North Yorkshire History

If you've come to this blog from reading Chris Lloyd's article in the Darlington & Stockton Times, and you'd like to read in...

I came across this fascinating report quite by accident.  It turns out that the Rev Robert Joseph Barlow of Hutton Rudby (c1804-78) invente...

I have found two instances of accidents with the Stokesley Gas Works; one is dramatic and potentially tragic while the other must have caus...

A footnote to the story of  the linen mills of Stokesley & Hutton Rudby: 1823-1908  and the Mease brothers. Thomas and John Mease h...

A chance find reveals that Thomas Mease of Stokesley (1792-1862) was once the owner of John Wesley's green silk umbrella: Northampto...

Thomas Redmayne of Taitlands has appeared on this blog before (you'll find him first mentioned in July 2014 and on several later occasi...

Listening to the news of the coronavirus, it seems timely to look back on another rapidly spreading disease – the pandemic of Asiatic Chole...