The Northern Echo | Echo Memories

The martyr and the Dryburn ace

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:18:27 +0000

Wharton Park, a 19th Century gift to the residents of Durham, has a rich and colourful history marked by saintly execution and wartime sacrifice.

Ghostly goings on at Harperley halt

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:36:50 +0000

A train arrives, a lady alights and climbs into a waiting horse-drawn carriage - what follows is so terrible it will haunt any sensible reader.

Swimming against the tide of conflict

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:08:04 +0000

Teesside's most famous sporting son fought against the odds to compete in the Olympic Games but, in the end, his career was a casualty of war.

Marking 100th anniversary of one of country's finest moments in Olympic swimming pool

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:14:17 +0000

A month ago, we told of the 150th anniversary of the country's second oldest swimming club in Durham. Today, Chris Lloyd marks the 100th anniversary of one of this country's finest moments in the Olympic swimming pool.

It's not where you start

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:44:20 +0000

Dorothy Clement, a seamstress from humble origins in Darlington, was sent to London to make her way in the world... and, famously, found love.

Family tree on lost Tudhoe pit emblem

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:32:15 +0000

Looking forward to the year ahead and many more readers’ recollections - and hopefully one or two more fragments of mining history...

Charles Dickens... the world's first pop idol

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:43:48 +0000

Arguably the greatest writer ever known, Charles Dickens was also feted as a fine stage performer... and North audiences were among his favourite.

Salute aerial heroes

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:10:51 +0000

The story of a Darlington Grammar School First World War air pioneer and victim of the conflict.

Death from the skies

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:54:59 +0000

Two Darlington 19-year-olds took to the air to fight for the country in the Great War. Memories recalls their parallel lives and valiant deaths...

Plenty of shelf life

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:37:02 +0000

At one time, local historians were as ‘rare as happy farmers’ – but now there are lots of them and they're all publishing books in time for Christmas.