A Christmas killing at Auckland was the "act of a madman"
“THE placidity of the Christmas season at Bishop Auckland was rudely upset by a tragedy which happened in Newgate Street, the chief shopping…
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What Bishop Auckland's Newgate Street used to look like
THERE are 34 empty shops in Bishop Auckland’s Newgate Street – that’ll become 35 when Boots closes in April.
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Running for the bookies of Bishop
GAMBLING was effectively legalised in 1960, but before then a shadowy network of bookmakers and runners existed, trying to find ways around the law. Memories 502 told how on a Saturday afternoon in the 1950s, the whole of south Durham seems to have been phoning five numbers beginning Shildon 151 and ending with Shildon 156 to place a bet with Fred Simpson, who ran a bookmaker’s in Eldon. As long as no cash exchanged hands, gambling was legal, so gamblers had to have an account with Freddie on which their winnings and losings were totted up. But not everyone had a phone. Harry Elliso...
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