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Yarm's historic links with Yorkshire and Teesside have sometimes provoked debate but in the picture above, in November 1985, the mood among these Midland Bank workers was one of celebration as they marked the establishment of a twining link between Yarm and the French town of Vernouillet.

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The adverts featured on this page appeared in the Darlington and Stockton Times in 1963.

From this newspaper 150 years ago

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.

The various works of magnitude were inspected, and greatly admired. Mr Appleby stopped the train at the Gaunless viaduct, which was minutely examined, it being the crowning feature in connection with the works.

It is nearly 100 feet in height and 500 feet in length.

The piers are cylindrical, and built of fire brick and upon it a neat superstructure of lattice iron girders is constructed, and painted light green. The length of the line is about 11 miles.

After the party returned, a sumptuous dinner was provided by Mr Appleby at the Raby Hotel, Barnard Castle. The contractor occupied the chair. He was congratulated upon the successful completion of his extensive contract. A pleasant evening was spent.

From this newspaper 100 years ago

Unionist meeting in Upper Teesdale. Two very successful meetings to further the cause of the Conservative and Unionist party were held at Harwood and Forest on Tuesday.

Lord Glamis, the prospective Unionist candidate for the Barnard Castle division, spoke at both meetings.

He was accompanied by Lady Glamis and Mr Woodhead, the agent.

A large company of Middleton Conservatives travelled up to the meetings by motor bus, and were warmly welcomed.

Darlington and Stockton Times:

At Harwood, the chair was occupied by Mr G M Borland, who said he was pleased to be present on the occasion of Lord Glamis's first visit to Harwood. He wished to point out that his lordship had no axe of his own to grind, but had a genuine and unselfish interest in Unionism.

Mr Woodhead gave an interesting address, and Lady Glamis, responding to a desire of the meeting, expressed her great pleasure at being present, and hoped to be able to come again. Lord Glamis, in a telling speech, said this was his first to Upper Teesdale, and it had given him great pleasure.

He was a Teesdale man, and in a sense their neighbour.

He was not coming forward as prospective Unionist candidate with any idea of self interest, or for the sake of £400 a year, but to champion the cause of the Conservative and Unionist party in the division.

He had been asked quite recently to submit his name as candidate for a safe Unionist seat in the South of England, but he had refused, because he would not desert the Barnard Castle division, where he had made so many friends.

He pointed out that Liberals in the division were in a very humiliating position.

The Member, whom so many of them had helped to elect, as opposing Liberal candidates at byelections. Liberals were told to remember that in voting for the Labour party they were not voting for their friends, but for their enemies.

There was no getting away from the fact that the policy of the Liberal party and that of the Labour party were very different.

From this newspaper 50 years ago

It was an evening ofnostalgia for members of the North-East Gallipoli Association on Saturday on the occasion of their annual reunion dinner at the White Horse Hotel, Darlington. Guest of honour was the Turkish Ambassador in London, Kemal N Kavur

Darlington and Stockton Times:

Proposing a toast to the association, Col A T C White, VC, said that the young generation could not understand the lives led by soldiers during the First World War.

He said: "The fact that we did not succeed in capturing Gallipoli is not important. The fact that we stuck it out so well, fought so hard, and came away without disgrace is a lesson the younger generation can learn."

The association could still fulfil a useful purpose - to try and show people without preaching, the kind of ideas they had when young men and to try and describe their experiences on Gallipoli; the absence of rations and water, the heat, flies and disease and "our desperate enemies, the Turks".

Saying he was glad the modern British army had so many amenities provided for them, Col. White added: "But sooner or later they may find themselves in war fighting the old tough type of warfare where there are no amenities."