North-East History Tour

A little to the north-west of Stockton lies the village of Carlton, and a few hundred yards to the north of that can be found Greyston...

Old Stillington – the original village, not the nineteenth century creation which jumps out at you from the map of today – lies a mile ...

The village of Great Stainton is so named, one assumes, to distinguish it from lesser known – and smaller – places of the same name sca...

© Copyright HughMortimer and licensed for reuse   under this Creative CommonsLicence . The prominent set of earthworks know...

© Copyright Carol Rose and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence The first Quaker Meeting House proper to be built ...

July 20 th 1753, died, at his house at Norton, Jeremiah Moore, esq., aged 57. He was the last of his family; and had, in the former part ...

[from Wikipedia ] The great William Thomson “Will” Hay was a famed comic screen actor of 1930s and 40s Britain . As a child, he live...

One of Stockton-on-Tees ’ greatest claims to fame is that it was the home of the man who invented the friction match, one John Walker....

[From The Monthly Chronicle of North Country Lore & Legend of April 1888] ‘Reminiscences of Stockton ’ by W.Fallows Some...

The village of Sadberge , a little to the east of Darlington , has one of those ancient-sounding place-names that you just know has a lon...

During 1845-6, ex-sailor, Joseph Taylor, struck upon the idea of using sails as a means of propulsion for railway carriages.  ...

© Copyright   Mick Garratt   and licensed for   reuse   under this   Creative Commons Licence . What an odd name for a place of...

The deserted medieval settlement of Stainsby is a bit of an oddity, sited, as it is, near to thriving conurbations and a busy dual carri...

Preston Hall Museum is, arguably, best known for the valuable oil painting called The Dice Players . Usually housed in a special ro...

© Copyright Peter and licensed for reuse under this Creative CommonsLicence . The Preston Hall we all now know and love as one o...

In the NW corner of the newly-developed area of Ingleby Barwick lies an expanse of open ground. Beneath the same – and spread liberally u...

Many have often wondered how the now merged settlements of Egglescliffe and Eaglescliffe came into separate existence. Such similar names...

The holiday launchpad we now know as Durham Tees Valley Airport began life as ‘RAF Station Goosepool’ in 1938. As hostilities commenc...

On the north bank of the River Tees a few hundred yards to the south-west of Middleton St.George is the spot of the original Dinsdale Spa...

Neasham Priory was founded in the early twelfth century for a community of Benedictine nuns. Today not a trace of it remains, having occu...