http://www.durhamtimes.co.uk/history/pasttimes/ Durham Times /history/pasttimes/ en-gb Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:23:59 +0000 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:23:59 +0000 http://www.durhamtimes.co.uk/history/pasttimes/rssterms/ M6 nvincent@newsquest.co.uk (Nigel Vincent) webmaster@digitalmedia.newsquest.co.uk (Tim Joy) http://www.durhamtimes.co.uk/resources/images/916963/?type=rsslogo http://www.durhamtimes.co.uk/history/pasttimes/ http://www.durhamtimes.co.uk/history/pasttimes/5005484.Durham_Lions_celebrate_40_years_of_helping/?ref=rss A CHARITABLE group is celebrating its 40th birthday. Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:20:42 +0000 62417ef288463b6fb6eecf05c7f0ade9 http://www.durhamtimes.co.uk/history/pasttimes/4825343.The_early_days_of_Durham_cinema/?ref=rss 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. Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:53:52 +0000 41263bf6de6bddf23a1710eb44cc309e http://www.durhamtimes.co.uk/history/pasttimes/4649927.Wartime_memories_uncovered_in_journal_written_by_prisoner_of_war/?ref=rss 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. Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:59:28 +0100 66a306c4e82f6db92115f92dc492f59a http://www.durhamtimes.co.uk/history/pasttimes/4581692.Handball_game_turned_colliery_into_brickworks/?ref=rss WHEN Tom Barker clinched victory in front of 7,000 people in a handball championship, it was to change the face of Bowburn. Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:54:31 +0100 fb7a1bdc558227dea25bfe769bf76a83 http://www.durhamtimes.co.uk/history/pasttimes/4570967.Bowburn_____the_johnny_come_lately_colliery_village/?ref=rss In the first of two features about the community of Bowburn, south of Durham, David Simpson traces the origins of the village. Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:52:36 +0100 e71c8c19093e9727720496edb4dd4bc6 http://www.durhamtimes.co.uk/history/pasttimes/4559524.Tracing_the_past_of_Canada___s_distant_cousin/?ref=rss THE former colliery village of Quebec is located along a front street less than a mile to the north-east of Esh Winning. Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:45:02 +0100 56d79ce19f2f12a262b2cd6008da885c http://www.durhamtimes.co.uk/history/pasttimes/4547269.What_the_miners_did_when_the_shift_was_done/?ref=rss SACRISTON developed from a little mining village of the 1840s into what was almost a small town by the 1890s. Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:36:00 +0100 edb815184c13b592c379eabcd8cb32c0 http://www.durhamtimes.co.uk/history/pasttimes/4535338.I___ll_gie_ye_a_farden__came_the_cry_at_pit_auction/?ref=rss 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. Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:57:04 +0100 549d7a20fd7dd7adb228b3892a9dd347 http://www.durhamtimes.co.uk/history/pasttimes/4523905.The_sacred_links_revealing_the_birth_of_Sacriston/?ref=rss THE former mining village of Sacriston, two miles northwest of Durham, has the appearance of a small town. Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:15:39 +0100 e5fbe736d850cd94f0b3833e06f6f4a1 http://www.durhamtimes.co.uk/history/pasttimes/4510987.Surroundings_changed_with_end_of_the_pits/?ref=rss 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. Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:08:11 +0100 a29492a2741751a5d5c8db291361b136