Looking Back
'Bring back our Coronation plaque' appeal ahead of Queen's Platinum Jubilee

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


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







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



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

















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










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













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