North Yorkshire History

This was written for the archives of the Live Bait Squadron Society .   John Duncan Stubbs (always known as Duncan) was born on 24 June...

The vessels HMS Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue have been designated under the  Protection of Military Remains Act  –  which means that, at long l...

A Christmas card was sent in 1914 by the Heaton Road Baptist Church in Newcastle upon Tyne to the young men of the congregation who had join...

On this day in 1914, three British cruisers were sunk in the North Sea, torpedoed by a solitary German submarine.  The Hogue , Aboukir and...

This photograph was printed in the All Our Yesteryears section of the Whitby Gazette on 31 August 2001.  It had been brought in by John...

Midshipman Duncan Stubbs Major Stubbs' fifteen-year-old son Duncan died on 22 September 1914.  There is a brass tablet in his memory...