North Yorkshire History

To follow on from my last post on James Wilson, this is the newspaper report of George Wilson's missing book-keeper:- Shields Daily Ga...

An old resident of Hutton Rudby has turned up in Massachusetts, and I think he may like to come home.  You can see him in this fine mid-19th...

An advertisement from 1793.  Revolutionary France had declared war on Britain on 1 February that year.  Little did anyone know that war woul...

York Herald , 12 December 1818 In addition to the several convictions which have lately taken place in Cleveland, under the game laws, Joh...

For those of you who have enjoyed reading John Richard Stubbs' diaries , this is the announcement of his death in the local newspaper:-...

York Herald , 10 October 1812 Hutton, otherwise Hutton Rudby TO BE SOLD, PURSUANT to an Order of the High Court of Chancery, bearing ...

A reminder of a slower time:- Yorkshire Gazette , 3 September 1825 On Monday week, Mr John Langdale, of Menithorpe, near Malton, started...