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This is the Milburngate bridge reaching across the Wear. The picture is undated, but the bridge was completed in 1967. This was obviously once a popular fishing spot

10 great pictures of Durham City as it used to be
MEMORIES 582 and 583 delved into the history of the Post Office Savings Bank in Durham, which has just been erased from the face of the riverside, and asked if it were the ugliest building to ever have graced the fair city. To illustrate the article, we delved into The Northern Echo photo-archive, where packets of old-fashioned photographic prints are filed alphabetically.

A fabulous picture from The Northern Echo archive of the LNER docks at Middlesbrough, taken in May 1936.

PREMIUM A voyage of exploration along the Tees in 10 fab old pictures

The spire of the United Reformed Church can be seen in the distance

PREMIUM The long lost homes and chapels of Darlington - do you know any of these?

Scarborough had five miles of electric trams operating between 1904 and 1931. This postcard was sent on September 3, 1924, by Gladys on the seafront to her friend, Miss M Hauxwell at Blackwell Hall in Darlington - presumably she was a domestic servant.

PREMIUM Wish you were here? Postcards from holidays in Whitby and Scarborough from 90 years ago

The east Durham beauty queens line up, with Miss Wheatley Hill at the front

PREMIUM When every girl in County Durham wanted to be crowned Miss Crimdon

Joseph Swan and a lightbulb

PREMIUM Switched on by Rishi's lightbulb moment

Mary Kezia Roberts

PREMIUM The woman who survived the Titanic and then went down on a ship off Whitby

Sally Fleetham, the Miss Wheatley Hill, is crowned Miss Crimdon 1960

PREMIUM "So proud of our beautiful Miss Crimdon 1960"

Another still from Robert Andresen's beautiful video on YouTube showing the last resting place of the Cretejoist

PREMIUM An amazing 100-year-old Tees Valley concrete barge found in a fjord

Horses pass the finishing post at Redcar Racecourse in 1962

PREMIUM And they're off: the story of 150 years of racing at Redcar

The three cooling towers of Darlington on January 28, 1979. John Hill took the picture by standing where the Wilko's multi-storey car park is now with the Magnet bowl on the right

PREMIUM Five amazing pictures from the day Darlington's skyline changed forever

PREMIUM The County Durham secret agent who was stripped naked and executed at 23

Of the castle at Barnard Castle, Garland says:

PREMIUM Join the first tourists on a trot around the beauty spots and murder scenes of Teesdale

Serial killer Mary Ann Cotton.

PREMIUM When Britain's greatest mass murder was arrested in her County Durham home

The giant sequoia in the gardens of No 45, Blackwell

PREMIUM Why this weekend is your last chance to see Darlington's tallest tree up close

The Regal, an ABC in Northgate, Darlington, opened in 1938 on the site of a theatre

PREMIUM The Darlington cinema that showcased world film premieres before its sad decline

The Ketton Ox in Yarm. Picture: Google StreetView

PREMIUM This is one of the oldest pubs in the North East - and it could be the most haunted

JE Hodgkin painting a railway engine at King's Cross station in May 1927. This was a publicity photo for an exhibition he was holding in Liverpool. Picture courtesy of the Darlington Centre for Local Studies

PREMIUM 100 years of Darlington Society of Arts: the surprising stories of its founders

The Manor House, East Appleton, now on the market for £1.45m and once the home of poet Richard Brathwaite. Picture courtesy of Savills

PREMIUM Take a look at the beautiful country home of "rollicking" poet that's up for sale for £1.45m

Claes Oldenburg and his wife Coosje van Bruggen at the unveiling of their sculpture, Bottle of Notes, in Middlesbrough on September 24, 1993

PREMIUM Has the Tees Valley come to love this controversial sculpture whose internationally renowned creator died this week?

Mary Ann Cotton

PREMIUM Arrested exactly 150 years ago: Mary Ann Cotton

From the late 1840s until the Second World War, the New Inn was called the Railway Inn. Yarm bridge was a favoured crossing point for drovers from the Highlands of Scotland as they headed onto the North York Moors and the Hambleton Drove Road. It is said

PREMIUM Welcome to Paradise – the Hole of Paradise, a place where railway history was made

This is Newton Hall, after which a huge housing estate on the edge of Durham is named. It was a stately residence, dating to the 18th Century, if not earlier, and was built for the Liddells of Ravensworth. Later it became home to the Russells of

PREMIUM 7 more amazing country houses that County Durham has lost over the years

The wreck of MV Creteblock at Whitby. Picture: Peter Giroux

PREMIUM A concrete ship? That's madness - but there are TWO still to be found on our shoreline

Nearly all the streets on Woodhouse Close were named after 1950s councillors

PREMIUM Memories of schooldays, mines and miniature railways in Bishop Auckland

Avril Webster holding a picture of her grandmother Lillie Galloway while standing in front of Lillie on the mural at the Arthur Wharton Foundation in Widdowfield Street

PREMIUM The Darlington Quaker Ladies: on the ball and now on the wall

Stephen Brenkley

PREMIUM Confessions of a long distance cricket writer

Princess Anne and the giant shorthorns

PREMIUM The Princess and the ridiculously large mountains of beef

Odeon and the Titanic

PREMIUM Inside Odeon Darlington back when Titanic had just been released in cinemas

1. 1. Looking north at the New Inn crossroads near Witton Park towards the River Wear. This is the trackbed of the first section of the railway, reaching towards the collieries on the south bank of the river which provided coal for the railway to carry.

PREMIUM Hey babe, take a walk on the railside (to Shildon)

Pictures to go with a story about the two contrasting cinemas in Darlington. The Odeon cinema on Northgate in the town. Picture: CHRIS BOOTH.

PREMIUM 'I ran as fast I can': Claims Darlington's former Odeon cinema is actually haunted

The Zetland Hunt outside the Croft Spa Hotel in January 1909, just over the river from the Maxwells' disputed Croft House

PREMIUM How the Empire's richest man intervened in a bitter will dispute that revolved around a lost Durham country house

Jeremy Corbyn attends the 134th Miners' Gala takes place in Durham City. Picture: CHRIS BOOTH.

PREMIUM 15 historic pictures from the Durham Miners Gala when every Labour leader had to attend

Torvill and Dean plus Pudsey Bear on the Whitley Bay ice in 1997

PREMIUM Icy Smith - the man who took Durham to the rink

East Street, Darlington

Darlington couple met in the 60s at bowling alley now being demolished

A fabulous picture of Blackwell Hill, a mansion built to the south of Darlington with fabulous views over the River Tees. It was built in 1873 by local architect John Ross for Eliza Barclay, who was a member of the town's Quaker Backhouse family.

PREMIUM 10 mansions that once stood proud in County Durham - and now they're gone

Yorkshire Pudding with gravy - but what about syprup?

PREMIUM Wowee! Did the Durham miners have syrup on their Yorkshire Pudding?

Durham Big Meeting by Tom McGuinness, painted in 1968. It is one of the star exhibits in the colourful new exhibition of gala works of art in the Mining Art Gallery in Bishop Auckland. Picture: Gemini Collection

PREMIUM Big Meeting big debate: "Gay-la" or "Gar-la" - our conclusion may surprise you

Lillie Galloway with the ball with her new signing Lydia Clements on the left. On the right is Doris Brown and Florrie Harbron is in the centre. In 1937

PREMIUM When the Darlington Quaker Ladies were the best team in the north

Milburngate House in the late 1960s

PREMIUM This building was termed as 'Durham's ugliest building' - what do you think?

The Years of Victory by John Bird. Picture: Durham Miners’ Association. Photography by The House of Hues

PREMIUM The Big Meet's big question: is it "gar-la" or "gay-la"?

ANIMAL MAGIC: Bring your pet to school: Barrington School, in about 1960

PREMIUM The days of school and mining – the wonderful workings at Woodhouse

Winter's Gibbet, by Jen Hopps

PREMIUM Macabre picture of the gruesome Winter's Gibbet

Chris Lloyd and his banner in Bishop Auckland Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT

PREMIUM What's the story of the new banners in Bishop Auckland?

The Cricketers, bottom right, in 1950

PREMIUM Landmark Darlington pub set to come back to life - here's when

PREMIUM The link between North Yorkshire town's newest pub and its only Victoria Cross winner

Admiral's House, which is dated by some sources as 1762, with the duckpond on Norton green at the top left

PREMIUM Look inside this incredible North East home which is on the market for almost £3m

Corporation Road, Middlesbrough, from Paul Menzies' new book

PREMIUM 10 amazing coloured pictures of the North East from back in the day

15 old pictures from historic Darlington cinema which is set to close this month

15 old pictures from historic Darlington cinema which is set to close this month

The Cleveland Bay in Eaglescliffe - the world's first purpose-built railway pub. This picture was taken in 2013 before creeper covered the front of the pub

PREMIUM The world's first railway pub is in the North East - but where?

A miniature watercolour painting of trainer John Scott, which was bought by the Bowes Museum in 2007

PREMIUM After 160 years, the "wizard of the North" loses his racehorse record to Aidan O'Brien

KB-700, the Ruhr Express, was the first of 430 Lancaster Mk X bombers built in Canada and so it was intended to take it back as a monument. Picture courtesy of Geoff Hill

PREMIUM The historic wreckage that lies beneath the runways of this Darlington village

Six killed at Teesside airshow - in 1949 when a bomber crashed in flames on the airfield

PREMIUM Six killed at Teesside Airshow in 1949 when bomber crashed in flames on the airfield

Alan White at the drumkit on his mother's favourite picture of him

PREMIUM The County Durham Northern Echo paperboy who played the drums for John Lennon