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‘I blew that pipe!’

10:59am Monday 13th May 2013

‘IT is the works tower scrubber at Fielden Bridge gasworks, which was used for the removal of ammonia and tar vapours from the gas,” says Charles Lilley, of Nunthorpe, who helped prepare the plant for demolition in 1967.

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A dam good effort

10:53am Monday 13th May 2013

AS the aircraft rose, the bomb bounced across the surface of the reservoir and exploded. A plume of water shot 1,000ft into the sky. And then the dam bust.

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Just Larking about again

12:24pm Tuesday 7th May 2013

AS ever, Memories has blundered into a little local difficulty. Is Woodside part of Witton Park or a separate community; is Lark’s Hill in Woodside, and where does California fit into the conundrum?

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Oldies and Nimbys

12:17pm Tuesday 7th May 2013

SOME called it “a haven of eventide”. Others said it would be “a picture of paradise for old folk”. One even said it was “a tender memorial of chivalry”.

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Family seat was a wright old pile

12:07pm Tuesday 7th May 2013

THE new book contains a rare photograph of Neasham Hall, the 18th Century mansion which was the home of the Wrightson family until it was pulled down in 1970.

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Heads or tales . . .

12:02pm Tuesday 7th May 2013

THE voices are helping to keep alive the manufacturing reputation of Head Wrightson because since its closure in 1984, it has become even more famous as an image of post-industrial dereliction. It was on its desolate, weed-grown, wind-blown site that Margaret Thatcher took her “walk in the wilderness” in September 1987.

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A boring start, but it picks up . . .

1:52pm Tuesday 30th April 2013

IN January 1938, 2,200 people turned out of Darlington’s biggest religious meeting to find the sky illuminated by pulsating pencils of light.

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Celebrating a century of building engines

1:44pm Tuesday 30th April 2013

TODAY’S front cover is promotingh an exhibition which celebrates 150 years of engine-building at Darlington’s North Road Works. The exhibition has opened at the town’s Head of Steam Museum, and runs until June 2.

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Scotch or Scots . . ?

1:02pm Tuesday 30th April 2013

ACCORDING to the Echo, there were three casualties: driver Thompson of Gateshead, who was terribly scalded by the steam; fireman Norman, of Newcastle, whose last words were: “Tell my wife and children I am gone”, and the guard Pierce.

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