Echo Memories

MEMORIES 392 discussed how the Spennymoor skyline was dominated by slagheaps from the steelworks for many decades after the works shut in 1901. This is well illustrated by this 1935 painting by Bert Dees entitled Slag Lane. The slagheap is just behind the

The ghost that haunted pitmen when the Spennymoor skyline was dominated by slagheaps

Dr Sidney Tinsley - a Spennymoor doctor in the inter-war years

Theory why a Spennymoor church includes a flamboyant 17th Century Spanish altar

Poor unfortunate poisoner Mary Nicholson who was hanged twice after the first rope snapped

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Drinks factory Wood & Watson bottled beer and a coca-cola-like drink called Wotcheor!

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Darlington's Artificial Limb Shop made replacement bits for railwaymen who lost limbs in accidents

The great coathanger challenge - do you have one with a local name on it like this one?

Don't forget to remember Darlington's "Gallant Airman" on Sunday

Is this the end for The Stanwick Arms at Aldbrough St John?

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You'll have heard of Bearpark, but do you know where it got its name from?

The cattle dealer bludgeoned to death in 1826 after being seen counting his takings at Leyburn market

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The jeweller in Darlington's Imperial Quarter that sold 'solid silver English levers'

How did a gleaming 17th Century marble altar get from Spain to Spennymoor?

Christmas House is a Christmas mystery - can anyone shed any light?

Christmas 1918 - women vote for first time on day "devoid of excitement"

Christmas Quiz: Can you identify these Darlington buildings?

Old adverts give glimpse of what Christmas was like 50 years ago

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120-year-old magazines 'Northern Echo Christmas Budget' unearthed

The Sedgefield soldier who learned of his brother's death in a letter from home

A judge, his wife, his mistress, their seven children and Sedgefield's Manor House

Whorlton Lido and its wobbly bridge where Churchill once stood and waved his famous "V" sign

Pictures: Whorlton Lido and its miniature railway

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Whorlton Lido haunted by spirit of a murderer priest who 'pierced a man's heart so that he died'

White Gates Cottage and Prebends Cottage - Durham landmarks built at a time when paying a toll was seen as a good and charitable thing

Old photos of the 'Imperial Quarter' in Darlington dating back to 1894

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Miniature railway locomotion boiler was pressure tested on the kitchen table... while the wife was out

10 fascinating facts about Richmond & Swaledale, including the last words of Mad King George

Reader sheds light on history of Bishop Auckland mini-railways and the man who built them

Old photos of Bishop Auckland and villages of the valleys dating back to early 1900s

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Battle for the bridge over the River Tees

Now a bingo hall, the foundation stone for Bishop Auckland's Hippodrome was laid by Sir Anthony Eden's father

Can you tell us where this gatehouse is?

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Own a piece of Stockton & Darlington Railway history - yours for £155,000

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The North-East lion tamer who trained Lenin's cats but returned home not impressed by the Bolsheviks

'No two finer fellows' - Spennymoor brothers spotted in photo of Durham Pals relaxing at the Somme

Does anyone remember the mini-railways at Bishop Auckland and Whorlton Lido?

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'Hello mum, I'm back' - The Darlington soldier who came back from the 'dead'

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Wreck of the Creosol torpedoed by U-boat has lain off North-East coast for 100 years

Once the First World War was over an even deadlier battle began - against the Spanish flu

The bittersweet celebrations that broke out on November 11, 1918, as news of the armistice crackled across the airwaves

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Watch: The story of the "Fighting Bradfords"

"I found a body with these letters on it" - how a Bishop Auckland mum learned her 18-year-old son had been killed in battle

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A look back 100 years at the Echo's first post-war opinion piece

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The Echo's editorial the day after armistice was declared

An aeronautical fatality - tragic death of a Spennymoor lad in 1918

The Darlington soldiers who died on November 11, 1918, as the nation celebrated the end of the war

The day a German bayonet narrowly missed the foot of Sunderland's greatest league goalscorer

Adverts from The Northern Echo of 100 years ago

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What the Echo's 'Hear All Sides' letter writers were saying in November 1918

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The remarkable stories of Durham's Victoria Cross heroes who have been honoured with memorial paving stones

Diary of Pte Thomas Jackson - a man broken by war

First World War soldiers honed their shooting skills in a field outside Darlington

'Yours to a cinder' - the First World War love story of Connie and Angus

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