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A SLIM leather-bound album containing a score of pencil portrait sketchings lies in Darlington library. On its first page, in immaculate…

“WHAT a brilliant and ultimately hilarious picture of the three men whitening the zebra crossing in Tubwell Row,” says Jo Jones, referring to…

Today’s Objects of the Week, the pride of a Darlington park, are among the largest we’ve ever featured. THERE are many fine trees in Darlington’s South Park, but there are two which stand head and shoulders above the rest. The giant redwoods, or Wellingtonias, planted in 1863 to commemorate the wedding of the future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, are two examples of the largest living organism on Earth – sequoiadendron giganteum. There are hundreds of other specimens at stately homes, botanic gardens and arboretums across the county and almost all of them, were planted in ...

WE got our lefts and our rights mixed up when looking for Simpsons’ sports shop which was in Darlington’s Post House Wynd from the early 1960s until the late 2000s. It was on the northern side of the wynd, in the premises now occupied by Toni & Guy hairdressers, next to Robin Finnegan’s jewellery shop. “It was on the same side as Hoppers and Richardson’s the jewellers,” says Mike Walker of Middleton St George, one of many who pointed out the mistake. “There was a fish and chip shop on that side, and I remember Simpsons was very close to was a ‘surgical’ shop which for ...

Today’s Object of the Week is an unassuming plaque to a publishing giant on the front of a pub.