Private Michael Heaviside VC arriving at Shield Row station

[@PeterHenson]

This man was my Great Great Grandfather

[@ryanhagan4660]

Very interesting my ancestors the hagan family grew up in this part of the world but can't see what happened to them great watching there old videos from so long ago.

[@notsuff1042]

He’s my great great great grandad

[@clevertrevor]

Great the footage survived

[@decalukvinylartmouthpiece7105]

I can't even believe i am sat within a stones throw of Shield Row, a couple of villages-along the top of the hill. I'm utterly astonished that that many people came out for his arrival back at the tiny pit-village. That was a local affair, He had just come home... that was the hill-folk welcoming him back...look at the unity of everyone there. That's what we used to be up here. North of England. I spoke to an old shep outside the shopfront in Annfield Plain (Two stops along the line from the film) the other day. "It was 'Affluent' up here at one time. Big huge bloody Co-Op over there, Massive shopfront, everywhere was posh and people were comfort'able. Look at it now" This vid has just me see a bit of what he meant. So these were all either well-rehearsed crisis-actors OR; there once was a great place called Stanley, and north, east, south and west Stanley. Thousands of people., obviously not just from shield row. Would there really have been such an exodus of Royal Ceremony and half the military and regional groups to a crumby small railway station up high on a hill in the windy north. No way. Leaves me with only one conclusion. Stanley must have been awesome.

[@TropicaliglooBlogspot]

Can you upload the BMEG video please. I believe the I.T. technician has it stored on his pc (resource center), Patrick - Bmeg (Beamish Model Engineering Group)

[@decalukvinylartmouthpiece7105]

Huge thanks to Hero Heaviside who gets my Battlefield Commission to Brigadier *Salutes* for bringing the limelight back to the region