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Pillbox West of Blackwell Bridge, Darlington
This Pillbox is one of a pair defending the Blackwell Bridge crossing of the River Skerne in Darlington The structure is now deeply buried in the undergrowth and tricky to approach The pillbox itself...
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Pillbox East of Blackwell Bridge, Darlington
This pillbox is only a short distance from the one on the opposite side of the bridge, but of a completely different construction. It’s been made from concrete blocks and beams, with a couple of rows...
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Pillbox, Salters Lane, Darlington
After the last two slightly unusual models, we’re back to something more conventional in build and design. This is a lozenge design with three embrasures on the longest side. Its the same as the one on...
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Letters from the Front – 31st October 2pm
Wednesday 31st October at 2pm at Loftus Library by Peter Appleton entitled ‘Letters from the Front’ – the loves, lives and losses from the trenches of WW1 The talk is free and tea, coffee and biscuits...
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Tom Dresser V.C. Memorial
A memorial to Private Tom Dresser was unveiled on 12th May 2017 to mark the centenary of the actions that saw him awarded the Victoria Cross. The sculptor of the memorial was Brian Alabaster and it...
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Apple Orchard Bridge – Missing Inscription
This almost blank stone tells an interesting story, all that remains is the name R Sawtell, County Surveyor, the rest has been chipped away. During 1940/1941 the threat of German invasion was great...
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Dunsdale War Memorial
With just two rows of ironstone miners cottages in Dunsdale, I thought it would be straightforward to track all of the names down, but it’s never that simple. I would love to hear from anyone who has...
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Carlin How War Memorial
CARLIN HOWWAR MEMORIAL1914 – 1918TO THE GLORIOUS DEADTHE PATH OF DUTY WAS THE WAY TO GLORY 2nd Lt G MasonSergt. F Hutton Sergt. J WilliamsCorp. W Cherry Corp. J W StephensonCorp. A TeasdaleCorp J...
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Bombardment of the Hartlepools
On my previous visit to the site in mid-2014 this monument did not exist, it appeared a few months later. It commemorates the death of 114 civilians, 9 soldiers and 7 sailors killed in the Bombardment...
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Swinsty Cross
This remote cross is a memorial to Probationary Flight Officer Francis Holt Yates Titcomb of the Royal Naval Air Service. Flying a Maurice Farman Longhorn, he took off from the RNAS training airfield...
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