ELIZABETH Pearson of Gainford, William McHugh, of Barnard Castle and Michael Gilligan of Darlington were up at six on the morning of August 2, 1875.
AT 6am on August 2, 1875 – 150 years ago next summer – three convicted murders were roused from their cells in Durham jail and taken to meet their dreadful fate.
ON THE night of April 10, 1875, at least seven people were drinking whisky in an upstairs room in the crowded hovels of Barnard Castle’s notorious Bridgegate, down by the river.
THERE was something extremely sinister about the murder of John Kilcran in Darlington town centre on Easter Sunday, 1875. He was an Irishman. He was attacked by Irishmen, and the man who hanged for his murder was an Irishman.
IT wasn’t just roads that had mile markers on them: railways did, too, as Memories 701 noted.
PERHAPS legendary highwayman Dick Turpin really did stay at the Baydale Beck Inn on the western edge of Darlington.
IN September 2002, the BBC's Inside Out programme declared Darlington to be the "hairdressing capital of Britain" as its 97th hairdresser had just opened.
