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The Durham girl from a 'cursed' family who became the greatest love poet (opens the original)
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach… IN KELLOE church five or so miles north of Sedgefield, there is a plaque which commemorates the birth nearby of Elizabeth Barrett Browning who, it says, was “a great poetess, a noble woman, a devoted wife”. Elizabeth was one of the greatest romantic poets of the Victorian era, famed for her Sonnet 43 which begins as above, and for her great romance with her husband, Robert Browning. But
Meet the Darlington teenager who swam for nine hours and into the record books (opens the original)
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AT NINE o'clock on the morning of Saturday, October 1, 1910, 18-year-old Florence Trusler slipped into the water at Darlington's Kendrew Street swimming baths and became the first person in the town to set a world record. Up and down she swam, for hours and hours; sometimes on her back, sometimes doing breast stroke. For sustenance, while in the water, she consumed three bananas, three spoonfuls of honey and three small pieces of bread and cheese. Eventually, she strained her left knee and was f
North Yorkshire woman had the last word on village gossips with defiant grave message (opens the original)
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In Georgian Yorkshire, bearing even one child outside marriage could bring lifelong shame, so for Elizabeth Brown, who bore five or six illegitimate children, there must have been a lifetime of pointing fingers and wagging tongues. When she died, aged 70 in 1836, Elizabeth had had enough. From beyond the grave she issued a defiant blast against the gossips and the rumour-mongers whose words had wounded her when she had been among them. Elizabeth Brown's weathering headstone in Kirkby Fleetham ch
The 'forgotten' Teesdale waterfall only a short stroll from riverside path (opens the original)
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ONE of the joys of Northern Perspectives’ stunning aerial photography of our region is his ability to fly his drone into unexplored places. This is Bleabeck Force, which is the forgotten fall only a stroll on the riverside footpath to the west of High Force. With its pounding drop and plumes of spray, High Force is everyone’s dramatic favourite, but Bleabeck is its less terrible twin: it is a tiered cascade which breaks its tumble down the Whin Sill. “The stepped falls, the dark rock, the trees
Mystery of Darlington's 104-year-old widow who turned out to be someone else (opens the original)
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IN Darlington library, there is a print of a wonderfully wizened and wrinkly old lady. She’s a widow, says the writing at the bottom, by the name of Elizabeth Alexander who was 104 years old. It was printed in 1806 and sold for 5d (pennies, in old money). Another line on it says: “Pray, remember the poor.” The 1806 print showing Elizabeth Alexander, aged 104, which is in the Darlington Centre for Local Studies (Image: Darlington Centre for Local Studies) Attached to it is an undated article that
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