THE 190th anniversary of an anonymous railway hero saving scores of lives by averting an accident is being commemorated today by an exhibition in Howden-le-Wear.
In 1988, All Creatures Great and Small returned to our television screens after a break of eight years with 22 episodes being screened in less than 12 months.
THE Cuckoo Line was the name given to a stretch of railway that was built in the late 1870s from Bowesfield Junction, alongside the A66 in Stockton, and north to Thorpe Thewles and Wingate to the Wellfield Junction where it linked up with other railways to go to Hartlepool or Castle Eden – the Castle Eden Walkway now follows its trackbed.
MEMORIES 676 featured a masked mystery: why did little Jennie Jackson, aged about four, appear on a family photograph in 1904 wearing a black-out eye-mask?
FOUR paintings by south Durham mining artist Tom McGuinness are to go under the hammer in North Yorkshire next month.
DARLINGTON Book Fair is celebrating its 40th anniversary next Saturday with its annual sale of antiquarian and secondhand books in the town’s sixth form college.
NEXT weekend, a 1926 Morris Cowley Bullnose Sports car will take to the roads around Darlington for the first time since the 1930s when it attends the Hurworth Grange Classic Car and Motor Cycle Show, which is the largest show of its kind in the district.
