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How the French threatened Bishop Middleham

6:24pm Wednesday 8th May 2013

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Laying the bogeyman of boggyness to rest

7:10pm Thursday 25th April 2013

IT IS great news that the Mowden Hall jobs have been saved and are to move to a new-build block beside Darlington Town Hall and alongside the multiplex development which is about to take wings. There is, though, a spectre that haunts this work. It is a ghoul which could prevent it from happening. It is the bogeyman of boggyness.

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Woodburn: "in every way enjoyable"

11:40am Thursday 11th April 2013

WOODBURN is one of the great lost mansions of Darlington. It was built in the 1860s overlooking the valley of the Tees. Now houses in Coniscliffe Road stand on its site, but many of them have features of its exquisite stonework built into them.

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Arthur Henderson: a Labour pioneer

3:46pm Wednesday 3rd April 2013

ARTHUR HENDERSON'S Nobel Peace Prize has been stolen from the Guild Hall in Newcastle. Henderson is one of my heroes: the Barnard Castle MP and Darlington mayor who became the first member of the Labour Party to sit in a British Cabinet.

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Darlington: a hothouse of design

12:25pm Monday 11th March 2013

ONE Memories is over and the next one is already begun. I've had loads of communications regarding Saturday's paper, especially concerning the photographs - front and back - of the Whessoe Road area.

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In praise of Priestman

3:50pm Monday 25th February 2013

IT looks as if Saturday's Memories will have a mention of this fellow, Sir John Priestman, of whom I had never heard until I received a football-related email from Australia.

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The rise and fall of William Barningham

11:59am Monday 11th February 2013

SATURDAY'S Memories promised the full tale of William Barningham on here and evemtually here it is...

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The rise and fall of William Peachey

12:14pm Monday 4th February 2013

I PROMISED in Saturday's Memories to post my version of William Peachey's rise and fall on here and, belatedly, here it is. I wrote it in 2008 when I was asked to help reopen Peachey's Baptist church in Darlington - I gave a little talk from the pulpit, which is not my natural territory.

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Dirigible daze

3:20pm Friday 14th December 2012

TOMORROW'S Memories looks at a famous Darlington company's role in building what I believe to be the hangar for Britain's first airship. This story gives me the opportunity to use the word dirigible, which is great.

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