THE spring special edition of Memories told stories of public parks and village greens (Mems 672), including the tale of how Hurworth village green may be the site of a plague pit, with anywhere up to 1,500 victims of a 17th Century pandemic buried beneath its gentle undulations.
ALL too often, it is only when people are gone that those left behind begin to piece together their live stories.
WHEN David Brooks arrived in Richmond as the new town clerk during the Second World War, he discovered that the council was using one of the oldest theatres in the country as a salvage store.
“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.
