Barnard Castle, 1914
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Photo ref:
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Trinity Methodist church stands at the bottom end of Galgate, and was completed in 1894. Methodism came to the town during the 1740s and 1750s through the efforts of John Cheesborough and John Wesley. A meeting house was eventually established, and the first chapel was opened by Wesley himself in 1765.
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A Selection of Memories from Barnard Castle
For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Barnard Castle
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The pub to the right of this image is The Shoulder of Mutton and when this image was taken it was ran by my Great-grandfather Sidney Addison.
Three years before this was taken my grandmother was born in the pub and would have been in the buiding the day this image was taken.
When I was small we used to walk to the abbey bridge from my Nanas house in thorngate,at the corner of Gray lane. The elderly couple who were in charge of the toll used to sell lemonade in one of the little toll houses, and the toilet was in the other, I can remember looking down into the toilet and seeing the tees many,many feet below. This was in the 50s, I went again in the early 90s and the ...see more
I was born at Barnard Castle in 1946. My dad Norman Kay, worked for Tommy Carter who owned the brewery next to the Castle and we lived upstairs, before moving to the Bank. My parents also ran the Dance Hall for the soldiers. It's a long way from Colorada Springs USA, where I live now.
George Parkinson and his wife, Ann (nee Bowron) married:13.5.1845 at Rokeby Parish Church. After living and working at Balder Mill, just outside Cotherstone, the family moved to live at Desmesne Mill around 1853/4. The Mill has been renovated, but when The Parkinson family were there, they would have lived in the cottages. During their time at the Mill, another five children were born there, to ...see more
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