THERE was a huge turn-out in Scarth Hall in Staindrop when this 300-plus page book had its official launch this month.
After he retired as headteacher of Staindrop school, John Broumley devoted his time to compiling a history of the village, several copies of which were typed up in 1957 and distributed.
Seventy years later, those copies are extremely dog-eared and so the history society, principally Jennifer Priestley and Hylene Bowman, have spent a couple of years getting the hugely valuable original into print.