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Showing posts with label lythe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lythe. Show all posts
Saturday, 5 March 2022

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, 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, 12 December 2020

Runswick: a tale of landslips – and the cholera of 1866

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The cliffside village of Runswick Bay  [Photograph by mattbuck, reproduced under  Creative Commons licence ]   Runswick (the 'w' in ...
Monday, 8 July 2013

John Buchannan and the Isle of Skye

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In 1840 John Buchannan was thirty years old, a widower with a little girl aged three.  His parents and his sister had died more than twenty ...
Friday, 5 July 2013

Cousins from Sandsend: John Buchannan & George Pyman

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In March 1808, a young married woman called Sarah Buchannan of East Row, Sandsend, was admitted as a member of the Silver Street Congregatio...
Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Sandsend & Lythe in 1823

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Baines' Directory 1823:  Sand's End , in the parish of Lythe, wap. and liberty of Langbargh; 3 miles NW of Whitby, situated on the...
Friday, 1 February 2013

Violent robbery on the footpath from Seamer to Stokesley, 1806

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Having read how Thomas Wilson and William Orton escaped hanging in 1805 and 1821, the result of this local crime may come as a surprise. T...