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Saturday, 6 July 2019

Leonard Appleton of Doddle Hill Farm

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This sort of detail is always useful to family historians, I know, given the Rev R J Barlow's failure to keep the parish registers prope...
Thursday, 20 June 2019

Update on 'Thomas King of Kirkleatham, brewer & smuggler'

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I have just been looking over an early blogpost on Thomas King of Kirkleatham , the brewer who was said to be in partnership with John Andr...
Saturday, 1 June 2019

The Yarm Minstrel Troupe performs at Hutton Rudby, 1894

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This seems a very male entertainment and I harbour dark suspicions of the piece entitled Woman's Rights : Darlington & Stockton Ti...
Saturday, 4 May 2019

Benjamin Flounders and the Crathorne Bleach Yard, 1743

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This notice – really it's an advertisement – in a Newcastle newspaper of 1743, casts an interesting light on the scope of the operation...
Saturday, 6 April 2019

When Mr Mease of Hutton Rudby lost his arm, November 1860

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We had always known that Joseph Mellanby Mease (1827-1928) lost an arm in an accident at the corn mill on Hutton bank, but I have at last f...
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Saturday, 2 March 2019

Hutton Rudby celebrates the coronations of 1911 and 1937

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Hutton Rudby celebrates George V's coronation This photograph – provided to me by Malcolm McPhie from the Album entitled The Gre...
Thursday, 28 February 2019

Mrs Annabel Dott: additions and corrections

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A minor point - just to inform readers that I have amended my text as regards the architect Walter Brierley's involvement in the Goathl...