Mike Amos

Farewell: the end of the Northern Echo era for Mike Amos

Wythenshawe v Consett

After 55 years in journalism, 34 years of Backtrack, Mike Amos’s final column

Wind Mill Methodist Church

Winds of change as Mike Amos bids farewell

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Mike Amos The new book on Geoffrey Smith and a bit of history on John Burton's football career

Darlington pictured in February 1952. Back (left to right): Bob Eaves, George Wardle, Roy Brown, Bill Dunn, DenisHowe and Jack Connors. Front: Baden Powell, Harry Yates, Jimmy Scarborough, Ken Murray and Gordon Galley

Mike Amos The story of Jimmy Scarbrough and his football career

Mike Amos Revisiting Murton to see how far their football team has come

Skerne performing in Germany – the German people love them

Mike Amos catches up with a folk band celebrating 50 years

The strange phenomenon of a glaring pitch and other mid-game oddities

David, Ken and Steven Chaytor at Gateshead

Mike Amos The once youngest hat-trick scorer in Football League history watches his beloved Oldham Athletic

Helen Coulthard and Julie Shuttleworth

Mike Amos Broomfield runners mark their fifth birthday

Lower Breck v Shildon

Mike Amos A two man excursion on the Railroad to Wembley to see Shildon beaten by Lower Breck

Keith Schellenberg (front right) as part of the British bobsleigh team in 1964

Paying tribute to one of Yorkshire’s greatest all-round sportsmen

Backtrack - Arthur Potter, left, and Malcolm Pratt who were awarded trophies for services to Philadelphia Cricket Club near Houghton-le-Spring.

Diamond geezer

Geoff Scott, left and John Harvey cheer on England at Darlington Rugby Club: Picture Paul Norris

Matinee performance

The dilapidated shell of Helme Park Hall Hotel

In memory of a former hotelier, and celebrating all things Halloween

Darlington RA and the Prince's Trust volunteers

Mike Amos Help from The Prince's Trust to paint perimeter of Darlington Railway Athletic club

Mike Amos The replica Darlington nameplate and the "suggestions of skullduggery" surrounding it

The Shildon Heritage Alliance committee

Celebration of the world's oldest railway institute, plus plenty of beer

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Greensowrd and Romaines next to one another on the left of the back row, next to the scorer.

Greenswordsmanship

Longridge v Crook (in blue strip), FA Vase. October 2019.

Mike Amos Annual excursion orgy finally gets under way to see Crook beaten in first round of FA Vase

Albert Roxborough, Fr. Philip Murray and Elizabeth Stout at St Peter’s in Yarm Road, Stockton

MIKE AMOS From bombs to blitzkrieg: wartime memories recalled in new book

Three style: Tommy Taylor, John Heighington and Terry Schofield at Shildon Boxing Club

Second’s out: Long-serving Shildon boxing coach stands down

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Dave Thomas on the pitch at Goodison Park before the Everton v Man City game.

Former England winger returns to his roots signing his new autobiography at Waterstones in Darlington

Blue plaque finally unveiled for Spennymoor's aviation pioneer

Blue plaque finally unveiled for Spennymoor's aviation pioneer

Healy delighted

Jim Elliott: Death of a Wolves cub

Pat and Amy Kilfeather at the much-loved Brit in 1984

Mike Amos marks the 160th anniversary of a favourite Darlington public house

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Levels’ best

Dave Thomas with his pony Burco

Guiding light: Dave Thomas’s uplifting autobiography is compelling reading

A man of integrity: John Biggs with his keyboard tie and braces

Community buy-out on the agenda for parish church

Brian Johnson at Darlington CC

One door opens….

Mike Amos: Splendid weekend for Willington Cricket Club and its great stalwart

Galloping back to Shildon: the steam-driven horses carousel

Mike Amos meets the man behind the revival of Shildon Carnival

Walton Family William Walton with the beard

The Crook lad who joined the 1860s gold rush to Australia

Mike Amos visits the closest football ground to the sea in Europe

Exploring the Old Shildon vein

The Sir Matt Busby statue and banner outside Old Trafford in memory of the Munich air crash

Mike Amos: New play chronicles links between Manchester United and Bishop Auckland after the Munich air disaster

Ineos Golf Club

Mike Amos: Perhaps a billions-to-one shot, I catch up with the nine-hole wonders

The substitute front page image of the swollen Arkle beck

Mike Amos travels to a village flooded with community spirit

Long-serving former West Auckland FC secretary Allen Bayles has died, aged 71

Little House on the Stanley prairie

Mike Floate’s football photographs have filled more than 20 books

Pitch perfect in the Feversham League - despite travails of Northern Rail

Rain stops play at Raby

Visiting cricketing Aussies suffer another washout - but in County Durham this time

Green-fingered Norman Deacon at the church flower festival

Plenty to celebrate on a Saturday afternoon in Tow Law

Dave Thomas and his guide dog Hannah

Guiding lights

Sharon Gayter targets breaking men's records following latest epic challenge

World beater

club secretary Dave Perriss and captain Tony Davis

High Plains drift

From Skerne Park to Aston Villa to Cummins: The Darlington footballer back in love with the game

Funding to save the bridge at Witton Park may have been identified

Funding to save the bridge at Witton Park may have been identified

Johnny Barnes and Calvin Stephenson

Barnes storming

Darlington Quoits Club

Means and ends

Backtrack - Wicketkeeper Dave Morrison shows his twisted fingers .

Fingers outing

Scarborough Cricket Festival

Tangle o’ the Isles