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Saturday, 28 September 2024

Charles Dickens' elder sister Fanny

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This is an article from my blog The Engineering Hopkinsons .  It is set in Manchester and it's called  ' Henry Burnett & Fanny D...
Friday, 27 September 2024

Introducing John Hopkinson & Alice Dewhurst

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Last year I began a new blog called ' The Engineering Hopkinsons '.   Alice Dewhurst of Skipton was the daughter of John Dewhurst of...
Saturday, 6 July 2024

"That Tiresome Lady Architect": Mrs Annabel Dott

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Five years ago, on Thursday 21 February 2019, I published here the first of my pieces on the redoubtable and remarkable Mrs Annabel Dott, wo...
Saturday, 22 June 2024

19th century solicitors in Middlesbrough, Stockton and Darlington

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In the second half of the 19th century when Middlesbrough – Gladstone's "Infant Hercules" – boomed from a farmhouse to an impo...
Saturday, 30 March 2024

Letters home from a travelling salesman: 1817-42

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Anyone researching the life of a commercial traveller in the early 19th century may be interested in letters now deposited at North Yorkshir...
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...