Focus on Selby – Toll Bridge
In this post Gwyneth Endersby explores the history of Selby Toll Bridge from its origins in 1790 through various records in our collections. … Read More Focus on Selby – Toll Bridge
Thomas Moxom: The Case of the Cutlass & the Customs Officer
This post by Gwyneth Endersby tells the fascinating story of Thomas Moxom, indicted in the 1775 Quarter Sessions for attacking Customs’ Officer Richard Bottrell at Robin Hood’s Bay.… Read More Thomas Moxom: The Case of the Cutlass & the Customs Officer
Sources for Researching Garden History
This post by Gail Falkingham explores sources for researching garden history at the North Yorkshire County Record Office, featuring examples of many of our documents.… Read More Sources for Researching Garden History
Roads to the Past: Wood End estate
This guest post written by Ken Porteus of the Thornton le Street History Group looks at their Roads to the Past project and features research on an account book relating to the Wood End estate in 1785.… Read More Roads to the Past: Wood End estate
Made In North Yorkshire: Sir George Cayley
This Made in North Yorkshire feature tells the story of Sir George Cayley (1773-1857) known as the ‘Father of Flight’.… Read More Made In North Yorkshire: Sir George Cayley
Introduction to Shipping Records
By Tom Richardson, Record Assistant We hold a wide range of sources for maritime history spread across a number of the collections in our custody. This article will focus on some of the records of merchant ships and their crews found amongst these collections. Scarborough’s Company of Shipowners and Master Mariners Within the Scarborough Corporation… Read More Introduction to Shipping Records
Yorkshire Society’s School, Lambeth, London
We hold in our collections the 1854 annual report book and a book of songs of the Yorkshire Society’s School [Z.1443]. The School was established in 1812 by Dr James Saner (1779-1860) who was originally from Hanlith, Kirkby Malham and practised as a surgeon in London. The school at Lambeth provided boarding and education for the… Read More Yorkshire Society’s School, Lambeth, London
Diaries of a Ripon Reporter
We hold in our collection the diaries of James Pulleine Lee (1851-1915), a newspaper reporter from Ripon who wrote for the Ripon Gazette. James Pulleine Lee was born in 1851 to John and Mary Lee of Low Skellgate, Ripon. His father was a Bailiff at the County Court and the Deputy Superintendant Registrar in Ripon… Read More Diaries of a Ripon Reporter
Thomas Blanky of Whitby: Arctic Seafarer
By Katherine Bullimore, Record Assistant Part One of this post covered the family background and early career of Thomas Blanky or Blenky of Whitby, a seaman who took part in four Arctic voyages of discovery in the 19th century, this post will cover his later life and disappearance on the tragic Franklin Expedition. In 1829… Read More Thomas Blanky of Whitby: Arctic Seafarer
Thomas Blanky of Whitby: Arctic Seafarer
By Katherine Bullimore, Record Assistant Think of Arctic exploration in the nineteenth century, and chances are you think of the doomed Franklin expedition, of the three spookily well preserved bodies of dead sailors excavated in the 1980s, and the eerie underwater pictures of the expedition’s two sunken ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, revealed much… Read More Thomas Blanky of Whitby: Arctic Seafarer
