Nostalgia

Vikki Watson and daughter Brooke in their living room with furniture piled high in Port Clarence

Looking back at when a devastating flood forced North East village to evacuate

ECHO MEMORIES Own a piece of Darlington newspaper history as historic letter goes under hammer

Woolworths in Darlington

Where were you when Woolworths announced its closure fifteen years ago?

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Darlington Post Office workers outside the Albert Hill Club in Darlington. Picture courtesy of the Darlington Centre for Local Studies

ECHO MEMORIES Charabanc picture sheds light on a curious corner of Darlington

St Cuthbert's Church clock, Darlington.

Last attempt to save historic Darlington church as roof damage becomes critical

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Church at Ingleby Arncliffe. Picture: STUART BOULTON..

ECHO MEMORIES Why we've given up looking for Løve in North Yorkshire - but we found a nodding stick

From left, environmental conservation students Paul Robinson, Mick Iley and Bethan Hutchinson carrying out conservation work at Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park near Billingham. Picture: STUART BOULTON

LOOKING BACK: The snow storm which saw residents without power for days

J Davison & Sons painter's shop on the corner of Quebec Street and East Street, opposite Darlington library, in a postcard picture taken before 1900

ECHO MEMORIES Library corner with a link to Darlington's most mysterious murder

Gregory Manuel Georges, left, and Edward Everett Hale, with the latter's gravestone in Thornaby Cemetery.

REVEALED: How two American airmen ended up being buried in a Teesside cemetery

Joan Young spent 40 years as a nurse in Darlington, Stockton and Barnard Castle

ECHO MEMORIES Joan Young writes third book about her Memorial nursing memories

Cheery Durham miners

ECHO MEMORIES Working on hollowed ground: 30 years since the closure of Durham's last deep mine

A fabulous picture of Auckland House, in Bishop Auckland Market Place, with a horsedrawn LNER delivery arriving. Picture courtesy of John Askwith

ECHO MEMORIES How the county was clothed and clogged by Doggarts, the Harrods of Bishop Auckland

From left, John Bailey and Christine Henderson of the Battlefields Trust and Kathryn Lowe-Oliver of the Durham Dales Centre with the new information board in Stanhope

County Durham town's crucial role in a forgotten medieval battle revealed

The five doctors who appeared in The Five Doctors, the 20th anniversary show in 1983 with Richard Hurndall on the left with Peter Davidson (seated on robot dog K-9), a waxwork model of Tom Baker, John Pertwee, and Patrick Troughton

ECHO MEMORIES Meet the Doctor Who who came from Darlo, and when Tom Baker stalked High Row

A fabulous 1930s picture looking into Yarm

ECHO MEMORIES Great viaduct engineer killed in railway accident just weeks after his line opened

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Seven medieval skeletal remains found at the former Hexham Scope charity shop.

Exclusive Medieval remains found by builders at former café and charity shop

The viaduct at Durham being built, with the cathedral in the top right hand corner. Picture: Ken Hoole Collection at Darlington's Hopetown museum

ECHO MEMORIES The story of the viaduct that gives one of the greatest railway views in the country

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The wreckage at Bank Top station, Darlington, after the passenger excursion train ploughed through the goods train at about 11pm on June 27, 1928

ECHO MEMORIES 25 dead in the great Darlington railway disaster

The Belah Viaduct was 1,040ft long, 196ft high, and

ECHO MEMORIES A lost journey on amazing viaducts on England's highest railway

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The derailment on October 24, 1905, between Gainford and Winston. No one was seriously hurt

ECHO MEMORIES Dicing with death on the lost railway line from Darlington to Barnard Castle

91-year-old Ena Gowland with Andreas Maas and his partner Lilian Zust at Harperley POW camp. 24.11.2023

'Happiest day of my life': 91yr old finally meets with grandson of German PoW

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Carnage in the Hopetown paintshop in 1908. Picture courtesy of the Darlington Centre for Local Studies

ECHO MEMORIES Death by runaway train in the Hopetown paintshop

The 1833 Merchandise Station is going to become the welcome building to the Hopetown site

ECHO MEMORIES The historic glories that make up Darlington's new Hopetown heritage quarter

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Herald the Horse and an unnamed snipe have an involuntary reaction to the dramatic changes unfolding before their eyes as Little Loco pulls the first train on the Stockton & Darlington Railway

ECHO MEMORIES Meet the Little Loco bringing railway history alive for children

Ian Wright's picture of the Beatles performing at the Globe on November 22, 1963, which the Echo used for its end-of-year teenage magazine

ECHO MEMORIES Remembering the night Beatlemania and JFK's assassination rocked the Globe

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Darlington at Feethams in late 1973

ECHO MEMORIES Did the Quakers alter their 3pm kick-off by 15 minutes so fans could get a last beer?

Runswick Bay seen from the air in April 1977

ECHO MEMORIES Well sick about Runnie: a tour of a Yorkshire coastal village in old pictures

Reader Doug Porthouse remembers blackberry picking during his childhood

Letters Happy memories of life on a farm in the 1940s

Eric Copeland, 86, finally got his chance to get a Nuclear Test Medal after a member of staff at his care home applied for it on his behalf

Seventy-year wait for UK Nuclear Test Programme medal ends for RAF veteran

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Beth Lappin, education assistant at Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, with a Mickey Mouse toy

LOOKING BACK: Pupils treated to a history lesson to remember

Steve Graham, from Darlington,on the summit of Everest in 2018

LOOKING BACK: The Darlington man who conquered summits for charity

Flags flying at County Hall, Durham. Picture courtesy of the North East Film Archive

ECHO MEMORIES Flagging up the curious secrets of Durham's County Hall

How Eston Nab Bronze Age settlement may have looked in 700BC in a painting by Andrew Hutchinson

ECHO MEMORIES How the first Teessiders really were on the top of the world

Craster Kippers

Historic home of Craster kippers protected with listed status

You can't help but laugh at some of these, whilst also feeling abit sorry for the nickname-ee

The funniest nicknames of all time - Keth, Shetland Tony, Soup and many more

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The 1940s Norwegian newspaper article about Capt Gunerius Olsen making a

ECHO MEMORIES Can you help us look for Løve in North Yorkshire?

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From left, John Bailey and his partner Christine Henderson with Kathryn Lowe-Oliver of the Durham Dales Centre with the new information board

Local historian overcame illness & near death to shed light on forgotten battle

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Motoring racing legend Stirling Moss inspects the Morris Oxford at the Classic Car Show with its owners, Edwin, left, and Cliff Jowsey

LOOKING BACK: First oil change for well-loved historic motor

Doggarts' Auckland House headquarters in Bishop Auckland Market Place in the 1950s with loads of buses bringing customers to its doors

ECHO MEMORIES When every Doggarts store had its day as the place to bare your backside

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The Tynemouth Watchtower in North Tyneside was built towards the end of World War One and established as a command tower for The Tyne Turrets

Grade II listed North East landmark from World War One hits the market for £500k

ECHO MEMORIES How a gift of oils by a wealthy benefactor inspired the young artist Norman Cornish

ECHO MEMORIES The days when the Quakers and the Rokermen were in the sporting pink

A wide-eyed camera view of the new Durham County Hall at Aykley Heads at the end of September 1965, before the council staff moved in

ECHO MEMORIES What are the pipes and brickwork on Durham County Hall all about?

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Work by William Rees at the Sedbury Hall stables. Picture: Sarah Caldecott

ECHO MEMORIES How the stables of the king's stud are becoming an artistic hub

Keeks McGarry singing with Total Chaos

Exhibition to capture the spirit of the North East punk scene

ECHO MEMORIES Does the name and logo \"Hopetown\" put Darlington on the right track?

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Sockburn church. Picture: Historic England

ECHO MEMORIES No longer at risk: the magical corner of the world that is Sockburn

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The Brusselton Incline of the Stockton & Darlington Railway. Picure: Elaine Vizor

ECHO MEMORIES Four sections of historic railway's trackbed listed as "at risk" by Historic England

Amelia Lily performs on stage at Newton Aycliffe Town Centre

looking back Kind-hearted paper boy who took care of elderly neighbours

Darlington paused together with the rest of the region to remember our war fallen on Sunday.

Remembrance Day 2023: Darlington pauses to remember war fallen - in pictures

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Sgt John Wood with the new headstone dedicated to his brother, Frank

ECHO MEMORIES How two brothers went to war and only one came back...

Work by William Rees at the Sedbury Hall stables. Picture: Sarah Caldecott

Meet the 90-year-old Darlington artist having his first solo exhibition for decades

Durham Light Infantry veteran George Iceton, attends the launch of the oral history collection Listen to the Soldier at County Hall in Durham with Steve Shannon Manager of the DLI Museum, right

LOOKING BACK Memories of the Second World War digitalised at last

The memorial to Joseph Hopper, inset, in Windy Nook, Gateshead

OBJECT OF THE WEEK How did the commitment of a visionary Durham miner change so many lives?