Friday, 13 December 2013

25 January 1877: Public Notices in the Middlesbrough press

From The Weekly Exchange
(price One Penny)

Thursday 25 January 1877

PUBLIC NOTICES
THE ANNIVERSARY of the BIRTH of ROBERT BURNS will this year be held in the CLEVELAND HOTEL, Smeaton-street, North Ormesby, on January 25th.  ANGUS MACPHERSON, Esq., editor of the "People's Centenary Edition of Burns," in the chair.  Dinner on the table at 5.30pm.  Tickets 4s, may be had at the bar of the Hotel, or of any of the members of the committee.  All are hereby invited to the Festival, whatever their nationality.
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THEATRE ROYAL, YARM LANE, STOCKTON-ON-TEES.
Lessee - Mr T HOLMES
Manageress - Mrs A CHAPLIN
Glorious Success!  Crowded Nightly.  Acknowledged by the Public and Press to be the Greatest Production ever witnessed in Stockton, both in Talent, Dress, and Scenic Effect.  Hundreds unable each evening to gain admission.  The Curtain will rise every Evening at Seven, with the Grand and Gorgeous
CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME!
Under the personal direction and superintendance of Mrs AMELIA CHAPLIN and Mr WALTER LEWIS, assisted by Mr A L BARON.
Adapted for this Theatre by Mr W LEWIS, entitled
YE FAIR ONE WITH YE GOLDEN LOCKS,
or
HARLEQUIN KING COLLYWOBBLE, THE WICKED DEMON, AND THE GOOD FAIRIES OF THE ENCHANTED GROVE.
GRAND
TRANSFORMATION SCENE!
ABODE OF THE QUEEN OF THE FAIRIES
Columbine - Miss FANNY FITZGERALD
Harlequin - Mr GEORGE FITZGERALD
Harlequina - Miss EMILY VINNING
Pantaloon - Mr W H MORGAN
Clown - Mr WALTER LEWIS
Centre Boxes, 2s; Side Boxes and Pit Stalls, 1s.; Pit and Upper Boxes, 6d; Gallery, 4d.
Doors open at 6.30, commence at 7.
Box Plan at Heavisides and Son's, 4, Finkle-street, Stockton, where places and tickets may be secured.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a separate building named "The Primitive Methodist Chapel" situate in the Back Lane in the parish of Stokesley in the County of York, and in the district of Stokesley, being a building certified according to law as a place of religious worship, was on the third day of January 1877, duly Registered for solemnizing Marriages therein, pursuant to the Act of 6th and 7th, William 4th, chapter 85.
Witness my hand this fourth day of January 1877.
THOS. SOWERBY
Superintendant Registrar

Friday, 6 December 2013

For sale in 1877: the Linthorpe Steam Brick & Tile Works

From The Weekly Exchange
(price One Penny)

Thursday 25 January 1877
 The Borough Steam Brick and Tile Works, Dwelling-house, Lands and Premises, near Linthorpe, Middlesbrough.
TO CAPITALISTS, BUILDERS, CONTRACTORS, and Others.

To be SOLD BY AUCTION, at the house of Mr Medforth, The Talbot Hotel, Middlesbro', on TUESDAY, the 30th day of January, 1877, at Two for Three o'clock in the Afternoon, and subject to conditions to be then read,
Mr JOSHUA BROWN, Auctioneer.

ALL that Freehold DWELLING-HOUSE, with the Outbuildings to the same belonging; and the Piece or Parcel of LAND, containing by estimation 3a. 3r. 9p., more or less, together with the appurtenances to the same belonging, situate in the Township of Linthorpe, in the County of York, now or late in the occupation of Mr Isaac Cornelius Tidman.

There are various Buildings on the premises for Making and Drying Bricks, and a Seam or Seams of valuable Clay, containing 20ft.
Persons who intend purchasing are recommended to view the premises, and further information may be obtained of Mr JOSHUA BROWN, Auctioneer, Middlesbrough; of Mr WILCOX, Solicitor, Stokesley; and at the Offices of Messrs ALLISON, SON, & WILLAN, Solicitors, Darlington.
Darlington, 5th January, 1877

Sunday, 1 December 2013

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Friday, 29 November 2013

Items for Sale, 25 January 1877: from the Middlesbrough Weekly Exchange

From The Weekly Exchange
(price One Penny)

Thursday 25 January 1877
FOR SALE BY PRIVATE CONTRACT

FOR SALE, Fine-toned Pianoforte, by Henry Ward.

FOR SALE, a very superior carved oak Cabinet and Sideboard to match, with plate-glass back.

FOR SALE, Phaeton, little worse than new; also very useful Whitechapel, Cab, Landau, and Brake.

FOR SALE, Bakery, in central position.

IMESON-TERRACE, Linthorpe-road.- Capital Family Residence, containing drawing-room, dining-room, kitchen, sitting-room, five bedrooms, cellar kitchen, wine cellar, W.C., stable coach-house, and good garden, etc.

GROVE-HILL. - Family Residence, containing ten rooms, stable, coach-house, and large garden.

NEW LINTHORPE. - A very substantially built Residence, with stable and coach-house, etc.

CANNON-STREET. - The best Business Premises in this capital thoroughfare.

WILSON-STREET.- A well-built corner House and Shop, with cellars, etc

NEWPORT-ROAD. - Two very central and well-built Houses and Shops, with plate-glass windows.

BROTTON.- Eight three-roomed Houses, let on 20 years' lease.

Also, over 250 three and four-roomed Houses in Garden, Vaughan, Hatherley, Lime, Calthorpe, and other streets, for particulars, apply W. JEFF, 36, Albert Road.

Friday, 22 November 2013

Properties for sale and to let in Middlesbrough, 1877

from The Weekly Exchange
(Price One Penny)

1 March 1877
MIDDLESBROUGH ON TEES
TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION at the Globe Hotel, South Street, Middlesbrough, on MONDAY, the 5th day of March, 1877, at three for four o'clock in the afternoon precisely.
MR JOSHUA BROWN, Auctioneer.
Subject to such conditions as shall then and there be read.
ALL that valuable freehold MESSUAGE or DWELLING-HOUSE with Shop situate No 5, South-street, Middlesbrough, and adjoining to the Globe Hotel on the north, containing in the basement, kitchen and other conveniences, on the ground floor shop, yard, and conveniences, on the first floor sitting room and two bedrooms.
This property is in one of the best thoroughfares in Middlesbrough, and within a few yards of the Market place.  As an investment it is most desirable.
Further particulars may be obtained of the Auctioneer, or on application at the offices of
Messrs GARBUTT AND FAWCETT,
Solicitors, Yarm, and Stockton-on-Tees


TO LET, Two Ten-roomed HOUSES, fitted with every convenience, large garden, situate in Gunnergate-terrace, Corporation-road.  Five capital Eleven-room HOUSES, in Grange-road.  Two good DWELLING-HOUSES in Gilkes-street


FOR SALE, Four Houses, and Two Plate-Glass Fronted Shops, being and situate Nos. 10, 12, 14, and 16, Gurney-street, Middlesbrough; close to centre of town, the North-Eastern Railway Station, Post-office, and Cattle market. – For particulars, apply to Mr J BROWN; Offices, 53, Wilson-street, Middlesbrough


TO LET – SEMI-DETACHED VILLA, in Eastbourne-road, Linthorpe Estate, containing eight rooms, including bathroom, with a plentiful supply of hot water; gas fittings and venetian blinds in all the rooms; also a quarter acre garden well stocked with all kinds of fruit trees in full bearing; commodious piggeries and hen-houses.  Now occupied by Mr Shaw.  Apply, Mr STAINSBY, Goods Manager, Middlesbrough


THREE SITES of LAND for Sale in Sailors' Trod, Middlesbrough, at reasonable rates. – Apply to T CASWELL, 25, Lower East-street, Middlesbrough


Wednesday, 20 November 2013

Sidgwick family in Enterpen in the early C19

This beautifully engrossed indenture dated 18 July 1828 is part of the legal paperwork by which Edward Meynell the younger of Enterpen, weaver, bought property in Enterpen from John Sidgwick of Broughton, yeoman.

John Sidgwick was one of the sons of the late John Sidgwick of Enterpen, linen manufacturer. 


He had inherited the property from his father – and he had previously inherited it from his father, also called John Sidgwick, who had bought it from the Flintoff family in 1779.

John Sidgwick of Broughton was selling Edward Meynell two houses in Enterpen with the garden lying behind them.  They had been in the occupation of the late John Sidgwick, and were now tenanted by Thomas Hawman and James Meek. 

The properties are described as being bordered to the east and north by a house and grounds belonging to John Sidgwick of Broughton – to the west by ground belonging to Sarah Sidgwick – and to the south by the King's Highway leading from Hutton near Rudby to East Rounton.

A comparison with the Tithe Map, in which Edward Meynell is shown as owning a house and garden of 22 ½ perches, indicates that the property lay at the eastern end of Enterpen, to the west of the old Station Hotel. 

It is clear from the Tithe Map that the Sidgwick family still dominated that end of Enterpen in the 1830s.  John the linen manufacturer and his father John before him had clearly laid down a good inheritance for their successors.



Note: the first John Sidgwick acquired the land by "certain indentures of lease and release bearing date respectively 15th and 16th May 1779 and the release made or expressed to be made between George Flintoff and Ann Flintoff widow (1) John Newsam (2) and the said John Sidgwick the Grandfather (3)"




One of the witnesses was William Weatherill – perhaps an early appearance by William Weatherill, solicitor of Guisborough?  Possibly.

Friday, 15 November 2013

Reckless driving near Stockton in 1877

From The Weekly Exchange
(Price One Penny)

Thursday 1 March 1877
RECKLESS DRIVING NEAR STOCKTON
At the County Petty Sessions at Stockton this morning, Frank Clayton, a Stockton cabman of notorious character, was charged with being drunk in charge of a horse and conveyance.  Mr Bolsover prosecuted on behalf of Mr J P Jewson, music teacher.

On the evening of the 15th of February, Mr Jewson, who had been at the Titiens’ Concert, was driving, about eleven o’clock, to Hartburn from Stockton.  When near to the first bridge in Yarm-road, they saw the defendant driving a conveyance at a furious rate in an opposite direction on the wrong side of the road.  Mr Jewson’s driver drew out of the way as much as possible, but was unable to prevent an accident, and the two vehicles collided.

The splashboard of Mr Jewson’s was broken to atoms, a carriage lamp was broken, and other damage was done.  The shaft of defendant’s conveyance struck Mr Jewson, jnr., on the arm, and bruised it.  Defendant’s late employer was called to state that he had been compelled to discharge the defendant on account of his drunken habits and for having injured a horse and carriage by his carelessness.

The defendant had practically no defence.

The bench fined him £2, including costs, or two months hard labour.  They cautioned him as to his future conduct.

but on the bright side...

STOCKTON: THE FREE LIBRARY
The reading-room in connection with the Corporation Free Library was opened on Tuesday.  It is situated in the Freemasons old Hall in Wellington-street.