exhibit includes a distribution office, reporter's office, stationery shop and fully working printing press. The replica office took museum staff several months to research and create, and was opened by Sir Richard Storey, great-grandson of Echo founder Samuel Storey, on 10 May 1991. A racehorse was named after the paper in 1991, which was owned by a consortium of 250 Echo readers. The gelding won races at Hamilton, Redcar, Newcastle upon Tyne and Haydock in the early 1990s, but had to be put down on 17 February 1996 after pulling up badly lame during a routine morning gallop. The Echo was also used in a display at the Science Museum in London in 1999, to show how writing can be made simpler for people with reading difficulties, and a specially printed edition of the newspaper appeared on the TV show Touching Evil, starring Robson Green, in the same year. References Further reading Bean, William Wardell: Parliamentary Representation of the Six Northern Counties Hull Publishing, 1890 (held in the Robinson Library, University of Newcastle) The Durham Thirteen: Biographical sketches of the members of parliament returned for the City, Boroughs, and County of Durham, at the general election of 1874 Published by J Hyslop Bell, Darlington, 1874 Book and News Trade Gazette Published 6 October 1894 The Alderman (magazine) Published 8 April 1876 Wearside Review: Local notabilities Published by the Sunderland Daily Echo, 1886 External links the Sunderland Echo website Wearsideonline: A brief history of the Echo Hold The Front Page: Echo awards and stories about the paper. Newspapers published in Tyne and Wear Publications established in 1873 City of Sunderland County Durham 1873 establishments in England Daily newspapers published in the United Kingdom Newspapers published by Johnston Press