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First house
In this picture I lived in the house with the porch sticking out, just past the pub THE BLACK BULL (white building). Up the side of my house, or country cottage as it was termed, was a slaughter house at the back. I worked in Patons & Baldwins in Darlington textile mill as a woolsorter.
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First house
In this picture I lived in the house with the porch sticking out, just past the pub THE BLACK BULL (white building). Up the side of my house, or country cottage as it was termed, was a slaughter house at the back. I worked in Patons & Baldwins in Darlington textile mill as a woolsorter.
Malcolm
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My Family
My name is Phillip Robinson. My parents Tom & Eileen lived in Priory View, East Harlsey, in the late 60's. My uncle Charles Derrick McGookin has a plaque inside the village church dedicated to him. My grandparents from Robinson and McGookin are buried in the churchyard.
I also remember the landlady from the Cat & Bagpipes, which I believe to be the only public house named this in the country!
I now live in Darlington, however often return to the village to visit the area and the church.
A memory of East Harlsey contributed by phillip robinson
Memories
I was born in East Harlsey in 1946 and was educated in the village school which of course is now a private house, or is it two. I remember there being two classrooms and, if my memory is correct, the teacher was a Mrs Lyle?? I seem to remember we called her "jam pot". At that time the shop was run by a Mrs Topham, not sure of the spelling.
My grandmother was the caretaker of the village hall as she was for about 25yr
and as a child I remember playing in the hall and on the back lawn. I often helped my gran clean which was great fun. Polishing the dance floor and dashing through from the house with ...read more here
A memory of East Harlsey contributed by peter clark
Extracts From Great Smeaton & North Yorkshire books
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.
An extract from from"Richmond Photographic Memories".
The Terrace,
another Georgian
promenade, offers
a spectacular
panorama of the
town. On the right
is St Mary’s parish
church, in the
centre the Grammar
School, and to the
left Church Mill,
demolished in
1969, the last of
many Richmond
watermills once
powered by the
River Swale.
An extract from from"Richmond Photographic Memories".
Richmond had a strong Roman Catholic tradition, partly due to the Lawson family of nearby
Brough Hall, who gave the land here in Newbiggin for the church of St Joseph and St Francis Xavier;
it was rebuilt on a larger scale in 1868. The spirelet is prominent in several vistas, a masterly touch
by the architect George Goldie.
An extract from from"Richmond Photographic Memories".
We are looking up
from the Dundas Street
junction. Few residents
have cars. The terrace
on the left replaced
Bowes Hall, a medieval
mansion, in 1787.
Robert Willance lived in
the whitewashed house
with large chimneystack
on the right (Willance
miraculously survived
when in 1606 his horse
bolted and fell 200 feet).
In the centre are two
fine Georgian town
houses, and St Agatha’s,
the High School for
Girls until 1939.
An extract from from"Richmond Photographic Memories".
This street is so called because the Market Place, Frenchgate and Ryder’s Wynd all drained into it. The coffee merchant
E W Coleman’s van is parked outside his shop (centre); beside its window is an LNER train timetable - Station Road is off to
the left. Swale House on the extreme left was the home of Joe and Veronica Pease, great hosts of balls and parties.
An extract from from"Richmond Photographic Memories".