Tithe At Tanfield

At the edge of the Durham hills, where the Tanfield tracks vanish into fog and soot, the old tithe is still taken.When the body of a railway worker is found at Andrews House Station, his pockets filled with coal dust and coins blackened by age, few dare speak of what really happened. Fewer still remember the story of the offering left on the tracks each winter's eve — a payment for safe passage, a...