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Tuesday, 8 September 2020

Bishop William Stubbs (1825-1901): a devout Yorkshireman

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This is something I meant to write before, but it got lost in other work.  I'm afraid the alignment of text in this is a little haphazar...
Saturday, 5 September 2020

Festivities in Stokesley become respectable

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In the Cleveland market town of Stokesley at the beginning of the 19th century, festivities were lively and raucous.  As the decades went b...
Sunday, 19 July 2020

Frederick Cator's trunk goes missing, Stokesley 1841

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The story that follows was reported in the Yorkshire Gazette and the York Herald on 10 April 1841 – two rather confusing and sometimes c...
Sunday, 28 June 2020

John Jackson & Captain Thomas King

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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...
Saturday, 20 June 2020

Rev Robert Joseph Barlow invents a carriage spring, 1836

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I came across this fascinating report quite by accident.  It turns out that the Rev Robert Joseph Barlow of Hutton Rudby (c1804-78) invente...
Saturday, 23 May 2020

Accidents at the Stokesley Gas Works, 1846 & 1866

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I have found two instances of accidents with the Stokesley Gas Works; one is dramatic and potentially tragic while the other must have caus...
Saturday, 25 April 2020

The Mease sisters of Stokesley

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