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Surroundings changed with end of the pits
12:08pm Friday 24th July 2009
LITTLETOWN came into being as a pit village following the opening of its colliery in 1831, but it never grew to the extent of neighbouring colliery villages like High Pittington and Sherburn Hill.
The colliery days of the little town that isn’t a town
3:05pm Friday 17th July 2009
WHAT place in Durham lies close to the border of two cities, is a town by name but consists of little more than a street, an old chapel and a former pub?
Gruesome and ghostly tales from Pittington
12:39pm Friday 3rd July 2009
Murders and spirits from village’s past.
Murder, he said – but he was the murderer
12:41pm Friday 26th June 2009
Gruesome tale that inspired a local ballad.
Medieval days to demolition of neighbour
1:46pm Friday 19th June 2009
EDMONDSLEY, to the north of Sacriston, dates to Anglo-Saxon times but is first mentioned in Durham’s Boldon Buke of 1180.
How Durham’s country air became part of suburbia
2:00pm Friday 12th June 2009
IN the days before there were villages, towns or cities, people lived in small agricultural communities.
Names and the history that lies behind them
3:25pm Friday 5th June 2009
WHAT’S in a name? The answer to this age-old question is lots of history if we consider the street names of Durham City.
Nine altars to serve pilgrims at cathedral
1:46pm Friday 29th May 2009
Chapel was Gothic addition at Durham.
The line beyond which women could not pass
6:07pm Friday 22nd May 2009
DURHAM Cathedral is often said to have been built in 40 years from its commencement in 1093 to completion around 1133.
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