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Showing posts with label Darlington. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Darlington. Show all posts
Saturday, 22 June 2024

19th century solicitors in Middlesbrough, Stockton and Darlington

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In the second half of the 19th century when Middlesbrough – Gladstone's "Infant Hercules" – boomed from a farmhouse to an impo...
Saturday, 30 March 2024

Letters home from a travelling salesman: 1817-42

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Anyone researching the life of a commercial traveller in the early 19th century may be interested in letters now deposited at North Yorkshir...
Saturday, 25 June 2022

Heart Echoes in late Victorian Stockton-on-Tees

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A few keepsakes from late Victorian Stockton-on-Tees.   They belonged to Miss Eleanor Bateson of 37 Skinner Street.   Skinner Street, Stockt...
Saturday, 14 November 2020

Cholera: glimpses of the pandemics of the 19th century

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In the 19th century, the usual yearly epidemics of frequently fatal infectious diseases in Britain were eclipsed by successive waves of a fr...
Sunday, 11 November 2018

Local newspapers report the news of the Armistice in 1918

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The North-Eastern Daily Gazette 12 November 1918 A DAY OF REJOICING  The rejoicings which began in Middlesbrough yesterday morning over ...
Saturday, 14 October 2017

What's On in Darlington, 22 April 1893

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As we look forward to the opening of the newly-restored Darlington Hippodrome, the following newspaper clipping seems quite apt. It doesn...
Saturday, 30 September 2017

The murder of James Lyall in Venezuela, 1900

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A sad and mysterious story: Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough 31 March 1900 The Assassination of a Darlington Man in Venezuela Mr E W...
Sunday, 11 June 2017

Financial disaster comes to Michael Hughes of Yarm, June 1743

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This is a glimpse of the life of Michael Hughes of Yarm.  He had extensive premises in Yarm and had bought land, farms and houses from Beda...
Thursday, 26 January 2017

Extracts from the York Herald, 26 January 1850

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Middle class emigration and climbing boys:- Emigration of the Middle Classes – We are glad to learn, from an announcement which appears i...
Friday, 7 August 2015

John Cresswell Brigham of Darlington

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I often wondered what happened to the Brigham family of Rudby .  Now, thanks to an email from their descendant Jonathan Taylor at last I kno...
Monday, 22 September 2014

Local solicitors and World War One

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The Record of Service of Solicitors & Articled Clerks with His Majesty's Forces, 1914-9 contains a list of lawyers who served durin...
Friday, 30 November 2012

Rev Malcolm Buchannan (1880-1954)

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Malcolm Buchannan was one of Whitby's characters.  An energetic High Church Anglican priest, his obituary from 9 July 1954 gives a ful...