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Memories with Chris Lloyd

Extra in one of the 1980s' biggest TV shows gets out his behind-the-scenes pictures IN 1988, All Creatures Great and Small returned to our television screens after a break of eight years with 22 episodes being screened in less than 12 months. The runaway train came down the track – and a forgotten hero saved scores of lives THE 190th anniversary of an anonymous railway hero saving scores of lives by averting an accident is being commemorated today by an exhibition in Howden-le-Wear. The days when a classic car was turned into a farm hack A 1926 Morris Cowley Bullnose Sports is taking to the roads for the first time since the 1930s to attend the Hurworth Grange Classic Car and Motor Cycle Show tomorrow. All aboard the Cuckoo Line on its journey through County Durham THE Cuckoo Line was the name given to a stretch of railway that was built in the late 1870s from Bowesfield Junction, alongside the A66 in Stockton, and north to Thorpe Thewles and Wingate to the Wellfield Junction where it linked up with other railways to go to Hartlepool or Castle Eden – the Castle Eden Walkway now follows its trackbed. Does measles solve the mystery of the mask? MEMORIES 676 featured a masked mystery: why did little Jennie Jackson, aged about four, appear on a family photograph in 1904 wearing a black-out eye-mask? Henry's fantastic folly and the goings-on in Darlington's first cocoa palace DARLINGTON Book Fair is celebrating its 40th anniversary next Saturday with its annual sale of antiquarian and secondhand books in the town’s sixth form college. Durham pitman artist's work under the hammer - along with some potato flasks FOUR paintings by south Durham mining artist Tom McGuinness are to go under the hammer in North Yorkshire next month. Bullnose is back on the roads for the first time since the 1930s NEXT weekend, a 1926 Morris Cowley Bullnose Sports car will take to the roads around Darlington for the first time since the 1930s when it attends the Hurworth Grange Classic Car and Motor Cycle Show, which is the largest show of its kind in the district. How a King's Scroll honouring County Durham soldier came home after decades lost AFTER many decades away, a King’s Scroll honouring a Sedgefield soldier who made the ultimate sacrifice in the First World War came home last weekend. Look inside Darlington's oldest non-religious house on the market for £650,000 THE oldest domestic non-religious building in Darlington has this week been put up for sale for the first time in 45 years. Read more

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