AN overwhelming response followed last week's Echo Memories on St Paul's Church - so overwhelming, in fact, that we require another week to wade through the letters and e-mails and phone calls.

Many thanks to everyone - indeed, thanks to those who contacted Echo Memories to suggest that there were working men's club in Darlington before the Darlington.

We hope we have solved that conundrum - the conundrum we were trying to solve at St Paul's concerned gravestones.

About 90 per cent of people are certain that there were no headstones in the North Road churchyard - but equally adamant are the four informants who definitely remember stones near the school wall.

More next week, along with more Scott's Greys. Last week we showed an Eastbourne School outing on a Scott's Greys coach and managed to get our sexes in a twist.

The picture showed the boys' school going on their annual moorland walking outing - John Brass, of Rushyford, remembers that it cost 3s 6d per pupil (which included a free apple and orange as you boarded the bus) and that the headteacher, George Welford, paid out of his own pocket for some boys who could not afford the fare.

He also points out that the houses in the boys' school were named after local worthies: Havelock, Stanley, Pease and Vane. It was the girls' school that had houses named after local abbeys (Byland, Easby, Egglestone, Fountains, Rievaulx and Whitby) and so it was the girls who annually toured them with Scott's Greys.

If you have any information - or corrections - on any of the subjects in this week's Echo Memories, please write to Echo Memories, The Northern Echo, Priestgate, Darlington DL1 1NF, or e-mail chris.lloydtsteps