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BEECHWOOD is beneath the Victoria Road Sainsbury's, next to Feethams the old football ground, in the centre of Darlington. It was built in 1825 and belonged to the Backhouse banking family.
Where there is now an ocean of car park tarmac there was once "a flourishing garden, one of the warmest and most pleasant of Darlington gardens, where grapes growing up the house came to perfection in fine summers, " according to historian...