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Monday, 26 October 2020

About the picture of Guisborough Priory in an earlier post

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 In a post from 2012 entitled Changing Guisborough market day: 1813 , there is a picture of the priory and this is a message to Ben G, who a...
Saturday, 10 October 2020

Hard labour & transportation to Tasmania: Northallerton, April 1841

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Each one of these cases brings us a little glimpse of the past.  I think the information might also prove useful to family historians. Th...
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...