http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/memories/ The Northern Echo /history/memories/ en-gb Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:34:56 +0100 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:34:56 +0100 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/memories/rssterms/ M6 nvincent@newsquest.co.uk (Nigel Vincent) webmaster@digitalmedia.newsquest.co.uk (Tim Joy) http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/resources/images/850268/?type=rsslogo http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/memories/ http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/memories/4464294.Dockside_curio_which_stands_as_a_tribute_to_rail_pioneers/?ref=rss Echo Memories explores the history of one of the outstanding curios of the Tees Valley – Middlesbrough Dock clock Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:12:15 +0100 6b014e99a44e1c63f9b4fab9a43f82f8 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/memories/4464310.School_building_with_a_rich_history__but_does_it_have_a_future_/?ref=rss ‘DO you think Eastbourne School should really be demolished?” asked the very polite voice behind me as I queued for my lunchtime soup. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:19:45 +0100 f948b9951c9ed2c5c5e4633e7297676c http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/memories/4464314.On_the_trail_of_an_eccentric_GP___s_in_laws/?ref=rss WE’RE searching for relatives of Enid Steavenson, whose husband was a wonderfully eccentric doctor in Middleton St George. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:22:15 +0100 14841ffb7d763e8d292c277feb9872b4 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/memories/4443058.Bridge_over_troubled_water/?ref=rss This week, Echo Memories revisits the battle of the blocked-up ford, and reveals how poor old Richard Ranson died in 1710 and 1711. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:35:37 +0100 70f7da91ff661571f94214fb229e39ea http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/memories/4443083.Round_the_world__and_all_the_way_back_again/?ref=rss THE world is full of many wonderful coincidences. Not only after last week’s column are we reunited with Jonathan Moscrop’s emigration diary of 1879, but we have also made the acquaintance of an Aussie with a direct connection. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:39:53 +0100 05aaff23f94359158f644b3e15d0bf06 http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/memories/4429948.Orphan_who_aspired_to_be_an_architect_of_renown/?ref=rss A VICAR in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, has written a book about “an obscure provincial architect”. Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:31:04 +0100 471c3463842bd1c14390c133b3f327ba http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/memories/4429999.Emigration_diary_inspires_exhibitions_a_world_apart/?ref=rss IN 2003, Echo Memories published a series of extracts from a diary written by Jonathan Moscrop as he emigrated from Darlington to Dunedin. Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:43:41 +0100 be29268ca47f40ddfc5e013cff2975ca http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/memories/4417192.Demolition_unveils_a_dying_trade_on_a_hiding_to_nothing/?ref=rss IN centuries gone by, Darlington stank. In those pre-sewer days, when man and beast lived cheek by jowl, the town was not alone in its stinky predicament. But one of its main industries, which washed bits of dead animal with urine and then left them lying in stagnant pits for months on end, added an aroma all of its own. Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:44:22 +0100 f658a8a4b9f583409a7622c4ba5d3d8a http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/memories/4399653.A_hall_and_a_chopped_up_dragon/?ref=rss This week, Memories follows the River Tees into Yorkshire and back again, and thence to Sockburn Hall. Wed, 27 May 2009 12:48:16 +0100 df1917a51b0eac040694ad519b4089cc http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/memories/4365178.Snooker_and_beer_______what_more_could_a_man_ask_for_/?ref=rss DOWN a side street just off the town centre beat. Wed, 13 May 2009 12:43:32 +0100 17586f60011225084149eafabdc46617