![A team of knitters have begun making thousands of poppies to be ready for Armistice Day. They are pictured at Nunthorpe Railway Station in Middlesbrough, fronted by Sophie Marshall (6) and Iris McGlynn (5). Picture: CHRIS BOOTH](http://www.thenortheastatwar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/imgID78469354.jpg.gallery-220x162.jpg)
Knitted poppy tribute to fallen is on track
August 23, 2016
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![REUNITED: (l-r) Norma and Brian Corner with long-lost relative Margaret Eason](http://www.thenortheastatwar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/imgID71897936.jpg.gallery-220x162.jpg)
Family reunited by old photograph of Somme casualty
June 29, 2016
![Tears during the service of dedication at Wheatley Hill Cemetery.](http://www.thenortheastatwar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/45024909-220x162.jpg)
![LEFT BEHIND: Eliza and Michael Lowery junior, the son his father never saw, outside their home in Clarence Street shortly after the end of the war](http://www.thenortheastatwar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/widow-220x162.jpg)
Bowburn: A village of widows and spinsters
August 3, 2015
![An exhibition at the DLI Museum](http://www.thenortheastatwar.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/4741033-220x162.jpg)
Fate of prisoners of war revealed in talk at DLI museum
June 16, 2015