ECHO MURDERS Triple execution at Durham Part 4: The hangman gets to work
ELIZABETH Pearson of Gainford, William McHugh, of Barnard Castle and Michael Gilligan of Darlington were up at six on the morning of August 2, 1875.
ECHO MURDERS Triple execution at Durham Part 1: The Gainford Poisoner
AT 6am on August 2, 1875 – 150 years ago next summer – three convicted murders were roused from their cells in Durham jail and taken to meet their dreadful fate.
ECHO MURDERS Triple execution at Durham Part 2: The Barnard Castle Whiskey Drinker
ON THE night of April 10, 1875, at least seven people were drinking whisky in an upstairs room in the crowded hovels of Barnard Castle’s notorious Bridgegate, down by the river.
ECHO MURDERS Triple execution at Durham Part 3: The Darlington Fenian Murder
THERE was something extremely sinister about the murder of John Kilcran in Darlington town centre on Easter Sunday, 1875. He was an Irishman. He was attacked by Irishmen, and the man who hanged for his murder was an Irishman.
ECHO MEMORIES Zero posts and border signs: relics from another age left beside our railways
IT wasn’t just roads that had mile markers on them: railways did, too, as Memories 701 noted.
ECHO MEMORIES
A journey on the A67: Dick Turpin, the Baydale Beck, a lost white cross and a gin-gan
PERHAPS legendary highwayman Dick Turpin really did stay at the Baydale Beck Inn on the western edge of Darlington.
ECHO MEMORIES
Darlington's fabulous facial hair over the decades charted in new exhibition
IN September 2002, the BBC's Inside Out programme declared Darlington to be the "hairdressing capital of Britain" as its 97th hairdresser had just opened.
