by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Peterlee
A SMALL agricultural village of only 489 souls in east Durham paid a heavy price during the First World War, with 17 young men making the ultimate sacrifice. And few families could have suffered more than the Orams, who lost three sons to the conflict. “It was very...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Sedgefield
NEARLY 700 schoolchildren from across the North-East entered poems in The Northern Echo’s first poetry competition, and the unenviable task of selecting a winner fell to four Vane Women. They are members of a Darlington poetry group which started meeting 23 years ago...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Durham, In Your Town, Latest
THE story of how hundreds of County Durham men signed up to fight alongside their friends during the First World War is at the heart of a major exhibition about the conflict. Outbreak 1914!, at the DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery, looks at the role played by the...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Thirsk
Stuart Minting examines how a Christian group highlighted contrasting views of how the First World War affected a North Yorkshire market town. FOR members of Churches Together in Thirsk, marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War was about more than...
by Chris Lloyd | Barnard Castle, Centenary, In Your Town, Latest
A COUPLE have embarked on a poignant pilgrimage to visit the graves of all 25 First World War soldiers listed on a Teesdale war memorial. David and Sandra Pullan have travelled to France and Belgium several times, to pay their respects to fallen soldiers whose names...
