Our Local Heroes Project was inspired by a memorial to ordinary people who have committed acts of extraordinary bravery, often sacrificing their own lives in order to save the lives of others, in Postman’s Park in London. A group of Year 7 students (as they were then!) as well as pupils from St Charles’ Tudhoe, St Cuthbert’s Crook and Our Lady and St Thomas Willington visited Durham County Record Office to conduct research and identify their own local heroes.