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Showing posts with label Stockton-on-Tees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stockton-on-Tees. Show all posts
Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Wynyard: the Best in the Land (NZ421257)

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Wynyard Hall, c.1880 The Wynyard Hall/Park Estate, a few miles north of Stockton-on-Tees , has long been a beauty spot. Though the...
Tuesday, 19 June 2012

Will Hay of Stockton (c.NZ446193)

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[from Wikipedia ] The great William Thomson “Will” Hay was a famed comic screen actor of 1930s and 40s Britain . As a child, he live...
Tuesday, 12 June 2012

Walker’s Friction Match (c.NZ445189)

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One of Stockton-on-Tees ’ greatest claims to fame is that it was the home of the man who invented the friction match, one John Walker....
Tuesday, 5 June 2012

Stockton’s Stocks (NZ445189)

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[From The Monthly Chronicle of North Country Lore & Legend of April 1888] ‘Reminiscences of Stockton ’ by W.Fallows Some...
Tuesday, 15 May 2012

Preston Hall (NZ430158)

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© Copyright Peter and licensed for reuse under this Creative CommonsLicence . The Preston Hall we all now know and love as one o...
Friday, 6 April 2012

Port of Yarm (NZ417131)

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Though it may seem utterly unbelievable today, the town of Yarm, in the very depths of North-East England (and eighteen winding miles fr...
Tuesday, 8 November 2011

An Infant Hercules (c.NZ494210)

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Yes, “ Middlesbrough in 1832”.  To the uninitiated, it seems incredible.  The former medieval village had shrunk to little more than ...