Looking Back

The Coronation Plaque was put onto the parish noticeboard nearly 70 years ago

'Bring back our Coronation plaque' appeal ahead of Queen's Platinum Jubilee
WITH time running out before the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, an appeal has been made by a parish council for the return of a special plaque created for her Coronation nearly 70 years ago.

High Force Hotel on a 120-year-old postcard, as it would have looked when Dr Manson and the field club visited

LOOKING BACK The naturalists who went in search of a pencil mill but instead found a one-legged shoe collector

The Bridge House Hotel at Catterick after the fire in 2014

You could own this historic 15-bedroom hotel - but it will need lots of work

The important railwaymen sit down for their celebratory banquet in Stockton Town Hall, attended to by Margaret Foxton, as drawn by Sandra Johnson for the new film, The First Rail

LOOKING BACK A rail knees-up: 200 years on from public holiday which marked start of work on Stockton & Darlington Railway

Take your clutter and unwanted clothes to Age UK in Bedale

Give us your clutter say Age UK in Bedale

A lovely study of the Bay Horse and the east end of Hurworth in the mid 1960s

10 pictures from this historic Darlington village from 100 years ago

Echo memories - Aeolian House, just outside Darlington, near the Morrison Supermarket at Morton Park on the road to Middleton St George

How did this lonely murder house in Darlington get its notorious name?

A late 1930s National Benzole petrol pump in Arkengarthdale

LOOKING BACK Old fashioned fuel pumps a survivor from another age of motoring

High Row on a sunny day that has caused all of the shops to pull down their blinds so their window goods were not bleached or damaged. On the right, the cabs are parked outside the market hall, and there is shelter in the street for the cabmen

11 previously unseen pictures of Darlington from more than 100 years ago

East Street, Darlington

The story of Darlington's lost ten pin bowling alley which is about to be demolished

Jimmy Blumer, Darlington's only Formula One racing driver, in action at Catterick in the 1950s

LOOKING BACK The golden age of motorsport: New books tells of Barry Sheene, Lewis Hamilton and Jimmy Blumer's North East race days

A Darlington yacker, cattle dealer David Cook, drawn about 1900 by renowned artist George Algernon Fothergill, although he didn't call him a yacker

The mystery behind a bizarre phrase used in the region is explained

A scene from a previous year's Leyburn 1940s weekend

Organisers call off popular 1940s weekend

Leeming Bar station

LOOKING BACK Country station reopens this weekend after restoration - what's the story behind its strangely grand appearance?

Commondale by Joan and John Roberts

Would you take a walk in an uncommon dale looking for... bricks?

The Phillips family are aiming for Broadway and Beyond

Farming family go to Broadway and Beyond for musical show

The shambles in the middle of Northallerton's main street were demolished 150 years ago this week, ready for replacement by the town hall

When Northallerton shambles was pulled down to make way for the town hall

The burning church tower from Marske High Street 120 years ago

LOOKING BACK The day a seaside church caught fire during an Easter service

A St George's cross flag flying above Dover Castle in Kent. Picture: PA

Why do we celebrate St George’s Day?

St James' Church in Melsonby, which was rebuilt 150 years ago

LOOKING BACK The 'march of progress' that saw this church undergo major repairs

Pictures: NORTHERN ECHO

When the North East welcomed the Queen - 11 pictures of Her Majesty in our region

Marie Gardener and Mark Thorburn who are making the Iron & Steam film

Darlington's railway history to be turned into a film - and could be on major streaming service

(Top) A Scrabble board and (bottom) a Monopoly board (Canva)

These nostalgic board games could earn you hundreds of pounds - See them here

Walter and Elizabeth Wilkinson, of Grove Square in Leyburn, travelled to see the grave of their son in France (file image)

LOOKING BACK The heartbreaking journey made by Leyburn parents to see their son's war grave

A line of distinctive Crossley Roadway Pavers at Stooperdale, the railway offices in Darlington, taken by John Askwith

LOOKING BACK Why this curious North Yorkshire brick never quite caught on

The Tees Cottage Pumping Station in Darlington captured by John Mannick with a drone

The amazing North East engineering that's open to the public this weekend

The Tees Cottage Pumping Station in Darlington captured by John Mannick with a drone

The amazing North East engineering that's open to the public this weekend

This site could soon be home to Darlington's Treasury base - but what did it used to be?

This site could soon be home to Darlington's Treasury base - but what did it used to be?

Just how rude is it to be called a yacca? Picture: PIXABAY

LOOKING BACK Just how rude is it to be called a yacca?

The Tees Cottage Pumping Station is a model of early Edwardian engineering excellence

Tees Cottage Pumping Station to open for first time this year

Heighington in 1963

LOOKING BACK The cresset, the coffin carrier and the women brawling with hatpins in the pews: stories from a village church

St Trinian's Hall, on the market for £2.5m. Picture: Hewetson & Johnson

LOOKING BACK The corner of Richmond with the intriguing name St Trinian's

Ian Watkins with the Little Book About Bedale

'Nothing to see in Bedale' comment sparks book project - and copies have sold out

A young farmer lost his money on market day Picture: PIXABAY

LOOKING BACK 'A new mode of swindling' in which a young farmer lost his money on market day

The 100-year-old war memorial at St Laurence's Church on the edge of Middleton One Row

LOOKING BACK Villagers commemorate war memorial's centenary

Nominations are being sought for the Northallerton Jubilee Tea Party

Has a friend or family member been a hero to you? They could be nominated for this prize

Past winners of the Northallerton Business Awards

Meet the finalists of the Northallerton business awards

David Bode of Exelby, Bedale

Tributes paid to North Yorkshire farmer, sportsman and much-loved family man

Bedale Point to Point is marking it's 75th anniversary

A day out at the races at Bedale Point to Point marks 75th anniversary

John Carter, of Stockton, was walking on the Cleveland Way between Skinningrove and Boulby for this shot, taken looking back towards Skinningrove from near the top of Boulby cliffs.

LOOKING BACK How Teesside and Ukraine shared a fascination with slag

George Pease as a baby with his parents, Veronica and Joseph, and older brother, Joseph to whom the Radio 4 bongs are dedicated, on steps in the grounds of Swale House, Richmond, in 1927

LOOKING BACK How Big Ben's bongs hit the airwaves and other remarkable stories from the Pease memoirs

Alastair Broadwith on his tractor Goldie

Golden tractor among the highlights at huge vintage vehicle fest this summer

Late Victorian passengers with the station dog in Richmond - they look pretty fed up, so perhaps they too were experiencing the same poor service as Mr Jaques

LOOKING BACK The broken down train at Cowton which sparked a landowner's fury

A Darlington horse called Spider grew fond of ale after a dreadful shock (file image) Picture: PIXABAY

LOOKING BACK What drove Spider the horse to drink in Darlington

A few of Alan Bancroft’s Massey Fergussons which will go under the hammer

Vintage and classic Massey Ferguson tractors could realise £500,000 at auction

Mary Middlemiss is presented with the bouquet by Cllr Paul Cornfoot

100th birthday bouquet for Northallerton's Mary Middlemiss

The 1925 Tin Lizzie will be the star at the Classics on Show in Stokesley

Driving forward with Classics on Show

Brompton in 1976 with Wilford's mill chimney, the last in the village, still standing. It came down in 2003

LOOKING BACK When 'bad trade' hit Brompton's once-thriving linen industry

Former Mayor John Richmond has turned author at the age of 86

Tales of joy and sorrow in new book from former Mayor of Ripon

A fine display of interlocking double hexagonal scoria bricks

LOOKING BACK The almost unbreakable slag bricks which lined the streets of the Tees Valley

Barnard castle archive

LOOKING BACK Bridges of Barney: Why this landmark opened with no ceremony at all

The newly restored Leeming Bar station house

Step back in time to 1920s railway as restored station house opens

Newby Hall tractor festival is returning for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee

UK's biggest tractor festival gets into gear for big return

Spain's Field Farm that has been moved stone by stone and rebuilt at Beamish Museum will open its doors to visitors on Saturday (March 19). Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT.

County Durham farm was moved stone by stone to open at Beamish