That was great to see how the town has changed. I remember when I passed my test in 2005 aged 17, so in sorts recent history, I used to drive my newly acquired Rover 25 down High Row and park outside the bank that I wanted to visit. No smart phones and apps back then lol. Use to be a nice town back then!
@Anne Butzen i think people of the future times maybe thousand years after , they allready found the time machine , they are what we call aliens. Aliens are the people of the future
DO YOU KNOW YOUR UNUSUAL NEIGHBOURS AND LOCAL HISTORY IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND COUNTY DURHAM, DARLINGTON, TEESSIDE, BILLINGHAM, MIDDLESBROUGH, STOCKTON, YARM, NEWCASTLE, JESMOND & YORK Most people living in the North of England think they know their neighbours and local history but how would you know your neighbour worked for MI6? Most who knew the Fairclough family didn’t have a clue that from the seventies Bill Fairclough was a secret agent (MI6 codename JJ) working for various intelligence agencies. What’s more they had no idea he was following in his parents’ footsteps. Bill's parents met during the Second World War when his father, ostensibly working for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), worked secretly on creating bombs to wipe out the Nazi's industrial hinterland. In 1941 in Yarm Richard married Margaret Hawxwell, a local lass from Middlesbrough. After the war in Europe ended in May 1945, Dr Richard Alan Fairclough continued to work for British Intelligence (MI1). Not long after retiring from ICI in the seventies, Richard Fairclough opened and ran an antiquarian book shop business in Yarm High Street until his death in 1987. The book shop was a bit of an enigma as it was also a haunt for spooks. Why? Best ask his son Bill Fairclough (MI6 codename JJ). When not gated at St Peter’s School, York Bill Fairclough spent most of his childhood and early teens in the North East of England. As a child in the fifties he was educated at Red House School in Norton. He lived in Billingham and then in a vast white house (once the home of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley) in Norton Green overlooking the duck pond. In Bill’s teens, the Faircloughs moved to live in Middleton St George and later in Yarm. Bill also lived in flats he rented near nightclubs he helped run during the late sixties and early seventies in Portrack, Stockton-on-Tees and Jesmond in Newcastle upon Tyne. Conveniently for him they were near the offices of the firm of Chartered Accountants (Coopers & Lybrand, now PwC) he worked for in Middlesbrough and Newcastle upon Tyne. So if you lived, worked or visited any of these places you may well have unwittingly encountered this “spooky” family, been their neighbours or inhabited the houses they lived in. A quick web-search will even disclose some of the addresses where they lived. Mind you, if you live in any of them now, best sweep them for bugs! Details including full addresses of where the Faircloughs lived and worked are given in most of Bill Fairclough’s bios on the web such as can be found at everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/bill-fairclough. If you were as fascinated as we were, you can also read the raw fact based thriller Beyond Enkription, the first stand-alone novel to be released in The Burlington Files series (theburlingtonfiles.org/#/reviews). It’s a memorable and distinctively different noir espionage thriller based on his and his family’s experiences in 1974 and he still seems to be operational as Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings might have noticed (theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2021.07.21.php).
Proud to be from Darlo . Surge of pride with the railway finale there ! Well done, thoroughly enjoyed
That is an incredible piece of work, well done.
This was excellent thank you New Zealand
Town Hall is actually the Old Town Hall as it's now part of the indoor market. The new town hall is not in the video.
Absolutely awesome
That was great to see how the town has changed. I remember when I passed my test in 2005 aged 17, so in sorts recent history, I used to drive my newly acquired Rover 25 down High Row and park outside the bank that I wanted to visit. No smart phones and apps back then lol. Use to be a nice town back then!
Thanks for the vlog.
I'd love to see one of these that goes back to its origins
Like lots. thank you.
Excellent work.
Simply Brilliant these Videos, If we could it would be great
Beautiful Presentation ❤
Brilliant...love Monte Darlo 🙂
Superb.
this is awesome
Wow! Very clever. Thank you
The fact I live here is insane
Same
Incredible old video for this
Darlington lost class when Dressers closed down! Shame--lovely store! great book choices!
Terrible place--who flogged my name in an earlier post? Jasen Wright!!
Finally racing today @ Darlington! Go JJ #48
I think you might be thinking of the other Darlington
Man if you find the time machine find me abd i promise ill come with you.
@Anne Butzen i think people of the future times maybe thousand years after , they allready found the time machine , they are what we call aliens. Aliens are the people of the future
That's not bad 🙂
😃
DO YOU KNOW YOUR UNUSUAL NEIGHBOURS AND LOCAL HISTORY IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND
COUNTY DURHAM, DARLINGTON, TEESSIDE, BILLINGHAM, MIDDLESBROUGH, STOCKTON, YARM, NEWCASTLE, JESMOND & YORK
Most people living in the North of England think they know their neighbours and local history but how would you know your neighbour worked for MI6? Most who knew the Fairclough family didn’t have a clue that from the seventies Bill Fairclough was a secret agent (MI6 codename JJ) working for various intelligence agencies. What’s more they had no idea he was following in his parents’ footsteps.
Bill's parents met during the Second World War when his father, ostensibly working for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), worked secretly on creating bombs to wipe out the Nazi's industrial hinterland. In 1941 in Yarm Richard married Margaret Hawxwell, a local lass from Middlesbrough. After the war in Europe ended in May 1945, Dr Richard Alan Fairclough continued to work for British Intelligence (MI1).
Not long after retiring from ICI in the seventies, Richard Fairclough opened and ran an antiquarian book shop business in Yarm High Street until his death in 1987. The book shop was a bit of an enigma as it was also a haunt for spooks. Why? Best ask his son Bill Fairclough (MI6 codename JJ).
When not gated at St Peter’s School, York Bill Fairclough spent most of his childhood and early teens in the North East of England. As a child in the fifties he was educated at Red House School in Norton. He lived in Billingham and then in a vast white house (once the home of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley) in Norton Green overlooking the duck pond. In Bill’s teens, the Faircloughs moved to live in Middleton St George and later in Yarm. Bill also lived in flats he rented near nightclubs he helped run during the late sixties and early seventies in Portrack, Stockton-on-Tees and Jesmond in Newcastle upon Tyne. Conveniently for him they were near the offices of the firm of Chartered Accountants (Coopers & Lybrand, now PwC) he worked for in Middlesbrough and Newcastle upon Tyne.
So if you lived, worked or visited any of these places you may well have unwittingly encountered this “spooky” family, been their neighbours or inhabited the houses they lived in. A quick web-search will even disclose some of the addresses where they lived. Mind you, if you live in any of them now, best sweep them for bugs!
Details including full addresses of where the Faircloughs lived and worked are given in most of Bill Fairclough’s bios on the web such as can be found at everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/bill-fairclough. If you were as fascinated as we were, you can also read the raw fact based thriller Beyond Enkription, the first stand-alone novel to be released in The Burlington Files series (theburlingtonfiles.org/#/reviews). It’s a memorable and distinctively different noir espionage thriller based on his and his family’s experiences in 1974 and he still seems to be operational as Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings might have noticed (theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2021.07.21.php).
That was brilliant 👏
Google earth.