April 4, 2008
4:57pm Friday 4th April 2008
From the Durham County Advertiser 50 years ago. - A strange consignment was pictured in the Durham County Advertiser under the heading of Christmas Island Easter Eggs.
The story reveals more: Now that these coconuts have been safely delivered, postmen at Nettlesworth and Consett must be wondering what next may be on the way from this important island in the Pacific.
Petty Officer Arthur Nicholson, Consett, stationed there, wanted to surprise his daughters Susan and Joan and their cousin Norman Cane, pictured with Mrs Nicholson at their Consett home and also his cousins, Dorothy and David Wreht, Nettlesworth.
Arthur certainly succeeded: even the postal service were amazed.
Names and addresses were painted on the shells and off they went on their long journey to England.
● There was plenty of excitement at Horden at the weekend - 57- year-old miner's wife Elizabeth Hannah Riley had won a world record football pools prize of £209,079 - for a stake of half-acrown.
It was a 26 million to one chance, a pools expert estimated.
She and her husband had been filling in the pools since before the war.
Eating Out
The Lambton Worm, North Road, Chester-le-Street
THE legend of the Lambton Worm is one of the great tales of North- East folklore, living on in the words of the song that generations of children have learnt.
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