North Yorkshire History

The Vote , 22 April 1921 Mrs Dott has been interested in building since her girlhood, and, if difficulties had not barred the way, there i...

Patrick was a few months short of his ninth birthday when his father died. Between 1871, when Patrick was three, and May 1889, when he ma...

It seems to me to be clear from the history of their married life, that Annabel and Patrick were a mutually supportive couple, united i...

Sarah Frances Annabel – who seems always to have been known as Annabel – grew up in Amhurst Road, Hackney.  In 1871 her parents had just mo...

I must start by saying that while Annabel's name appears as Annabelle in the baptismal register she is Annabel more or less everywhere ...

I came across the story of Mrs Annabel Dott and the Goathland Homes for Officers quite by accident. I was flicking through a volume of ...

Reported in the Yorkshire Gazette 171 years ago today:- This little piece of news was under the column heading SPORTING – I think we would...