North Yorkshire History

John Wild was a tenant of Barkers Row in 1829; this advertisement shows that there was a Robert Wild in the village eighty years earlier.  H...

York Herald, 8 December 1804 To be Let On Wednesday the twelfth day of December, 1804, at the House of Mr Godfrey Hirst, Innholder, i...

York Herald, 13 April 1850 A Court report: Henry Muselwaite (36), pleaded Guilty to stealing, on the 22nd of March, at Hutton Rudby, a w...

York Herald, 2 May 1868 Middlesbro' FATAL ACCIDENT - Yesterday week, an inquest was held at Middlesbro', on the body of Thomas...

Sunderland Daily Echo & Shipping Gazette, 2 May 1910 Not many readers of the Seaham Weekly News might have noticed on Friday last th...

I have posted previously on the Nunthorpe Women's Institute Drama Group –  here,   here,   here   and here .  (I should add that this is...

Even in this short advertisement, somehow Mr Barlow's distinctive voice can be heard: York Herald, 7 April 1855 Wanted, at May-Day, ...