From this newspaper 100 years ago. - The past year has been one of discussion as to the great expansion of Darlington industrially.

For months past building operations in regard to the extension of the North-East Railway Company's North Road shops have been witnessed and with equal interest the public have watched the progress of the erection of works for Messrs R Stephenson & Co on the Springfield Estate. When these works are fully completed there will be a practical transference of R Stephenson & Co's great engineering works from Newcastle. The 54-acre site adjoins the site of the old Darlington Steel Works midway between Harrowgate Hill and Haughton-le-Skerne.

From this newspaper 50 years ago. - We have heard a lot about problem children, but what about problem parents? Surely these are only problem children grown up and they seem to me to add to the world's difficulties. The mother puts her child in its pram and puts it out in weather in which we older women would not care to turn a dog and allow it to cry and get chilled. What tender sympathy can a mother like that expect in her old age from a child brought up in that way.

From this newspaper 25 years ago. - A major row started yesterday at Mount Pleasant, Guisborough when workmen from the Northumbria Water Authority arrived with a JCB digger and other vehicles and announced to the residents they were about to dig up part of the back street and build a road over land at the rear of the houses to give them access to the sewerage works.