ECHO MEMORIES Own a piece of Darlington newspaper history as historic letter goes under hammer
Own a little piece of Darlington newspaper history: the large letter R out of “Northern” which was once on the side of the Echo’s offices.
THE ECHO SAYS... Go on! Feel warm - join our campaign and give a coat this Christmas
SO many of us have forgotten items of clothing shoved to the back of cupboards and drawers, either because they’ve fallen out of favour or because they’ve become out-grown.
LOOKING BACK The well-known Bedale vet killed at the First World War Battle of Cambrai
“It was a magnificent sight to see more than 100 tanks go into action,” wrote Captain James Sherley, “the well known veterinary surgeon of Bedale”, back home to his wife, Jessie, 106 years ago.
ECHO MEMORIES Charabanc picture sheds light on a curious corner of Darlington
BACK in April, Darlington MP Peter Gibson challenged us to explain a curious corner of his constituency that he had noticed one day out canvassing. He’d looked up above the shop on Barton Street, Albert Hill, and noticed two feature stones. One said “Erected AD 1865” while the other was empty, its message clearly having been hacked out.
ECHO MEMORIES Why we've given up looking for Løve in North Yorkshire - but we found a nodding stick
SAD news from Ingleby Arncliffe where, broken-hearted, our search for Løve has come to a forlorn end.
ECHO MEMORIES Library corner with a link to Darlington's most mysterious murder
FOLLOWING the splendid reopening of Darlington library (Memories 643), an anonymous reader has sent in a very interesting Edwardian postcard which shows a very smoky mill chimney belching a grey cloud over the bookish palace and also shows the corner where Wilko’s superstore was until very recently.
ECHO MEMORIES Joan Young writes third book about her Memorial nursing memories
ONE night around midnight, a man presented himself at the casualty department at Darlington Memorial Hospital struggling to breath, in obvious distress, and complaining hoarsely to nurse Joan Young that he’d swallowed his dental plate.
