by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Tyne & Wear
Fulwell Acoustic Mirror’s historic value went unrecognised for many years and its deterioration led to its inclusion on the Historic England – previously known as English Heritage – ‘Heritage at Risk’ register. This triggered a partnership between Sunderland City...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Thirsk
A VILLAGE is set to mark the centenary of a group of soldiers being killed following a shell blast in their trench during a notorious First World War battle. Helperby, near Thirsk, North Yorkshire, will stage the commemoration on Saturday, May 2, at 6pm, exactly 100...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Darlington, In Your Town, Latest
A STUNNING red waterfall of knitted poppies is on display at a North-East museum following the completion of a mammoth commemorative project. Darlington’s Head of Steam Railway Museum spearheaded the drive to knit 2,236 poppies to represent each of the North Eastern...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Hartlepool, In Your Town, Latest
THE Headland at Hartlepool is an exposed place, jutting defiantly into the biting wind blowing off the North Sea. There are long views through white-capped waves down south to Saltburn and up north to Seaham, but today the binoculars chained to the viewing area in the...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Hartlepool, In Your Town, Latest, Scarborough
CHRIS LLOYD tells of the events 100 years ago that literally rocked the nation – the bombardment of the East Coast by German Warships. WHY? PRIMARILY, the Germans wanted to draw sections of the British fleet into the open sea where they hoped to destroy them,...
by Chris Lloyd | Barnard Castle, Centenary, In Your Town, Latest
BARNARD Castle School pupils marked the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War by choosing Journey’s End for this year’s senior play. The play, set in the trenches, showed the hardships of those who fought, and in many cases died, for future generations and...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Darlington, In Your Town, Latest
WITH medals glinting in the sun, veterans and those set to follow in their footsteps marched proudly to Darlington’s cenotaph this morning. Hundreds gathered in the autumn sun to watch a parade wind its way from the Holy Trinity Church to the cenotaph at Darlington...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Latest
ADVERTISEMENTS tell us as much about what life was like 100 years ago as any news story, so here we bring you a selection of the adverts that appeared in The Northern Echo this week in 1914. Obviously, the war was uppermost in people’s minds, but they were still...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, In Your Town, Latest, Richmond
ONE of the region’s leading military museums, which was created from the triumphs and tragedies of the First World War, has timed its reopening to coincide with Remembrance during the centenary of the conflict. The Green Howards Museum, in Richmond, North Yorkshire,...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Latest
TO commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, The Northern Echo has turned its front page from August 5, 1914, into a limited edition mug and tea towel. The page reports the previous day’s devastating news that Germany had invaded Belgium and so...
by Chris Lloyd | Centenary, Darlington, In Your Town, Latest
THE wartime experiences of communities across the Tees Valley are being commemorated with a moving performance. Outdoor, night-time spectacle Homecoming tells the story of the Tees Valley home front during the First World War. The performance – commissioned by a...
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...
