The Australian Memorial Park at Fromelles, Northern France. Photo - Brian Harris © 2009
UP TO 400 British and Australian soldiers who were killed during the Battle of Fromelles in July 1916 and buried by the Germans in mass graves, are to be exhumed from their recently-discovered burial pits and re-interred in individual graves in a purpose-built cemetery.
The gruesome find was made in June 2008 by a team of archaeologists from Glasgow University working in northern France for the Australian Government, British MOD and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Continue reading Lost soldiers to rest in peace after 90 years
JUST 800 MILES (1287 km) from the North Pole, paleontologists believe they have found the fossilized remains of a massive sea monster that lived 150 million years ago.
Predator X — a new species of a Pliosaur — is said to have been the most dangerous creature to have lived under water.
The creature was about 50 feet (15 meters) long, weighed approximately 45 tonnes (40,823,000 kg), had a head ten feet (3 meters) long
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AS THE NUMBER of people investigating their family history continues to soar, people can save cash and find out how to go about researching their family tree by using Directgov.
Following programmes like the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are?, interest in genealogy has grown rapidly in recent years. Some commercial companies charge as much as £30.00 for a birth certificate but each certificate costs from just £7.00 if you order online via Directgov.
Continue reading A direct line to the past
I hope you don’t mind as this has nothing to do with The Time Machine… although it is a snapshot of my own time (frozen forever). I just looked out of my office window a little while ago and this is what I saw… just couldn’t let the moment pass and thought I’d share it with you. I actually
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A message from a member of Woolworth's staff
Many thanks to Isabel Adams for these great
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Our Woolies hotline has been buzzing since we sent out an nationwide appeal for photographs and memories following the demise of the high street giant.
We have had responses from all over the UK, from ex-Woolworth employees, from customers and Forum fans.
Woolworths, MetroCentre, Gateshead.
Woolworths, Front Street, Stanley in County Durham
Woolworths, Oldham.
Woolworths, Yorkshire Street, Rochdale, looking up hill.
Here’s a couple of shots from the north east. Woolworths at the MetroCentre in Gateshead from Brian Clough and the store in Front Street, Stanley from forum member Dave57.
We recently posted a couple of shots from the Scottish Borders – stores at Hawick and Galashiels – and here’s another pair, this time the stores that once graced the high streets at Oldham and Rochdale.
We have Christine Arrowsmith to thank for those and a basketful of other memories to go with them. “My links with Woolies goes back to 1965 when I and some school friends landed Saturday jobs at the store in Fawcett Street in Sunderland.
Continue reading More fond memories of Woolies
Outgoing Chairman of Durham County Council Joe O Donnell pictured centre with other officials from various North East councils prior to the unitary ceremony at Durham County Hall
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