The Weekly Exchange: a Middlesbrough newspaper from 1877
I have found amongst my papers a couple of editions of The Weekly Exchange. I'll post a selection from them over the next few weeks. Some familiar names (Hintons) and some interesting stories ...
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Trade advertisements from The Weekly Exchange(price one penny)Thursday 25 January 1877AMOS HINTONTEA, COFFEE, FRUIT, SPICE, ANDPROVISION MERCHANT.10, 12, AND 14, SOUTH-STREETANDALBERT...
View ArticleEducation in Middlesbrough, 1877
from The Weekly Exchange,(Price One Penny)1 March 1877YOUNG LADIES' COLLEGE,39, ORMESBY ROAD, MIDDLESBRO'LADY PRINCIPAL,MADAME GOUGET DE FENOUILLET.English Subjects. – Arithmetic, taught by two...
View ArticleEntertainment in Middlesbrough, 1877
From The Weekly Exchange(Price One Penny)1 March 1877ODDFELLOWS' HALL, MIDDLESBROUGHTHE MIDDLESBROUGHAMATEUR CHRISTY MINSTRELSWILL GIVE AGRAND ENTERTAINMENT,On THURSDAY EVENING, March 1st, 1877.For the...
View ArticleSanitary matters in Guisborough, 1877
Glimpses of the work of local government from 1877:From The Weekly Exchange(price One Penny)Thursday 25 January 1877TO SCAVENGERS AND OTHERS, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Local Board for the...
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Hutton Rudby commemorative mugs
Marking the centenary of the Parish Council in 1994Remembering V.E. Day in 1995The Millennium MugThe reverse of the Millennium Mug
View ArticleThe Middlesbrough Weekly Exchange: news of Cleveland industry, 1 March 1877
from The Weekly Exchange(Price One Penny)1 March 1877CLEVELAND IRON MARKETMIDDLESBRO', TUESDAYThe iron market was but thinly attended to-day, and there was not much business transacted. Prices are...
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A visit to Whitby
Some snaps of Whitby ...Views from the East Cliff: and with the mini Endeavour coming in:If you haven't already visited the Whitby Museum in Pannett Park, surely these photographs will tempt you?...
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St Mary's Church, Whitby
St Mary's, seen from beside the table tomb of George Langborne (1773-1832) and his wife Jane Galilee and their family: a view of the table tomb from the church ...Views of the church interior ... not...
View ArticleMiddlesbrough Football Club plays Tees Wanderers, February 1877
from The Weekly Exchange(Price One Penny)Thursday 1 March 1877MIDDLESBROUGH FOOTBALL MATCHOn Saturday afternoon a match (Association rules) was played between eleven of the Tees Wanderers and eleven of...
View ArticleBonfire Night
For some years now, Guy Fawkes' Night has been marked by organised displays of fireworks. It seems a long time ago that families and villages celebrated with a few fireworks and as big a bonfire as...
View ArticleMessrs Blair & Co Marine Engine Works: 1877
Newspaper reports from the Stockton works of George Young Blair of Drumrauch Hall, Hutton Rudby:From The Weekly Exchange(price one penny)Thursday 25 January 1877 THE SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT STOCKTONThe...
View ArticleReckless driving near Stockton in 1877
From The Weekly Exchange(Price One Penny)Thursday 1 March 1877RECKLESS DRIVING NEAR STOCKTONAt the County Petty Sessions at Stockton this morning, Frank Clayton, a Stockton cabman of notorious...
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Sidgwick family in Enterpen in the early C19
This beautifully engrossed indenture dated 18 July 1828 is part of the legal paperwork by which Edward Meynell the younger of Enterpen, weaver, bought property in Enterpen from John Sidgwick of...
View ArticleProperties for sale and to let in Middlesbrough, 1877
from The Weekly Exchange(Price One Penny)1 March 1877MIDDLESBROUGH ON TEESTO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION at the Globe Hotel, South Street, Middlesbrough, on MONDAY, the 5th day of March, 1877, at three...
View ArticleItems for Sale, 25 January 1877: from the Middlesbrough Weekly Exchange
From The Weekly Exchange(price One Penny)Thursday 25 January 1877FOR SALE BY PRIVATE CONTRACTFOR SALE, Fine-toned Pianoforte, by Henry Ward.FOR SALE, a very superior carved oak Cabinet and Sideboard to...
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View ArticleFor sale in 1877: the Linthorpe Steam Brick & Tile Works
From The Weekly Exchange(price One Penny)Thursday 25 January 1877 The Borough Steam Brick and Tile Works, Dwelling-house, Lands and Premises, near Linthorpe, Middlesbrough.TO CAPITALISTS, BUILDERS,...
View Article25 January 1877: Public Notices in the Middlesbrough press
From The Weekly Exchange(price One Penny)Thursday 25 January 1877PUBLIC NOTICESTHE ANNIVERSARY of the BIRTH of ROBERT BURNS will this year be held in the CLEVELAND HOTEL, Smeaton-street, North Ormesby,...
View ArticleNews from Brotton, Bilsdale and Castleton: 1 March 1877
From The Weekly Exchange(Price One Penny)Thursday, 1 March 1877LOCAL AND DISTRICT NEWSBROTTONNEW RECTORY. – The erection of the new rectory for the Rev J Bell, M.A., has just been commenced by Mr...
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