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The DLI soldiers who gave their lives at Dunkirk

KILLED IN ACTION: Pte Tom Rodgers, who was killed while defending a bridge

5:35pm Friday 23rd April 2010

SOLDIERS from the Durham Light Infantry who gave their lives in one of the most famous episodes of the Second World War are to be remembered in France on the 70th anniversary of their sacrifice.

Durham Lions celebrate 40 years of helping

FELLOW MEMBERS: City of Durham Lions past president Keith Vear, president David Leigh and publicity officer Peter Oakley.

3:20pm Friday 12th February 2010

A CHARITABLE group is celebrating its 40th birthday.

The early days of Durham cinema

MOVING PICTURES: Randall Williams’ Travelling Show

12:53pm Wednesday 30th December 2009

Film historian DR DAVID WILLIAMS is celebrating 100 years of cinema with a programme of ten silent films at Durham’s Clayport Library. Here, he looks back on the early days of cinema in the city.

Wartime memories uncovered in journal written by prisoner of war

PRISONER OF WAR: Robert Henderson is on the left with two other POWs at one of the camps.

2:59pm Friday 25th September 2009

Seventy years after the outbreak of the Second World War, the memoirs of a North-East soldier have come to light. Robert Henderson spent five years as a prisoner of war after he was captured by the Nazis. Gavin Havery met his son and took a look at the past.

Handball game turned colliery into brickworks

FORMER DAYS: Bowburn Grange, which used to be a  colliery agent’s house and is now a hotel – Picture courtesy of Michael Richardson

1:54pm Friday 4th September 2009

WHEN Tom Barker clinched victory in front of 7,000 people in a handball championship, it was to change the face of Bowburn.

Bowburn – the johnny-come-lately colliery village

POST OFFICE: probably Bowburn’s oldest building

1:52pm Friday 28th August 2009

In the first of two features about the community of Bowburn, south of Durham, David Simpson traces the origins of the village.

Tracing the past of Canada’s distant cousin

VILLAGE LANDMARK: Hamsteels Hall – picture courtesy of Hamsteels Hall

3:45pm Friday 21st August 2009

THE former colliery village of Quebec is located along a front street less than a mile to the north-east of Esh Winning.

What the miners did when the shift was done

PICTURED ABLAZE: The Institute on fire in 1961

3:36pm Friday 14th August 2009

SACRISTON developed from a little mining village of the 1840s into what was almost a small town by the 1890s.

I’ll gie ye a farden, came the cry at pit auction

A CENTURY AGO: Witton Colliery in 1908

2:57pm Friday 7th August 2009

IN the 1800s, Sacriston was empty moorland, broken up into fields by acts of enclosure in 1809. There were scattered remnants of coal workings throughout the area, dating in some cases to medieval times, but there was no mining village.

The sacred links revealing the birth of Sacriston

FLASHBACK: Sacriston pictued in the 1980s

6:15pm Friday 31st July 2009

THE former mining village of Sacriston, two miles northwest of Durham, has the appearance of a small town.









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