Chris Lloyd

1 week ago | thenorthernecho.co.uk | Chris Lloyd

“The scene was terrible,” Mrs Harper told The Northern Echo 100 years ago this week. “Men and women were lying about, some almost in the water, where they had been thrown when the motor-coach had overturned.

1 week ago | thenorthernecho.co.uk | Chris Lloyd

There was even a Slag Tip Corner in the village, with heaps of blast furnace residue towering 30ft high. The new guide, compiled by Joan Weighell of the Middleton St George Local History Group, was launched last weekend at the start of a week of village events commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway. It shows perfectly how the railway transformed the countryside it ran through.

1 week ago | thenorthernecho.co.uk | Chris Lloyd

Dame Esther Rantzen's daughter Rebecca Wilcox (centre) celebrates with Dignity in Dying campaigners in Westminster, central London, after the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was passed in the House of Commons. Picture date: Friday June 20, BRITAIN’S MPs made a massive decision by voting narrowly in favour of assisted dying, although most of the MPs in The Northern Echo’s patch, except Richmond’s Rishi Sunak, voted against. We understand why.

1 week ago | thenorthernecho.co.uk | Chris Lloyd

Anne Yuill is now starting to set the record straight for Witton-le-Wear, the village where she has lived for 25 years. One of her previous books was Witton Warriors, telling the poignant stories of the men who went to war never to return. Her new book, Jewels in Our Crown, tells the stories of 20 women who have lived in the village down the centuries. By recording them, Anne doesn’t just shine a spotlight on them, she gives a much more rounded picture of what life was like in Witton for everyone.

1 week ago | thenorthernecho.co.uk | Chris Lloyd

Sundial House in Hurworth for sale for £1m (Image: Picture courtesy of Anthony Jones Properties) IT is time to talk about sundials and in particular, the bad-tempered, but globally renowned, mathematician who wrote the book on them. One of his believed dials, which is nearly 300 years old, is one of the central historic features of Sundial House on Hurworth Green, which has just come on the market for offers of more than £1m.