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Saturday, 27 January 2024

Carrying coal by donkey

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"There are those yet in Cleveland who can remember coals being conveyed into the country across the backs of donkeys." wrote John ...
Sunday, 31 December 2023

New & Good Things: Alfred Hopkinson, 1930

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Alfred Hopkinson (1851-1939) When Alfred Hopkinson , barrister, academic, MP and keen alpinist, wrote his memoirs in 1930, he ended one chap...
Saturday, 9 December 2023

Cockfighting in Hutton Rudby & Stokesley

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In 1903 Richard Blakeborough  (1850-1918), celebrated collector of North Riding folklore, wrote an article for a cheery weekly family newspa...
Sunday, 3 December 2023

Christmas recipes from Hutton Rudby, 1896

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The Northern Weekly Gazette was a cheery weekly newspaper with editions published in Middlesbrough, Guisborough, South Bank, Stockton, Darl...
Saturday, 28 October 2023

Dark nights in Great Ayton: 1889

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This sad little story is a reminder of village life before street lighting.  We are so conscious of light pollution nowadays, we can forget ...
Saturday, 22 July 2023

Defective bottles at Seaton Sluice: 1835

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A chance find which has turned up among my family's papers – a furious letter about defective bottles.  No idea how it ended up in a sol...
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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...