Summary
A picture of children playing in the street at the start of the Sixties throws up a perhaps unexpected link with one of the region's newest luxury hotels
Echo Memories has been captivated by the picture of boys playing football in South Terrace, Bishop Auckland, in July 1960 since it appeared in our first supplement on October 7. Since then, we have named all the boys and girls, we have discussed the banana-ripening warehouse and we have identified the lorry as a diesel TK Bedford. At the top of the picture is Flintoff Sreet. Much altered, today it still runs at 90 degrees to South Terrace and connects with Newgate Street. A couple of readers have asked:See the full content of this document
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A Career On the Line
"Why Flintoff?" Cliff Howe, in Billingham, near Stockton, has been doing some detective work, which has led us to one of south Durham's most overlooked engineers.
THE first mention of Flintoff Street is in 1848 when a Mrs Smith was living there, perhaps in the first house that was built at the Newgate Street end.In the 1851 census, there were seven houses occupied by working men: two joiners, two masons, a railway ...See the full content of this document
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