by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Stanley
THE homecoming of a miner who won a Victoria Cross while serving as a Western Front stretcher bearer is set to be re-enacted in a pit town. Private Michael Heaviside had stunned onlookers with his valour, crawling 60 yards across No Man’s Land under heavy fire to...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, People, Stanley
WHAT time are you reading this? At 9.10am this very day 100 years ago, hundreds of Durham men slithered up out of their rain-lashed trenches on the Somme and tried to wade through waist-deep sticky mud to attack a heavily fortified mound. “The officers’ whistles...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Stanley
THE centenary of the Battle of the Somme is being commemorated at a North-East museum with a weekend of activities. Beamish Museum, near Stanley, County Durham, will remember the soldiers and communities affected by the devastating First World War campaign from...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Stanley
A WOMAN who was five when the First World War started has been guest of honour at an event commemorate the outbreak of the conflict. The event, at Castle Court at Annfield Plain, near Stanley, County Durham, was attended by 105-year-old Alice Coulson, who is...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Stanley
A STEAM railway will transport visitors back in time during a weekend of events to commemorate its role during the First World War. Tanfield Railway, near Stanley, County Durham, has teamed up with military re-enactors Durham Pals to bring back the sights, smells and...
