by Chris Lloyd | Hartlepool, Hartlepool Bombardments, In Your Town, War Stories
Lawrence Reeve sat down to breakfast with his wife Martha and their four children. It was 8am. Lawrence was second-in-command of the War Signal Station at Castle Hill, Scarborough, and had just finished his night duty. It had probably been uneventful. It was 1914 and...
by Chris Lloyd | Hartlepool, Hartlepool Bombardments, In Your Town, Latest, War Stories
In December 1914, the horror of the First World War was visited on three North-East coastal towns in a naval bombardment which lasted less than an hour but which awoke an enduring British fighting spirit. Chris Lloyd reports. IT was a misty morning. Grey and dank....
by Chris Lloyd | Hartlepool, Hartlepool Bombardments, In Your Town, War Stories
ARTHUR Rodgers was there, 92 years ago, when time stopped. “I do remember this, ” he says. “It was near Christmas. There was a lady running away with a cat under one arm and a Christmas cake under the other. I’ve never forgotten that.”...
