Remembering Miss Daisy Edis, a pioneering Durham photographer
FOR nearly 60 years, Daisy Edis recorded the face of Durham city – both its people and its places – and this year where she lived in Gilesgate…
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FOR nearly 60 years, Daisy Edis recorded the face of Durham city – both its people and its places – and this year where she lived in Gilesgate…
PRINCESS ELIZABETH made her first visit to Durham in 1947, shortly after her first overseas tour to South Africa, and was bowled over by the…
ARE you missing the shops? Physically going out, looking in the shop windows at the various displays, seeing what's on offer, what takes your fancy, just browsing... Lockdown has made all that impossible. So many people are shopping virtually, online, and for those who do go out, it is no longer a pleasurable linger. It is mask up, in, out and home in a hurry. So let's step back in time in Durham City to when shopfronts really were shopfronts, each individually laid out and decorated, usually by independent shopkeepers who wanted to make their windows as memorable as possible.