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The Black Bull, Great Smeaton
A little bit of history about the Black Bull. My GGG Grandfather Thomas Banks (1791-1869) was the inn keeper during the 1850's and possibly for a short period before that. He also ran the slaughterhouse and the butchery business behind the pub which is referred to by Malcolm in his memory. Thomas died in 1869. The Black Bull and butchery was then run by his son Thomas, until his death in 1887 when it was taken over by his sister Elizabeth with the help of another sister Margaret. Margaret died in 1912 and Elizabeth in 1914. All were, I believe, buried at St Eloy Church in Great Smeaton.
Contributed by Peter Allen
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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The Black Bull, Great Smeaton
A little bit of history about the Black Bull. My GGG Grandfather Thomas Banks (1791-1869) was the inn keeper during the 1850's and possibly for a short period before that. He also ran the slaughterhouse and the butchery business behind the pub which is referred to by Malcolm in his memory. Thomas died in 1869. The Black Bull and butchery was then run by his son Thomas, until his death in 1887 when it was taken over by his sister Elizabeth with the help of another sister Margaret. Margaret died in 1912 and Elizabeth in 1914. All were, I believe, buried at St Eloy Church in Great Smeaton.
A memory of Great Smeaton contributed by Peter Allen
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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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".