This year the group has  concentrated on the years 1900-1947 and is based on church records, newspaper items, personal scrapbooks and the memories of parishioners. The group particularly wanted  to provide the public with the opportunities  to share their memories of their involvement in the life of St Cuthbert's.

The project  tells a fascinating story of the part that St Cuthbert's played in the life of the town of Darlington and of the ordinary people.

Taking you from the last years of Victoria's reign to 1947, the story begins with the arrival of Rev. Francis Warren Parry Mortimer, who came to a thriving Parish Church restored only 30 years before. Tragically this well loved and still relatively young man was to die within days of resign  through ill health in 1906.

• Hear about the parishioner who sold his land for five shillings(25p)so as to improve the view of the church
• Remember two world wars in which St Cuthbert's gave shelter to soldiers and refugees.
• Smile at the hunting vicar with a curate called John Peel who made a boy late for school because he needed him to mind his horse.
• Share memories of the vicar who was an amateur international footballer and once played for West Bromwich Albion.
• Appreciate the hard work of all those who ran the many organisations for all ages throughout the years.
• And perhaps sympathise with the clergyman who found the climate of Darlington hideous, but still had the kindness to find bananas for the Sunday School children, despite rationing