by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Crook, In Your Town, Latest
A photograph of soldiers lined up at Westgate during the First World War has turned up, much to the delight of village hall officials. They will be able to put it on show when their large war memorial clock is put back in place to mark next year’s centenary of the...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Sedgefield
A PARISH council is on a mission to restore a village cenotaph in time for the 100th anniversary of the First World War. Although, the war memorial at St Michael’s Church in Bishop Middleham, near Sedgefield, in County Durham, looks in good shape from a distance, in...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Latest, Northallerton
STUDENTS from North Yorkshire will be amongst a party of pupils travelling to Belgium to collect soil from the battlefields of Flanders. Pupils from Northallerton College will joining other students from across the UK in taking part in a special Last Post Ceremony...
by Chris Lloyd | Bedale, Centenary, Latest
A PROJECT to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War is to be launched in North Yorkshire later this month. The Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty will be hosting a drop-in launch event in Masham town hall on November 16 from 10am to noon....
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Latest
Lonely soldiers looking for love during the First World War proposed to women they had never met after being sent letters to the trenches, records show. Young women were encouraged to write to servicemen fighting on the front line to kindle relationships – and...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Latest
A NEW exhibition will reveal how amateur football players from a North-East pit village were transformed from sporting legends to war heroes. From Football Field to Battlefield, at Cornforth Library in West Cornforth, County Durham, charts the fate of the village’s...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary
DALE villagers chose wisely when they put up a large clock in memory of 13 local men who gave their lives in the First World War. The double-faced timepiece they bought for £130 has shown the correct time consistently for the past 93 years. It has become a valuable...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Darlington
A RESEARCHER is offering people the chance to find out more about their ancestors who died in the First World War. Researcher Stephen Nicholson has studied the lives of Darlington men who died in the war, including their life before the war and the circumstances of...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary
OFFICIALS at a North-East museum have unveiled plans to complete a roll of honour listing everyone from Teesdale who served in the Great War – a century after it was first begun. The four-year £100,000 project is being undertaken by experts from The Bowes...
by Chris Lloyd | Bedale, Centenary
ROYAL Engineers based in North Yorkshire scaled one of England’s highest mountains to ensure a memorial to heroes of the First World War was restored to its proper place. The team from RAF Leeming, near Bedale, climbed almost 3,000 feet up Great Gable in the Lake...
