The Northern Echo | Teesside & North Yorkshire

Going a mile a year

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:58:03 +0000

Echo Memories takes to the rails with the mystery over the G5 finally solved, and news of an exhibition championing the ordinary worker.

Proud Histories: Celebrating an ancient tradition

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:53:48 +0000

New Year... a festival that began as an act of defiance by North-Easterners after they were told: "You can't celebrate the birth of Jesus at Christmas".

A farmer with his hand on the tiller of change

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:37:23 +0000

Thomas Bates, a man of generous spirit, ploughed knowledge and money into the agricultural revolution that reshaped 19th Century Britain.

Honouring the dead

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:22:09 +0100

A new book reveals the stories of heroism and tragedy that surrounded

The station master

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:32:45 +0100

Following the railway tracks of John Bowes, the illegitimate son of the 10th Earl of Strathmore and whose legacy to the region was The Bowes Museum.

Sharing hidden stories of millions

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:09:47 +0100

Today, we visit Catterick Camp, a semi-permanent war measure so named to avoid confusing the Post Office.

The player with the Common touch

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:05:41 +0100

There was outrage in 1905 when Middlesbrough paid £1,000 for the services of Sunderland player Alfred Common.

Hospitals changed, but the maladies lingered on

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:03:47 +0100

As the Health Service marks its 60th year, Echo Memories looks at hospital provision in the days before the NHS.

Gipsy who became a son of the sea

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:57:26 +0100

Echo Memories looks at the work of the Reverend George Bramwell Evens - better known as The Tramp - whose wanderings took him to Whitby, and of Herbert Leslie Gee, who 'painted' portraits in words.

A fair old time returns to the UK's 'best High Street'

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:19:19 +0100

With Yarm Gala about to make a spectacular comeback, Echo Memories looks at the town and its past celebrations.