North Yorkshire History

This is something I meant to write before, but it got lost in other work.  I'm afraid the alignment of text in this is a little haphazar...

Thomas Redmayne of Taitlands has appeared on this blog before (you'll find him first mentioned in July 2014 and on several later occasi...

If you've ever read about John Richard Stubbs and his family on this blog –  A Boroughbridge Boyhood in the 1850s  introduces them – yo...

Another photograph from John Carass.  He comments, "A well-dressed gentleman complete with billy-can!"  I think Richard carries hi...

John Carass has very kindly provided me with this photograph and transcriptions of newspaper articles about Richard Carass.  A lovely glimp...

I have now deposited all the papers relating to John Richard Stubbs with the North Yorkshire County Record Office. The deposit includes hi...

In old age, Mrs Katharine Isobel Ellis Hill (1905-2005) looked back to the golden times before the First World War broke out ... when she...

This is the last of the diaries. John retired the following year.  He and Ellis left Park End, Ormesby and returned to live again in Coath...