Brompton On Swale, the Village 1913 (ref. 65494) | We are looking east towards the Crown Inn (in the distance behind the walking man). A tarmac road surface and kerbed
pavements are the main changes to this scene today. The stone cottages and red brick Methodist chapel have changed little
except for some modern doors and windows.
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Catterick, the Village 1913 (ref. 65487) | More trees obscure
this view across
the stream to
Low Green, and
Buckfast & Son's
shop (behind the
second tree from
the right) has
closed, but the
buildings have
changed little.
St Anne's Church
tower is visible
behind the
handsome Stepping
Stones House. The
stepping stones
themselves look less
serviceable now,
but there is also a
footbridge today.
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Downholme, the Church 1913 (ref. 65520) | Inside the quaint little church of St Michael and All Angels is a George III coat of arms dated 1784, signed by the Richmond
painter Robert Coatsworth; he helped to paint the scenery for the opening night of the Georgian Theatre Royal. Some
distance away is the small village of Downholme, once bustling, with lead workings nearby, now close to Catterick
Garrison's firing ranges.
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Easby, Abbey 1893 (ref. 32290) | Little of the abbey church remains, but other buildings around the cloister are better preserved. This view shows the south
transept (centre left), with the chapter house on the right. The ruined walls are now free of the lush vegetation shown here,
and well consolidated, but Easby Abbey is still privately owned (although in English Heritage's guardianship).
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Gilling West, Village 1913 (ref. 65482) | We are looking north, with
the White Swan on the
left and tall trees near the
church in the centre. The
grass in the foreground
would soon bear a 1914-18
war memorial. The village
shop and post office in
the distance beyond the
children still functions, but
the shop-like Gilling Club
(to the left of the woman in
the middle of the road) has
become a house.
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Hipswell, the Hall 1913 (ref. 66034) | Hipswell Hall is a 15th-century fortified manor house built for the Fulthorpe family, whose coat of arms is carved on the bay
window to the right. The estate passed to the Wandesfords of Kirklington, and over the front door is a plaque dated 1596
with the initials of George Wandesford. The lady by the gate would have no inkling of the military influx soon to come.
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Marske, the Hall c1955 (ref. M378002) | This was formerly the seat of the Hutton family, who produced two archbishops, both called Matthew, of York in 1595 and
Canterbury in 1757. Marske Hall was rebuilt c1600 and Georgianised c1730, and behind it is a once-handsome stable block
- the Huttons bred racehorses. The photograph shows some of the impressive trees which are a feature of Marske.
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Marske, Village 1913 (ref. 65523) | Marske is an
attractive and
unusual Swaledale
village, neither
nuclear nor linear,
nestling in a fold
of hills just above
the River Swale.
The tributary
Marske Beck
flows between
the church and
Marske Hall, and
is crossed by
Marske Bridge, a
medieval ribbed structure.
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Marske, the Church 1913 (ref. 65525) | The ancient battlemented
church of St Edmund King
and Martyr has windows
inscribed 'Iohn Hutton
Sqvir 1683'. The interior,
re-ordered by a later John
Hutton c1830, contains his
memorial with its fulsome
epitaph, the Hutton family
pew, and a Victorian royal
coat of arms dated 1850.
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Middleton Tyas, Scotch Corner Hotel c1960 (ref. M73014) | The hotel replaced the Three Tuns Inn in 1938, and was requisitioned by the army for residential
and office use during the Second World War. This landmark, familiar to drivers on the A1, was in the
1950s THE place for film stars to stay on their way north, and most of the cars we see here are in the
luxury class. Road improvements have left it just off the main road today.
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Richmond, Castle Walk 1893 (ref. 32278) | This Georgian promenade around the base of the castle provides impressive vistas of the river
below and across to the other side. Looking east, the steep bank has a low covering of bushes which
obscure the views if allowed to grow up, and in 2004 a lot of clearing work was done.
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Richmond, from River 1923 (ref. 74348) | Some women artists paint the view of Richmond from across the River Swale. In the left distance
can be seen smoke rising from the gasworks beside the falls. Richmond had one of the earliest
gasworks in Europe, built in 1820 to provide street lighting for the fashionable Georgian town.
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Richmond, Castle Walk 1893 (ref. 32277) | We are looking west
towards the Green
Bridge, with the castle
rock more visible here.
The young woman on
the right needs her
parasol, because Castle
Walk is a south-facing
sun trap. A section of
this part of Castle Walk
has recently been fenced
against the sheer drop.
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Richmond, Castle Walk 1929 (ref. 82546) | In the distance is the Green, an industrial area with tanneries and a brewery as well as
cottages. Since 1893 there have been improvements to Riverside Road leading to the Falls,
and a new sewage outfall has been made from the Green into the River Swale.
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Richmond, view from Castle c1965 (ref. R32091) | The Channel, the main
access to the Market Place
before the formation of
King Street, is in the centre,
continuing up towards the
top left as Frenchgate, past
St Mary's parish church.
The large building to the left
behind the Castle Tavern
is the Methodist chapel in
Ryder's Wynd, replacing
an earlier chapel nearby,
and superseded by the
present Methodist church in
Queens Road.
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Richmond, Market Place c1965 (ref. R32068) | The amount of
change since 1929 is
surprisingly small,
although Cookes
the stationer's has
become Austin's.
Below the second
window of the
building marked
'Restaurant' (the
fifth building
from the left) is
the opening to
Bank Yard, named
after the Old Bank
which occupied the
building in 1792.
The roofs behind,
parallel to the
High Row of the
Market Place, are
houses in Waterloo
Street, demolished
in 1963.
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Richmond, Kings Head Hotel 1913 (ref. 65481) | Built as a town house for the lead mine-owner Charles Bathurst of Arkengarthdale c1720, its
newly-fashionable hand-made bricks, three-storey height and eight bays must then have made it
very prominent in the Market Place. It was converted into the King's Head almost immediately, and
remains the town's largest hotel. The doorway on the extreme right served as the bar entrance, and
another doorway was inserted to the left when Lloyds Bank opened here c1920. King Street on the
left was so named not from this hotel but from the King's Arms Inn which stood on the site until
1813, when it was demolished to make way for a more level access for carriages into the Market
Place at the height of Richmond's Georgian prosperity.
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Richmond, Market Place c1965 (ref. R32069) | The King's Head's three
doorways can be seen,
and the inn-signs of a
carved bunch of grapes
and a portrait of King
Charles II. The hotel
bedrooms extend over
Woolworth's next door,
Richmond's first chain
store; it arrived c1935
and moved in 1980 to
Bailey House, visible at
the bottom of the
Market Place. Local
businesses have now
been joined by Fine Fare
(centre) and, extreme
right, Walter Willson's.
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Richmond, Market Place 1929 (ref. 82550) | On the left outside
Rodber's furniture and
floor coverings shop can
be seen tables, beds and a
chest of drawers, and also
their delivery van. Cookes
next door was a printer
and stationer selling
postcards, and then came
A G Metcalfe, a baker with
café, and R S Corner, a
confectioner. Beyond, the
grocer between the banks
was now Singleton's. On
the right, in front of the
Toll Booth gable-end, is
a weighbridge.
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Richmond, Market Place 1929 (ref. 82555) | Railings mark where
King's shop had
stood. The butcher's
has become a shop
selling paintings and
engravings, the Bazaar
is now Lucy Wilcox's
cigarettes and sweets
shop, but Parmley's
Antiques is still in
business. On the left
is part of Bainbridge
& Co's shop window
– they were drapers
and tailors.
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