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Monday, 31 December 2012

Chapter 21. "My intense exertions"

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In Mr Barlow's notebooks we can catch a glimpse of his interests and activities in the latter part of his life.  In the Middleton Book...
Sunday, 30 December 2012

Chapter 20. "A very queer chap"

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While Robert Barlow contemplated the success of his pamphlet, the nation was horrified to hear of the uprising in India. In late July 1857...
Saturday, 29 December 2012

Chapter 19. 'The Queen, the Head of the Church'

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Mr Barlow had now reached the age of fifty and the full implications of his situation had become unavoidable. As a boy, he was ambitious...
Friday, 28 December 2012

Chapter 18. The early 1850s

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In 1851, some months after her marriage, Marian Digby Beste and her new family left the country.  They sailed for the United States in a lar...
Thursday, 27 December 2012

Chapter 17. 1844 to 1851: Changing Times

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The parsonage house once completed, Mr Barlow and his household could leave Linden Grove and establish themselves in their new home. He se...
Saturday, 22 December 2012

Chapter 16. Melancholy Intelligence: the death of James Barlow Hoy

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Local life at this period is brought vividly to life in the Stokesley press. The Stokesley News & Cleveland Reporter was launched by ...
Friday, 21 December 2012

Chapter 15. A Skeleton is Discovered

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In June 1841 labourers cutting an alteration to the stell, or small beck, that that marked the boundary between the parishes of Stokesley an...