by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Hartlepool, In Your Town, Latest, Scarborough
CHRIS LLOYD tells of the events 100 years ago that literally rocked the nation – the bombardment of the East Coast by German Warships. WHY? PRIMARILY, the Germans wanted to draw sections of the British fleet into the open sea where they hoped to destroy them,...
by Chris Lloyd | Bishop Auckland, In Your Town, Latest, People
BISHOP Auckland had never seen anything like it. The unpolished oak coffin, wrapped in a Union flag, led a procession more than a mile long through the streets to the cemetery. There were so many wreaths and floral tributes that they couldn’t all fit in the funeral...
by Chris Lloyd | Darlington, In Your Town, Latest, People
A Christmas card begins the tale of one of Darlington’s sons, who became the first British soldier to die on the mainland in the First World War. Darlington, December 20, 1904 I hope you spend a HAPPY XMAS. I wish I was coming down to Clacton next summer but I...
by Chris Lloyd | Darlington, In Your Town, Latest, People
ON July 20, 1916, Captain Anthony Eden, the future Prime Minister, wrote from the First World War trenches to John Park, a grocer’s assistant of High Northgate, Darlington. “I have a tragic and at the same time a proud duty to perform in telling you all I can about...
by Chris Lloyd | Barnard Castle, Centenary, In Your Town, Latest
BARNARD Castle School pupils marked the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War by choosing Journey’s End for this year’s senior play. The play, set in the trenches, showed the hardships of those who fought, and in many cases died, for future generations and...
