North East History | Darlington & Stockton Times

Good times for the iron trade

2:59pm Friday 18th July 2014

Headline news from the Darlington & Stockton Times 150, 100 and 50 years ago

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Invest in land to turn a profit

1:55pm Friday 4th July 2014

Headline news from the D&S Times 150, 100 and 50 years ago

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Firm foundations for chapel

2:18pm Friday 27th June 2014

From this newspaper 150 years ago. – The New Wesleyan Chapel, Northallerton. - On Thursday the foundation stone of the above place of worship was laid by Thos. Sadler, Esq., of Bedale.

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How did old wheel turn out?

1:43pm Friday 6th June 2014

Middleton-One-Row. Midnight Disturbance. – We understood that there is not a police-officer stationed within three miles of this village, and the fact that the preservers of the public peace make themselves scarce here was fully proved between the night of Wednesday and Thursday morning, when the village was paraded by a number of drunken fellows, who disturbed the slumber of the inhabitants by throwing missiles at their doors and otherwise conducted themselves in an uproarious manner.

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Memories of seaside trips

3:43pm Friday 23rd May 2014

Headline news from the Darlington & Stockton Times 150, 100 and 50 years ago

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Old crime, council and OAPs

3:49pm Friday 9th May 2014

Headline news from the Darlington & Stockton Times 50, 100 and 150 years ago

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Debate on drink – a food or poison?

4:10pm Wednesday 23rd April 2014

Middlesbrough Athenaeum – The adjourned discussion upon “Alcohol-food or poison?” by the members of this institution was resumed on Wednesday last, in the New Room of the Oddfellows’ Hall.

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Clubs offer much more than the pub

2:38pm Friday 11th April 2014

Headline news from the Darlington & Stockton Times 50, 100 and 150 years ago

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Dealer lands a £1 fine for cruel cuts

3:45pm Friday 4th April 2014

Above picture: The January 1979 student nurse intake at North Tees Hospital, Stockton. Jane Gregson is trying to locate as many as she can to celebrate the 35-year anniversary of the event. Jane writes: “We have a Facebook group ‘35 years and counting’ where we can be contacted or I can be e-mailed at janestannett @hotmail.com.”

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Local iron trade booms as prices fall

3:06pm Friday 28th March 2014

From this newspaper 150 years ago. – In the Cleveland Iron Trade, which is rapidly becoming the staple trade of this important district, we have to report a slight change for the worse – but this is only a slight change.

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New drains can halt high death rate

4:25pm Friday 21st March 2014

ABOVE PICTURE: In July 1962 the cobbles were being relaid in Richmond Market Place. Here a workman can be seen repositioning and cementing the cobbles back into place. Last year, North Yorkshire County Council was criticised for repairs to the same area carried out by contractors on its behalf which involved replacement of a cobbled area with tarmacadam.

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Pupils dance until the break of day

4:07pm Friday 14th March 2014

During the last three months Mr Thomas Taylor, of Barnard Castle, has been giving lessons in dancing at the house of Mr Joseph Raine, Cross Keys Inn, and has met with very good patronage from the young ladies and gentlemen of the town and neighbourhood.

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Parishioners in praise of her Ladyship

11:29am Friday 7th March 2014

ABOVE PICTURE: Richmond Market Place in June 1964 after what was deemed experimental changes to the layout which had seen the stalls moved to their current position and the bus station moved to the old Toll Booth site. Part of the Market Place had been made one-way and motorists, according to our Richmond reporter, were not best pleased

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Girl died in railwaywagon collision

4:31pm Friday 21st February 2014

Headline news from the Darlington & Stockton Times 150, 100 and 50 years ago

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Twelve guineas a month was the rent

3:43pm Friday 14th February 2014

From this newspaper 150 years ago. – An extraordinary meeting of the Darlington Board of Health was held in the Board of Guardians’ room, on Thursday, to accept (or refuse) an offer made by Messrs J Backhouse and Co., to occupy the offices erected in connection with the New Market. There were present: Messrs Jos Pease (chairman), Jon Pease, Kay, Harris, Russell, Wrightson, Benson, Stephenson, Backhouse and Buckton.

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Fair trade is the verdict on horse sales

2:20pm Friday 7th February 2014

From this newspaper 150 years ago. – Darlington Horse Fair.

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Crowds turn out for Duke’s funeral

3:51pm Friday 31st January 2014

From this newspaper 150 years ago. – The funeral of the late Duke of Cleveland took place on Tuesday, and, notwithstanding it was ostensibly private in its character – a desire to that effect having, shortly before his death, been expressed by the deceased nobleman – an immense concourse of persons were present to witness the obsequies pertaining to the occasion.

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Rates fear as Act adoption considered

3:44pm Friday 17th January 2014

Picture above: The wheelchair-bound Lady Masham performs the opening honours at Northallerton’s new tourist information centre in October 1990. The specially-designed octagonal building is still open and run by volunteers. Back then it was operated by Hambleton District Council but tourism services was one of the first services to suffer when the council began trimming its budgets in 2009

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Potter drowned after falling in river

4:41pm Friday 10th January 2014

Man drowned in the Tees. A man named William Swales, 40 years of age, and a potter by trade, was drowned on Friday night in the Tees.

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High noon as gas explosion alarmed the neighbourhood

4:13pm Friday 3rd January 2014

On Wednesday, at noon, the gentlemen in Messrs Backhouse and Co’s Bank, as well as the inhabitants of the immediate neighbourhood, were greatly alarmed by an explosion of gas which proceeded from a cellar beneath the Messrs Backouse’s private office.

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Prime roast beef and plum pudding for Workhouse inmates

12:36pm Monday 6th January 2014

Christmas Day at Darlington wore the aspect of an unusual quiet. Almost every place of business in the town was closed, and master and man alike enjoyed the luxury of a real holiday.

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Bring Saturday into the festivities

11:49am Friday 20th December 2013

Christmas Day – as every good Churchman, careful housewife, happy schoolboy, and weary worker has long ago discovered – falls in the present year of grace upon a Friday. At first sight there is nothing very suggestive in the fact; and our readers will ask why we mention it.

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14 fought for their lives in the Tees

1:08pm Friday 13th December 2013

Boat accident on the Tees at Stockton and narrow escape. Soon after six o’clock on Monday evening, an accident occurred on the Tees which might easily have resulted in the loss of the lives of no less than fourteen persons.

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Charity imposter given hard labour

2:36pm Friday 29th November 2013

A young man, who gave his name as Charles Nield, and said he came from Blackburn, Lancashire, was charged by PC Garbutt with endeavouring to obtain charitable contributions under false pretenses.

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‘Industrial classes’ look before they leap

3:44pm Friday 22nd November 2013

The success of this and similar institutions in the town may be taken as indicating the general state of prosperity amongst our working population.

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Second colliery joins on-going strike

12:14pm Friday 15th November 2013

PICTURE: It is not clear from our files why the D&S Times photographer took this picture of children at All Saints RC School at Thirsk in February 1964, but it is a reminder when it was deb rigeur for schoolchildren to wear garberdineb macs, duffle coats,b balaclavas, caps and shorts to school. How many children can be identified? 

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‘Great credit’ to society as festival held

1:25pm Friday 8th November 2013

The annual festival of the Middlesbrough Temperance Society was held on Monday evening in the Oddfellows Hall.

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Mystery of the railway booking office break-ins

12:13pm Friday 1st November 2013

The Stationeryoffice has just issued the “Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for 1862, by Robert Hunt, FRS, Keeper of Mining Records.”

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Plans afoot for estate and town

3:07pm Friday 27th September 2013

Harrowgate Hill Estate – Such is the name that has been given by the society which was started a few months ago for the mutual purchase and allotment of land, to the estate which the Messrs Thompson sold them on the North Road, Darlington.

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Captain’s wife launches screw steamer

12:38pm Friday 20th September 2013

Ship launches. On Thursday week, an iron screw steamer was launched from the shipyard of Messrs Richardson, Duck and Co at South Stockton.

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Sunday golfer hit with a summons

3:01pm Friday 5th July 2013

Borough Police. Before E Gilkes and J Richardson, Esqs. Vagrancy. – Wm. Williams, an incorrigble old man, was charged by PC Horne with being without any visible means of subsistence. The officer found the defendant on Messrs Bolckow and Vaughan’s works about 5 o’clock on Sunday morning.

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The day a mini-tornado sucked cars into the air

4:41pm Tuesday 2nd July 2013

A freak whirlwind whipped through Thirsk at tea-time on Tuesday. It lasted only a few minutes but left a huge trail of damage, with at least one man injured.

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Evils of slavery and rights of the oppressed are under discussion

3:53pm Friday 14th June 2013

From this newspaper 150 year ago – Great Ayton.

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Tenants in rent strike after recent increase

5:29pm Friday 31st May 2013

Picture: Joan Foster of Norton, Stockton-on- Tees, sent this picture after seeing last month’s archive picture of the Friarage Hospital nurses from 1986 which featured her daughter, Helen Bate, who now works at Scarborough Hospital.

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Rail company merger bill is passed

3:08pm Friday 24th May 2013

On Friday week, a special meeting of this company was held at the Board Room, York. G H Seymour Esq was in the chair. The chairman stated that the bill for the amalgamation of the Stockton and Darlington Company with his company, had been passed with very little opposition.

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Rumours rife over bride’s auction lots

3:29pm Monday 20th May 2013

Staindrop matrimonial disappointment – An unworthy couple, not many miles from Staindrop, about a year ago, agreed to enter the holy bands of wedlock

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Poles apart in the middle of the road

4:07pm Tuesday 14th May 2013

The infant daughter of Patrick Clifford, tailor, residing at No 15 Mason Street, Middlesbrough, was suffocated on Thursday morning.

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When temperance made its move

2:35pm Tuesday 14th May 2013

Our readers will probably remember that a few months ago, we announced that the erection of a new temperance hall was contemplated, and that already a building committee had been appointed, at a meeting of the Stockton Temperance Society, to make the necessary enquiries as to a suitable site.

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Bank celebrates a French connection

South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway. On Thursday last, Mr D P Appleby, the contractor for the line of railway connecting this town with the South Durham coal field at West Auckland, conducted the officials and his friends over the line by means of his locomotive engine.

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Society show and an alarming accident

On Wednesday, Edward Backhouse Esq and a number of gentlemen on the local committee organised to secure the Royal Agricultural Society's meeting next year at Darlington, met the deputation from the society at the northeastern station.

Thirteen-year-olds jailed for thefts

4:39pm Tuesday 14th May 2013

Matthew Preston and Samuel Haw, two lads, each aged about thirteen years, were charged with stealing a quantity of fireworks, belonging to Henry Laverick

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