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History

Into the first tank battle armed only with a walking stick

Captain Thomas Sowerby Rowlandson, of Newton Morrell, who was killed in the first tank battle on the Somme when he was armed only with a walking stick

Into the first tank battle armed only with a walking stick

Howard Thomas' A40 (centre) waiting for him after his first job interview in York. Another A40 appears to be on the right, but if you know what the car is on the left of 509 MEH, drop an email to chris.lloyd@nne.co.uk

Fishing for an answer to Bedale's weathervane query

ABSTRUBUS' HOME: A 1937 aerial view of Swinton Park, near Masham, built by the oddly-named Sir Abstrubus Danby

Step back in time (or, a load of old cobblers)

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Hutton Rudby in the snow, where George Butterfield finished victorious in his race with a greyhound. This picture was taken in February 1964 when the bridge over the River Leven was just single track – it was widened about five years l

The Olympian who took on a greyhound – and won

Looking Back: Tyas mining prospects, Masham war hero and carpet jobs boost

Thirsk Market Place on August 4, 1965 – although it appears more of a lorry park than a market place

Mr Fawcett's fish and Mrs Goundry's fancy butter

FAMILIAR NAME: Percy Jeeves, the Hawes cricketer who died 100 years ago on the Somme

The Hawes cricketer whose name lives on in literature

BROMPTON HOGBACK: The muzzled bears greet visitors to the Open Treasure exhibition at Durham Cathedral, which opened last weekend. Picture: CHRIS BOOTH

The new home of the Brompton stones

Opening of the Lambert Memorial Hospital, Thirsk, from the Darlington & STockton Times of September 20, 1890

Remembering the last of the Lamberts

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Flying Scotsman, hauling the Scunthorpe Forum Flyer, at Bishop Auckland on June 27, 1967

From the Archive: Scotsman steams back in

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Traffic on Croft bridge on August 3,1964, when the autodrome opened, attracting 30,000 people for the first day's racing, causing

Awash with sewage, a First World War hate crime, and flies around a treacle cask

The footballer who won the Victoria Cross

St Thomas's church, Brompton in December 1949 – Pte Whittaker's funeral 100 years ago was so well attended that there wasn't room inside

The terrible toll of the Somme

FROM THE ARCHIVE: A snowy East Witton on March 1, 1963 – 50 years ago, its water supply was struck by a thunderbolt

From the Archive: East Witton in the snow

From the archive: Reeth sale and thistlemowing

Looking Back: Bring back the stocks to North Yorkshire, and an extraordinary case of fortune telling in Durham

Looking Back: Richmond castle and Poverina

Looking Back: Battle of Jutland and the Tees boundary dispute

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Our quest for Thornton-related pictures led us to Thornton le Moor, near Thornton le Beans, where St Barnabas Church was built on the site of an ancient edifice in 1868. However, it was built with an outer stone wall and an inner brick w

Collapsing churches and villages named after beans

Richmond castle in the 1950s, where the first 16 conscientious objectors were held 100 years ago

Cowling Hall - Grade I listed building on a quiet hilltop

"A corner of the grill bar at the Revellers, with its pleasant stone and wood walls and modern furnishings," said the advert in the D&S Times in May 1966. It looks hideously Sixties today

Looking Back: A "standing disgrace to British manhood", and pubs named after old racehorses

INAUGURAL DAY: The Yarm viaduct, depicted from the Durham side of the river to commemorate the opening day on May 15, 1852

From the archive: Yarm viaduct

Tackling Chimney Bank, Rosedale, in motorbikes and sidecars

Looking Back: rabies epidemic, wartime bravery and the postman who kept on walking

Wath in September 1966 – this picture was taken to mark the village's success in the Best Kept Village competition, despite the earlier fears of local councillors

Bedsteads, rinderpest and death by sewage

BEFORE: The tollbooth in Richmond in March 1947

Tollbooth for Richmond's market officials

Looking Back: Bank-building, run over by a train, and could more cycling have prevented Rhodesia from leaving the British Commonwealth?

Looking Back: accidents and improvements

The North Yorkshire vicar who became one of the first Wimbledon champions

The CTC Quarters plaque on the Half Moon at Lazenby

Pedalling after the CTC plaques

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Easby Abbey in February 1962 – its owner, Leonard Jaques, died 100 years ago

Looking Back: Amdram bust-up and abbey owner's death

The Great North Road through Barton in 1955

The Great North Road through Barton village in 1955

Identify that car: is it a Vauxhall Victor opening the Catterick bypass on Good Friday 1960?

From the Archive: A Victor or a rustbucket?

Until the A1 was built, the Great North Road ran through the village of Barton in North Yorkshire. Here, in May 1955, there is a cafe where the village shop is today. Above an archway to the left of the cafe is an unusual face which still adorns the wall.

Looking Back: Motels, Madame Castaglioni and a voice from beyond the grave

A clipping from the Darlington & Stockton Times

Public enquiry held into 24-hour motel plans at quarry

Askrigg, and the Cyclists' Touring Club

Looking Back: Libel, starving due to snow, and shooting dogs

The first sign is erected on the Catterick by-pass – using an early version of the Transport typeface which was designed for motorway signage in the late 1950s – on September 4, 1961

Roadside phones, the beauty of bowls and a lady and her two lovers

A brilliantly bucolic picture of Kiplin Hall taken on October 16, 1970, when Miss Bridget Talbot still lived there

'Three parties are deplorable'

An NER Pacific loco heading north takes on water at Wiske Moor from the track troughs in the 1920s. Picture by JW Armstrong and courtesy of the Armstrong Railway Photographic Trust

Looking Back: When Northallerton was going to be a "regional city"

THEN: Edward Kettlewell first went into business with a Mr Sedgewick in 1905 before branching out on his own

Scruton, sewerage, and the shooting of wood pigeons

This is the north end of Northallerton High Street in December 1980. Is it too recent to try to tempt you into car identification? What is the white car heading north out of town on the far right? Email: chris.lloyd@nne.co.uk

Egg collecting for the war effort and the first drink drivers

This undated picture was found in The Northern Echo archives

Uncovering the history of the Shildon railway sidings photo

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Danby Wiske, near Northallerton, on December 5, 1936, taken from Mounstall Lane looking north into the heart of the village (53581996)

Looking Back: the importance of feather pillows in war, and the price of fish

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