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Fifty years ago Hawes United FC School Boys won the Wensleydale Football League (1962-63) Schoolboys Cup, beating Redmire 3-1 in the final at Carperby. The goal scorers for Hawes were Clifford Allen, Ian Thwaite, and Norman Metcalfe. Back row, from left: Brian Routh, Alan Lowcock, James Metcalfe, Jack Thompson, John Allen, Kenny Metcalfe, Peter Mason; front row, from left: John Alderson, Maurice Allen, Norman Metcalfe, Ian Thwaite, Clifford Allen. Recollections of that team welcome at From the Archive at dst@nne.co.uk

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The adverts featured below appeared in the Darlington and Stockton Times in 1963

From this newspaper 150 years ago

The infant daughter of Patrick Clifford, tailor, residing at No 15 Mason Street, Middlesbrough, was suffocated on Thursday morning. It appears that Clifford went to his work early in the morning, leaving his wife in bed, with the child, which is about seven months old. Mrs Clifford got up about seven o’clock, to wash, and about eight, a woman named Mary Jane Toes came into the house to assist her.

The child was then in bed; and before commencing to wash, the bed was turned up in which the child slept, folded up tight, and tied up. Mrs Clifford then went out, and upon her return, about nine o’clock, missed her infant.

She immediately raised an alarm, and upon unfolding the bed, it was discovered that the poor little creature had actually been smothered; it was, of course, quite dead. Mr Simpson was called in shortly after death.

An inquest was to be held on Friday.

From this newspaper 100 years ago

The Darlington Corporation are to be congratulated on the award they obtained at the hands of Judge Templer, sitting as arbitrator at the County Court, on Wednesday, in the dispute they have had with the post office authorities over the telegraph poles to be erected in certain roads in the town.

Large sums of money have been laid out in widening Durham and Brinkburn roads, the latter of which presents the unique spectacle of telegraph poles standing in the middle of the roadway, no arrangement having as yet been come to as to the exact site to which they are to be removed. In their negotiations with the post office the Corporation at first demanded that the wires should be taken underground in these two thoroughfares and in the part of Yarm-road where widening has been carried out in connection with the development of the garden suburb.

After some correspondence the Corporation agreed to waive the point if artistic iron or steel posts were used. A similar difficulty arose some years ago in regard to Neasham-road, where objection was taken to the ordinary creosoted posts on account of their unsightly appearance, and Sir Robert Hunter, the then solicitor to the Post Office, personally inspected the road and agreed to the substitution of iron posts.

Having been generously met by the landowners in their widening schemes, the Corporation naturally felt that some consideration was due to them, and that the erection of ugly creosoted poles would detract from the attractiveness of the district, and would certainly not assist in the development of the land. It is true there is a very material difference in the cost of iron or steel as compared with wood, but that is no reason why the prominent thoroughfares of a town should be made to look unsightly, as they certainly would do if the use of creosoted posts became general.

From this newspaper 50 years ago

The managing director of a Northallerton building firm has complained that his firm has never encountered such deliberate, wanton destruction as it is experiencing in the Council houses it is building at Thirsk. Mr. Walter Thompson has written to the North Riding Police asking them to help check an outbreak of “serious vandalism.” ]The firm is building 62 houses as an extension to Thirsk Rural Council’s housing estate in Sutton Road, Thirsk. In partially completed houses plasterboard has been ripped from ceilings, electrical wiring has been pulled out, bricks have been tipped from scaffolding and kerbs at the side of the roads have been overturned.

A spokesman for the firm said that children and youths were blamed for the damage. “They make a mess of everything they can lay their hands on. We have a watchman to look after things now, but you can’t take too many safeguards or you would never get any building done for locking up at night and then opening up each morning.” The spokesman said that if the damage continued the houses would be completed later than had been planned.

“As things are at the moment we are almost finishing a house, leaving it overnight, and having to go back the next morning and virtually start the work all over again.”