North Yorkshire History

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

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...

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...

York Herald, 2 May 1868 Middlesbro' FATAL ACCIDENT - Yesterday week, an inquest was held at Middlesbro', on the body of Thomas...

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...

Death was never far away.  Monday January 26th 1857 … Rode Joes Mare to Humberton to enquire of Lydia Smith who was very ill not likely t...

If the working day in the 1850s was a great deal less frenetic than today, holidays were fewer.  John’s parents would generally go to a se...

This is a Licence to Alienate.  These Letters Patent of King James VI & I gave Ralph Stowpe permission in 1616 to sell to Robert Layt...

More from the old parish magazines: THE FALKLAND COTTAGE HOSPITAL RULES FOR ADMISSION Any sick person in Hutton Rudby or the immedia...

from Waterlow Bros & Layton’s Legal Diary and Almanac for 1886 Extracted from: List of Country Solicitors Corrected by co...