North Yorkshire History

The story that follows was reported in the Yorkshire Gazette and the York Herald on 10 April 1841 – two rather confusing and sometimes c...

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...