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

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

A lack of success at a horse fair (150 years ago), pubs being made to close earlier (100 years ago) and a new course for girls who want to be air hostesses (50 years ago)...

Gamekeeper strikes poachers with bludgeon after pair caught taking rabbits

A poacher found taking rabbits is struck with a bludgeon by a gamekeeper (150 years ago); new homes for Stockton-on-Tees (100 years ago) and a Parliamentary expedition to south-west Durham (50 years ago)
Looking Back: News from our archives

Headlines from 150, 100 and 50 years ago including a new railway for the North, Christmas shopping in Hawes and a new telephone exchange for Northallerton
Looking Back: headlines from our archives

FROM OUR ARCHIVE: It is Christmas 2004 and Richmond indoor market stallholders propose a toast to a successful holiday trading period. How many of this happy group still trade in the market? Let From Our Archive know at dst@nne.co.uk
Looking back: News from our archives

Headline news from the Darlington & Stockton Times 150, 100 and 50 years ago. A worker dies in an accident on a railway crossing, children send parcels to soldiers at the front and a high street is criticised
Richmond's new mayor get straight down to business

Headline news from the D&S Times 150, 100 and 50 years ago, plus a picture puzzle from 1995
Love me tender

To mark the start of an exhibition about trainspotting at the National Railway Museum in York, Bob Gwynne, associate curator of rail vehicles, charts its surprisingly fascinating history.
Unpropitious weather for Yarm Fair

FROM OUR ARCHIVE: In August 1980, there was trouble in I'Anson Road, Richmond, when the county council ripped up paving stones to re-use in the Market Place outside the new Woolworth's store. I'Anson Road residents were not happy, particularly these three gentlemen. Who were they – and did they get their paving slabs back? Let From Our Archive know at dst@nne.co.uk
Firemen's creditable display

On Thursday the periodical examination and inspection of the Darlington fire brigade men and the fire engines took place in the Horse Market in the presence of a large number of persons the proceedings being also observed by the members of the Local Board of Health from the windows of the room in which they were assembled to hold their ordinary monthly meeting.
Striking over ‘a black sheep’

Headline news from the Darlington & Stockton Times 150, 100 and 50 years ago
Men survive pit cage plunge

An accident of a serious and alarming nature took place at Sunnybrow, High Pit, on Tuesday morning. The news spread with wonderful rapidity that a number of men had been killed, owing to the rope breaking while they were being down in the cage.
Sprawling city sights

NEWCASTLE city centre is a monumental sprawl with more than 240 listed buildings in the Grainger Town area alone.
Dales Diary: Weardale bequests, commercial Cotherstone, the 1951 Cockfield 11, workhouse budgets, the case of after-hours boozy farmers and historic grumbles over Barnard Castle parking

POOR folk in various parts of the dales had a chance of an occasional cash handout in the old days, thanks to well-off people who remembered them in their wills. There were a series of these bequests in Stanhope. Ralph Barrick left £20 in 1689, with instructions for the interest to be paid every Whit Monday to the most destitute residents. It would mean a welcome shilling or two, or perhaps just a few coppers, for some of those in dire need.
Dispute over a racing payout

Headline news from the Darlington & Stockton Times 150, 100 and 50 years ago
‘Murder’ in the Red Lion

From this newspaper 150 years ago
Invest in land to turn a profit

Headline news from the D&S Times 150, 100 and 50 years ago
Evenings of al fresco music

Open-air entertainments. – Darlington and its vicinity, there can be no question, possess considerable advantages for the proper enjoyment of the al fresco element of recreation, which is an necessary as food to pentup dwellers in towns.
How did old wheel turn out?

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.
Memories of seaside trips

Headline news from the Darlington & Stockton Times 150, 100 and 50 years ago
Old crime, council and OAPs

Headline news from the Darlington & Stockton Times 50, 100 and 150 years ago
Runaway wife’s 44 pawn tickets

Elopement of a Sunderland lady with a militiaman. Considerable excitement has been created in Hartlepool and Sunderland by a singular case of elopement.
Clubs offer much more than the pub

Headline news from the Darlington & Stockton Times 50, 100 and 150 years ago
Local iron trade booms as prices fall

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.
Pupils dance until the break of day

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.
Girl died in railwaywagon collision

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

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Prospective Richmond MP to hold Farmers' Forum

Prospective Richmond MP to hold Farmers' Forum

RISHI Sunak, Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Richmond, is to hold a "Farmers Forum" at Northallerton auction mart on Wednesday (28) at 7pm.

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