by Chris Lloyd | In Your Town, Latest, Spennymoor
A SILENT soldier who longs for home will this year take his place in a community which has searched for their own lost hero for decades. In 2018 the world marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War in 2018 and the County Durham hamlet of Tursdale...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Ferryhill, In Your Town, Latest, Spennymoor
THERE were gasps of amazement and a round of applause as the curtain dropped on a breath-taking display of almost 20,000 knitted poppies on Saturday. More than 100 people gathered in West Cornforth, near Ferryhill, to witness the grand unveiling of 19,240 handmade...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Spennymoor
THE curiosity of three children about the names on a village war memorial set their father off on a voyage of discovery to learn about the history and people of West Cornforth, in County Durham. Now Andy Denholm’s research is the basis of an exhibition commemorating...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Spennymoor
A METAL detecting enthusiast who discovered a forgotten First World War medal buried in a farmer’s field hopes to return it to the soldier’s family. Stuart Mcadams unearthed the circular bronze Victory Medal just below the surface in pasture near Croxdale, County...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Spennymoor
THE story of a nurse who was awarded the Military Medal after she was badly wounded in a German bombing raid during the First World War is part of a new exhibition. Kate Maxey, of Spennymoor, County Durham, served in hospitals and clearing stations just behind the...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Spennymoor
READERS have been piecing together what happened to the pieces of the stone soldier who once stood atop the war memorial in Tursdale, County Durham. As Memories told last week, he was unveiled on March 25, 1922, in tribute to the 41 men from Tursdale Colliery who had...
by Chris Lloyd | Bishop Auckland, Catterick, In Your Town, Latest, Spennymoor
THIS is a story of two stone soldiers who once stood proudly in the centres of their communities, keeping alive the memory of the real soldiers who had perished on the battlefield. Laurence Binyon’s famous poem, For the Fallen, says: “They shall grow not old, as we...
