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Hello and welcome to Monday's Look North on the 100th anniversary of | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Communities commemorate the men who left to fight, | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
We revisit the mile`long munitions factory on the Tyne which stpplied | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
And we journey back in time to 914, to learn about the lives of those | :00:19. | :00:26. | |
In other news, Norman Cornish, the coalminer who painted | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
the pit communities of County Durham, has died, aged 94. | :00:33. | :00:42. | |
In sport, as we say goodbye to the Commonwealth Games, we look back at | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
another unforgettable golden weekend for our region's athletes. | :00:50. | :00:59. | |
tonight, it'll be 100 years to the minute since Britain declared | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
Commemoration events started at the weekend. | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
And today, communities across the region have marked the centenary | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
We have a series of reports coming up from Teesside, | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
Meanwhile, on Tyneside at the Metro Centre in Gateshead, a seven`metre | :01:18. | :01:26. | |
high chandelier, comprised of 60 huge poppies was unvehled | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
Minster, followed by the release of racing pigeons to symbolise | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
the vital war work by these birds, carrying messages to and | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
Meanwhile, on Tyneside at the Metro Centre in Gateshead, a seven`metre | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
high chandelier, comprised of 60 huge poppies was unvehled | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
A religious service there w`s attended by the Bishop of Durham. | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
Around 100 people took part in a short service at the War Memorial | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
in the grounds of Saint Andrew's Church in Penrith this mornhng. | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
It was the first of a number of events held there throughout | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
the day to commemorate the start of the First World War. | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
It is really commemorating the generation of youth who lost | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
I am always reminded, reading the poetry of 1914, the vision of hope | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
That wonderful future was never going to be theirs. | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
100 years on, the names of the fallen reminded the congregation | :02:32. | :02:42. | |
A book was opened for peopld to record the names of family and | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
What we have now is gained from those brave soldiers, | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
Who gave their lives so we could be free. | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
When you visit the battlefidlds and see the stuff very fought | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
Today's service wasn't about the glorification of war but | :03:05. | :03:14. | |
remembering those who died to give us freedom and hope for the future. | :03:15. | :03:25. | |
The sunflower, it comes into full bloom at the end of the summer. | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
But 1,245 of them, grown all across Stockton, have been cut down early, | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
cut down in their prime, and brought here to the Parish Church gardens. | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
Each one represents a townsman lost in the Great War. | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
Almost within minutes of cutting them down they start to wilt. It is | :03:44. | :03:56. | |
that sudden, instant loss of life that we are trying to reflect. | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
The sunflower also reflects the vibrancy | :04:01. | :04:01. | |
and youthful splendour of the men of Stockton who never returned and are | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
1,245 individual stories of sacrifice, bravery, fear, | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
Private Thomas Hughes's maybe the most poignant. | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
A last letter to his wife, tossed overboard mid`channel in a bottle. | :04:15. | :04:24. | |
Thomas Hughes was going off to war to fight, he sent a love letter to | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
his wife and wanted it to be his wife and wanted it to be | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
delivered. Two days later, he was killed. It wasn't until 1988 | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
delivered. Two days later, he was killed. It wasn't until 1989 that | :04:39. | :04:39. | |
killed. It wasn't until 1988 that the letter got delivered to his | :04:40. | :04:40. | |
family. I am here with my brothers | :04:41. | :05:30. | |
and sisters, Continuing with our World War One | :05:31. | :06:42. | |
coverage and all this week on Look North we have a series of reports | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
looking at the contribution of But following the German invasion | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
of Belgium, Britain declared war Tonight, remembrance campaigners are | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
hoping people will mark the exact 100th anniversary of the outbreak | :06:55. | :07:04. | |
of war in a special, symbolic, way. Gerry Jackson is on the | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
Tyne Quayside to explain. Dawn, Britain's Foreign Secretary | :07:08. | :07:23. | |
was Sir Edward Grey, a Northumberland native who would have | :07:24. | :07:33. | |
preferred to have been up hdre. Instead he tried to prevent a | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
European war. The story goes that as piece ebbed away, he looked out of | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
the window and saw gas lamps being extinguished, he | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
we will not see the lights `gain in our lifetime. They are asking now | :07:53. | :08:03. | |
for us all to turn our lights off at ten out of respect. When it came to | :08:04. | :08:14. | |
making weapons and munitions, there were few places more vital to that | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
than one narrow strip of land close to the Tyne. | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
It was the biggest privatelx owned arms company on the planet. | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
Vast enough in 2014, but in the Great War, these works | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
on the Tyne stretched for more than a mile along the river. | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
It was the legacy of the Northeast's greatest industrialist. | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
William Armstrong built a crane making plant here, hn 1 47, | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
by 1900 Lord Armstrong controlled a shipbuilding | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
He laid the groundwork. It was his incredible ambition and divhsion. | :08:45. | :08:58. | |
He laid the groundwork. It was his incredible ambition and division. He | :08:59. | :08:58. | |
incredible ambition and divhsion. He was an extraordinary man, an | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
inventor, scientists, visionary. There was an arms race years | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
before the Great War. Armstrongs built advanced w`rships | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
and the huge guns But by the time hostilities broke | :09:08. | :09:08. | |
out in 1914, the company was ready Within a year, | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
this had become total war. The war is unprecedented in almost | :09:14. | :09:25. | |
every aspect. Particularly in the every aspect. Particularly in the | :09:26. | :09:34. | |
scale of production. This is really central in the national and | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
international picture. The whole empire was looking at Britahn and | :09:39. | :09:39. | |
empire was looking at Britain and what we could do in our armhng the | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
what we could do in our arming the Empire. Later in the war, t`nks | :09:43. | :09:54. | |
ships and aircraft were all made here. | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
By 1918 nearly 80,000 people worked on ships, arms and munitions, | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
It was well paid, but production quotas were relentless. | :10:02. | :10:12. | |
Absolutely, you had a very fierce shifts. 12 hour shifts. One off. | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
Absolutely, you had a very fierce shifts. 12 hour shifts. One off You | :10:21. | :10:20. | |
shifts. 12 hour shifts. One off. You certainly had to produce. The whole | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
thing was targets. It opened a lot of opportunities, there was a | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
positive side. It was also very challenging, there was a fear of | :10:32. | :10:41. | |
accidents and attack. Factories were plunged into darkness somethmes | :10:42. | :10:42. | |
because of Zeppelin raids. I was because of Zeppelin raids. I was | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
only there two nights when H because of Zeppelin raids. H was | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
only there two nights when H bent down and caught my hair in the | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
machine. Everybody was all out to get the job done and they worked all | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
out. Another consequence | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
of this expanded workforce: a sense of common purpose that we'd | :11:04. | :11:05. | |
never seen the like of before. The nature of this war is that the | :11:06. | :11:15. | |
well. Everybody is fighting the war well. Everybody is fighting the war | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
when they are in khaki or in a factory. | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
Eventually, the might of empire, allies and ammunition would prevail. | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
The weight of the Armstrong Whitworth contribttion, | :11:25. | :11:26. | |
But the ghosts of a century ago would scarcely recognise | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
A mile downstream, brickwork fragments of a crucible of war. | :11:30. | :11:42. | |
This is the last surviving bit of the works. That is rather poignant | :11:43. | :11:51. | |
when you think what it was like There has been a lot about the | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
military in the world war. I think military in the world war. I think | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
we should give more emphasis to what was happening on home territory, | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
we should give more emphasis to what was happening on home territory it | :12:03. | :12:02. | |
was happening on home territory, it was a social revolution, thd | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
beginning of the modern world. I don't think any event has had as | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
much of an effect on the world as the First World War. There are | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
the First World War. There `re places in the world that have a | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
profound impact on that wall, no more place than here. Tonight, we | :12:23. | :12:30. | |
are all being asked to turn off our lights to mark that last hotr of | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
lights to mark that last hour of peace in August 1914. From ten until | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
11pm, the organisers are asking us to light a candle instead. There are | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
places up and down the region, where ceremonial switch off is taking | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
Do you share your pictures of via Do you share your pictures of via | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
social media. We'll see the lights going out in our latest news at | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
10:30pm tonight. The First World War claimed nearly 1 million British and | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
Commonwealth lives, there wdre nine Commonwealth lives, there wdre nine | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
or ten million killed around the world. It is no surprise th`t it | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
world. It is no surprise that it still has such an emotional poll for | :13:18. | :13:19. | |
us all. Practically every f`mily in us all. Practically every f`mily in | :13:20. | :13:27. | |
Britain was affected. Ceremonies of remembrance began over the weekend. | :13:28. | :14:14. | |
We try to speech the social history, how it affected the country. Massive | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
social change. We are basic`lly social change. We are basic`lly | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
civilians in uniforms. The volunteers weren't soldiers, there | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
were just men doing the job because they felt it was right. A sense | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
were just men doing the job because they felt it was right. A sdnse of | :14:34. | :14:35. | |
duty and packages. We are doing it as homage to them. `` duty and | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
as homage to them. `` duty `nd patriotism. | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
Still to come, Dawn has all the action from the closing weekend | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
Plus Norman Cornish, the mine r who painted the scenes he saw | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
There is sand and sun here `t the North East's nudist beach resort, | :14:54. | :15:07. | |
join me for the weather fordcast. North East's nudist beach rdsort, | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
join me for the weather forecast. `` newest beach. | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
Returning to the World War One commemoration. | :15:19. | :15:19. | |
And perhaps the place where it's possible to imagine what life really | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
was like in 1914, is Beamish Museum in County Durham. | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
The reconstructed town and pit village date back to that period, | :15:26. | :15:27. | |
and today volunteers recreated a day from 1914 for museum visitors. | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
If you had been shot in the arm, so that he could still move his arm... | :15:31. | :15:38. | |
Their great`great`grandfathers fought in the First World W`r, | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
at Beamish today, families got a brief idea of what | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
Possibly all those things, maybe worried? | :15:46. | :15:56. | |
To commemorate the start of the First World War, Bealish is | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
evoking poignant memories, displays and exhibitions taking us back 100 | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
Here, this group of women were knitting | :16:04. | :16:13. | |
for the Allied forces, in 1814 on the front line there was a desperate | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
You just have to read some of the letters that came home from the | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
front about how grateful thd men were shortage of socks and mittens. | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
Things like socks or mittens or something like that to make life | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
At 11 o'clock, the last post was played, | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
Marking the day that Britain declared war on Germany. | :16:43. | :16:55. | |
It changed dramatically everyone's lives to families, | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
In the North East, like a lot of other areas, we suffered. | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
100 years on, and memories of the great War still | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
A new generation today learning to stop and think. | :17:10. | :17:21. | |
Tributes have been paid to the County Durham artist Norman Cornish, | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
who has died at the age of 84. Norman Cornish was a miner for 33 | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
years and spent his life pahnting images of the pit communities around | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
his home town of Spennymoor, with the paintings selling for thousands | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
of pounds. Sharuna Sagar looks back at his life. | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
Norman Cornish won his first drawing competition | :17:44. | :17:44. | |
at the age of four and went on to spend the next 7 decades capturing | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
He said all humanity was here, and he spent his life drawing it. | :17:49. | :17:57. | |
These people are not interested in me, they are not posing for me. | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
It is enormously difficult, a talent, | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
Like his father and grandfather before him, Norman Cornish went | :18:06. | :18:14. | |
down the mine at 14 and continued working there until he was 47. | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
Considering that he spent 33 years working in the mines, he was still | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
able to do his 12, 14 hour shift, walk four hours a day to and | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
Then later, continue to support his wife and children. | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
He gradually received recognition from other galleries and museums. | :18:40. | :18:47. | |
Largely self taught, his artistic education began | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
at the age of 15 at the Spennymoor Settlement, a sketching club | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
His sketches and paintings `re a unique record of a time | :18:55. | :19:09. | |
The ordinary becomes unusual as time passes. | :19:10. | :19:20. | |
It happened that it seems I have recorded a bit of human history. | :19:21. | :19:38. | |
An amazing client who will be very sadly mist. Mark, like me, you | :19:39. | :19:46. | |
An amazing client who will be very sadly mist. Mark, like me, xou got | :19:47. | :19:47. | |
sadly mist. Mark, like me, you got up to Glasgow. It was a gre`t | :19:48. | :19:49. | |
up to Glasgow. It was a great Commonwealth Games wasn't it? Yes, | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
not least because we won some not least because we won sole | :19:53. | :19:53. | |
medals. Well the Commonwealth Games finally | :19:54. | :19:55. | |
drew to a close at But before they did, | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
the medals kept on coming for our region another seven over the final | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
weekend, including two gold medals. Hartlepool's Savannah Marshall has | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
had her trials and tribulathons But she put her Olympic | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
disappointment and ten months of injury troubles behind her to become | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
the first women's middleweight It took a split decision victory | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
over Canada's Ariane Fortin but The conversation over the dinner | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
table might have been a bit strained It was a lot closer than I thought | :20:19. | :20:31. | |
it would be, but I am happy. There are a lot of people who camd that I | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
are a lot of people who came that I didn't know were there. Somd of my | :20:34. | :20:35. | |
friends came and stood outside. didn't know were there. Some of my | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
friends came and stood outshde. They friends came and stood outside. They | :20:41. | :20:41. | |
didn't have tickets and stood outside in the rain. They c`me up | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
from Hartlepool just to be there? Yes, they got here and realised the | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
Yes, they got here and realhsed the price of the tickets. We can afford | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
it so stood outside. The conversation over the dinner | :20:53. | :21:15. | |
table might have been a bit strained had they lost, but Paul Drinkhall | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
from Loftus in East Cleveland did leave Glasgow with a table tennis | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
gold medal after he and his wife Joanna beat | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
their England teammates Liam Pitchford and Tin Tin Ho in five | :21:26. | :21:27. | |
tense sets in the mixed doubles. Danny Reed, from Hutton Rudby , | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
who first met Paul at the Ormesby club in Middlesbrough, | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
made it an England clean`swdep with Stockton's Richard Kilty helped | :21:35. | :21:36. | |
secured Silver for England, in the 4 by 100 metres relay, he ran the | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
third leg in what was a tight race And there were two bronze medals | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
for Carlisle's Lauren Smith in the badminton doubles, | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
and Harrogate's James Willstrop Earlier Harrogate's Jenny Dtcalf | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
helped singles runner`up Laura And the North Yorkshire spa town is | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
still revelling in the diving success of Jack Laugher, with | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
his two gold medals, while ht seems a lifetime ago that South Shields | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
hailed Sarah Clark's judo gold at the start of a games which will be | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
fondly remembered for years to come. I haven't done the maths, but I | :22:10. | :22:32. | |
think it was one of our region's best medal hauls. Look wherd we | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
finished on the table, 11th. There were three for ex`pupils of a school | :22:39. | :22:47. | |
in Carlisle. Equal 20th in our table. Sunderland are close to | :22:48. | :22:56. | |
signing Jack Rodwell from Manchester city. | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
Newcastle United put the disappointment of losing to | :22:59. | :23:00. | |
Malaga in the Shalke Cup on Saturday behind them last night as they beat | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
Shalke, who came third in the Bundesliga last season, | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
were without a number of players and Newcastle took the lead when | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
Rolando Aarons whipped in a cross for Emmanual Riviere to score. | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
18`year`old Aarons, who's originally from Jamaica came | :23:13. | :23:14. | |
to the club as a 16`year`old and was the star of the show | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
as he scored one of his own after the break, he might have had a bit | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
of luck on his side but brilliant whether he meant it or not. | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
And Newcastle sealed victory 20 minutes from time when new signing | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
Facundo Ferreyra put the ball through to Remy Cabella to | :23:28. | :23:29. | |
Undefeated and top of the group the Falcons go through undefeated to | :23:30. | :24:02. | |
the finals at Twickenham Stoop on Friday where they hope to repeat | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
Cumbria, but here a little cloudier. It will cloud over more generally in | :24:06. | :25:32. | |
the West as the weather front approaches. Showers break out across | :25:33. | :25:34. | |
approaches. Showers break ott across the West Coast of Cumbria, spilling | :25:35. | :25:42. | |
inland into the evening. For the north`east and North Yorkshhre, it | :25:43. | :25:44. | |
north`east and North Yorkshire, it stays dry, with highs of 22 Celsius. | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
The big picture now, our prdssure The big picture now, our pressure | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
sequence. We pick it up tomorrow evening, the low`pressure sxstem | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
evening, the low`pressure system that brings those showers to Cumbria | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
continues. Showers or longer spells of rain across the north`east and | :26:04. | :26:05. | |
Cumbria. A ridge of high prdssure on Cumbria. A ridge of high pressure on | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
Thursday, settling things for the day. On Friday, a week when the | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
system could bring a few more showers from the south. Let's take a | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
look at what that will mean in detail around our towns, cities and | :26:20. | :26:28. | |
villages. In Cumbria, Wednesday is a wash out. Things settle on Thursday, | :26:29. | :26:37. | |
bright skies are back. Any North East, very similar as well, | :26:38. | :26:45. | |
Wednesday is Shari all day. Showers clear later. `` showers all day. | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
clear later. `` showers all day Friday, bright spells and showers. | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
That is the forecast here at the quayside, some weather for playing | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
outdoors. Back to you, Dawn. She might make the team yet. I will be | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
back with the latest news at 10:25pm, goodbye. | :27:09. | :27:15. |