Jacob Honeyman's pony is stolen, 1829
Jacob Honeyman's pony must have been left to graze by the roadside when it caught the eye of Thomas Boulton. Boulton's defence – such as it is – is striking by its hopelessness, and the sentence is a...
View ArticleDisrobing at the altar, Otley in 1808
I was looking for something completely different when I came across this exciting story:Tyne Mercury, 3 May 1808Tuesday last, at Otley, after a disconsolate widowhood of three months, Mr George...
View ArticleMore on the cholera and the Rev R J Barlow
This exchange of letters casts more light on the events of the Cholera Epidemic in Hutton Rudby in the autumn of 1832: Mr Peacock uses Mr Barlow's activities during the epidemic to strike back at...
View ArticleDeath of Mrs Ann Jackson of Hutton Rudby, 1829
Hull Advertiser and Exchange Gazette, 18 September 1829On the 9th last, at Hutton Rudby, in Cleveland in the 81st year of her age, Ann Jackson, widow, and only sister to Mr A Benison, of Hull,...
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Midshipman John Duncan Stubbs (1899-1914)
This was written for the archives of the Live Bait Squadron Society. John Duncan Stubbs (always known as Duncan) was born on 24 June 1899 at Coatham on the North Yorkshire coast. When he was eight...
View ArticleJoseph Skelton, grocer & draper of Hutton Rudby in 1830
Perry's Bankrupt Gazette, 13 February 1830AssignmentsTo Trustees for the equal benefit of Creditors, pursuant to 6th Geo. IV. cap. 16, sec. 4 SKELTON Joseph, (Dec. 14) of Hutton, near Rudby, Yorkshire,...
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Remembrance at Nunthorpe
At Nunthorpe, impressive displays by the Nunthorpe and Marton Knitters remember the fallen of the Wars and the suffering of children and animals. This photograph from the Nunthorpe Working Together...
View ArticleLocal newspapers report the news of the Armistice in 1918
The North-Eastern Daily Gazette 12 November 1918A DAY OF REJOICING The rejoicings which began in Middlesbrough yesterday morning over the news of the armistice continued without interruption till...
View ArticlePloughing with horses – how to do it
If you've ever seen on television a programme in which someone is struggling to plough with horses and wondered how people ever managed such an exhausting task – watch Maurice Atkinson talking to...
View ArticleAn elaborate hoax at Stokesley, 1849
Somebody went to a great deal of trouble to set up this elaborate hoax against a local landowner. I wonder what can have lain behind it ...Darlington & Stockton Times, 17 February 1849STOKESLEYA...
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The Hutton Rudby Sawmill, the Richardson family and Seaham Villas
Darlington & Stockton Times, Ripon & Richmond Chronicle, 9 October 1880SEAHAM VILLAS, HUTTON RUDBYTO BE LET, to enter immediately. TWO good FAMILY RESIDENCES, each containing Six Rooms, with...
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Hutton Rudby celebrates Queen Victoria's Jubilees, 1887 & 1897
In 1863, Hutton Rudby had celebrated the marriage of the Prince of Wales (the future Edward VII) in great style with flags, the brass band, tea and plum cake for 500 or 600 people, an immense bonfire...
View ArticleOtters on the frozen River Leven, February 1848
Reported in the Yorkshire Gazette 171 years ago today:-This little piece of news was under the column heading SPORTING – I think we would today entitle it SPORTING?Yorkshire Gazette, Saturday 5...
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Mrs Annabel Dott & the Goathland Homes for Officers
Mrs Annabel Dott (1868-1937)I came across the story of Mrs Annabel Dott and the Goathland Homes for Officers quite by accident.I was flicking through a volume of the old Harmsworth Encyclopaedia,...
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1. Mrs Annabel Dott (1868-1937): her family
I must start by saying that while Annabel's name appears as Annabelle in the baptismal register she is Annabel more or less everywhere else, including in her Will. Annabel was born on 3 September 1868...
View Article2. Annabel Dott, the first 37 years: from 1868 to 1906
Sarah Frances Annabel – who seems always to have been known as Annabel – grew up in Amhurst Road, Hackney. In 1871 her parents had just moved to 13 Amhurst Road, but by the time of the 1881 census she...
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3. Patrick Dott (1867-1938): his family
It seems to me to be clear from the history of their married life, that Annabel andPatrick were a mutually supportive couple, united in their views. Patrick's career determined the pattern of their...
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4. Patrick Dott, the first 38 years: from 1867 to 1906
Patrick was a few months short of his ninth birthday when his father died.Between 1871, when Patrick was three, and May 1889, when he matriculated at St Mary Hall, Oxford, I can find no mention of...
View Article5. Annabel & Patrick Dott in South Africa: from 1906 to 1909
The Vote, 22 April 1921Mrs Dott has been interested in building since her girlhood, and, if difficulties had not barred the way, there is no doubt she would have developed into a woman architect. This...
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6. Annabel & Patrick Dott in Yorkshire: from 1909 to 1917
On 7 June 1909 Patrick was inducted Vicar of Dringhouses, York, by the Bishop of Beverley. Dringhouses lies just outside York, near the Racecourse. By 1909 the once agricultural village had become a...
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