A POSTER from 1918 showing some of the Consett men who gave their lives during the First World War is to go on display.

The page, taken from the Consett Guardian newspaper, has pictures of 68 soldiers that died during the conflict.

It is to be framed and put on show in the foyer of the town's Empire Theatre, as part of an exhibition of local history to run alongside Consett Junior Theatre Workshop's production of the musical, Oh What a Lovely War.

The poster was discovered this week in a box of family memorabilia by Audrey Richardson, of Ebchester, who helps to run the theatre group. She said: "We are hoping to get it framed so we can display it with some poppies.

"A lot of the names on here are very familiar and we think most of them will be related to families that still live in Consett today."

The exhibition will also include the story of Mrs Richardson's grandfather, Henry Taylor Clark, who died fighting with the Anzacs in Gallipoli.

She took 30 of the children taking part in the play for a trip to the Durham Light Infantry Museum in Durham last weekend, to give them a better flavour of what life was like for the frontline troops.

The production will be staged at the Empire from Monday to Wednesday, June 16 to 18, at 7.30pm.

Tickets are £3 and are available from Margaret Darroch on (01207) 505619.

The exhibition of Wartime Memories 1914-1918 takes place in the theatre from Saturday, June 14, to Wednesday, June 18.

To include memorabilia in the exhibition contact Michael Curran of Derwentside Family History Society, on (01207) 505566.