History RSS Feed


Railways bucking the trend with increase in passengers

8:57am Tuesday 2nd February 2010

IT may have been financial doom and gloom for many organisations last year, but one has bucked the trend.

Pile Hitler!

discovery: museum assistant Susan Langridge with the carpet fragment from Hitler’s Berlin bunker

8:35am Monday 1st February 2010

Fragment of carpet from Adolf Hitler’s bunker found in Green Howards regimental archives.

Heritage railway to resume services after 60-year delay

9:58am Thursday 28th January 2010

DAILY passenger services are returning to a North-East heritage line this summer, nearly 60 years after they were withdrawn.

Small is beautiful, says railway boss

CAPITAL TRIP: A Grand Central train pulls into King’s Cross, London, on the first trip run by the company in December 2007

10:03am Thursday 28th January 2010

THE man at the helm of Grand Central Railway said he was surprised at the demise of National Express East Coast and suggested small is beautiful when it comes to connecting with rail travellers.

Holy house demolished before it sank into hell

OFF TO THE PIT: Sacriston miners in October 1978. Mining ceased at Sacriston on November 15, 1985

2:45pm Wednesday 27th January 2010

Sacriston takes its name from the sacrist – a senior monk at Durham Cathedral Priory. The sacrist built a farmhouse there. But colliers disturbed its foundations. Chris Lloyd mines a rich seam of history and even has time to watch an old film.

Diaries of the ‘Secret War’

DIARIES: Private Stanley Harrison, who was eventually promoted to sergeant

10:37am Wednesday 27th January 2010

THE forgotten diaries of a longdead soldier have shed new light on a little-known expedition that later became known as “Mr Churchill’s Secret War”.

Cloddish beer drinker who played the numbers game

ODD NUMBER: William Emerson, 1701-82, characteristically with his coat gaping in the middle but buttoned top and bottom

4:16pm Monday 25th January 2010

Hurworth's most famous son was a bad-tempered, beer-drinking eccentric. He was also a genius. Chris Lloyd explains how everything adds up

Photographs are donated to rail group

GIFTS GIVEN: Fred Ramshaw, from the rail group, right, with Sandra Hodgson, left, Jean Marley and Stuart Boulton, from Morrisons, with two of the photographs

9:03am Thursday 21st January 2010

HISTORIC photographs of a former railway works have been donated to a railway preservation group.

Bloodthirsty Bedale

WELL ENDOWED: The turbaned tower of the old grammar school in Wycar, Bedale: one of the region’s more eccentric buildings

12:23pm Wednesday 13th January 2010

There were once plans to link it to the sea, but the attractive town of Bedale remains a bustling backwater with some of the region’s most bizarre buildings. Echo Memories sucks in some of its strange history

Staiths were a hive of activity

INDUSTRIAL SCENE: Hackworth’s staiths at Port Darlington. On the right is the steam locomotive. Above it is the covered wooden corridor leading to the bulbous staith head which swung the wagon – and the coal teemer – over the water and down to the d

2:25pm Wednesday 6th January 2010

Echo Memories look back to the days of busy coal staiths ... and a dodgy suspension bridge.

More History»



Local NewsYourNorth-East


• You can also read local news from our community correspondents here




Blogs




Local Advertisers

Local Information

Enter your postcode, town or place name

House prices »   Schools »   Crime »   Hospitals »