Tales of Old County Durham
Tales of Old County Durham

Author: Martin Dufferwiel

Publisher: Countryside Books (GB)

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9781846742491

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County Durham has a long history and a fascinating folklore. These are some tales of drama and enchantment drawn from that rich treasury. Who was the lovestruck, tragic girl who penned the original song Bonny Bobby Shafto? What made the poor and rejected John Duck turn back to Durham, where he made a fortune and became a celebrated mayor of the city? Why was the rector of Sedgefield's body pickled and kept in the living room for a fortnight after he died?

County Durham Folk Tales
County Durham Folk Tales

Author: Adam Bushnell

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2017-10-20

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0750986050

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Storyteller and author Adam Bushnell brings together stories from the rugged coastlines, limestone cliffs, remote moorland, pastoral dales and settled coalfields of County Durham. In this treasure trove of tales you will meet the evil fairies of Weardale, the shape-changing witch from Easington, the Bishop Auckland boar, the Dun Cow from Durham City and many other characters – all as fantastical and powerful as the landscape they inhabit. Retold in an engaging style, and richly illustrated with unique line drawings, these humorous, clever and enchanting folk tales are sure to be enjoyed and shared time and again.

Durham County
Durham County

Author: Jean Bradley Anderson

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2011-05-09

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13: 0822349833

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This sweeping history of Durham County, North Carolina, extends from the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth.

The A-Z of Curious County Durham
The A-Z of Curious County Durham

Author: Martin Dufferwiel

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0750957352

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This book draws upon the varied history and unique heritage of the County Palatine of Durham, an ancient land of saints and warlords. It is a catalogue of curious tales, odd anecdotes and quirky characters from County Durham's past. Within its pages the reader will discover stories of hauntings, murders and mysterious deaths, while modern-day enigmas – such as the ancient structure that archaeologists remain at a loss to explain, or the lost treasure found at the bottom of the River Wear – are revisited. Inspired in part by the chronicles and compendiums of County Durham's nineteenth-century historians and antiquarians, this book is a miscellany – at times tragic, at times comic, but always entertaining. And for those for whom the collective subjects hold a perennial fascination, it is ideal for dipping into, perhaps to learn something new about wonderfully curious County Durham.

Durham Tales
Durham Tales

Author: Jim Wise

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2008-11-12

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 1614230374

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Run into the history of the Bull City! There is much history in the Bull City, and some of it can be found within these pages. How Bull Durham smoking tobacco put Durham, North Carolina, on the map. How a plastic cow and an oversized flag cut the city council down to size. How it felt to travel back in time at the Duke Homestead. How sportsman Al Mann and "Mom" Ruby Planck left indelible marks on their hometown. Journalist and local historian Jim Wise shows you that while Durham's stories are its own, readers may find the people, places and truths in them resonate with hometowns everywhere.

The A-Z of Curious County Durham
The A-Z of Curious County Durham

Author: Martin Dufferwiel

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0750957352

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This book draws upon the varied history and unique heritage of the County Palatine of Durham, an ancient land of saints and warlords. It is a catalogue of curious tales, odd anecdotes and quirky characters from County Durham’s past. Within its pages the reader will discover stories of hauntings, murders and mysterious deaths, while modern-day enigmas – such as the ancient structure that archaeologists remain at a loss to explain, or the lost treasure found at the bottom of the River Wear – are revisited. Inspired in part by the chronicles and compendiums of County Durham’s nineteenth-century historians and antiquarians, this book is a miscellany – at times tragic, at times comic, but always entertaining. And for those for whom the collective subjects hold a perennial fascination, it is ideal for dipping into, perhaps to learn something new about wonderfully curious County Durham.

Demonic County Durham: The Vengeful Spirit of Lumley and Willington near Durham, 1630
Demonic County Durham: The Vengeful Spirit of Lumley and Willington near Durham, 1630

Author: Darrell S. Nixon

Publisher: Darrell S. Nixon

Published: 2016-08-05

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13:

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“I am the spirit of such a woman who lived with Walker…” 21 December 1630. Midnight. An old miller prepares to finish his work in a corn mill in the hamlet of Lumley, in the County of Durham. Suddenly he hears movement on the floor below him, and as he takes a flaming candle and descends the stairs, he is shocked to discover “… a woman standing upon the midst of the floor with her hair about her head hanging down and all bloody, with five large wounds on her head...” This was the scene for Northern England’s most singular and legendary Christmas ghost story. Then another tale, set in the 19th Century, was told in the press of a mysterious haunting that was occurring in the old mill house at Willington Quay, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The two narratives, seemingly dissimilar to each other, had captured the imagination of many historians and ghost hunters for years, and still do to this very day. Now it is time that the two are threaded together, in one of the most true and horrifying experience of a ghostly encounter, related through the miller and the apparition of the murdered woman, like never before…