North-East History Tour

The arc of coast betwixt Saltburn and Filey was once dotted with Roman signal stations, built in the second half of the 4 th century to ...

[From Wikipedia Commons ( Jed )] The ‘Spirit of Ecstasy’, aka ‘Emily’, ‘Silver Lady’ or ‘Flying Lady’, is the official name of th...

Much of what follows is sketchy. Rumour based on hearsay, with a little bit of tittle-tattle thrown in for good measure. Good fun all-the-...

Frank Wild, the great Antarctic explorer and colleague of the famous Ernest Shackleton, was born in Skelton-in-Cleveland on 10 th Apr...

Crazy Castle was the common name for old Skelton Castle , the edifice which predated the current structure of this name a lit...

The village of Upleatham in the old North Riding of Yorkshire did an odd thing in the 17 th century: it moved for no apparent reason...

On 17 th June 1922 , the great speedster, Malcolm Campbell, made his very first attempt on the land speed record here in the Nort...

The Pennyman family were big players in seventeenth century Cleveland . In 1625, they raised the fine pile that is Marske Hall and, in 163...

Charlotte Marion Hughes, née Milburn, was the oldest documented person ever to have lived in the UK .  When she died on 17 th March 199...

In 1954, the sleepy hamlet of Yearby, a little to the south of Redcar , hit the headlines when the remains of two ceramic vessels were une...

Horseracing in Redcar goes back a good deal further than the relatively short life-span of its current racecourse. Races took place on Re...

Question: When does a Coronation Clock become a Memorial Clock?  Answer: When it’s in Redcar !  Let me explain… During the future...

Jane Gardam is one of the most famous natives of Coatham, having been born in the town on 11 th July 1928 – and still very much alive as...

Everyone who has the slightest interest in the history of Cleveland is well aware of the Sir William Turner Almshouses, Kirkleatham. B...

‘New Towns’ are often thought of as a twentieth century phenomena, but they have been a constant feature of the evolving British lan...

The original ‘eight streets’ of the settlement of Grangetown were built during the early 1880s. Named Bessemer, Vaughan, Stapylton, Lain...

William Henry Short was born in Eston, Middlesbrough , on 4 th February 1885 , to his (at the time unmarried) parents, James Short an...

In the spring of 1850, the fledgeling Cleveland ironmaking industry was floundering.  Established as recently as 1840 by those great spec...

The Teesside conurbation is famous for its extraordinary Victorian growth, but that is not to say there was nothing in the vicinity befor...

In the churchyard of Marton St.Cuthbert’s, near Middlesbrough, sits a headstone of which has carved upon it the words “Remember Death” and...