The Northern Echo | Backtrack

Todd's law

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:06:13 +0000

Still blowing strong, former top Football League referee George Todd reaches a remarkable milestone.

A safe pair of hands

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:38:32 +0000

Jeff Wealands has played football all over the world and made a small fortune in business. Not bad for a Darlington lad without a single CSE.

Joining the Quakers faithful at Barrow

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:25:39 +0000

REMEMBER the story a few weeks back about the bloke – Staithes, was it not – who organised his own funeral, paid for the band and for the bait, enjoyed the procession to the pub and then arose from the open coffin in order to toast his own good health?

Book chronicles Crook Town's colourful history

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:05:17 +0000

Michael Manuel’s new book chronicles the colourful history of one of the country’s most successful grassroots football clubs.

Heroes and Villans

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:51:26 +0000

IT may not be a huge leap from Askern Welfare to Askern Villa but, just three years ago, it represented a pretty nifty name change, nonetheless.

Brazil nuts

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:21:49 +0000

Suspecting a £200m Chinese betting scam, or at least an international outbreak of scotch pie running, the column finds itself goalless in Cowdenbeath.

And so to bed

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:30:37 +0000

Belatedly on the railroad to Wembley, and still forced to walk the last 14 miles, the column follows Spennymoor Town to the Silentnight Stadium.

Warrior class

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:06:02 +0000

Commons touch, Jon Tait has been to Parliament in his continuing battle to popularise a minority sport.

There’s more to messing about on water for Gill

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:03:12 +0100

IT may not be supposed, as they did in The Wind in the Willows, that Gill Prescott simply messes about in boats.

Railroad to Wembley starts at Waterhouses

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:25:52 +0100

BRADSHAW’S 1922 railway timetable, which no home should be without, records that there were nine trains a day in each direction on the five-and-half-mile line between Durham and Waterhouses, calling at Ushaw Moor only.