by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Sedgefield
THERE are 29 names on the war memorial at St Michael’s Church in Bishop Middleham, County Durham. Twenty one of these men died in the First World War. In a conflict that claimed the lives of millions of soldiers, 21 may not seem like a great number but for such a...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Durham, In Your Town, Latest
THE centenary of the First World War is being marked in Sherburn Village, near Durham City, by installing additions to its seven-year-old war memorial. Two inscribed granite stones are being placed on either side of the monument, which is next to the community centre....
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Darlington, In Your Town, Latest
The archives of a North-East museum are providing a fascinating insight into the railway workers who gave their lives to help the war effort. Vicki Henderson reports. THE heavy casualties sustained by the North Eastern Railway (NER) during the First World War are to...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Middlesbrough
YOUNG and old turned out to pay tribute to the fallen at a Remembrance Service in Smith’s Dock Park, on Teesside yesterday. The war memorial pays tribute to workers from the former shipyard who lost their lives during the First and Second World Wars. Among the people...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Chester-le-Street, In Your Town, Latest
CHESTER-LE-STREET’S Remembrance service will be more poignant than usual. For years there have rumblings of discontent about the small obelisk opposite the town’s parish church that has been its memorial for more than 20 years. Now the first service will be held...
