to be about my favourite dingly dell, Leven Bridge. Whenever I pass through there, down its steeply wooded banks, past the decaying grandeur of its ancient pub, I am transported back to the days of highwaymen and horse traffic.

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Finding Private Rodgers

5:50am Friday 5th March 2010

In this morning's paper, there's a story about the 70th anniversary of Dunkirk and how one member of Durham Light Infantry is to have a plaque unveiled in his honour in the French village of St Venant.

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