ECHO MEMORIES Ghosts, rescues and wrecks: the gory stories of our lighthouses
“WHETHER at home on sea or on land, we have a special affinity to lighthouses,” says Roger O’Reilly in his new book on the country’s 100 top lighthouses.
“WHETHER at home on sea or on land, we have a special affinity to lighthouses,” says Roger O’Reilly in his new book on the country’s 100 top lighthouses.
WILLIAM JACKSON, the most wanted man in the district, whom it was believed it had taken his own life after murdering his sister near Bedale, was apprehended in West Auckland 150 years ago this week after a nationwide manhunt.
FOR the best part of a millennium, there must have been a bell in Darlington market, but for the last 70 years the wall where it once hung has been empty, with just screwholes high-up in the brickwork outside the market manager’s hatch marking.
OUR first experience of proper Yorkshire hospitality was many years ago, when we’d first moved into the area and an elderly neighbour invited us in for Sunday lunch.
TRAVELLERS entering Northallerton from the north are currently greeted by a rough bit of boggy, scratty land with a collapsing cowhouse on it.
LAST week, we wondered why the restaurant in Bishop Auckland hospital had been given such an un-hospital-like name as “The Chimneys” – as everyone knows, smoking like a chimney is not good for anyone’s health.
HOWAY the Hill! Ferryhill Athletic are back! This evening, the reborn club play in their first senior cup final since they were burned out of their ground by arsonists and forced into dissolution more than 25 years ago.
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