Today, we feature a couple of amazing photos sent to us by Echo reader Colin Woodward after he spotted last week’s focus on Darlington’s Greenbank Maternity Hospital.

The Northern Echo:

Mr Woodward was born in Greenbank Maternity Hospital, in March 1942. He said: “I have no memories of it (obviously) and the earliest photo I have of myself was taken, with my parents and both sets of grandparents, on my christening day three months later.”

The Northern Echo:

Colin was christened on May 24, 1942. Mr Woodward was the first child of his parents who lived in East Boldon, between Sunderland and Newcastle. He said: “My father had been conscripted into the Royal Engineers in 1942 and was based at Catterick so, sometime before my birth, my mother had moved into digs in Barton to be nearer to him. He was posted to North Africa in December 1942 and I did not see him again until January 1946.”

We also took a look in our archives and found some great pictures too, and we step forward to a memory only recently of lockdown babies at the current maternity unit at Darlington Memorial Hospital.

The Northern Echo:

Lockdown babies' mums present staff at Darlington Memorial Hospital with pamper packs to say thanks for all the support

The Northern Echo:

The children’s ward in the Greenbank hospital which was replaced by the Memorial Hospital. We found this photograph in our archives

The Northern Echo:

The new children’s ward at Greenbank in 1933

The Northern Echo:

Greenbank Maternity Hospital in February 1928

Perhaps you have got some photos from the past you would like to share? Perhaps you would like to tell us about your memories of the maternity unit.

Maybe you have a school class picture, photos of how an area used to look or photos from a day out. Maybe pictures from your Scout days, Brownies or sports group, a village carnival or special celebration.

Send your pictures to jo.kelly@ newsquest.co.uk and we will feature them in print and online.