North Yorkshire History

Last year I began a new blog called ' The Engineering Hopkinsons '.   Alice Dewhurst of Skipton was the daughter of John Dewhurst of...

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...

Far off in Sydney, Australia, Richard Ord Todd and his aunt Isabella had photographs of her nephew William King Weatherill of Guisborough a...

I like this story of Jane Stubbs' family because it's a reminder – at a time when everything to do with bringing up children seems ...

What happened to John's family in later years? Aunt Ann Pick died in 1860 at the age of fifty and her husband William in 1872.  Aunt B...

Grove House, Harrogate 1912 Following my last blogpost, here is a second Yorkshire property from the Knight, Frank & Rutley brochur...