ST Paul's Church, in North Road, Darlington, the Reverend Robert Anderson Jardine's church which burnt down in 1973 and has been the focus of a long-running Echo Memories series, came under attack by the Germans during the Second World War.

Alan Lee, son of the Reverend Peter Lee, who took over the parish after Mr Jardine had controversially married ex-King Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson in 1937, has been in touch from Worcestershire.

He lived in the North Road vicarage for five-and-a-half years.

"The memento which I have kept from those times is the tail fin of a German incendiary bomb which fell into the front garden very close to the house itself," he says.

"I remember my father going out with local ARP wardens to fill the hole it caused with sand. A few feet further and the vicarage could have gone up in flames three decades before the church!"

Was this a different night to the one when a German fighter plane used machine-gun fire on the Northgate police station and the Hopetown cut bridge?

Which of the incendiary attacks was this part of? The one which ignited John Street gas works? The one which blew the roof off High Linhams at Blackwell? Or the one that blew a crater in Nunnery Lane?

Perhaps readers would care to send in any information or memories.

ANOTHER letter which requires wartime verification comes from David Mackenzie, in Darlington.

He says: "As a small boy waiting for a trolley bus, I occasionally placed a coin into a box firmly fixed to the gates of St Paul's Church and labelled Million Pennies Fund. How far did the fund progress before closure of the church?

He also asks if it was Alderman TE Crookes who said farewell to the Duke and Duchess of York after an official visit to Darlington with the words: "Come again, and bring the bairns with you next time."

WHILE we are on the subject of unrelated questions, can anyone provide information on the Slipper Baths at Gladstone Street pool.

What were they for? Who used them? How much did they cost? And why were they called 'slipper'?

MANY thanks to everyone who has contacted Echo Memories with information about Faverdale Hall. More next week.

PLEASE write to Echo Memories, The Northern Echo, Priestgate, Darlington DL1 1NF