North Yorkshire History

Question:  what is the link between the small tin box of sweets and cigarettes given to soldiers and sailors in World War I – the Redcar sub...

This was written many years ago by Kay Hill (1905-2005).  I think it must have appeared in some publication but I don't know which.  She...

At Nunthorpe, impressive displays by the Nunthorpe and Marton Knitters remember the fallen of the Wars and the suffering of children and ...

This was written for the archives of the Live Bait Squadron Society .   John Duncan Stubbs (always known as Duncan) was born on 24 June...

I have posted previously on the Nunthorpe Women's Institute Drama Group –  here,   here,   here   and here .  (I should add that this is...

York Herald, 8 March 1806 CLEVELAND TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION  On TUESDAY the FIRST day of April next, at THOMAS SMITH'S, the GOLDE...

I didn't put this on earlier, I was hiding from it because a younger version of me features in it ... It's Klaudie Bartelink's...

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...

Major T D H Stubbs was stationed in Newcastle with his Battery, with his family in lodgings in Jesmond. From his diary: Tuesday 22nd...

Here they are performing Paolo & Francesca in 1939: I wonder if they were performing the 1902 play by Stephen Phillips .