Nostalgia

1959 FA Amateur Cup final, Crook Town versus Barnet

1959 FA Amateur Cup final - clash between experience of Crook Town and youthful exuberance of Barnet

'I was there that day in 1959 when Crook Town lifted the FA Amateur Cup'

How Heighington - a most perfect village from the 12th Century - got its name

Call to share memories of A1 Scotch Corner hotel

"A lovely lad and a good footballer" - Cyril Gowland who played for a number of Northern League clubs

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The grim death toll at a Second World War aerodrome near Darlington

Voice of Dad's Army - one half of Flanagan and Allen - spent his honeymoon in Consett

A shadowy figure in the Irish community was beaten to death on Albert Hill - was it by his own men or the police?

Legend of the secret tunnel that links abbey to manor gardens

Scandal in Skeeby - the day baby Isabella was dumped outside the manor

When a 4,000lb blockbuster bomb exploded at Croft airfield

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The North-East's short dabble with concrete boats that amazingly floated

Plans to develop tree-lined Mowden Hall is good reason to examine its beginnings

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When in 1937 Sunderland won the FA Cup for the first time ending 53 years of hurt

Darlington's Covered Market could soon feature a "winter garden" - but it wouldn't be the first in the area

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Empire Cinema in Evenwood opened in 1913 was a not as grand as its name suggested

Spitfire pilot Baron Gabriel H Calcagni de Tande was sales manager at Darlington garage

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"I remember the horsedrawn dray, the large 36 gallon wooden barrels of Vaux Best" - memories of North-East institution

Crook Town AFC's success proved turning point in dad's battle to get well

Gruesome photos of 1960s car accidents reminds reader of newspaper cutting

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Walter Willson - the great grocery name of the coalfield

90 years of Northallerton Young Farmers' Club where boys paid 6d more for tickets than girls because they ate more

150th anniversary of towering Darlington landmark - and this weekend you can take a look inside

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Those were the drays - memories of Vaux brewery 20 years after its closure

150 years ago today, “Gentleman John” walked past his own freshly-dug grave to hang for Albert Hill murder

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Darlington murderer was 'observed suspiciously near' first policeman killed on duty in Manchester

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Icon or eyesore? A look back at 50 years of Apollo Pavilion

How if not for a communist we may have never needed Brexit

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Rubicon - the lost tobacco of the Durham coalfield

Hat-brush brings back memories of Darlington hatter Masterman’s of Stone Bridge

The cinemas that stood in every community in the Durham coalfield

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The sister and brother who traded opposite each other on bustling Newgate Street

Darlington's beautiful Crocus Walk was planted in 1980 and is a magnificent memorial to Maude

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20 years since the last dregs were drained out of Vaux brewery

Darlington shooting: "Gentleman John" is sentenced to hang for the murder of Philip Trainer

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Pictures: Sidecar motor racing action from the 60s and 70s

Thorpe Thewles - 'the village of immoral people'

The Ferryhill doctor who became Napoleon's favourite medic

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Putting Earl of Grantham's Downton Abbey escape on the map

Attempted murder in Darlington as fears of bloody "Fenian troubles" had spread to town

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Old photos of Darlington garages bring memories flooding back for the town's petrol heads

At last - giving the Victorian woman of the Durham coalfield a voice

Adverts give snapshot of life in Bishop Auckland in 1911

Tom's memories of Durham cinemas and his date with Edith in the flea-ridden Royal

Pub crawl was all in a day' work for West Auckland Brewery's drunken draymen

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Notorious German burglar caught in 1869 "carrying a bundle and smoking a very nice meerschaum pipe"

The Bishop Auckland bridge named after a beerseller-cum-barber

Sporting Memories: Bishop Auckland take on Barnet in 1959 without their famous half back line

When Commander Straker's car landed in a garage in the middle of Darlington in 1971

How 'Jinny Tab' set a world record in her Evenwood front room

Pictures: Old photos of Darlington garages and a UFO car at Skippers

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Murder in the immigrant Irish community at the Albert Hill ironworks

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The day Cash Clothing Company came down with a crash on a busy market day in Bishop Auckland

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