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 | In Your Town, Latest, People, Stockton
THE family of a village’s only soldier killed in action during the First World War have come forward with the last letter he sent home before his death. Relatives of Private Henry Johnson attended a centenary remembrance service and parade for him in the village of...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Stockton
A MAN’s efforts to achieve recognition for a farmer’s son who was killed in the Battle of the Somme during the First World War are to result in a remembrance service on the centenary of his death. Joe Kenny was struck by the fact that Private Henry Johnson was the...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Darlington, In Your Town, Latest, Middlesbrough, Redcar, Stockton
IT was a chance to get away from home at the height of summer, but for the 27 cadets who took part, it was anything but a holiday. TWENTY-SEVEN teenagers from 405 (Darlington), 1869 (Middlesbrough) and 2394 (East Cleveland) squadrons could have had little idea what...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Stockton
A DAY of remembrance has given students on Teesside a glimpse of life during the first world war. Pupils at St Michael’s Academy, Billingham, took part in a host of events exploring the outbreak of the First World War, its impacts on the country and the significance...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Stockton
A CANDLELIGHT remembrance event to commemorate the First World War has been planned for next month. The musical evening designed to lay bare the brutality of war will be presented by a well-known choral group, Cantabile, at St Mary’s Church, Norton Green,...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Stockton
A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD girl who was given a random name of a soldier who died in the First World War as part of a commemoration project was amazed to find it was a direct relative. Keira Wilson could have been given any one of 1,245 names of soldiers and sailors who died...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Stockton
THE grand-daughter of a Victoria Cross winner was the guest of honour at a ceremony paying tribute to all the men of a North-East town who served in the First World War. Sergeant Edward Cooper was armed with only a revolver when he single-handedly stormed a German...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Stockton
HUNDREDS of people have been getting their sunflowers ready for a special commemorative project marking the fallen from the borough of Stockton during the First World War. The 1,245 sunflower project comes to an end this week as the golden flowers are lad at...
by Chris Lloyd | Hartlepool, In Your Town, Latest, Stockton, Thirsk, War Stories
THIRLBY is a little village to the east of Thirsk, which sits in the shadow of the Cleveland Hills as they rise up to the North York Moors. It has an old Scandinavian place name, like so many villages scattered across North Yorkshire and Cleveland. These names follow...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Stockton
CHILDREN of all ages have remembered their town’s First World War dead in a special event. The children planted sunflowers at Stockton’s Castlegate Centre as part of a bigger commemoration called the Sunflower Project. The project remembers the 1,245 soldiers from...
by Chris Lloyd | In Your Town, Latest, People, Stockton
ON AUGUST 4, 1914, the Germans invaded Belgium, dragging Britain into the First World War. Third Engineer Algernon Wilkinson was also approaching Belgium, on board SS Seapool, which was part of “Ropner’s little navy”. With the enemy invaders only 80 miles away, the...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Stockton
A GOVERNMENT minister has show his support for a creative project to commemorate the 1,245 Stockton residents who gave up their lives during the First World War. The sunflower project is encouraging people to plant a seed in memory of one of the soldiers before they...
by Chris Lloyd | Hartlepool, In Your Town, Latest, Stockton, War Stories
THIS splendid picture of a First World War steamer is one of the many curiosities that will be for sale at Darlington Book Fair next weekend. It shows SS Maltby, and it was painted by an unknown crew member – his squiggly signature is illegible in the bottom left hand...
by Chris Lloyd | In Your Town, Latest, Stockton, War Stories
ON the cover of Memories 168, there was a postcard showing First World War soldiers who had had bits of their bodies blown away. They, though, were surprisingly happy, raising their crutches and walking sticks for the camera, and saluting with their false limbs....
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Stockton
THE horrors of the First World War were brought to life when the Thornaby Needs You exhibition went on display. People were able to learn all about war in a day packed full of drama performances, readings and activities. Throughout today (Monday, March 3) the...
by Chris Lloyd | In Your Town, Latest, People, Stockton
At 2am on August 4, 1916, Private William Bailey, right, rose up out of his trench and launched himself over the top. Suddenly, he felt a terrible stinging sensation in his right leg which caused him to topple into the mud of the Somme. A machine gun bullet had...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Stockton
VISITORS to Thornaby Central Library are being invited to remember the Great War Centenary at a special commemorative event next week. The library will host Thornaby Needs You on Monday, March 3, for visitors to learn about World War One in a day packed full of drama...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Darlington, Hartlepool, In Your Town, Latest, Middlesbrough, Redcar, Stockton
ONE hundred years after the start of the First World War, a 400,000 project will remind residents of the Tees Valley of the sacrifice made by their forebears. The programme, funded with money from the Arts Council, runs until March next year throughout Darlington,...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Stockton
THOUSANDS of sunflowers will help paint a North-East town gold this summer in tribute to its soldiers who fell in the First World War. Packets of sunflower seeds will be handed out from April, and the flowers will be cut down in August to signify the lives lost...