by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Durham, In Your Town, Latest
ONE hundred years ago, the telegram boys in the North-East were beginning one of their busiest periods of the First World War, delivering dreadful news to the families of young men out fighting in Flanders fields. The slaughter that was the Battle of Passchendaele...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Stockton
A RARE First World War wireless station is among five historically significant places listed today to mark 70 years of protecting England’s significant buildings. The wireless station in Stockton, built in 1912-13, is now a grade II-listed building to mark the system...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Tyne & Wear
THE deaths of seven North-East sailors 100 years ago today in one of the most heinous crimes of the First World War will be marked during a poignant ceremony. The SS Belgian Prince was travelling from Liverpool to Newport News in America when it was torpedoed by a...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Consett, In Your Town, Latest
A WAR memorial dedicated to a soldier tragically killed as he waited to be transferred back to England carrying his comrades’ letters from the front has been given protected status. To mark the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele, the memorial cross at Hamsterley...
by Chris Lloyd | In Your Town, Latest, Richmond
A MUSEUM which was instrumental in the quest to name an unknown First World War soldier, has put on display some of the objects which finally helped identify him. Items found with the remains of Private Henry Parker, including a belt buckle, buttons, shoulder badges...
