r 13th, Wedmistlay. October 1311i 1943. THE TEESDALE MERCURY, 8

province of Victoria became famous for its " The Horsemarket consequently com- DALESMAN'S SCRAPBOOK goldfields, he entered into mercantile opera- prises Rt.?, area between Mr Harris's house tions on a very large scale, and by the exer- and that of Mr Johnson, at Galgate Corner, cise of thrift and commanding business anciently termed Bland Hall Neuk.' The ability, he amassed a large fortune. At. all Oat Minket and Market Place generally, DEER HUNTERS AND HUNTING IN I have often wondered, in this respect, if times distinguished by an urbane demean- were thus south of the Tollbooth ; and Mr TEESDALE. the field known as Stallion Pasture. on Mr oar, and the strictest integrity, he acquired Fra Hutton's house was the house at present Gihson's farm at Hunters' Well, Middleton, the esteem and regatd of his fellow-citizens, owned and occupied by Mr T. M. Bell." Ba REG. PARKIN. is a relic of the days when kings hunted fat and having idled the minor civic offices (1) Now Messrs Youngs. My private calendar informs me that the stags, and laniented the lack of stamina in with credit to both the Corporation of Mel- (2) Now Charles Bell, Ironmonger. " fat-season " for stag hunting in Upper then. mounts. Can it he. think you, that in bourne and himself, he was elected Mayor [3) Now Messrs Boots, Ltd. Teesdale centuries agcy. terminated on the those far distant days the best Teesdale sires in 1866, with the entire unanimity of all .(4) Now Co - operative Stores. 4th of September. But roe-deer could still shod at Hunters SS ea on service. Nobody, classes and every political party, and dur- (5) Now Messrs Wilson, Fishmongers. be hunted Dom the 29(11 september until so at as 1 can learn. has any knowledge or ing his Mayoralty he maintained the dig- SYDNEY E. HARRISON, Curator. Candlemas on the and of February. It was record of the pasture acing used as its name nity belonging to the office of Chief Magis- Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle. a sport largely preserved hy. and fur the suggests. : rate of a ridh and important community. DALES CLOCKS AND CLOCKMAKERS. Crown. It waa the sport of kings. SILVER FROM B. J. JONES Darlington. We really ought to knaw quits a lot about THE DALE. Dear Sir,—Dales folk have a warm corner the " chase " because it constituted a major F!"". people who handle ,stiver money NEWBIGGIN CHARITY OF BOY WHO WAS in their hearts for old clocks, and more that occupation for many of our anceeiers. Ws, 1'-".`s.° "lull of it was mined in Et-a- ALWAYS COLD. especially the old Grandfather clocks. have records of the Bainbriggs being lma, especially in Durham' lead mines. Among the dale's clockmakers was a Mr rangers ill Teesdale Forest as early as Little Eggleshope groove was known as Cala The origin 01 Newbiggin achool Charity Porthouse, of Barnard Castle, who, I Henry VII. ( 148[S15(19, : and of one, George because its richness in silver reminded .,.began in the 18th century when a boy named believe, was a churchwarden in 1778, and Simpson, being the Royal Miasmal' to people of California, then the Mecca of gold- William Tarn attended that school. He was the owner of tha premises comprising King Jetties II.. us late as 16sTeL-e!, and of miners and silver seekers. A Middleton-in- always felt cold. Later in life he went to 35 and 37, Market Place. He it was who whom he received the grant of Langdaa. Teesdale man, Mi. H. L. Pattinson, was re- London and there prospered as a draper in introduced the threshing machine into Forest-in-Teesdale. The present Mr Lionel sponsible tar a simple method of separating a large way. His business premises were Teesdale, and at his field near Bede Kirk Simpson. of Stainton, is a descendant of the the silver from the lead. Formerly there in.Wewington Causeway, and were famous hundreds of people collected on market days royal huntsman And the prevalence of the was so much waste in the process of refin- at that time. to see corn threshed by the new methods. surnames of Hunt and Hunter in the dale Mg that it did not pay to refine the poor When he died it was revealed that he had In 1784 lie removed to Darlington, and spon- may have an associative rig: iliceuce.•- ores. The lead was kept in a furnace at not forgotten his early Newbiggin days. In sored by Backhouse, the banker, he brought Between these periods Kina Henry VIII., almost red heat. losing many pounds in his ` will dated 1799 he gave £400 three per out Machinery for spinning flax and ob- James the First, and both the Charles. were weight,weight, and injuring the worlcrnen's health cent. Consols of the Drapers Company of the tained a Royal Patent. He died some time hunters of the nobte stag which at eve was by-the thick tomes constantly rising, while City of London, chiefly to provide fuel for about 1800. toes wont to drink its MI. &kerning Teesdale the blast directed upon the molten surface Newbiggin School. A portion of the divi- T.H.C., Stockton-on-Tees. blew off the as constantly-forming film of dend had to be paid annually—Pi. 6d.— tage we have a reeord of Charles the First in- [The aliove correspondent is prepared to strutting Talbot Bowes, who was Master of oxide, ia the shape of litharge, leaving at to the Rector of Middleton for examining e you last a quantity of highly:. aagentiferous the children on a Sunday which fen nearest answer readers' queries upon the subject Game. at Barnard Castle in 1613, to deliver of old Dales' clocks, their works, makers, cult one -' fait buck •• killed in Marwoad metal, to be finished by a further process- to the and of July, Mr Tarn's birthday. The of appellation. The loss of weight of lead late Rector Milner, of Middleton-in-Tees- and probable ages, through the columns ses. to a certain Adam Newton. Another record of the l'eesdale Mercury.] the tells of one *of the early Bailer of Unthank by this method was about one-eighth, and data. proVided conveyance to Middleton, being charged with slaying one of the king's somportanti does that become out of twenty and gave tea to the Newbiggin children once ve if stags in Teesdale Forest in the year 1617. thousand tons. the quantity usually refined a year. This was a most serious clime, and was at in a twelve-month, that many schemes were It would be interesting to know how the- one time punish-able with blinding or evenevised d for preventing it, but distillation schoolananagers are disposing of this money CORRESPONDENCE. death. Unthana. by the way, was a hamlet and all other•devices failed until 1829, with now that the County provides fuel for the Pattinson's discovery. He had once observed school. hr situated near Park End on the Holwich road. ENCOURAGING FOLKLORE AND It mysteriously disappeared—almost without while engaged in experiments at Alston that II., Middleton-in-Teesdale. melted lead formed crystals on its surface HANDICRAFTS IN TEESDALE. trace. Was it because of Bailes aud Co. • THE CLIFTONS OF BLAND HALL NEUK. slaying the king's deer, I wonder. while cooling similarly to what may be seen TO THE EDITOR OF THE TEESDALE MERCURY. lsh King James L, al England (James VI. of on the cooling of saline solutions. A group- The intimation that you intend to start a Sir,—Durham and the neighbouring Coun- ssoci ScOtland) though an ardent follower of the Mg of the crystals round the edge of the new column in the Teesdale Mercury en- ties contain such a mass of alluring customs, chase, was a poor horseman. You may re_ burnt.b Having made this phenomenon .the titled the Dalesman's Scrap Book will be legends and traditions that it is rather in- ficate call that Sir Walter Scott in " The Fortunes subject of investigation, he found the pro- good. news for those interested in the anti- spiring another winter finds more and more Irish. of Sir Nigel," says that dailies seldom ex- pertain of silver in the crystals was much quities and folk lore of the Dale, and as one seeking our advice and encouragement re- eliable ceeded three-fourths of a gallop, and was less than in the melted lead, and by follow - of them I shall be pleased to help. garding the possibilities of brightening the so trussed up that falling was almost im- - ingaup the clue thus obtained, and. availing Any information about the old printers " black-out " with the fascinations obtain- buy himself of the simple natural law that ccia possible. in the Dale should be of interest, as they able in the pastime-study of Folklore. But let us give His Majesty his due : he melted lead will solidify while silver re- are the men responsible for the records by The Folklore Academy, which has its loved his hunting dogs—just as King Charles mains fluid, he had the satisfaction of which ephemeral history is handed down evacuation archives at Cemaes Bay, Angle- I. loved his spaniels. When James came bringing into general use a lead refining until such time as the student can study sey, is also—as its wartime effort—en- from Scotland in 1603 he brought with him pao•ese, in which the loss is reduced to per- and correlate •the facts into a connected deavouring to foster appreciably the folk- a pack of Scotch hounds known as " slug- haps less than the one-hundred and twenti- story. arts. homecrafts and hobbies which are yet N hounds." Kennel words came so readily eth part. In 1838 Pattinson read a short Take the name of Clifton, printer, Bar- possible with the shortage of materiais. to the royal tongue that he was frequently paper on his discovery at a meeting of the nard Castle. I have always been intrigued These activities include the designing and heard addressing his queen as " My deare " British Association " at Newcastle, and by this name as there was a Thomas Clifton making of novelties and toys out of waste littil beagill." I *don't think Her Majesty the value of " Pattinson's Process" was im- in Cirencester, where I lived from 1909-1916, to say. nothing of encouraging puppetry mediately recognised, with an attendant in- eons- was too pleased about this becansa on one and I remember seeing in the Bowes and the presentation of folk-plays. octneion when a corralled fat deer was crease in the annual Production of English Museum Reference Library a book bearing So much in fact do the Folklore Fellow- being chased here and there by the hounds Si ver. the inscription Thomas Clifton, Cirencester, K. RAINE, Stockton. ship regard the stimulation of the study of se at she let fly an arrow which killed her kinga connecting the two towns with the name our heritage of lore and tradition as being favourite slug-hound bitch named Jews a WHEN HAGWORTH HALL WAS UNDER Clifton. I should like to prove.that T. of real national importance—especially What he then said to her, and what she MARTIAL PROTECTION. Clifton came from Cirencester to Barnard when coupled with the delights of creating ((Dona- Castle about the beginning of the 19th replied to him as not, unfortunately, come• so many interesting articles from waste down to us. Hagworth Hall is situated under the century. products—that we should be happy to fur- Thin, swift -deer were not popular for ! shadow of Gulesborough on the Briscoe To-day I came across a cutting from the nish all those who care to send a stamped se at huntilig. As late as 1515 we read that Lord road. and about the middle of the seven- Teesdale Mercury dated query 1881 or 1886, envelope with the various ways in which Graves wrote to Lord Ebrington and urged teenth century Was the residence of Mr which showed where he lived in Barnard these attractive pursuits may best be him that as far as possible young male deer William Appleby, a member of a powerful Castle, and as the name of the house Bind approached and developed with every should not be run if such a thing could be dale family, IThe Manor Lartington was Hall Neuk is uncommon, this may sail t some facility and enjoyment. Although we purchased in November, 1630, by Mr Francis have avoided. Their fleetness and stamina ren- of your readers searching out the derivation so far been unable to organise a week-end dered hounds and horses unserviceable for Appleby. a member of the family of that of the name. conference in County Durham, it may be a fortnight .Chalniers•. • name, whose seat wa sat Linton-on-Ouse, Teesdale Mercury. April 12th, ?1881. mentioned • that—providing the necessary For the ale ve reason the royal huntsmen near York, where a Catholic Mission was " We observe that the ancient tenement preliminaries are effected—we should at any have founded in the seventeenth century. in King James' day so organised the hunts. known as Bland Hall Neuk,' at the corner time be pleased to arrange lecture; to and niade such extensive use of ropes and Margaret, the sole heiress of Francis of Galgate, is in course of demolition, Mr Appleby, became the wife of Mr Thomas teachers and others who may chance to be hurdles. that it was well high impossible for Johnson, the owner, being about to erect a interested in Folklore and the stimulation a hunted fat deer to break through, and Mane, or Hardwick, and thus' the estate modern building on the site. This house of the folk crafts.—Yours faithfully, passed to the Maine.,. The late Right over the hills and far away. The need for was. for several generations occupied by an S. JACKSON COLENIAN, • horses and _dogs of slated staying power Reverend alonsignor Witham was the last old and respectable family of the name of ia tile lung line of descent of this ancient Clifton, the last of whom, Mr Thomas F.R.E.S., F.R.A.I., F.R.E.S., of was very evident in the hunting field in Hon..Administrator, Folklore Fellowship. years long past. family.; Those were troublesome times, Chain, printer and bookseller, died ablaut or and a Dina) of armed men was kept at the Folklore Academy, g. Concerning horses in particular : We owe twenty years ago. From its exposed posi- much to Henry who was a great Hall for ;he protection of the cattle upon tion it was popularly said that Bland Hall Cemaes Bay, Anglesey. huntsman in more ways than one. Henry Ale estate, as it not unfrequently happened . ] Neuk was a greatcoat colder than the Market that Scotch fiseboOters found their way Place ' aaid, before the enclosinte of the ERIES was so 'rant, and heavy, that lie found it [woes:sass- to duplicate his equinine trans- into Baldersdale in the pursuit of their un- ! moors surrounding Barnard Castle, it was BONNY TEISD'L. at in the hunting neat He was the first lawful occupation. Mr Appleby was of a averred that a person might start from stern dispoeition, and ruled his tenantry Here's teh bonny Teisd'I ! introduce secood horses. ' Bland Hall Neuk ' and proceed right into Sweet an' clear its voices call Henrys loved horses. It with a despotic hand, but at the same time Scotland without setting foot on cultivated . I think all the lie was ready to defend them against the 'Mang our green-clad valleys was Henry Tudor , Hei•y VII.. 1485-1509( ground." Teisd'l's t' fairest ev all. PIANOS who first introduced the gelding of horses egressions of others. He had held a win- In the 1827 Directory of the town, under mission in the army, and served under the Booksellers, Printers and Stationers, the Could choose whar Ah w'd be, with • a view to sterilising poor stock and Wanderen whar mi fancies pleize, R CASH ensuring some son of continual 'needing. Duke of Buckingham in the ill-fated name of Thomas Clifton, Market Place, from that circum- Ah 'w'd leeve content an' free, GIVEN. He forbade the export of good s , allione aad Rochelle Expedition, and appears, and in the Burial Register six sons stance he was familiarly known as and daughters are recorded as having been 011 d' banks eh d' Teis. , •hoice tillies under two years Of age, Ei b'd .TeisdTs bonny, ND SON, iii the thirty-second year of the reign of "u Hochelle. Will." (The Rochelle Expedit- buried during the years 1826-1841. '1'. Clifton WAREHOUSE, tion (1627) was the outcome of a quarrel primed and sold the " Tour in Teesdale " Ivvry hill, an' house, an' farm ; Henry VIII. .15-It` a " Bill for the Breed of !vary field's a picther, Horses." was passed. It's preamble runs between the• Duke of Buekinghant and which reached many editions. It was orig Richelieu, the great Minister of France.. inally published in York in 1804, but Cliftoh Ivvry newk hez a charm. someWhat as follows : Buckingham landed his men at La Rochelle, Purple heather decks t' wild fells, -" The breed of good strong horses printed the 3rd (1824), 4th (1828) and 5th (in on the Bay of Biscay, and tried to fight his 1834). The Museum also contains many Trees an' hedges fairly bleize, horses Within this realm extendeth not in the mainland, but he met with such When gay Autumn tinges t' dells ouly to a great help and defence of the way . handbills printed by Clifton about the same ARN, Strong apposition that he was forced to re- On d' banks eh d' Teis. same, but also is great commodity and period. Gi'e me bonny Teisd'1, profit to the inhabitants thereof, which is treat witli the loss of more than 1,200 men.] Another cutting from " The Teesdale VALUER. It happened once that an unfortunate Scot. Though storms rage, an' caud winds M now much decayed and diminished by Mercury." dated March 3rd, 1886, defines aw, rompt Settlements haying strayed from his band, was taken at the extent of the Horsemarket and the Streims be frozzen silent, reason that, in forests, climes, moors, Ivvry hill hopped the head of the dale. He pleaded hard for Market Place, in which so many of us go WI' snaw. and Castle. and waste grounds within this realm. little If Altai wings teh rise an' flee stoned horses and nags of small stature mercy, or a legal trial, but without; effect, wrong when addressing letters. for lie was adjudged to be hung. Trees were Round t' wide world ad whims teh pleize, and of little value he not only suffered to " I have sometimes heard nly neighbours, scarce, but one was found at last, and the living iu the Market Place and the Horse Still mi heart w'd alw'z be DISON, pasture thereon. but also to cover mares last On t' banks eh d' Teis. feeding there, whereof cometh no profit unhappy 'Scot was suspended. His Market, discuss the respective boundaries VALUER. Nords were : " Is Baldersdale lawless ?" a of those streets ; and, seeing that there is Wm. LANGSTAFF. or commodity." phrase that was in common use in Iater orapt Settlements Section 2 of the Act provides that anyone no visible line of demarcation, the follow- times. ing extract from the Court Rolls of . the and Richmond Was at liberty to seize any entire horse DON'T BE above two years of age and less than fifteen A NATIVE OF HUNDERTHWAITE WHO Manor of Barnard Castle, may perhaps be Marts. " handsful" if found op any commma. etc. accepted as evidence- - 1720, Dec. 6 : The AFRAID OF BECAME MAYOR OF MELBOURNE, market for cattle and black cattle shall be• Section 6 provided that all forests, chases, AUSTRALIA. , MICKLETON and commons were to be " driven " within at and about the end of Galgate, extending CANCER fifteen days ca' Michaelmas Day, and all During the latter part of the 1830's a youth no further than (1) Bland Hall Neuk. The STLE. horses, mares. and colts not likely to grow named William Bayles, a native of Hunder- .Horse Market from Bland Hall Neuk to the FIGHT IT into serviceable animals, were to be killed. thwaite, in the parish of .Romaldkirk, Tollbooth. The places or part of the market Flom this it would seem that wild horses entered as an apprentice the firm of Messrs between (2) Mr Fra Hutton's door and a Remember that in its early poor quality and stature roamed the T. and E. Johnson, chemists and druggists, little channel towards the west, shall be stages Cancer can often be R'S who occupied e shop at the corner of New- called the Oat Market. The other parts of cured. Don't let even war- ARINE STORES. whole country—pretty much as they do, or did, prior to the war, on Exmoor. gate, Barnard Castle, on the present site of tIA market are to be for come, graine, and timepre-occupationscause NK. A later Act of Henry VIII.. decreed that all Barclays Bank. Shortly after the expira- roots : pain 6s. 8d.'—In explanation of the you to defer consultation tion of his indenture, he migrated to South above, it may be mentioned that the Toll- with your Doctor immedi- s, Bones, Scrap owners of parks and enclosed grounds of a certain size, were to keep two mares of 13 Australia, and there he engaged in sheep- booth (which was pulled down in 1808) ately you have any doubts Copper, Pewter. handsful for breeding purposes. So one farming with so much success that he stood opposite the houses now the property or fears. abbit Skins. etc. realises that our kings of four centuries ago accumulated a considerable competency. of (3) Mr Jonathan Hall and (4) Mr John anal by the Yorkshire Ca^ter Cam• Deign. 5, Park Square. Lewis. 1, purposeful in furthering selective,. Being tired of a life of inactivity, he took Howson, extending as far as the house of would 40 Years. where enquiries and donations breeding Of horses up his abode at Melbourne, and when the (5) Mr John Harris. be welcome.