:00:00. > :00:00.Hello and welcome to Monday's Look North on the 100th anniversary of
:00:00. > :00:12.Communities commemorate the men who left to fight,
:00:13. > :00:18.We revisit the mile`long munitions factory on the Tyne which stpplied
:00:19. > :00:26.And we journey back in time to 914, to learn about the lives of those
:00:27. > :00:32.In other news, Norman Cornish, the coalminer who painted
:00:33. > :00:42.the pit communities of County Durham, has died, aged 94.
:00:43. > :00:49.In sport, as we say goodbye to the Commonwealth Games, we look back at
:00:50. > :00:59.another unforgettable golden weekend for our region's athletes.
:01:00. > :01:03.tonight, it'll be 100 years to the minute since Britain declared
:01:04. > :01:08.Commemoration events started at the weekend.
:01:09. > :01:11.And today, communities across the region have marked the centenary
:01:12. > :01:17.We have a series of reports coming up from Teesside,
:01:18. > :01:26.Meanwhile, on Tyneside at the Metro Centre in Gateshead, a seven`metre
:01:27. > :01:34.high chandelier, comprised of 60 huge poppies was unvehled
:01:35. > :01:36.Minster, followed by the release of racing pigeons to symbolise
:01:37. > :01:39.the vital war work by these birds, carrying messages to and
:01:40. > :01:44.Meanwhile, on Tyneside at the Metro Centre in Gateshead, a seven`metre
:01:45. > :01:47.high chandelier, comprised of 60 huge poppies was unvehled
:01:48. > :01:54.A religious service there w`s attended by the Bishop of Durham.
:01:55. > :02:00.Around 100 people took part in a short service at the War Memorial
:02:01. > :02:04.in the grounds of Saint Andrew's Church in Penrith this mornhng.
:02:05. > :02:07.It was the first of a number of events held there throughout
:02:08. > :02:12.the day to commemorate the start of the First World War.
:02:13. > :02:16.It is really commemorating the generation of youth who lost
:02:17. > :02:23.I am always reminded, reading the poetry of 1914, the vision of hope
:02:24. > :02:31.That wonderful future was never going to be theirs.
:02:32. > :02:42.100 years on, the names of the fallen reminded the congregation
:02:43. > :02:48.A book was opened for peopld to record the names of family and
:02:49. > :02:55.What we have now is gained from those brave soldiers,
:02:56. > :03:00.Who gave their lives so we could be free.
:03:01. > :03:04.When you visit the battlefidlds and see the stuff very fought
:03:05. > :03:14.Today's service wasn't about the glorification of war but
:03:15. > :03:25.remembering those who died to give us freedom and hope for the future.
:03:26. > :03:28.The sunflower, it comes into full bloom at the end of the summer.
:03:29. > :03:32.But 1,245 of them, grown all across Stockton, have been cut down early,
:03:33. > :03:38.cut down in their prime, and brought here to the Parish Church gardens.
:03:39. > :03:43.Each one represents a townsman lost in the Great War.
:03:44. > :03:56.Almost within minutes of cutting them down they start to wilt. It is
:03:57. > :04:00.that sudden, instant loss of life that we are trying to reflect.
:04:01. > :04:01.The sunflower also reflects the vibrancy
:04:02. > :04:04.and youthful splendour of the men of Stockton who never returned and are
:04:05. > :04:08.1,245 individual stories of sacrifice, bravery, fear,
:04:09. > :04:14.Private Thomas Hughes's maybe the most poignant.
:04:15. > :04:24.A last letter to his wife, tossed overboard mid`channel in a bottle.
:04:25. > :04:30.Thomas Hughes was going off to war to fight, he sent a love letter to
:04:31. > :04:35.his wife and wanted it to be his wife and wanted it to be
:04:36. > :04:38.delivered. Two days later, he was killed. It wasn't until 1988
:04:39. > :04:39.delivered. Two days later, he was killed. It wasn't until 1989 that
:04:40. > :04:40.killed. It wasn't until 1988 that the letter got delivered to his
:04:41. > :05:30.family. I am here with my brothers
:05:31. > :06:42.and sisters, Continuing with our World War One
:06:43. > :06:46.coverage and all this week on Look North we have a series of reports
:06:47. > :06:49.looking at the contribution of But following the German invasion
:06:50. > :06:54.of Belgium, Britain declared war Tonight, remembrance campaigners are
:06:55. > :07:04.hoping people will mark the exact 100th anniversary of the outbreak
:07:05. > :07:07.of war in a special, symbolic, way. Gerry Jackson is on the
:07:08. > :07:23.Tyne Quayside to explain. Dawn, Britain's Foreign Secretary
:07:24. > :07:33.was Sir Edward Grey, a Northumberland native who would have
:07:34. > :07:37.preferred to have been up hdre. Instead he tried to prevent a
:07:38. > :07:45.European war. The story goes that as piece ebbed away, he looked out of
:07:46. > :07:52.the window and saw gas lamps being extinguished, he
:07:53. > :08:03.we will not see the lights `gain in our lifetime. They are asking now
:08:04. > :08:14.for us all to turn our lights off at ten out of respect. When it came to
:08:15. > :08:18.making weapons and munitions, there were few places more vital to that
:08:19. > :08:24.than one narrow strip of land close to the Tyne.
:08:25. > :08:27.It was the biggest privatelx owned arms company on the planet.
:08:28. > :08:29.Vast enough in 2014, but in the Great War, these works
:08:30. > :08:32.on the Tyne stretched for more than a mile along the river.
:08:33. > :08:36.It was the legacy of the Northeast's greatest industrialist.
:08:37. > :08:41.William Armstrong built a crane making plant here, hn 1 47,
:08:42. > :08:44.by 1900 Lord Armstrong controlled a shipbuilding
:08:45. > :08:58.He laid the groundwork. It was his incredible ambition and divhsion.
:08:59. > :08:58.He laid the groundwork. It was his incredible ambition and division. He
:08:59. > :09:00.incredible ambition and divhsion. He was an extraordinary man, an
:09:01. > :09:04.inventor, scientists, visionary. There was an arms race years
:09:05. > :09:07.before the Great War. Armstrongs built advanced w`rships
:09:08. > :09:08.and the huge guns But by the time hostilities broke
:09:09. > :09:13.out in 1914, the company was ready Within a year,
:09:14. > :09:25.this had become total war. The war is unprecedented in almost
:09:26. > :09:34.every aspect. Particularly in the every aspect. Particularly in the
:09:35. > :09:38.scale of production. This is really central in the national and
:09:39. > :09:39.international picture. The whole empire was looking at Britahn and
:09:40. > :09:42.empire was looking at Britain and what we could do in our armhng the
:09:43. > :09:54.what we could do in our arming the Empire. Later in the war, t`nks
:09:55. > :09:56.ships and aircraft were all made here.
:09:57. > :10:01.By 1918 nearly 80,000 people worked on ships, arms and munitions,
:10:02. > :10:12.It was well paid, but production quotas were relentless.
:10:13. > :10:20.Absolutely, you had a very fierce shifts. 12 hour shifts. One off.
:10:21. > :10:20.Absolutely, you had a very fierce shifts. 12 hour shifts. One off You
:10:21. > :10:27.shifts. 12 hour shifts. One off. You certainly had to produce. The whole
:10:28. > :10:31.thing was targets. It opened a lot of opportunities, there was a
:10:32. > :10:41.positive side. It was also very challenging, there was a fear of
:10:42. > :10:42.accidents and attack. Factories were plunged into darkness somethmes
:10:43. > :10:47.because of Zeppelin raids. I was because of Zeppelin raids. I was
:10:48. > :10:50.only there two nights when H because of Zeppelin raids. H was
:10:51. > :10:58.only there two nights when H bent down and caught my hair in the
:10:59. > :11:00.machine. Everybody was all out to get the job done and they worked all
:11:01. > :11:03.out. Another consequence
:11:04. > :11:05.of this expanded workforce: a sense of common purpose that we'd
:11:06. > :11:15.never seen the like of before. The nature of this war is that the
:11:16. > :11:20.well. Everybody is fighting the war well. Everybody is fighting the war
:11:21. > :11:22.when they are in khaki or in a factory.
:11:23. > :11:24.Eventually, the might of empire, allies and ammunition would prevail.
:11:25. > :11:26.The weight of the Armstrong Whitworth contribttion,
:11:27. > :11:29.But the ghosts of a century ago would scarcely recognise
:11:30. > :11:42.A mile downstream, brickwork fragments of a crucible of war.
:11:43. > :11:51.This is the last surviving bit of the works. That is rather poignant
:11:52. > :11:53.when you think what it was like There has been a lot about the
:11:54. > :11:58.military in the world war. I think military in the world war. I think
:11:59. > :12:02.we should give more emphasis to what was happening on home territory,
:12:03. > :12:02.we should give more emphasis to what was happening on home territory it
:12:03. > :12:06.was happening on home territory, it was a social revolution, thd
:12:07. > :12:12.beginning of the modern world. I don't think any event has had as
:12:13. > :12:15.much of an effect on the world as the First World War. There are
:12:16. > :12:22.the First World War. There `re places in the world that have a
:12:23. > :12:30.profound impact on that wall, no more place than here. Tonight, we
:12:31. > :12:33.are all being asked to turn off our lights to mark that last hotr of
:12:34. > :12:40.lights to mark that last hour of peace in August 1914. From ten until
:12:41. > :12:45.11pm, the organisers are asking us to light a candle instead. There are
:12:46. > :12:51.places up and down the region, where ceremonial switch off is taking
:12:52. > :12:58.Do you share your pictures of via Do you share your pictures of via
:12:59. > :13:05.social media. We'll see the lights going out in our latest news at
:13:06. > :13:07.10:30pm tonight. The First World War claimed nearly 1 million British and
:13:08. > :13:13.Commonwealth lives, there wdre nine Commonwealth lives, there wdre nine
:13:14. > :13:17.or ten million killed around the world. It is no surprise th`t it
:13:18. > :13:19.world. It is no surprise that it still has such an emotional poll for
:13:20. > :13:27.us all. Practically every f`mily in us all. Practically every f`mily in
:13:28. > :14:14.Britain was affected. Ceremonies of remembrance began over the weekend.
:14:15. > :14:20.We try to speech the social history, how it affected the country. Massive
:14:21. > :14:27.social change. We are basic`lly social change. We are basic`lly
:14:28. > :14:30.civilians in uniforms. The volunteers weren't soldiers, there
:14:31. > :14:33.were just men doing the job because they felt it was right. A sense
:14:34. > :14:35.were just men doing the job because they felt it was right. A sdnse of
:14:36. > :14:38.duty and packages. We are doing it as homage to them. `` duty and
:14:39. > :14:45.as homage to them. `` duty `nd patriotism.
:14:46. > :14:49.Still to come, Dawn has all the action from the closing weekend
:14:50. > :14:53.Plus Norman Cornish, the mine r who painted the scenes he saw
:14:54. > :15:07.There is sand and sun here `t the North East's nudist beach resort,
:15:08. > :15:12.join me for the weather fordcast. North East's nudist beach rdsort,
:15:13. > :15:18.join me for the weather forecast. `` newest beach.
:15:19. > :15:19.Returning to the World War One commemoration.
:15:20. > :15:22.And perhaps the place where it's possible to imagine what life really
:15:23. > :15:25.was like in 1914, is Beamish Museum in County Durham.
:15:26. > :15:27.The reconstructed town and pit village date back to that period,
:15:28. > :15:30.and today volunteers recreated a day from 1914 for museum visitors.
:15:31. > :15:38.If you had been shot in the arm, so that he could still move his arm...
:15:39. > :15:41.Their great`great`grandfathers fought in the First World W`r,
:15:42. > :15:45.at Beamish today, families got a brief idea of what
:15:46. > :15:56.Possibly all those things, maybe worried?
:15:57. > :16:01.To commemorate the start of the First World War, Bealish is
:16:02. > :16:03.evoking poignant memories, displays and exhibitions taking us back 100
:16:04. > :16:13.Here, this group of women were knitting
:16:14. > :16:18.for the Allied forces, in 1814 on the front line there was a desperate
:16:19. > :16:24.You just have to read some of the letters that came home from the
:16:25. > :16:30.front about how grateful thd men were shortage of socks and mittens.
:16:31. > :16:34.Things like socks or mittens or something like that to make life
:16:35. > :16:42.At 11 o'clock, the last post was played,
:16:43. > :16:55.Marking the day that Britain declared war on Germany.
:16:56. > :16:58.It changed dramatically everyone's lives to families,
:16:59. > :17:06.In the North East, like a lot of other areas, we suffered.
:17:07. > :17:09.100 years on, and memories of the great War still
:17:10. > :17:21.A new generation today learning to stop and think.
:17:22. > :17:24.Tributes have been paid to the County Durham artist Norman Cornish,
:17:25. > :17:27.who has died at the age of 84. Norman Cornish was a miner for 33
:17:28. > :17:33.years and spent his life pahnting images of the pit communities around
:17:34. > :17:37.his home town of Spennymoor, with the paintings selling for thousands
:17:38. > :17:43.of pounds. Sharuna Sagar looks back at his life.
:17:44. > :17:44.Norman Cornish won his first drawing competition
:17:45. > :17:48.at the age of four and went on to spend the next 7 decades capturing
:17:49. > :17:57.He said all humanity was here, and he spent his life drawing it.
:17:58. > :18:01.These people are not interested in me, they are not posing for me.
:18:02. > :18:05.It is enormously difficult, a talent,
:18:06. > :18:14.Like his father and grandfather before him, Norman Cornish went
:18:15. > :18:19.down the mine at 14 and continued working there until he was 47.
:18:20. > :18:24.Considering that he spent 33 years working in the mines, he was still
:18:25. > :18:31.able to do his 12, 14 hour shift, walk four hours a day to and
:18:32. > :18:39.Then later, continue to support his wife and children.
:18:40. > :18:47.He gradually received recognition from other galleries and museums.
:18:48. > :18:51.Largely self taught, his artistic education began
:18:52. > :18:54.at the age of 15 at the Spennymoor Settlement, a sketching club
:18:55. > :19:09.His sketches and paintings `re a unique record of a time
:19:10. > :19:20.The ordinary becomes unusual as time passes.
:19:21. > :19:38.It happened that it seems I have recorded a bit of human history.
:19:39. > :19:46.An amazing client who will be very sadly mist. Mark, like me, you
:19:47. > :19:47.An amazing client who will be very sadly mist. Mark, like me, xou got
:19:48. > :19:49.sadly mist. Mark, like me, you got up to Glasgow. It was a gre`t
:19:50. > :19:52.up to Glasgow. It was a great Commonwealth Games wasn't it? Yes,
:19:53. > :19:53.not least because we won some not least because we won sole
:19:54. > :19:55.medals. Well the Commonwealth Games finally
:19:56. > :19:57.drew to a close at But before they did,
:19:58. > :20:01.the medals kept on coming for our region another seven over the final
:20:02. > :20:03.weekend, including two gold medals. Hartlepool's Savannah Marshall has
:20:04. > :20:06.had her trials and tribulathons But she put her Olympic
:20:07. > :20:11.disappointment and ten months of injury troubles behind her to become
:20:12. > :20:13.the first women's middleweight It took a split decision victory
:20:14. > :20:18.over Canada's Ariane Fortin but The conversation over the dinner
:20:19. > :20:31.table might have been a bit strained It was a lot closer than I thought
:20:32. > :20:33.it would be, but I am happy. There are a lot of people who camd that I
:20:34. > :20:35.are a lot of people who came that I didn't know were there. Somd of my
:20:36. > :20:40.friends came and stood outside. didn't know were there. Some of my
:20:41. > :20:41.friends came and stood outshde. They friends came and stood outside. They
:20:42. > :20:46.didn't have tickets and stood outside in the rain. They c`me up
:20:47. > :20:50.from Hartlepool just to be there? Yes, they got here and realised the
:20:51. > :20:52.Yes, they got here and realhsed the price of the tickets. We can afford
:20:53. > :21:15.it so stood outside. The conversation over the dinner
:21:16. > :21:19.table might have been a bit strained had they lost, but Paul Drinkhall
:21:20. > :21:22.from Loftus in East Cleveland did leave Glasgow with a table tennis
:21:23. > :21:25.gold medal after he and his wife Joanna beat
:21:26. > :21:27.their England teammates Liam Pitchford and Tin Tin Ho in five
:21:28. > :21:31.tense sets in the mixed doubles. Danny Reed, from Hutton Rudby ,
:21:32. > :21:34.who first met Paul at the Ormesby club in Middlesbrough,
:21:35. > :21:36.made it an England clean`swdep with Stockton's Richard Kilty helped
:21:37. > :21:40.secured Silver for England, in the 4 by 100 metres relay, he ran the
:21:41. > :21:45.third leg in what was a tight race And there were two bronze medals
:21:46. > :21:50.for Carlisle's Lauren Smith in the badminton doubles,
:21:51. > :21:53.and Harrogate's James Willstrop Earlier Harrogate's Jenny Dtcalf
:21:54. > :21:57.helped singles runner`up Laura And the North Yorkshire spa town is
:21:58. > :22:03.still revelling in the diving success of Jack Laugher, with
:22:04. > :22:06.his two gold medals, while ht seems a lifetime ago that South Shields
:22:07. > :22:09.hailed Sarah Clark's judo gold at the start of a games which will be
:22:10. > :22:32.fondly remembered for years to come. I haven't done the maths, but I
:22:33. > :22:38.think it was one of our region's best medal hauls. Look wherd we
:22:39. > :22:47.finished on the table, 11th. There were three for ex`pupils of a school
:22:48. > :22:56.in Carlisle. Equal 20th in our table. Sunderland are close to
:22:57. > :22:58.signing Jack Rodwell from Manchester city.
:22:59. > :23:00.Newcastle United put the disappointment of losing to
:23:01. > :23:03.Malaga in the Shalke Cup on Saturday behind them last night as they beat
:23:04. > :23:06.Shalke, who came third in the Bundesliga last season,
:23:07. > :23:09.were without a number of players and Newcastle took the lead when
:23:10. > :23:12.Rolando Aarons whipped in a cross for Emmanual Riviere to score.
:23:13. > :23:14.18`year`old Aarons, who's originally from Jamaica came
:23:15. > :23:17.to the club as a 16`year`old and was the star of the show
:23:18. > :23:21.as he scored one of his own after the break, he might have had a bit
:23:22. > :23:24.of luck on his side but brilliant whether he meant it or not.
:23:25. > :23:27.And Newcastle sealed victory 20 minutes from time when new signing
:23:28. > :23:29.Facundo Ferreyra put the ball through to Remy Cabella to
:23:30. > :24:02.Undefeated and top of the group the Falcons go through undefeated to
:24:03. > :24:05.the finals at Twickenham Stoop on Friday where they hope to repeat
:24:06. > :25:32.Cumbria, but here a little cloudier. It will cloud over more generally in
:25:33. > :25:34.the West as the weather front approaches. Showers break out across
:25:35. > :25:42.approaches. Showers break ott across the West Coast of Cumbria, spilling
:25:43. > :25:44.inland into the evening. For the north`east and North Yorkshhre, it
:25:45. > :25:50.north`east and North Yorkshire, it stays dry, with highs of 22 Celsius.
:25:51. > :25:53.The big picture now, our prdssure The big picture now, our pressure
:25:54. > :25:57.sequence. We pick it up tomorrow evening, the low`pressure sxstem
:25:58. > :26:03.evening, the low`pressure system that brings those showers to Cumbria
:26:04. > :26:05.continues. Showers or longer spells of rain across the north`east and
:26:06. > :26:10.Cumbria. A ridge of high prdssure on Cumbria. A ridge of high pressure on
:26:11. > :26:14.Thursday, settling things for the day. On Friday, a week when the
:26:15. > :26:19.system could bring a few more showers from the south. Let's take a
:26:20. > :26:28.look at what that will mean in detail around our towns, cities and
:26:29. > :26:37.villages. In Cumbria, Wednesday is a wash out. Things settle on Thursday,
:26:38. > :26:45.bright skies are back. Any North East, very similar as well,
:26:46. > :26:51.Wednesday is Shari all day. Showers clear later. `` showers all day.
:26:52. > :26:58.clear later. `` showers all day Friday, bright spells and showers.
:26:59. > :27:04.That is the forecast here at the quayside, some weather for playing
:27:05. > :27:08.outdoors. Back to you, Dawn. She might make the team yet. I will be
:27:09. > :27:15.back with the latest news at 10:25pm, goodbye.