Looking Back

LOOKING BACK

Ian Wright's picture of the Beatles performing at the Globe on November 22, 1963, which the Echo used for its end-of-year teenage magazine

Remembering the night Beatlemania and JFK's assassination rocked the Globe

An appeal has been made to help a couple celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary

Care home's appeal for 70th wedding anniversary cards

The Belah Viaduct was 1,040ft long, 196ft high, and

LOOKING BACK A lost journey on amazing viaducts on England's highest railway

You can't help but laugh at some of these, whilst also feeling abit sorry for the nickname-ee

The funniest nicknames of all time - Keth, Shetland Tony, Soup and many more

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Wensleydale Creamery, home to Yorkshire’s most famous cheese

COUNTRYMAN'S DAUGHTER The story of cheesemaking in Wensleydale - and beyond

The effects of Storm Babet in Scarborough

COUNTRYMAN'S DAUGHTER The absolute mayhem of this seaside town during Storm Babet

Children from Middleton Tyas school created a giant poppy

North Yorkshire schoolchildren mark Remembrance with giant poppy

Eleanor, Dowager Duchess of Norhtumberland, who lived at Stanwick Hall for 46 years

The grand party held at a lost country manor for this dowager duchess

A photo of Kit Calvert from the late 1970s, taken by Peter Shields and gifted to the Dales Countryside Museum

Never-before-broadcast recordings of 'king of Wensleydale' published

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Fountain Earth Primary School has no pupils

North Yorkshire school with no pupils could close

Melsonby's ghostly goose

LOOKING BACK In search of the nation's only ghost of a goose which haunts North Yorkshire village

Twins Minnie and Fanny Benson, who were notable and well-loved characters from my home village

COUNTRYMAN'S DAUGHTER Fond recollections of well-loved twins from home village

Hopetown Darlington

LOOKING BACK Why is Darlington's £35m railway centre being renamed Hopetown?

Pease walking stick. Picture: Credit: Hansons Auctioneers

LOOKING BACK Under the hammer today: this weird and wonderful piece of Darlington's history

Build manager Bradley Lowes on site at Hopetown Darlington with the former Head of Steam behind him. Picture: Sarah Caldecott

Revealed: the new name for Darlington's revamped railway museum

Ripon, April 1, 1964.

LOOKING BACK Consul cars, religious relics – and more market crosses

The outline of one of Joseph Foord’s water races can still be seen at Newgate Bank on the Helmsley to Stokesley Road

COUNTRYMAN'S DAUGHTER The North Yorkshire engineer who seemingly made water run uphill

Richmond School old boy John Culpan, museum chairman Mike Wood, and Gillian and Richard Howell, who have donated the portrait to the Richmondshire Museum

LOOKING BACK The rare piece of history that has come home to Richmond

Historian Geoff Hill with the axe at the grave of George Edward Lumley

How the discovery of an old axe brought to life the story of a Darlington war hero

John Orchard of Marchday at lingfield Point

LOOKING BACK Derelict Darlington landmark facing demolition changing the skyline forever

Mike Burn and the reborn Redmire Village Pub

Mad but magical - how this village pub was reborn in just a few weeks

Minnie Benson, with one of her many Lassies

COUNTRYMAN'S DUAGHTER Dogs called Lassie, super-sleuth mums, and what to do with dad's archive

Hawes in 1953: is it named after a hedge of hawthorns or a neck of land?

LOOKING BACK The North Yorkshire town that a vicar claimed was named after a hedge

Thomas Richardson, of Cleveland Lodge. Picture courtesy of the Darlington Centre for Local Studies

LOOKING BACK The quietest of Quakers there in the background at the birth of the railways

Tees Cottage Pumping Station

LOOKING BACK Last open day of the year for Tees Cottage Pumping Station

Aysgarth Falls in full flood

The day a Hollywood film star was turned away from this popular visitor centre

The field below Aysgarth Falls Hotel

Letters: Lodges plan near Aysgarth Falls another example of rural gentrification

East Row viaduct in 1955 with Whitby in the distance

LOOKING BACK Railway heritage in pictures: the amazing viaducts on the coastal route to Whitby

The VIP party in front of the SSPAR Solid-State Phased Array Radar

'Always watching' - Celebrating 60 years of RAF Fylingdales

Fears over development of barns in National Parks

National park campaigners write to Michael Gove over planning rules fear

433 Squadron gather with Maurice to mark their 80th anniversary

Canadian Air Force mark 80th anniversary at ceremony in North Yorkshire village

Dark Skies Mosaic will be unveiled at Osmotherley Village Hall

Unique new mosaics to be unveiled at special village hall event

The world record setting darts team from the Fleece in Richmond in 1983

LOOKING BACK Fascinated by the Fleece, the Richmond hotel which has made national news

Brompton by Sawdon near Scarborough claims to be the 'Birthplace of Aviation'

COUNTRYMAN's DAUGHTER Is the 'birthplace of aviation' really this North Yorkshire village?

Who knew that the contemplative sport of angling could be so exciting

LOOKING BACK Thomas Taylor: Dance teacher, lifesaver, poacher, swimmer, and dale's finest angler

The RCAF cairn at Skipton on Swale

New Canadian Air Force memorial for North Yorkshire village

Jon Smith interviewing Martin Luther King

LOOKING BACK Farewell to the king of the quest, the last British journalist to interview MLK

The White Horse of Kilburn

Yorkshire Vet and top chef team up to launch book on North Yorkshire landmark

Chris Price, the CEO of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) has announced he will be leaving the organisation.

North Yorkshire Moors Railway CEO departs after eight years

According to readers, one reason dimpled pint pots with handles disappeared was because when broken, the handles could be used as offensive weapons in a pub brawl!

COUNTRYMAN'S DAUGHTER A pot full of opinions: The perils and positives of the dimpled pint glass

The Royal Society's Silver Medal in Commemoration of Captain Cook – Estimate: £1,500-2,000

Rare Captain Cook medal to go under the hammer

Northallerton town cross being re-erected in 1913. Picture courtesy of Colin Narramore

LOOKING BACK The many migrations of Northallerton's market cross

The Gypsey Race just about visible in the centre of this picture, near the village of Duggleby on the Yorkshire Wolds. The word ‘Gypsey’ refers to the fact that it ‘comes and goes’, flowing intermittently above and below ground

COUNTRYMAN's DAUGHTER The Yorkshire stream which runs an 'eerie course' above and below ground

An Edwardian postcard showing the original northern portion of Darlington library

LOOKING BACK A new chapter for Darlington library after a past of referendums and controversy

Elaine is presented with her certificate by Rev Melanie Reed

Renowned Dales organist Elaine Ewbank marks 80 years of music

The lion's head fountain in Burton Leonard, by Matthew Hatton

LOOKING BACK Region's lion's head fountains prove a roaring success

Hunton Steam Gathering is being held on September 9 and 10

Organisers gear up for annual steam gathering with 'something for all the family'

Brinkburn Dene, Darlington, 1940s postcard

LOOKING BACK Cockerbeck Valley Park - aka "the denes" - celebrates its centenary

Memories' favourite picture of Saltburn that we found in a photographic album belonging to a Hurworth family who recorded their outing to the coast in 1902 when bathing machines were the order of the day – you were not seen half-clothed in

LOOKING BACK In 9 pictures: an old-fashioned trip to the beach at Saltburn

The show ring at Farndale Show

'Lovely day out' at 114th North York Moors show

James and Helen Herriot in the new Channel 5 series

First look at new series of All Creatures Great And Small, filmed in Yorkshire Dales

This Mercedes tractor sold for £53,000

Big prices for vintage tractors at biggest sale in the North

A cockerel from the Methodist Tapestries which will go on display next month in the Weardale Museum

LOOKING BACK How a museum is sewing the seeds of success with its new exhibition

An 18th-century woodcut of a ducking stool.

LOOKING BACK When over-talkative women were ducked in Skerne and Swale as punishment