North Yorkshire History

In the second half of the 19th century when Middlesbrough – Gladstone's "Infant Hercules" – boomed from a farmhouse to an impo...

Anyone researching the life of a commercial traveller in the early 19th century may be interested in letters now deposited at North Yorkshir...

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...

A newspaper report from this day, 240 years ago.  A most surprising find at Coatham! Caledonian Mercury , 3 August 1778 Friday se'en...

For those of you who have enjoyed reading John Richard Stubbs' diaries , this is the announcement of his death in the local newspaper:-...

York Herald, 2 May 1868 Middlesbro' FATAL ACCIDENT - Yesterday week, an inquest was held at Middlesbro', on the body of Thomas...

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...

If the working day in the 1850s was a great deal less frenetic than today, holidays were fewer.  John’s parents would generally go to a se...

Some of the young men belonged to the Territorial Army of the day, the Yorkshire Volunteers.  John’s father had been a Volunteer himself in ...

Monday January 21st 1856 …  Sat up till 4 o’clock in the morning expectg cow calving   She calved about an hour after I got to bed …  Calv...

The next series of posts will be an account of John Richard Stubbs' boyhood in Boroughbridge.  John Richard Stubbs was born on 2 Octob...

John Richard Stubbs (1838-1916) came to Middlesbrough in February 1861 as a newly qualified solicitor some eight years after the new town wa...

More from Ellis Stubbs' postcard album: Guisborough Priory and Lily Pond Old Ormesby Roseberry Topping Trafalgar Te...

from Waterlow Bros & Layton’s Legal Diary and Almanac for 1886 Extracted from: List of Country Solicitors Corrected by co...