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Mike Wood's marvellous 1868 picture of Richmond Market Place

Firm foundations in market place

The D&S Times report of 100 years ago said the battlefield around Yarm was already

'Man can give no more, but I am sure it is not in vain'

WRITE OFF: Locomotive DP2 which was pulling a passenger express on the East Coast Main Line which it collided with a stranded cement wagon near Thirsk on July 31, 1967. Pictures courtesy of the JW Armstrong Trust

How the express dissolved in mid air – the Thirsk rail disaster 50 years on

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The distinctive former printer's shop on the corner of Finkle Street and Market Place in Richmond

Soldier was the real McCoy

Ripon Workhouse is now a museum, but 100 years ago its 30 inhabitants had a jolly summer outing to Fountains Abbey

Looking Back on a show stand collapse and at how the French lack personal hygiene

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The scene of dereliction at Broken Brea in January 1970

The day Virginia Woolfe travelled north for eclipse

The quirkily curious Pen Shop, designed by Clark and Moscrop, at the top of Finkle Street in Richmond in May 1975

Pen Shop - quirky, characterful or downright ugly?

NEO-JACOBEAN: Sockburn Hall, near Neasham, on the outskirts of Darlington, was built by the Blackett family of Newcastle in 1834

Sockburn Hall - built by the Blackett family in 1834

Redcar's Zetland lifeboat was still in service 150 years ago, although a replacement, the Burton-on-Trent, had arrived

Looking back: Not plain sailing for Redcar's newest lifeboat

The AA's line of totality sign still hangs on a wall in the centre of Richmond from 1927

A shadow cast on a historic day 90 years ago

FROM THE ARCHIVE: We stumbled across this picture taken in May 1975 looking down Richmond's Finkle Street. Until the late 18th Century, Finkle Street – presumably named after the slight twist in it – had a gate across it

Looking Back: Tongues wag over married woman's elopement from Darlington

Handover of the first engine, Mirvale, acquired by the NYMR Preservation Society Mirvale to Tom Salmon on behalf of the NYMR by its former owner, Ray Dixon

Riding on the footplate of 50 years of history on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway

A replica of the plane which crashed at Lovesome Hill, a BE2a, is now in the Montrose Air Station Centre, a museum in Squadron 2's original airbase on the east coast of Scotland

The Lovesome Hill Air Disaster: Part 2

Reeth looking north-east in the 1950s with Greensyde on the far right of the picture

Readers help identify mystery location

A pre-1771 map of Richmond Market Place, showing the market cross, surrounded by stone dogs, on a plinth where the obelisk is today

A 12,000-gallon hole in the middle of Richmond

A fabulous view of Saltburn in 1902, from a Hurworth family album, showing the pier and bathing machines

Visitors tempted to take a dip

Times really were changing 50 years ago: in the D&S of April 28, 1967, Ripon was about to get its first glance of colour television – in a shop window showing Wimbledon

Nostalgia: £5 reward for 'stupid hoax at Thornaby'

NEW FLEET: The first three coaches Reg Hunter bought after he acquired Scott's Greys in 1952: SHN 301, SHN 300 and RHN 548

Old photos of Scott's Greys buses in Darlington - do you remember them?

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Albert Hart was in the clear, according to this notice in the Darlington & Stockton Times of April 14, 1917

Nostalgia: Uncovering the life of one of 150 men in the Darlington & Stockton Times 100 years ago

Great Smeaton in November 1936. The church is believed to be the only one in the country dedicated to St Eloy

Nostalgia: Monstrous regiment goes to war

Hornby Castle in its full splendour, before the east wing was demolished in 1931

Humble start for famous trainer

An Edwardian postcard of Galgate, Barnard Castle, showing the Methodist chapel where George Brown, the son of the founder of the D&S Times, preached in 1886. George died 100 years ago today, and there is a memorial to him in the chapel. His story of tryin

Can you shed any light on any of the names on this 1917 list of people accused of 'dodging the draft'?

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The elaborate frontage of the Spa Baths, Ripon, on an Edwardian postcard

Fire engine maker 'busy with war'

The car on the left is a mystery no more – it belonged to Jean Gill's father

I do know for certain, that was my father's car

Ripon Market Place on April 1, 1964 – our motoring editor says the car at the front is a Rover P4 and so too easy for our identifiers. But is that a tin of Cadbury's Marvel powdered milk underneath it?

Fortune teller is fined 20 shillings

Probably an Austin A60 (or A55) Cambridge parked outside Barkers of Northallerton around the mid-1960s

Definitive family saloon – but rather boring?

Richmond Market Place from the castle in August 1974, with the 1771 obelisk that was erected over a 12,000 gallon reservoir. The cricket club only has a small wooden pavilion, and the houses of Prior and Bolton avenues are just being built on the hillside

Quenching a growing thirst

A lorry in Egglescliffe in 1963 – and can you see the elderly woman painting her fence by the lamp-post?

It's probably a Fordson, but might not be a coal lorry

Mr L Gownsberry and the new-fangled tanker thingy collecting milk from a farm at Tunstall 50 years ago without the use of churns

No churns in age of ‘TVette’

Barkers of Northallerton in the mid 1960s – email chris.lloyd@nne.co.uk if you can tell us what the car on the left is, and next week we'll return to our Egglescliffe coal wagon

Cash system at Barkers of Northallerton was just hot air

The vine is behind – and looking quite healthy – this Sunter load which is so large it is on the wrong side of the road on June 5, 1963. Many thanks to everyone who has been in touch about the Egglescliffe coal waggon

Grimm's tale of mighty vine

A brilliant early 20th Century picture of footballers on Hurworth Green. The Wesleyan Methodist chapel still stands at the western entrance to the village and today shares its building with a cafe

Birth tragedy servant charged

Brusselton Incline

Invitation to walk back to the dawn of the railways

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Egglescliffe is a pretty village on the Durham bank of the River Tees, opposite Yarm, and this picture was taken in 1966 when it had won a tidy village competition. Let's see how good are vehicle identifiers really are: what is the m

Looking Back: the rise of Canada geese and the fall of a lieutenant-colonel

A cyclist getting attention at Rutson Hospital in Northallerton in 1931, when the famous vine was 100ft wide

Age is creeping up on famous vine

What sort of vehicle is that in the snow in Leyburn in 1981? Readers are unanimous in their response

No slipping up on 'snowmobile' challenge

Legendary Yorkshire and England batsman, Brian Close, filmed having a nets session at Acklam Park, Middlesbrough, in 1964

Night of cricketing nostalgia

If we don't stop buses, children will end up with wheels for legs

We all know the identity of the car in Richmond Miss Ness was ticketing in January 1970

Beaming a light on our mystery car

This classic snow scene was taken in Darlington by photographer Douglas Jefferson of his sledging family just before the Second World War

Swaledale flockmasters feel the brunt of the blizzard and the Bedale lord who chewed the fat

This great picture of a LNER class J77 loco seen on the turntable at Middlesbrough shed in April 1939 is one of a collection of previously unpublished photographs in a new book, Steam in the North East – Northumberland, Durham & Yorkshire by Brian J Dic

Bedale market, a sumptuous ball and the golden age of steam

New Year brings new solutions to Richmond's parking problems 37 years ago

New Year brings new solution to Richmond's parking problems 37 years ago

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Masham Market Place in 1974 – in 1967, the council leader offered a cigar to members of the press as a new year's gift

Showman fixed his challenge

Sunday, August 15, pictured inside West Auckland shed, is ex-NER Class E (LNER Class J71) 0-6-0 tank number 241. Designed by Wilson Worsdell's older brother, Thomas, and introduced during 1886, this example was constructed at Darlington Works in 1890

Pictures: Never-before seen photos from the golden age of steam

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Richmond after a slight snowfall in February 1969. At the end of 1966, the D&S was expecting a one-way circuit – a

Problem of too many council houses and too few tenants was solved as people flooded in from all over the country

Bedale Market Place in 1907

Pinsharp peep at a lost world

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Hawes, December 1953. The entrance into Dyers Garth is where the road narrows. If anyone cares to identify the van, please email chris.lloyd@nne.co.uk

Is Bedale in Wensleydale?

A panorama mover Reeth, taken in October 1984, with the famous green in the centre of the picture and Alfred Waterhouse's school above the village

Whisky gift lands man in bother

CENTRAL HALL: The cars off Houndgate in Darlington in 1962

Car-spotters of the world don't unite

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Butcher's shop celebrating a centenary of sausage making

Looking back: drunken murder and shooting birds

Our two-tone car turning off the newly-opened A167 into Dalton-on-Tees in November 1972 is a mystery no more

Two-tone mystery has Swede ending

FROM THE ARCHIVE: At a guess, this shouldn't have happened. A tank lies in the beck at Crakehall, near Bedale, in May 1979

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