Mike Amos
The Culines - eight generations of travelling showmen
2:45pm Wednesday 5th December 2018
JOHN CULINE recalls his childhood. Born in a caravan, left school at the age of 11, taught by his sisters to read and write, sent to Hull – and back? – to help their Yvonne on the bingo stall.
Mike Amos: Remembering Tom Guy and the great cow rescue - the most memorable story from 54 years in journalism
1:10pm Thursday 29th November 2018
ON a wet and woebegone winter day in Swaledale, we gathered last Tuesday to say goodbye to Tom Guy, the man at the centre of the most memorable story in my 54 years in journalism.
Loving spoonsful
12:20pm Tuesday 23rd October 2018
In a small back room they remember an entertainer with a huge personality
Costa plenty?
5:00am Wednesday 17th October 2018
BACK on August 25, bullish summer time, the Echo reported an internet-inspired survey that, of the 60 UK resorts with the best beaches, Whitby cost most for a family day out. It was even dearer than St Ives, goodness knows, and in Sr Ives the seagulls half-inch your ice cream.
Prison sell
5:00am Thursday 11th October 2018
The performance poet who writes alternatively about terrible times behind bars
Mike Amos: Bakelite fantastic
10:46am Tuesday 2nd October 2018
Even when 300 miles from home, the column finds that there’s always a dull moment.
Mike Amos: Sunderland bar Life of Riley an "oasis among amid all this dross"
10:35am Wednesday 26th September 2018
THE Campaign for Real Ale has around 5,000 members in the North-East. Around 4,985 had other things on when the 2019 Good Beer Guide had a teatime launch at Fitzgerald’s, in Sunderland.
Duty and the Beast
10:51am Tuesday 11th September 2018
Somewhat unexpectedly, the column finds itself in the middle of a Labour Party gathering
Ferrari rasher
8:00am Tuesday 4th September 2018
The world’s most expensive car has a very improbable number plate
Mike Amos: Summer Wine’s brilliant, though not everyone’s tipple
12:13pm Tuesday 21st August 2018
On the Fringe if not quite beyond it, the column has a confession to make.
Mike Amos: Gentlemen’s relish
5:00am Saturday 18th August 2018
Thick skinned or otherwise, we have been learning more about the hot property that’s claimed to be football’s most egregious shirt.
Mike Amos: Wild things
10:33am Wednesday 15th August 2018
DURHAM Wildlife Trust’s Low Barns nature reserve at Witton-le-Wear may offer rare and curious delights, none stranger than that on a summer Sunday no one from the trust seemed to be about.
The sun has had its hat on; the column heads out bare-headed
9:59am Wednesday 1st August 2018
VERY likely it’s the case, as Mr Noel Coward supposed, that only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun. They and itinerant columnists, anyway.
Market town folk looking skywards and wondering what's happening to the swifts
8:22am Wednesday 25th July 2018
MASHAM’S a small market town in North Yorkshire, population 1,205 when last anyone counted, perhaps best known for its breweries, its sheep and last weekend’s steam engine rally.
On its travels again, the column looks like the cat that got the cream
8:42am Wednesday 18th July 2018
THOUGH more than three months must be surmounted before our ruby wedding – and perhaps in anticipation that she might yet dispense with my services before November 1 – we’ve received the first anniversary present.
The King is dead no longer. The column raises a glass to that and to the NHS
8:49am Wednesday 11th July 2018
THE King Willie wasn’t just any old street corner pub, it was our street corner pub, 100 yards from the ancestral home in Shildon.
Mike Amos: Is the No 840 really Britain’s best bus route?
8:16am Wednesday 27th June 2018
A POLL of 15,000 people recently voted the No 840 Britain’s most scenic bus route, a claim intermittently and immodestly reproduced on the double decker destination board when properly it should say “Whitby”.
A pledge to honour an aviation pioneer is about to be fulfilled
9:24am Wednesday 13th June 2018
ALMOST half a century after he plunged to his death, aviation pioneer Ernie Brooks is doubly to be remembered.
Mike Amos: From the great dance hall scandal to a slight encounter with the nobility
9:41am Wednesday 6th June 2018
DR DUNCAN Bythell, that great Swaledale historian and author, has given what he vowed would be his last public lecture – the history of Keld from 1870-1970. As usual, Reeth Museum sold out.
The funeral celebrant so moved that she decided she had to do something
8:55am Wednesday 30th May 2018
ANGELA WALLS was the celebrant – the preferred term, though sometimes it seems pretty paradoxical – at Sam Gordon’s funeral last month.
Award-winning columnist Mike Amos with stories of the characterful people and colourful places that make the North-East.
• Mike also writes about grassroots sport in his weekly column, Backtrack
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