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Saturday, 20 May 2023

A Year's weather: 1895 by John Megginson

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1895 – the year when Oscar Wilde was sent to gaol, when Middlesbrough Football Club won the FA Amateur Cup, Alfred Dreyfus was sent to Devil...
Saturday, 22 April 2023

Mourning in Eston: 1877

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A small sheaf of receipted bills, which had survived by chance in the offices of Meek, Stubbs & Barnley, has given me the material for t...
Saturday, 25 March 2023

Lord Falkland fights a duel: 1809

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This is the story behind this tablet in the chancel of Hutton Rudby church: Tablet to Charles John Cary, 9th Viscount Falkland, his wife ...
Saturday, 25 February 2023

All Saints, Hutton Rudby: who were the Cary family?

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A short account of the Cary family, for visitors to All Saints' Church, Hutton Rudby who see the memorials on the chancel walls and wond...
Tuesday, 14 February 2023

The Faceby Saints left today

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It's 14 February and so it's Valentine's Day – and on this day in 1855 a party of 28 people left the little North Yorkshire haml...
Saturday, 28 January 2023

Wash-day drudgery gone forever!

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A reminder of how much washing machines changed women's lives.  This one was a small, neat, quick machine. Picture Post, October 30, 194...
Saturday, 31 December 2022

A small tin box – a Teesside "garden city" – a house in Nunthorpe

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Question:  what is the link between the small tin box of sweets and cigarettes given to soldiers and sailors in World War I – the Redcar sub...