North Yorkshire History

In the days when people were nervous of witches, and called on the wake-wailer to come each evening before a funeral to sing the lyke wake t...

In the 1990s Peter Meadows was working on an article on the subject of a lost Cleveland house called Angrove (also Anngrove or Ann-grove) Ha...

In 1903 Richard Blakeborough  (1850-1918), celebrated collector of North Riding folklore, wrote an article for a cheery weekly family newspa...

In the shopping season, a story with echoes of our time?  In the middle of the 19th century, Stokesley had up to half a dozen drapers' s...

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

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...

In the Cleveland market town of Stokesley at the beginning of the 19th century, festivities were lively and raucous.  As the decades went b...

The story that follows was reported in the Yorkshire Gazette and the York Herald on 10 April 1841 – two rather confusing and sometimes c...

I have found two instances of accidents with the Stokesley Gas Works; one is dramatic and potentially tragic while the other must have caus...

A footnote to the story of  the linen mills of Stokesley & Hutton Rudby: 1823-1908  and the Mease brothers. Thomas and John Mease h...