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Showing posts with label Middlesbrough. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Middlesbrough. 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, 22 April 2023

Mourning in Eston: 1877

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A small sheaf of receipted bills, which had survived by chance in the offices of Meek, Stubbs & Barnley, has given me the material for t...
Saturday, 3 April 2021

William Weldon Carter & Eden Lodge, Hutton Rudby

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In Spring 1880, this advertisement appeared repeatedly in the Yorkshire newspapers: The Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough, 15 April 1880  Desi...
Saturday, 6 February 2021

On the Sea Cliffs of Cleveland: 1864

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A more appreciative and detailed account of the walk taken by J.G. in 1866 (see last blogpost) is that described by William Stott Banks in O...
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...
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, 14 March 2020

Thomas Redmayne of Taitlands

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