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Saturday, 29 December 2018

An elaborate hoax at Stokesley, 1849

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Somebody went to a great deal of trouble to set up this elaborate hoax against a local landowner.  I wonder what can have lain behind it .....
Thursday, 13 December 2018

Ploughing with horses – how to do it

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If you've ever seen on television a programme in which someone is struggling to plough with horses and wondered how people ever managed ...
Sunday, 11 November 2018

Local newspapers report the news of the Armistice in 1918

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The North-Eastern Daily Gazette 12 November 1918 A DAY OF REJOICING  The rejoicings which began in Middlesbrough yesterday morning over ...

Remembrance at Nunthorpe

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At Nunthorpe, impressive displays by the Nunthorpe and Marton Knitters remember the fallen of the Wars and the suffering of children and ...
Monday, 5 November 2018

Joseph Skelton, grocer & draper of Hutton Rudby in 1830

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Perry's Bankrupt Gazette , 13 February 1830 Assignments To Trustees for the equal benefit of Creditors, pursuant to 6th Geo. IV. c...
Friday, 21 September 2018

Midshipman John Duncan Stubbs (1899-1914)

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This was written for the archives of the Live Bait Squadron Society .   John Duncan Stubbs (always known as Duncan) was born on 24 June...
Tuesday, 18 September 2018

Death of Mrs Ann Jackson of Hutton Rudby, 1829

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Hull Advertiser and Exchange Gazette , 18 September 1829 On the 9th last, at Hutton Rudby, in Cleveland in the 81st year of her age, Ann J...
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