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1974: How many of these events from 50 years ago do you remember? THE NORTH STAR housing association, which now has more than 4,000 homes across the Tees Valley, County Durham and North Yorkshire, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, having been formed in 1974. Was 1974 a vintage year? Well, you decide – it was certainly a year packed with historic events… A station, an ironmaster's headquarters and a hole in the wall... HOUSING associations are usually thought of as running streets of houses or building blocks of flats, but North Star also plays an important role in regenerating sites that have fallen into disrepair and in finding a new use for historic buildings that would otherwise have been doomed. Putting a bottle to a stopper from the days of Darlington's brewery MEMORIES 675 told how Leanne Carroll had discovered a 100-year-old bottle-stopper from Hindes’ Brewery in Darlington while out walking in the Skerningham area of town. The orphan who went to war and the Tyne's greatest rower ALL too often, it is only when people are gone that those left behind begin to piece together their live stories. The footballers who played on a plague pit THE spring special edition of Memories told stories of public parks and village greens (Mems 672), including the tale of how Hurworth village green may be the site of a plague pit, with anywhere up to 1,500 victims of a 17th Century pandemic buried beneath its gentle undulations. Meet the man who saved the finest Georgian playhouse in the country WHEN David Brooks arrived in Richmond as the new town clerk during the Second World War, he discovered that the council was using one of the oldest theatres in the country as a salvage store. The true grit of Boro's youngest hat-trick scorer, McAndrew "GRIT and determination were what my game was all about," said former Boro defender Tony McAndrew after we spotted him in Ferryhill Workmen's Club last week. Ghosts, rescues and wrecks: the gory stories of our lighthouses “WHETHER at home on sea or on land, we have a special affinity to lighthouses,” says Roger O’Reilly in his new book on the country’s 100 top lighthouses. From Cathy Come Home to the Endeavour: how a housing association started 50 years ago IN November 1966, when there were only three channels on flickery black-and-white television, a quarter of the British population watched a Wednesday evening play called Cathy Come Home. Read more

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