Echo Memories - Come Friendly Bombs and Fall On . . .Eden

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Eden by name, but not by nature. It was so bad, in fact, that one suggestion was to drop a bomb on it, but people down South had other ideas, as Echo Memories reports

EDEN should be "a place or state of great delight or contentment", but in Durham 70 years ago, it was anything but.

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Echo Memories - Come Friendly Bombs and Fall On . . .Eden

It was simply a state. Such a hellish state, in fact, that the best way to improve it was to drop a bomb on it.

Instead, though, the people of Bedford more than 200 miles away took pity on it.

For Echo Memories - and the accompanying blog on The Northern Echo's website - this is a return to Eden Pit, as we were inquiring about it a couple of weeks ago.

Readers have since shown ...

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