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Trimdon Grange Colliery Disaster: 130 Years On Pt IV

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:51:41 +0000

TODAY - THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 - is the 130th anniversary of the Trimdon Grange Colliery disaster which killed 74 men and boys. At 1pm, there is a little ceremony in the Trimdon Village cemetery, around the obelisk memorial, to commemorate the diaster. All are welcome to attend.

Trimdon Grange Colliery Disaster: 130 Years On Pt III

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:20:00 +0000

HERE'S another disaster poem. As the pictures suggest, it seems to come from a penny songsheet. Whether this was sold to raise money for the bereaved of the Trimdon Grange Colliery Disaster or whether it was just to cash in on the area's sorrowful feeling is unclear.

Trimdon Grange Colliery Disaster: 130 Years On Pt II

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:41:32 +0000

ON Thursday, it is the 130th anniversary of the Trimdon Grange Colliery Disaster, in which 74 men and boys died underground in an explosion. In the article in tomorrow's Memories, I quote Tommy Armstrong's famous poem about the disaster.

Mr Tudor's Circus

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:08:47 +0000

I AM supposed to be doing something far more productive than this, but I am sitting here thinking about Mr Tudor's Circus.

Trimdon Grange Colliery Disaster: 130 Years On Pt 1

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:02:44 +0000

NEXT Thursday - February 16 - is the 130th anniversary of the Trimdon Grange Colliery Disaster in which 74 men and boys lost their lives. Wednesday's Memories will tell the story, and I'm just about to set our graphic artist away to create the cover with a list of the names of the victims. I don't think we'll be able to get all of these details on the page, so before I edit them out, I thought I place them here. It'd be interesting to know if there are any descendants still about:

Harping on about Harperley

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000

TOMORROW'S Echo Memories is to be a follow-up to that of a fortnight ago about Harperley - a truly haunting place. For Dave Chapman, it was not haunting in the spooky sense but because it was where he spent his happy childhood. This is his reminiscence in full:

Gathering more on Gatherley

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:13:23 +0000

ONE of the great intrigues of modern life - well to me, anyway - is the pair of gatehouses on the southbound A1 just north of Catterick Bridge. They were due to be demolished as part of plans to widen the A1 into a motorway, but the spending cuts have caused those plans to be dropped, giving the lodge houses a reprieve. Scaffolding has sprung up around one of them, so possibly they may be springing back to life.

Ferryhill: the golden age

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:26:26 +0000

Ian Guthrie now lives in Ottawa in Canada, but he grew up in Ferryhill more than 60 years ago. Inspired by Memories 58, he recalls "a golden age"...

Car response that sets the Standard

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:38:19 +0000

IN Memories 65 we were "driven to distraction" by a mysterious vehicle with a "rounded back" that was parked beside the River Tees in Neasham one summers day in 1962.

In the Big Swim with Pip and Jack

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:23:00 +0000

WEDNESDAY'S Echo Memories is going to be the second part of my story about Jack Hatfield. I think he must be the Tees Valley's greatest Olympian, and with this Olympics year marking the centenary of his Olympics, it seems appropriate to tell his story.