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Showing posts with label Guisborough. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guisborough. Show all posts
Saturday, 1 January 2022

More on Guisborough's link to Lewis Carroll's Alice

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In September, I picked up once more the story of  Henry Savile Clarke of Guisborough & Lewis Carroll's Alice . I mentioned in the pi...
Saturday, 6 November 2021

The unfortunate Edwin Orphan: 1832

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In January 1832, a young man called Edwin Orphan came before the magistrates.  He had smashed windows in Guisborough parish church because, ...
Saturday, 11 September 2021

Henry Savile Clarke of Guisborough & Lewis Carroll's Alice

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A few years ago I wrote about  Henry Savile Clarke of Guisborough (1841-93) , who produced the first stage musical of Lewis Carroll's Al...
Saturday, 1 May 2021

5. War in Yorkshire: 1642-1643

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In Chester, the Wandesfords found a welcome and were treated with kindness and friendship by the gentry families.  Within the strong walls o...
Saturday, 12 December 2020

Runswick: a tale of landslips – and the cholera of 1866

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The cliffside village of Runswick Bay  [Photograph by mattbuck, reproduced under  Creative Commons licence ]   Runswick (the 'w' in ...
Saturday, 10 October 2020

Hard labour & transportation to Tasmania: Northallerton, April 1841

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Each one of these cases brings us a little glimpse of the past.  I think the information might also prove useful to family historians. Th...
Saturday, 29 February 2020

Hutton Rudby 1876 to 1877: the Albion Sailcloth Mill

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This follows the post  Hutton Rudby 1859-1908: the Cleveland Sailcloth Mill It has always been remembered that William Surtees, who lived...
Thursday, 20 June 2019

Update on 'Thomas King of Kirkleatham, brewer & smuggler'

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I have just been looking over an early blogpost on Thomas King of Kirkleatham , the brewer who was said to be in partnership with John Andr...
Saturday, 7 April 2018

John Jackson (1743-1808), schoolmaster of Hutton Rudby

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In the Schoolmasters section of People of Hutton Rudby (Sadler to Seamer) , I had a little bit of information about the Rudby schoolmaster ...