Clik here to view.
Women's Institute Drama in the 1930s and 1950s
I have posted previously on the Nunthorpe Women's Institute Drama Group – here, here, here and here. (I should add that this is Nunthorpe near Middlesbrough, to avoid any confusion). I've just come...
View ArticleJohn Richardson of Hutton Rudby, proprietor of the Seaham Weekly News
Sunderland Daily Echo & Shipping Gazette, 2 May 1910Not many readers of the Seaham Weekly News might have noticed on Friday last that that day's issue of that quaint little journal was number...
View ArticleYork Herald, 2 May 1868: news from Middlesbrough and Redcar
York Herald, 2 May 1868Middlesbro'FATAL ACCIDENT - Yesterday week, an inquest was held at Middlesbro', on the body of Thomas Thompson, aged twenty-four, a painter, who, on the previous night, fell from...
View ArticleWheelbarrow theft in 1850
York Herald, 13 April 1850A Court report:Henry Muselwaite (36), pleaded Guilty to stealing, on the 22nd of March, at Hutton Rudby, a wheelbarrow, the property of William Farnaby. To be imprisoned and...
View ArticleHaggitt Hill farms in 1805
York Herald, 8 December 1804To be LetOn Wednesday the twelfth day of December, 1804, at the House of Mr Godfrey Hirst, Innholder, in Northallerton, between the hours of two and six o'Clock of the same...
View ArticleJohn Wild's rheumatism 1759
John Wild was a tenant of Barkers Row in 1829; this advertisement shows that there was a Robert Wild in the village eighty years earlier. He evidently suffered from rheumatism:-Caledonian Mercury, 12...
View ArticleJacksons in Hutton Rudby in 1850
An advertisement from the Durham County Advertiser, 7 June 1850, which might be of interest to anyone trying to disentangle mid-C19 Jacksons. William Jackson, tallow chandler in the city of Durham,...
View ArticleFinancial disaster comes to Michael Hughes of Yarm, June 1743
This is a glimpse of the life of Michael Hughes of Yarm. He had extensive premises in Yarm and had bought land, farms and houses from Bedale to Hurworth. Did he expand too quickly? Was it a mistake...
View ArticleToft Hill Farm, Hutton Rudby in 1728
An early glimpse of Toft Hill Farm, off Black Horse Lane, Hutton Rudby:Newcastle Courant, 29 June 1728To be SOLDA Convenient Farm called Toft-hill, containing about 100 Acres of very good arable,...
View ArticleVarious occupants of the mill at Rudby
These newspaper notices relate to the mill on the Rudby side of the River Leven:Hull Advertiser & Exchange Gazette, 5 July 1806Marriages ...A few days ago, at Hinderwell, Mr Thomas Hird, of Rudby...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Samuel and Louis, artists & brothers
This isn’t actually to do with North Yorkshire, but I have the information and I feel I must do something with it!It is the story of two brothers, both artists, whose identities have become curiously...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Miss Margaret Clarke (1833-97), "highly-respected Northern educationist"
Margaret Clarke belonged to the generation of pioneers in women’s education. She was born in 1833 in the parsonage in Wolviston, Co Durham, one of a large but impecunious family. She didn’t follow the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
North Riding dialect
I came across the website of the Yorkshire Dialect Society recently and their page of recordings of dialect readers and raconteurs.I was so pleased to find that the North Riding dialect reader is the...
View ArticleThomas Wayne of Angrove Hall
York Herald, 15 August 1801GAMEWHEREAS the GAME within the Manors of HIGH WORSALL, HUTTON near RUDBY, AND KIRBY, belonging to THOMAS WAYNE, Esq., hath of late been almost entirely destroyed; it is...
View ArticleKendal & Flintoff marriage announcement 1805
I know there are readers out there looking for Flintoffs:-Leeds Intelligencer, 9 September 1805On Monday was married, Mr R Kendal, of Barton, to Miss Flintoff, late of Hutton Rudby.
View ArticleWilliam Hall Burnett (1840-1916)
Here is a new website about William Hall Burnett, journalist & editor, newspaper proprietor & poet.He was born in Stokesley in 1840 and began his career under the printer William Braithwaite,...
View ArticleThe murder of James Lyall in Venezuela, 1900
A sad and mysterious story:Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough 31 March 1900The Assassination of a Darlington Man in VenezuelaMr E W Lyall, of Darlington, has received some further details concerning the...
View ArticleWhat's On in Darlington, 22 April 1893
As we look forward to the opening of the newly-restored Darlington Hippodrome, the following newspaper clipping seems quite apt. It doesn't actually feature that particular theatre, which dates from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mystery stone structure in field near Crathorne
I was recently asked through the blog whether I had any information on a"round stone structure that was in a field on the left hand side of the road to Crathorne" My correspondent Ian remembered seeing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Revd Henry Clarke of Guisborough (1813-61)
On 15 March 2013, I wrote a blogpost about John and William Richardson, doctors and brothers, who were the mayors of Stockton-on-Tees and Middlesbrough in the 19th century and I illustrated it with...
View Article