by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Shildon
THE family of a soldier killed in the Battle of the Somme have attended a special football match played in his honour. Next month marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Sidney Wheelhouse, who turned out for his home town team of Bishop Auckland at the age of just...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Shildon
DOZENS of people turned out for Shildon’s Remembrance service yesterday. Parade marshall Kevin Stevens led the annual parade from the Dabble Duck Industrial Estate to the Redworth Road War Memorial at about 10.45am, where a service was held by Reverends Graham and...
by Chris Lloyd | In Your Town, People, Shildon
HERBERT worked as a hammer driver at the North-East Railway Works at Shildon, but joined the Royal Army Medical Corps a month after war broke out. He was sent to Salonika, in Greece, but caught influenza, then enteritis and finally malaria, which caused him to be sent...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Shildon
A WRITER is to launch his first book which chronicles the history of the North-East railways during the First World War. Rob Langham will launch his book, The North Eastern Railway in the First World War, at Locomotion: the National Railway Museum at Shildon. The book...
by Chris Lloyd | In Your Town, Latest, Shildon
SILK postcards were the preferred method of sending special seasonal greetings home from the Western Front during the First World War. The embroidered designs were mass produced in factories in Paris and sent to French or Belgian women who lived just behind the front...
