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Showing posts with label Whitby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Whitby. Show all posts
Saturday, 20 May 2023

A Year's weather: 1895 by John Megginson

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1895 – the year when Oscar Wilde was sent to gaol, when Middlesbrough Football Club won the FA Amateur Cup, Alfred Dreyfus was sent to Devil...
Monday, 1 August 2022

Frightful Accident at Sleights Station: 1 August 1901

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On 2 August 1901, the Whitby Gazette carried a shocking headline: Frightful Accident at Sleights Station A Whitby Lady Cut To Pieces This i...
Friday, 15 April 2022

Thomas Barlow Allinson writes a letter: 1836

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Thomas Barlow Allinson's letter of 1836 was among the small collection mentioned in The Revd William Atkinson of Kirkleatham & Cambr...
Saturday, 5 March 2022

Jane Atkinson of Kirkleatham (1751-1817), wife of Captain Thomas Galilee

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I've revised an earlier post of May 2013 and, as it belongs with the preceding posts, I'll post it here as well.   The two letters q...

Thomas Atkinson, surgeon (b1753) of Kirkleatham, Canada & Honduras Bay

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This replaces a piece about Thomas Atkinson posted in November 2012.  As it belongs with the preceding posts about the  The Atkinsons of Sca...

The Revd William Atkinson of Kirkleatham & Cambridge (1755-1830)

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This account of a quiet life is thanks to information from Stella Sterry, and to letters that were found years ago in a house clearance in L...

The Atkinsons of Scaling Dam in the 17th & 18th centuries

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This is the sort of thing that one always hopes for – in 2013 I posted the Whaling Journal 1774 of Thomas Atkinson of Kirkleatham and articl...
Saturday, 4 December 2021

Long hours at the Stokesley drapers' shops: 1856

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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...
Saturday, 1 May 2021

5. War in Yorkshire: 1642-1643

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In Chester, the Wandesfords found a welcome and were treated with kindness and friendship by the gentry families.  Within the strong walls o...
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...