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Memories with Chris Lloyd

The lusty love life of Henry Cocks, the Squire of Middleton St George SQUIRE COCKS was a legend in his own lifetime, and perhaps in his own bedroom. Six fabulous items tell of life, and lice, on the Roman frontier in the North East SHOEMAKERS, boltshooters, sex slaves and head lice all feature in a new exhibition in London about what life was really like here in the North East in Roman times. Hidden message found in painting takes us back to the days of service in Darlington JOYCE and Tony Oates bought the attractive print above in the 1980s from an antiques stall in the Mechanics Institute in Skinnergate, Darlington. What lies behind the mysterious mask in this family picture? ONE of the wonders of the age in which we live is that connections can be made around the globe in seconds. Scorping, burking and cowhouse-building: the dubious tactics politicians once used IN the days when scorping and burking were well known political tactics, cowhouses were once used to milk votes in Northallerton. Reliving the days of All Creatures Great and Small ALL Creatures Great and Small was a huge TV hit in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with several of its 90 episodes reaching 20m viewers. Remembering the floating nightclubs that moored in this North East town TRANSPORTER is the name of a new zine which has just been published by North East writer and photographer Marie Gardiner. How a mark on Google Maps lead us to this buried roadside fountain MEMORIES was speaking this week to the Stockton Probus Club, which meets at the West End Bowls Club in Hartburn. On checking our directions, Google Maps kept drawing our attention to a “historical landmark” on the sharp bend beside the bowls club which it claimed was a “Stockton & Darlington Railway boundary stone”. Eight sided survivor that is everyone's "favorite" celebrates its 260th birthday THE trouble with a conventional, rectangular church or chapel is that you end up with plenty of dark, 90 degree angles in which the devil can skulk and conceal himself. All change at the Cocks: old station is being brought back to life NEXT Saturday is the first opportunity to see a new railway-themed mural which is to be painted this week – weather permitting – beside a former station on a historic line. Read more

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