MANY thanks to everyone who has contacted us about last week's article on Robert Luck and Sons, the high-class haberdashery which stood on High Row until 1966.

We are currently wading through the many memories that have been sent in and will report back next week.

In the meantime, we should correct one of our more glaring errors. The last of the Lucks, Richard Charles, who was known fondly as Dickie, died on November 10, 1995.

"I was definitely at his funeral," said Frank Beadle, of Cockerton, who was one of many to correct us.

Dickie's father, also Richard, was Mayor of Darlington in 1937. David Chapman, of Merrybent, has an album of his photographs.

More next week, but meanwhile, the picture above shows Mayor Luck, in ceremonial chains, laying the cornerstone of the St Cuthbert's Mission Church at Blackwell. In the background is one of the most intriguing houses in Darlington. It is one of a pair which still stand at the top of Hartford Road, off Blackwell Lane.

Built of simple slabs, they are quite beautiful in their ugliness. If anyone has any information about them, we would love to hear it.

l Write to Echo Memories, The Northern Echo, Priestgate, Darlington, DL1 1NF. Call (01325) 505062, or e-mail clloy