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2 days ago | 
thescottishfarmer.co.uk | Chris Lloyd
Derek Wallace with Amanda Owen and her daughter, Clemmie, reading the diary at Anty John's “IS this what I think it is?” asked Amanda Owen, the Yorkshire Shepherdess, on television on Tuesday as Mike Wood of the Richmondshire Museum handed her a small insignificant-looking book covered in old marbled paper. “I can’t believe I have got my hands on it. It’s going to be unbelievably fascinating, a window to another time.
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3 days ago | 
thenorthernecho.co.uk | Chris Lloyd
A turn of the 20th Century picture when market stalls filled the area between the town hall and the Shambles. F Collitt & Co in the town hall was a long established hardware, pottery and stationery business. Today, there is concern that our town OUR view of the past comes from black and white photographs when the people lived black and white lives in black and white streets.
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4 days ago | 
thenorthernecho.co.uk | Chris Lloyd
“I can’t believe I have got my hands on it. It’s going to be unbelievably fascinating, a window to another time.
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4 days ago | 
thenorthernecho.co.uk | Chris Lloyd
Helen Morris and her MG RV8 at Beamish Museum TOMORROW is the 21st Hurworth Classic Car and Motor Cycle Show run by the Teesside Yesterday Year Motor Club at Hurworth Grange.
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4 days ago | 
thenorthernecho.co.uk | Chris Lloyd
A Rare piece of the Titanic is to be auctioned in the region later this month. It is a steel divot that was rescued from the Harland & Wolff scrap pile after the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, and turned into a souvenir trinket by a shipyard worker. A divot is the rounded piece that was pressed out of a plate of steel to make a hole into which the rivet was then pounded to join two plates together.
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5 days ago | 
thenorthernecho.co.uk | Chris Lloyd
The Blitz Restaurant is in the former administrative headquarters of the ordnance factory n the brick wall just above the condiments table, black spray paint says: “4.5 shells”. Today there is ketchup and mayonnaise, milk and sugar, and pepper and salt on the table, but 80 years ago, the Aycliffe Angels must have stored 4.5 inch shells, or their parts, against the wall before the shells were despatched overseas to be fired by field guns at the enemy.
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5 days ago | 
thenorthernecho.co.uk | Chris Lloyd
A thin paper napkin that was a feature of a place setting during the 1925 celebrations of the railway centenary A REMARKABLY femmer piece of railway ephemera is one of the thousands of items on offer at today’s Darlington Book Fair. The thin, fragile object is a souvenir napkin that would have been the focal point of a table setting during the 1925 centenary celebrations of the Stockton & Darlington Railway.
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5 days ago | 
darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk | Chris Lloyd
The Wings For Victory pamphlets are going to be on sale at a book fair this weekend (Image: NEWSQUEST) During the Second World War, every town and village was subject to friendly challenges that were deadly serious... to raise more money than their neighbours and 'to put the win into wings for victory'. Two evocative pamphlets are going to be among the thousands of items for sale at the Darlington Book Fair on Saturday.
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6 days ago | 
thenorthernecho.co.uk | Chris Lloyd
Before that, his long and varied career had seen him working, largely in teaching posts, in Nigeria, Carlisle and Tasmania and, before that, he’d grown up in north London where, with his father away in the services, he has vivid memories of VE Day ON VE Day, I was a 12 year-old living in north London and my overwhelming memory is of an explosion of lights and noise. For the past five years Britain had been covered by a pall of darkness.
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1 week ago | 
thenorthernecho.co.uk | Chris Lloyd
21 1/1 THE war was over. Victory was proclaimed. Bells, free from muffles, rang from every church steeple. Tables, chairs and pianos were tossed out into the street for impromptu parties, and town centres filled up with joyous youth making ‘whoopee’ – to use an Americanism which had come over here during the war. And, as night drew in, everyone gasped as public buildings which had been blacked out in darkness for five-and-a-half years were suddenly floodlit once again.
