by Chris Lloyd | Bishop Auckland, Centenary, In Your Town, Latest
PUPILS have shed light on all aspects of the First World War as they mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the conflict. St John’s RC School and Sixth Form College, in Bishop Auckland, has used nearly all subjects on the curriculum to learn about aspects of the...
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, Redcar
TO mark Redcar’s contribution during the First World War, the Friends of Redcar Cemetery have enlightened children and worked on an educational DVD as part of a £10,000 windfall it received from the Heritage Lottery Fund. It is aiming to help local people understand...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Hartlepool, In Your Town, Latest
The voice of a First World War soldier, left for us from beyond the grave, has been found on tape in the home of a writer in the region. Chris Webber heard the old soldier and Communist tell his own story. THE words of old soldier Frank Feeney, unheard for 40 years,...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Peterlee
A SMALL agricultural village of only 489 souls in east Durham paid a heavy price during the First World War, with 17 young men making the ultimate sacrifice. And few families could have suffered more than the Orams, who lost three sons to the conflict. “It was very...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Sedgefield
NEARLY 700 schoolchildren from across the North-East entered poems in The Northern Echo’s first poetry competition, and the unenviable task of selecting a winner fell to four Vane Women. They are members of a Darlington poetry group which started meeting 23 years ago...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Durham, In Your Town, Latest
THE story of how hundreds of County Durham men signed up to fight alongside their friends during the First World War is at the heart of a major exhibition about the conflict. Outbreak 1914!, at the DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery, looks at the role played by the...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Thirsk
Stuart Minting examines how a Christian group highlighted contrasting views of how the First World War affected a North Yorkshire market town. FOR members of Churches Together in Thirsk, marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War was about more than...
by Chris Lloyd | Barnard Castle, Centenary, In Your Town, Latest
A COUPLE have embarked on a poignant pilgrimage to visit the graves of all 25 First World War soldiers listed on a Teesdale war memorial. David and Sandra Pullan have travelled to France and Belgium several times, to pay their respects to fallen soldiers whose names...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Sedgefield
THERE are 29 names on the war memorial at St Michael’s Church in Bishop Middleham, County Durham. Twenty one of these men died in the First World War. In a conflict that claimed the lives of millions of soldiers, 21 may not seem like a great number but for such a...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Durham, In Your Town, Latest
THE centenary of the First World War is being marked in Sherburn Village, near Durham City, by installing additions to its seven-year-old war memorial. Two inscribed granite stones are being placed on either side of the monument, which is next to the community centre....
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Darlington, In Your Town, Latest
The archives of a North-East museum are providing a fascinating insight into the railway workers who gave their lives to help the war effort. Vicki Henderson reports. THE heavy casualties sustained by the North Eastern Railway (NER) during the First World War are to...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Middlesbrough
YOUNG and old turned out to pay tribute to the fallen at a Remembrance Service in Smith’s Dock Park, on Teesside yesterday. The war memorial pays tribute to workers from the former shipyard who lost their lives during the First and Second World Wars. Among the people...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Chester-le-Street, In Your Town, Latest
CHESTER-LE-STREET’S Remembrance service will be more poignant than usual. For years there have rumblings of discontent about the small obelisk opposite the town’s parish church that has been its memorial for more than 20 years. Now the first service will be held...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Darlington, In Your Town, Latest
“DON’T put the men’s ranks on the memorial because they’re all my lads,” were the words of a headteacher in 1923. Mr J Broughton, the head at St John’s School, in Darlington, was speaking before the unveiling of a memorial plaque and roll of honour dedicated to former...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Latest
THE front cover of today’s historic edition of The Northern Echo was produced by acclaimed North-East artist Mackenzie Thorpe. The Middlesbrough-born artist, whose work is in demand all over the world, was asked to work on a poppy design and the front page is the...
by Chris Lloyd | Catterick, Centenary, In Your Town, Latest
AN injured Armed Forces veteran has risen to a challenge set by The Northern Echo to produce a work of art for today’s Remembrance Sunday special edition. Malcolm Macdonald, who suffers from an extreme form of post-traumatic stress disorder, attends art classes as...
by Chris Lloyd | Bishop Auckland, Centenary, In Your Town, Latest
A POEM written in tribute to war horses by a First World War soldier has been passed down through generations of a North-East family. An Appeal for the Horses was penned by Lance Corporal Francis Hedley, of the 7th Yorkshire Regiment, while stationed in France during...
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 | Centenary, Latest, People
Chris Lloyd reports on the men who won the ultimate award for bravery during the First World War: the Victoria Cross. 2nd Lt Donald Bell Green Howards Born: Harrogate, played football for Bishop Auckland and Newcastle United Awarded VC: July 5, 1915, at Contalmaison,...
