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Wednesday, 29 July 2015

Alfred Edwin Sadler, manufacturing chemist of Ulverston

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John Lamb of Ulverston has asked me if I have any information on Alfred Sadler, son of Samuel Sadler.  Alfred, who once owned John's h...
Saturday, 25 July 2015

Days of plenty in Redcar: a middle class household before the First World War

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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...
Monday, 20 July 2015

Counting sheep in dialect

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Further to my last, I've just had my attention drawn (thanks John!) to the  article on wikipedia  on the subject. (An appropriate phot...
Friday, 17 July 2015

Counting Sheep in the Bilsdale dialect

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A note made in 1972 by Katharine Isobel Ellis Hill (1905-2005) of the old words for counting sheep. It was dictated to her some time in th...
Sunday, 5 July 2015

The Noddings family of Hawnby, Hutton Rudby and Hartlepool

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I've been contacted by Scott and Keith Noddings with this appeal for information.  They would be very glad to hear from anyone who can ...
Wednesday, 6 May 2015

John Macfarlan Charlton, 21st Northumberland Fusiliers

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I've recently been sent these details on the death of  Captain John Macfarlane Charlton .  They come from Dennis Tyerman, whose father, ...
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Sunday, 15 March 2015

Farming records of John Jackson of Lackenby, 1833-55

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Record of the farming year kept by John Jackson, 1833-55 A very nice day yesterday at the University of Teesside/Cleveland & Teessid...