The furnaceman and undertaker who conspired to steal lids from the coffins of the dead at Darlington Crematorium 2
The 'disgusting' hard labour treadmills at Northallerton Prison and how officers got the nickname 'screws' 6
Readers’ memories: mystery picture identified and a question about a tunnel under the river at Yarm 1
Derailed tomato train rescue at Newton Aycliffe disturbed when a US fighter jet plunged into the field nearby
The Echo's offices and newsagents were all over the place - but where exactly? Can you identify any of these places? 2
How a meeting of railway pioneers held around this table 200 years ago today ensured the S&DR stayed on track 2
The Barnard Castle family who invented the world's first street sweeper to scrape away muddy dungy mess
The sad end of the 18th century toll bar between Darlington and Great Smeaton where William Wordsworth once stopped 8
Nostalgia The story of an 'air-mad' lad who travelled for over an hour by bicycle to see the aircraft at Middleton St George 5
Pictures: The chaps of RAF Middleton St George and some corking moustaches in the final years for the military airfield
Nostalgia The watchmaker, the farmer's wife and the dirty clock that suspiciously regularly needed repairs
Nostalgia Darlington plane crash: "There was the body of the pilot - his legs had been cut off but were still in the boots" 15
Zaccheus Wright outside his Thirsk shop in 1881 and the newspaper bills that helped us date the picture
Monday marks 75 years since Second World War hero sacrificed his own life to save lives in Darlington
David Kernek: My professional 'highlight' was the no-confidence motion in Labour that gave us Thatcherism 6
150th Anniversary Former editor Peter Sands recalls the moment his reporters came face-to-face with a gunman 1
Allan Prosser: I can finally reveal how The Northern Echo gave The White Fox of Weardale a terrible 'twatting' 6
William Stead saw the job offer to become The Northern Echo's editor as "a glorious opportunity of attacking the devil"
Crazy capers of hot air balloonists in the Tees Valley decades before the story of The Aeronauts film
