Looking Back

LOOKING BACK

Mary Kezia Roberts

Feeling lucky? This lady survived the Titanic and then went down on the Rohilla off Whitby
THE concrete wreck of the MV Creteblock lies on the same stretch of Whitby beach as the remains of the Rohilla. It was a hospital ship on its way from Scotland to collect the injured from the battlefields of Belgium when, on October 30, 1914, it ran aground on Whitby Scar in a bad storm.

A packed racecourse for a Whitsuntide meeting in the 1920s when 200 trains brought the punters to Redcar

LOOKING BACK Galloping through the history of Redcar Racecourse

Bedale Town councillors and RAF Leeming staff at the presentation of the Illuminated Address

RAF Leeming freedom parade in Bedale TODAY

Connection cemented between Bedale and RAF Leeming

Freedom of the town granted for RAF Leeming

Of the castle at Barnard Castle, Garland says:

LOOKING BACK A trot through Teesdale: Guidebook back in print more than 200 years after launch

The Swale Valley Stompers getting ready for the Jazz Train

Swale Valley Stompers' jazz train could be one of last events

Classic Car Show at Newby Hall and Gardens in Ripon Pictures: JAMES SCOTT

15 pictures as crowds flock to huge classic car show featuring over 500 vehicles

The cinema is being boarded up after closing last month. Picture: DANIEL HORDON

Sad sight as Odeon cinema is now boarded up in Darlington after shock closure

Alan Hill-Walker, Northallerton's only Victoria Cross winner

LOOKING BACK Northallerton VC winner had final say on First World War conscription appeals

Croft House in Hurworth Place was built by Robert Thompson Maxwell in the early 1860s and was demolished in 2017

LOOKING BACK The decade-long will dispute that drove a widow into debt and was settled for love by the king’s financier

A fabulous picture of Blackwell Hill, a mansion built to the south of Darlington with fabulous views over the River Tees. It was built in 1873 by local architect John Ross for Eliza Barclay, who was a member of the town's Quaker Backhouse family.

LOOKING BACK 10 mansions that once stood proud in County Durham - and now they're gone

The court house at Northallerton which was demolished in the early 1990s. Picture courtesy of Colin Narramore

LOOKING BACK Pictures: Northallerton's early court house and police HQ

The Darlington Quaker Ladies team photo with the cups they had won during the 1931-32 season. Lillie Galloway is on the right and her husband, James, is on the left

LOOKING BACK How Darlington Quaker Girls became “the crack women’s football team of the north”

Louie Young is celebrating her 100th birthday at Appleton Lodge in Spennymoor Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT

Former Aycliffe Angel was not expected to survive birth - but she 'fooled them' and has turned 100

Betterdaze in Northallerton is expanding

New vintage emporium to open in Northallerton

Vintage fire engine and vehicle show cancelled in shock short notice announcement

Vintage fire engine and vehicle show cancelled in shock short notice announcement

A major storm struck the region 150 years ago Picture: PIXABAY

LOOKING BACK The violent summer storm which killed livestock and set mill ablaze

Rosie Page outside one of the restored barns

Historic barns restored to preserve Dales heritage with help from Herriot family

The Northallerton Calendar Girls have created their own calendar to raise money for local cancer charities

Northallerton singers create own Calendar Girls fundraiser

Alan Hill-Walker, Northallerton's Victoria Cross winner

LOOKING BACK Northallerton's only Victoria Cross winner and his links to old High Street police station

15 old pictures from historic Darlington cinema which is set to close this month

LOOKING BACK 15 old pictures from historic Darlington cinema which is set to close this month

Public baths in Bolton in 1937 - the D&S Times columnist Spectator felt Northallerton should have had a similar facility

LOOKING BACK D&S Times columnist's call for Northallerton to have public baths - in old sewage works

Admirals House in Norton, the home of Admiral Policarpus Taylor, is being marketed by Jackston-Stops

LOOKING BACK The remarkable naval career of the man who once owned this North East mansion

Trainer John Scott,

LOOKING BACK Spell of racehorse trainer John Scott – Wizard of the North – broken at last

Darlington library, hidden by hoardings and scarred by scaffolding, but still open for business

A first glimpse inside Darlington library during its £3.2m restoration

The ceremony at Durham Tees Valley Airport remembering the 75th anniversary of Andrew Mynarski winning the Victoria Cross in 2019

Poignant story helps remember the 1,266 young airmen who gave their lives flying from Teesside

Six killed at Teesside airshow - in 1949 when a bomber crashed in flames on the airfield

Six killed at Teesside Airshow in 1949 when bomber crashed in flames on the airfield

A deep trench that still guards the Iron Age fort of Maiden Castle on Harkerside, the south side of Swaledale opposite Reeth

LOOKING BACK Mysteries of Maiden Castle and the muddy mounds that won't give up their stories

Ian Waller in his gardens at Southlands which are open to the public on Sunday

LOOKING BACK Garden created by pioneering Victorian industrialist to open up for charity

Left to right: brother, Paul; granddaughter, Chloe; and son, Jack in the Pearly King (and Queen) costume.

A stitch in time - the Pearly King costume that served three generations

Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Imperial State Crown, and the Duke of Edinburgh in uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, as they wave from the balcony to the onlooking crowds around the gates of Buckingham Palace after the Queen's Coronation

LOOKING BACK Rejoicing in the rain: How North Yorkshire celebrated the Queen's Coronation

Stanley Roocroft with his MBE and coronation medal

'My heart seemed to be in my mouth': The day I sang at the Queen's Coronation

A major storm hit North Yorkshire 100 years ago (file image) Picture: PIXABAY

LOOKING BACK 'Lumps of ice, the size of nutmegs' - the storm that shattered Wensleydale and Swaledale

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

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

East Street, Darlington

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

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

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

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