20 Archive 21 B L 6October Don’t miss our coach trip to York H Nov Archive 21 MMXIMMIX THERE are still places available on the his- free. For another fiver we can get you 12-month G tory group’s coach trip to York on Sunday passes to four major sites of historical interest, THE NEWSLETTER OF BARNINGHAM LOCAL HISTORY GROUP November 27th. including the Jorvik centre. www.barninghamvillage.co.uk Apart from being the home of countless The coach, provided by Burrell’s, will leave INSIDE: RICH UNCLE GEORGE AND THE FIVE GIRL FARMERS places of historical interest, it’s an ideal place to Barningham at 9am, picking up at Newsham do some pre-Christmas shopping, especially as along the way. We’ll be dropped off near the city that weekend the city is holding its St Nicholas centre and should be back home around 6.30pm. Fayre, celebrating traditional crafts and food. If you want to go – and it’s a real bargain, This isn’t an organised tour: you’re free to heavily subsidised by the history group – we spend your time as you like, and if you want you must have names as soon as possible. Phone can ignore all the history and go along simply Kay Duggan on 01833 621455 or email her at for the shopping or a tour of the city’s pubs. [email protected]. Tickets for the trip are just £5 a head for group Any spare places will be offered to non-group members and their families – and children go members at a non-subsidised rate. old ads GALGATE STREET, BARNARD CASTLE PRIME PRIZE BLOOD PIGS, Archive film show at For Sale History Forum AGM R TARN begs leave to announce that he is in- OLD film of County Durham from the BBC Mstructed to sell by Auction, on WEDNESDAY, the following superior lot of PIGS, from the justly archives will be shown at the AGM of County celebrated stock of the Rev. W. F. WHARTON, of Barn- Durham History and Heritage Forum on No- ingham Rectory, comprising from 30 to 40 head, from vember 5. six months to six weeks old, including boars, breeding sows, and store pigs. The meeting, at Durham County Hall, kicks The whole of the above are of the prize winning off at 9.30, with an hour and a quarter of old film strain of Blood; Pedigrees will be given at the time of footage from 11 introduced by Suzanna Huber Sale if required. Mr Tarn respectfully solicits the attention of breed- of the Northern Region Film & Television ers and feeders of Pigs to the above Sale, as a rare op- Archive. As well as the usual AGM business, portunity is afforded of purchasing animals combining local history groups will have the opportunity Blood and Bone. to speak on their latest projects. Sale to commence about half-past one o’clock or Willy Todd of Fairview, Barningham, is second on the left in this photograph Deadline for booking places at the meeting immediately after the Auctioneer’s Monthly Cattle taken at least a hundred years ago (we think it’s somewhere in Barnard Castle Sale is concluded. was October 26 but there should be no problem – anyone recognise the buildings?) His wife Sophia is sitting in the trap; we’ve Teesdale Mercury, 1865 about late applications: email David Blair, the forum’s membership secretary, at blair@bda- no idea who the daring lady cyclists or the rest of this Edwardian group were. TOLEN or STRAYED from Sander’s House Farm, vid071.orangehome.co.uk. Picture provided by June Graham. House histories: Page 18 S Barningham, ELEVEN HALF-BRED LAMBS, under bit, near ear, a hole through the off-ear, tar mark B on near buttock, P on far buttock. –-- Information to Mr New Year date contents GEO. BROWN, Barningham, who will pay all expenses. OUR New Year get-together lunch – hopefully LEST WE FORGET: ONE PENNY READINGS once again at Braeside – will be on Monday SOLDIER’S STORY: Page 3 1841 CENSUS: DOLLS AND SPECIAL: Pages 13-15 Teesdale Mercury, 1869 January 2nd 2012. Put it in your diary! ROSEHIP PICKING AND SCHOOLMASTER: Page 9 THE WESTMARLAND OLD RECIPES: Page 4 TEESDALE HAYTIME CONNECTIONS: Pages 16-17 The Archive LETTERS, CALLS AND MEMORIES: Pages 10-11 THE HOUSE THAT EMAILS: Pages 5-7 LOOKING BACK IN THE TODD BUILT: Page 18 Copies of The Archive, the newsletter of Barningham Local History Group, are MERRYNE WATSON PARISH MAG: Page 11 TRAGIC TRIP TO available on annual subscription (£12 for 2012). Back issues can be purchased ON CLOGS: Page 8 BEST OF BARNS: Page 12 MARKET: Page 19 for £2 each (see index on our website). Contact Jon Smith, Tel: 01833 621374 email: [email protected] website: www.barninghamvillage.co.uk NEXT HISTORY GROUP MEETING: TUES. DECEMBER 6th, 6pm 2 Archive 21 Archive 21 19 minutes of the last meeting death in the dark Barningham Local History Group Penny Readings, a DVD, Tragic end to Publications The Archive a day out THIS is Archive number 21. and the role of women at the market Oldies among us will remem- MINUTES of the meeting held making progress with the Read- IT was the last Wednesday ber the days when 21 was a in the village hall, Barningham, ing Room minute book and on October 25th 2011: Newsham Parish records. Ann before Christmas 1869, and magic number, the age when gave a short talk about her Haythwaite farmer Robert we were at last deemed old Present: Jon Smith (chairman), Eric Duggan (treasurer), Ann Archive Award Project “Penny Todd had had a good day out enough to vote, marry regard- Readings” – See Page 13. at Barney market. less of our parents’ opinion of Orton (secretary), Neil Turner, Phil Hunt, Cate and Harry Recipes: Kay had two really At around 5pm he set off chosen spouses, and gener- home in his cart, drawn by a ally expect to be treated as Collingwood, Linda Sherwood good ones which she has passed (Gayles), Kay Duggan, Ann to Jon for the next Archive. horse that had probably done fully-fledged adults. the same trip scores of times Hutchinson, Tony Orton, Diane Kay had researched Now, of course, youngsters Wartime: before. Metcalf, Jane Hack-worth- the history of Christopher are supposed to be grown-up Young, Mark Watson, Sue Brown Johnson who died on But this time was different. The night was pitch black, at 18. The Archive remains Prytherick, Sheila Catton. the Somme – See Page 3. Where Lyeth Ye Bodies sceptical, and has waited until and as they crossed Howgill A guide to Barningham church, graveyard map, memorial Apologies: Ann Rowley, Bev- Cine records: We now have Beck on Barning-ham moor its 21st issue before celebrat- erly Peach, Robin Brooks. details and list of every known burial. £10 + £1 p&p ing its coming of age. a DVD about two hours long, the cart strayed off the road Minutes of the meeting on to be edited to about an hour. and overturned. Barningham Baptisms When I reached my major- September 20th were accepted. It includes clips of Newsham All recorded baptisms, listed by date, name and parents. Vol ity not much short of half a Robert, a 65-year-old Matters arising: Kay had 26 and also several weddings. It 1: 1580-1800; Vol 2: 1800-1950. £10 + £1 p&p. century ago, I recall being widower who had farmed seats booked for the trip to York is hoped to have it ready for 300 acres at Haythwaite for Barningham Brides regaled with a song along the and it would now be opened to Christmas sales. more than 20 years, was All marriages 1580-1950, listed by date, groom and bride. lines of “21 today, 21 today, non-members. Ann had been Next meetings: Tuesdays De- thrown into the water, pinned £10 + £1 p&p. I’ve got the key of the door, trying to contact Thorpe Hall cember 6th, January 24th, Feb- face-down beneath the cart. never been 21 before!” Counted without success. ruary 28th. We will be having Although the beck was only An A-Z of census returns 1841-1911, arranged so that fami- No key of the door for the Correspondence: McDon- refreshments at the December a few inches deep he was lies can be tracked through 70 years. Archive; quite the reverse, alds, Applebys, Tweddles, meeting from old recipes that unable to move an inch. In Volume 1: Barningham, Scargill and Hope; Volume 2: in fact: we’re the key that Nelsons. Ravensworth School Kay has. Members were in- a few agonising seconds he Newsham and New Forest. Volume 3: Brignall & Rokeby. opens doors for people seek- was seeking someone to talk to vited to bring along suitable drowned. £10 each + £1 p&p ing information about the them about the “Old Days” at beverages. “The sad event has caused A Child of Hope past, and we look forward to the school. If anyone is willing Any other business: Eric and a feeling of great gloom in the The 1895 diary of Mary Martin, born on a Teesdale farm in helping even more now we’re please contact Jon. Kay would let us know at the village, the deceased being 1847. £5 + £1 p&p highly respected,” reported officially grown-up. Finance: October income £190, next meeting if they are able to Barningham Vestry Minutes 1869-1894 host the New Year get-together. the Teesdale Mercury under Barningham Parish Minutes 1894-1931 expenditure (mostly one-off the headline ‘A Melancholy IF you plan to spend some of payments) £463, deficit £271 Guest: Jon welcomed Jenny Transcripts of meetings, with background history, index and Accident’. lists of named parishioners. £5 each + £1p&p the impending dark winters’ – but we still have a healthy Frost who gave a fascinating An inquest was held at nights delving into family balance of £1,070. talk about the changing role Aback to Yuvvin Haythwaite on Christmas 1849 Glossary of Teesdale words & customs £5 + £1 p&p history, a reminder that the House Histories: Old Rectory, of Women in Wartime. A full Eve and the jury returned a . history group can offer you The Rectory and Glebe Farm. report will be included in Ar- verdict of accidental death, A Farmer’s Boy free access to at least two Publications: Archive 20 was chive 22. adding a strong recommen- Life in the Gayles area in mid-Victorian days. £10 + £1 p&p of the major genealogical now out. Ann and Cate were ANN ORTON, Secretary dation that all dangerous The Archive: Group newsletter. Back issues £2 + £1p&p research websites. fords should be protected Barningham Memories: DVD of cine film of Barningham in Get in touch if you want to the war effort by posts and rails, painted the 1960/70s. £8 + £1 p&p take advantage of this. Good OUR head teacher in 1943 got all us kids together and said too white, “which might serve In preparation: The Diary of Newsham schoolmaster luck with your research, and much toilet paper was being used. She held up one sheet and as a guide in the darkness.” James Coates, 1784-85. Robert’s body lies in Barn- do let us know what you come asked, “What’s this, children?” We said, “Toilet paper, miss.” >>> 20-25% discounts for history group members <<< up with. “How many sides?” “Two, miss.” “Well, remember: one side ingham churchyard. His only More details: see our website www.barninghamvillage. for the nose and the other for the bum.” son, 16-year-old Will-iam, THE EDITOR took over the farm. co.uk – Neil Turner reminiscing at the last history group meeting 18 Archive 21 Archive 21 3 Fairview: the house that Todd built Lest you forget... one soldier’s story Continuing our survey of all the houses in Barn- I KNEW as soon as ingham and who has lived in them over the years. war was declared on If you have more information about featured that hot August day in houses, please let us know. 1914 that I would have to go to fight the Germans. FAIRVIEW I talked it over with my dad and mam, William and Sophia BUILT by James Todd in 1879, Fairview was what Johnson. We lived at Earby Hall Victorian estate agents would have called “an im- in Newsham, and I was their posing gentleman’s residence”. It remains one of second son, aged 20 at the time. Barningham’s most striking houses. Dad was a farmer, and me and behind the name I managed to get home on leave Perched on a man-made house histories caught us all.” the older children (nine of us a couple of times, and I was marched us off to Belgium. We mound in what until then had After the Todds came the altogether) worked for him. My in Barningham church only a been a two-acre field contain- Steels from Hartlepool, who parents weren’t happy about me thought we’d get more training but they threw us straight into few Sundays ago. My dad’s a ing only a stable and bothy, Neil says cut down several of going to war, but they didn’t churchwarden there. the house overlooked the vil- stand in my way. battle. the larger trees and kept pigs Then came the Battle of the lage and was clearly visible So a few weeks later there The Germans were pouring in the field outside, and then Somme, summer of 1916. It from every direction until the the family of a retired confec- I was, off to Northallerton to through Ypres, using chlorine started in July and was still go- surrounding trees matured tioner called Carter, also from volunteer. Private Christopher gas for the first time. We stum- ing on in September. At 1pm on decades later. Hartlepool. Brown Johnson 2508, 4th Bat- bled towards the front, every- It was a statement of wealth talion Yorkshire Regiment, where mud and chaos, buildings the 17th we were ordered out on Fairview In the 1960s Fairview was a bombing raid, told to attack and power from the village’s purchased by Howard and that was me. I was really keen destroyed, bits of bodies by the second most influential family, to get to the front. All over by roadside, and then we came and capture two German-held Ena Wilson, who raised two trenches. who remained in it for almost daughters and a son there. Christmas, they were saying, under fire. A dozen of us were a century. Howard, who had survived and I didn’t want to miss out killed that day. And that was Thirty-seven of my group James Todd brought up his appalling treatment as a Japa- on the fun. just the start. died in the attempt. Our ser- family there, and after his death nese prisoner of war, was an Fun? We’d no idea what it Over the next two years we geant-major, John Bainbridge in 1910 and his wife Mary’s ten accomplished violinist who would really be like, and it was lost thousands of men, tens of from Bridge Farm in Ravens- years later, it passed to his son regularly entertained visitors six months before we found thousands, dying as we battled worth, was one of the first to William and his wife Sophia. to the Milbank Arms. out. We went for training in over tiny patches of foreign fall. I was among the rest. They had been living at The Fairview Cottage The Wilsons sold the house Northumberland and it wasn’t ground, winning a few hundred They never found what was Yews; but moved into Fairview in the 1980s, and it was bought until April 1915 that we were yards, losing them, winning left of me. My name’s on the in 1920. and later Hartlepool, where he ordered to France. We arrived them back again. You can’t im- war memorial at Thiepval, the died in 1957. by John and Sheila Hay, who Sophia died, childless, in live there still. in Boulogne, first time I’d ever agine what it was like. Nobody village we were trying to cap- 1934; William (generally re- Neil Turner recalls scrump- been on a real ship, and they can. I survived two years of it. ture on the day I died. There are ferred to as Willy) remained ing apples at Fairview when a 72,000 names on it, every one in the house alone until after child. “Willy Todd left every somebody like me who just, the war, when financial pres- night on the dot of seven to well, vanished. sures – the Todds’ holdings in play dominoes,” he says. My name’s on both the local London had been flattened in “As soon as he went we war memorials back home, at the blitz – forced him to sell up. headed for his apple tree. One Newsham and Barningham, He went to live at Tutta Beck night he went the other way and and my parents paid for a brass FAIRVIEW COTTAGE plaque in the church. THE western wing of Fairview served as the servants’ quarters My younger brother Lance- until being turned into a separate dwelling by the Carters in the lot’s name is on the Newsham 1960s. memorial, too. I don’t know Those who have lived there since include Dr and Lindsay what happened to him, he’s not Smith, Neil Turner’s uncle and aunt Bobby and Amy Ether- recorded among those killed in ington, and Howard and Ena Wilson ,who moved in after their the war. sale of the main Fairview house. The current owners are Michael Howard Wilson enjoying a pint in Perhaps he came and Diana Edwards. the Milbank Arms, 1980 home wounded to die? The war memorial at Thiepval: 72,000 of us died near here I’ll never know. 4 Archive 21 Archive 21 17 Westmarlands down the centuries We remember picking WESTMARLAND, Westmor- Barningham stonemason John land, Westmoreland. Nelson (see letters and 1841 However you spell it – and census trail in this Archive). rosehips for pennies Jane Brown in Australia and KAY Duggan asked in the last Archive if anyone recalled they never seemed quite sure themselves – there have been Mark Watson of Sussex House picking rosehips. At least two history group members do. plenty of them in the Barning- are respectively the great- “I remember picking them as a child and getting just a ham area over the years. granddaughter and great-great- few pence – about 4d in old money for a pound In recent months we’ve had grandson of Richard Westmar- of them if I was lucky,” says Marian Lewis of old hints & recipes several contacts from people land of Sanders House. Hutton Magna. From Mary Norwak’s Book of Jams from as far away as Australia He had married Ann Forster “I’m sure we must have been out of pocket and Sweet Preserves asking if we could help track and had seven children. Two by the time we took them to Mr Hunter’s shop down their links with the West- boys died in infancy. Five in Barnard Castle. We had to walk to Lane Head Hedgerow Preserves marlands (we’ve decided to daughters – Edith, Mary, Jane, to catch Percival’s bus, which ran between settle on that version of the Hannah and Alice – survived, Richmond and Barney every day, though we ROSE HIP JELLY surname) and we’ve also dis- but the eldest, Edith, was only could only go on a Saturday. Ingredients: 1lb rosehips, 2lb cooking apples, covered connections between 13 when her father died in 1885. 1 pint water, juice of a lemon, sugar. Together: Uncle George and “Sometimes my mother took them when she the Westmarlands and some Her mother followed him to Hannah share this gravestone in went on the Wednesday Barney bus and I’m Method: Simmer rosehips in half-pint of of our history group members. the graveyard four years later, Barningham churchyard sure she got paid more than we did. water. Cut up apples without peeling and The leading figures are Pam leaving the five girls alone to coring and simmer in remaining water. Tomlin, who lives in Surrey; glebe land, and running a shop cope with the farm. “Mr Hunter was a pleasant man who spent just round the corner from the most of his time delivering orders round the Strain both fruits through separate jelly Jane Brown, whose home is They were lucky. Rich (and in Australia; and history group Milbank Arms. town and villages. His shop was next-door to bags. Mix the liquids and measure them. unmarried) Uncle George in members Marian Lewis of Hut- Thomas had a brother Joseph, Woolworth’s in Barney. Allow the juice of a lemon and 1lb sugar to Hutton Magna took pity on each pint of liquid. Stir over low heat until ton Magna and Mark Wat-son, whose four sons, inspired per- them, and cousin Thomas Nel- “He employed two ladies, one who did the the sugar has dissolved. Boil hard to setting of Sussex House, Barning-ham. haps by the cheese-mongering son, son of the Barningham orders and packed the sugar, tea, flour and so point and pour into hot jars. We’ve brought all the infor- enterprise of their grandmoth- stonemason, became farm man- on, because everything came in sacks, and the mation we have about West- er’s family, moved to London ager. But it’s clear the girls butter in blocks. SLOE JELLY marlands together to explain and got involved in the cheese remained at the farm: in 1891 “The other lady, Mrs Chatt, was a tall formi- Ingredients: 2lb sloes, sugar how all four of these people business there. Edith, then 19, was recorded in dable lady who always wore a spotless white Method: Prick the sloes, cover with water are related – see the family tree Thomas himself had seven the census as a farmer, helped overall and bright red lipstick. She’d look at the and simmer until tender. Strain through a opposite. children, including four sons by her sisters, and ten years rosehips and weigh them and give us what she jelly bag and measure the juice. Allow 1lb All four share the same an- who became successful local later Jane, described as “a lady thought they were worth. If they weren’t fresh sugar to each pint of juice. Heat the juice cestor, Richard Westmarland, farmers. Thomas (another one!) farmer” was in charge. she told us so. gently, stirring in the sugar until dissolved. born about 1710, who was ran Newsham Mill; Richard By then Edith had married “We were half-frightened of her so we never Boil hard to setting point and pour into their great-great-great-grand- farmed at Sanders House; Mark John Thomas Bainbridge, disputed anything and took what she gave us hot jars. father, great-great-great-great- had Newsham Grange; George butcher and farmer living at and got out of the shop. Needless to say, we grandfather or great-great- moved to Hutton Magna and be- The Terrace in Barningham soon got sick of rosehip picking.” ROWANBERRY JELLY great-great-great-grandfather, came positively wealthy (when (now Newby House). he died in 1908 he left more The hips were sent away to be made into Ingredients: 4lb rowanberries, 4 tbs lemon depending on the fecundity and Mary married Jack Coates, a juice, one and a half pints water, sugar longevity of the generations than £7,000 – quite a fortune in farmer from Great Ouseburn., rosehip syrup – “quite nice,” says Marian. Her those days). cousin made rosehip wine, “very sweet but Method: Use ripe rowanberries. Remove in-between. and Jane married Jack Alcock, There were three daughters, quite pleasant.” from stems and put into pan with the lemon Richard came from Romald- who farmed at Kirklington and kirk, but his son Thomas moved Christiana and Ellen, who mar- had been engaged to Hannah Neil Turner remembers rosehip-picking, too. juice and water. Simmer for 45 minutes until the fruit is soft. Strain through a jelly to Barningham, married a ried, and Jane who died young until she died, just short of her “I once collected 51 lbs of them at 3d a pound Christian Todd, and became a and single. thirtieth birthday, in 1906. and got a badge and a certificate,” he recalls bag and measure the juice. Allow 1lb sugar to each pint of juice. Heat the juice gently, prosperous farmer and butcher. History group member Pam The youngest of the five girls, proudly. “Someone came to collect them each His son, another Thomas, Tomlin, who lives in Surrey, Alice, married Bob Graham in month. By the time they were picked up they stirring in sugar until dissolved. Boil hard to setting point and pour into hot jars. carried on the business. In 1838 is descended from Thomas the 1912 and the couple ran Barn- stank. We also collected nettles and dried them he was tenanting Wilson House Newsham miller. ingham shop and post office in nets, I think they were used to make iodine.” from the Milbanks, farming Marian Lewis of Hutton until the 1940s (see Archives  Has anyone else got similar memories, or sto-  If you have old hints or recipes to share, around 200 acres to the north Magna is the great-grand- 2 and 5). ries of collecting/catching things to sell? –Ed. please contact Kay Duggan (01833 621455). of the village including all the daughter of Ellen, who married 16 Archive 21 Archive 21 5 letters & emails I’m trying to trace the McDonalds DOES your group have any parish records that include an entry for Robert McDonald,

ISABELLA NEESHAM 1796-1861* ISABELLA born in Barningham in 1823? Robert was my paternal

* Lived all or most of their life in Barningham grandmother’s grandfather, making him my great-great- grandfather.

THOMAS 1816-1882 (London cheesemonger, m Jane Roper, 5 children) m Jane Roper, (London cheesemonger, JOSEPH 1818-1867 (London cheesemonger, m Sarah Bourne, 6 children) (London cheesemonger, CHRISTIANA 1821-1890 CHRISTIANA (m Richard Akers, agricultural labourer) (m Richard ROBERT 1823-1869? ROBERT (Joiner, moved to Kent) (Joiner, ANN 1825-? JANE 1829-? RICHARD 1832-1880 (London cheesemonger, m Louisa Thorne, 8 children) m Louisa (London cheesemonger, JOHN 1835-1903 (London cheesemonger, m Sarah Summers) (London cheesemonger, His marriage certificate Bribery at the shows he was a farm labourer. JOSEPH 1786-1851* He married Jane Ann Robinson

butcher,

(m John Thomas

MARK Barningham

Bainbridge, in 1853 in Teesdale Registry

The Terrace,

Barningham)

1833-1889*

m HANNAH

1934-1999

EDITH 1872-?*

of Smallways

COULTHARD Sussex House Office and eventually became

MARK WATSON*

MYRA 1899-?* MYRA

LEWIS WATSON* church gates

(m Hubert Watson) a head gardener at Bowes MY mum (83) was delighted Museum. that you mentioned her 1949 (m John From 1861 census records

ELAINE 1924-? wedding in the last Archive.

East Cowton)

JANE 1787-? RICHARD 1790-?

Alcock, farmer,of JANE 1875-1930 show them living in and around When I left her today she Barnard Castle but I don’t seem was poring over the newsletter able to find any reference to 1760-1790* MEETING DATES with great interest. You have them in the 1841 or 1851 cen-

CHRISTIANTODD m certainly given her a big boost sus. I do know they at one time

RICHARD and it is really appreciated. 1829-1885*

RICHARD 1915-1916 HANNAH 1917-1997

PERCY 1897-1910* PERCY ANNE 1902-?* (m Tom Lawson) (m Tom VERA 1905-? VERA (m Joseph Lord) JOHN 1914-? lived at Pittington and that Jane

Sanders House

ANN FORSTER*

GEORGE 1874-1875* MARY (POLLY) 1874-? (POLLY) MARY HANNAH 1877-1906* MARK 1878-1879* ALICE1885-1985* (m Robert Graham & ran Post Office) I’m enclosing two photo- Ann was born in Cotherstone. graphs. The first (above) is ? My father’s mother was Jane 1791-1863* of my father, George Richard during the second world war Elizabeth McDonald and her

MARGARET

THOMAS

Unm. Newstead Chapman, unty-

JANE

1745-1836*

ELIZABETH JACKSON

ALCOCK

Australia 1919-1987 and after and in many countries father Thomas McDonald, who

1827-1847* ing the gates of Barningham JOHN GEORGE JANE BROWN was Robert and Jane’s oldest church, having paid the young- and campaigns. son born in 1857. sters to let him out. The per- Unfortunately my father

m

THE WESTMARLAND CONNECTIONS died in 1971. My mum still has So far I have found that they

JOHN son in the bowler hat is my

ELLEN

THOMAS 1849-?* WILLIAM 1852-1866* MARY ELLEN 1856- MARY 1889 THOMAS 1856-? JOHN GEORGE 1859-?

NELSON* 1825-1866* maternal grandfather Robert his army cap (if that’s the right had five sons, Thomas, Robert,

THOMAS Richard, John and James. 1789-1861* Jackson. description). It is very battered

blacksmith

Hutton Magna

Hutton Magna) and very old but obviously My grandmother married

MARIAN LEWIS

(m Matthew Hind,

SEPTIMUS HIND The second picture (right) means a great deal to her. George Ferguson and hence ELIZABETH 1861-1946 is my father in his Green m Howards army uniform and She also has his army ser- the connection. George was my

THOMAS

1823-1911+ vice book which states the grandfather.

Newsham Mill ELIZABETH ? my mother, Gwendoline May

of Romaldkirk c 1710-1770

JANE ELIZ. 1862-? ISABELLA 1869-? ISABELLA ANN 1871-? RICHARD WESTMARLAND Chapman, standing in the countries he served in and I still have much research to

Surrey church doorway having just dates etc. It is something we do but it is certainly going to

PAM TOMLIN PAM as a family take great pride in. be interesting!

m JOAN 19??-? been married.

RICHARD 1886-?

LAX*

RICHARD 1739-81 ELIZABETH 1740-?* ROBERT 1741-? ROBERT MARGARET 1742-81* MARGARET JOSEPH 1752-71* GEORGE 1757-58*

(m Frederick Booth) DOROTHY HARRISON KEVIN FERGUSON, USA

GEORGE 1860-1939* (m Mary Thompson) My mum has details of my

1820-1904*

CHRISTIANA HENDERSON father’s full army career from Newton Aycliffe (born in North-East England) his joining the Green How- [email protected] [email protected] ards in Richmond to being  Has anybody any idea who  Our Barningham Baptisms

Hutton Magna demobbed. It spanned many the other people in the top book records Robert baptised

GEORGE

JOHN 1849-? HENDERSON 1854-1920 CATHERINE 1857-1879* CATHERINE MARK 1859-? RICHARD 1863-1911+ 1818-1908 years, serving before the and picture might be? –Ed. in Barningham on Janu- 6 Archive 21 Archive 21 15 penny readings of the audience. Mr Lee gave two comic songs, letters & emails Looking for Applebys meeting with loud applause and an encore for ary 24 1823, one of at least from the response to the readings at The New the second song. The proceedings closed with five children of Robert and Music Hall in Barnard Castle: “Miss Emily God Save the Queen from the Barningham Brass Annas Macdonald (that’s the from 300 years ago Cook’s pianoforte solos, and Miss Alice Cook’s Band”. It seems that the rule against encores way they spelt the surname). THANK you for getting in (born November 16th 1729), songs were given with so much taste and ex- didn’t apply in Barningham! Our Barningham Brides book touch with us after our meet- John (April 11th 1733), Henry pression as to call forth enthusiastic encores, Mr Hough was listed as headmaster of the records Robert snr & Annas’ ing with Tony and Ann Orton (May 10th 1737), Ralph (March which, however, could not be complied with, Academy in 1871, but it is not known when he marriage in 1810 (her maiden when we visited Barningham 28th 1720) and Richard (May as being contrary to the regulations of these took up this post. Mr Rosser could be one of name was Alderson). There are recently. 13th 1723). Of this number, entertainments.” two people: James Rosser who was the Wes- no records of any of these three We are researching the Ap- our direct ancestor was William Barningham Penny Readings leyan Minister living at Wesley House (now being buried in the village. pleby family and numerous who was married in Barnard The Nook), or his son John Bakewell Rosser, ON January 25th 1868 the Darlington and Our census records don’t members of this family lived Castle and the direct line of our who was a tutor at the academy. Stockton Times reported on the first of a series mention them, though there in Barningham. family carries on from there. It seems likely that most of the performers of penny readings in the village. are several other Macdonalds Richard Appleby was born William married Martha would come from the Academy or elsewhere around in the mid-1800s who April 30th 1696 in Barningham Lonsdale at St. Mary’s Church “This took place in the Girl’s School-room, in the dale, as most of the ordinary people in might well be related. – Ed. and had several sons all born on April 25th 1754 and farmed on Tuesday evening, the Rev Gowland in the Barningham would not have had sufficient edu- in the village, namely William in Westwick. However, many chair. The readers were Mr Kershaw, Mr cation. Mr Brown could possibly have been a Applebys stayed in Barning- Thomas Dalston, and Mr Simms, and they gave farmer from Saunders House performing with ham including Ralph, who greatest satisfaction. his daughter Miss Jane Brown. It would be became parish clerk, and we “Mr Kershaw’s style is admirably adapted for interesting to find out more about the Barning- wondered if they were people humorous readings, and he did full justice to the ham Brass Band, but so far research has been of some substance and where piece selected. Mr Dalston, in the course of the unsuccessful. they lived. evening, read three selections which met with As we started to do this re- loud and hearty applause. Mr W S Lee’s two Penny Readings today search, we discovered George comic songs were exceedingly well rendered, SURPRISINGLY, there are still Penny Read- Appleby who has produced and he was deservedly encored in both of them. ings today. The seventh annual Penny Readings a book called The Appleby Mr Wm Clarkson sang two songs, which were were held at St George’s Hall in Liverpool on Family History. George’s great- well received. A glee, by a party of glee sing- December 5th 2010. great-great- grandfather and my ers, won the applause of the audience. A small Even more surprising, they still only cost a great-great -grandfather were brass band assisted in a very satisfactory man- penny. Tickets are distributed by Birkenhead the same man, another Richard ner, and concluded the entertainment with God Library and Waterstone’s in Liverpool and Appleby, living at Manfield Save the Queen.” limited to two per person. They sell out very near Darlington. Any help you FOLLOWING up my email in the last Archive, here’s a photo There must have been a wonderful atmos- quickly. The doors are opened at 5.30pm and can give us, particularly as to phere in the School-room, situated at that time the audience are able to get refreshments and of William Harrison, a pupil at Barningham Academy in the where they might have lived, 1860s, and his London taxi cab, perhaps taken between about in the churchyard, lit only by oil lamps. It is not browse Christmas market stalls. The pro- would be helpful. gramme starts at 5.30pm and finishes at 8pm. 1903 - 1910. He looks like quite a stern old chap! easy identifying the performers. The rector in SUSAN & EDGAR APPLEBY Barningham at the time was the Rev Wharton; The Penny Readings are named after the BRENDA KING, Bournemouth [email protected]. perhaps the Rev Gowling was from a nearby events Charles Dickens himself used to de- [email protected] co.uk parish. There was a William Lee who ran the liver in the Hall’s Small Concert Room. They Black Horse public house, but would they want always boast a variety of entertainment from Would anyone like to talk to pupils? him singing comic songs? In1861, George lively poetry and Dickensian readings, musical I’D like to order a copy of the book A Farmer’s Primary School and this term they are doing Clarkson was listed as headmaster of the acad- performances and even belly dancing. 2010 Boy. It sounds really interesting and I am keen a topic about the history of their school. As emy. He had a nephew at the school who could also saw the launch of the Ha’penny Readings, to find out a bit more about the history of the a newcomer to the area I don’t know much possibly have been William Clarkson. aimed specifically at children and young people. villages. information to pass on but wondered if you The final Penny Reading of the season took One wonders what the audiences from the We moved into Gayles seven years ago and know of anything or anyone who could help place on March 14th 1868, with Mr Hough in 1860s would think of today’s version of Penny I teach History at Richmond School, so am them with their work. the chair. “The readers were the Chairman, Readings. The good folk of Gainford wouldn’t always interested to find out about the local I know they are very keen to have ex- Mr Rosser, and Mr Thos Dalston, who all gave approve of belly dancing and pantomime cows! history. Unfortunately, I have not had much pupils and teachers etc who could talk to the the greatest satisfaction. Mr and Miss Brown Today’s Penny Readings offer much more time with three young children and a part time children about what it was like. Thank you rendered two duets in a very pleasing manner. sophisticated entertainment than the original job but when I read about the book in The Flyer for your help. “Mr Brown also gave a song to the applause ones, but they still serve the original purpose I thought it was time I got reading a bit more. SOPHIA MAWER, Gayles of bringing great writing to ordinary people. My three children are now at Ravensworth 01833 621242 [email protected] 14 penny readings Archive 21 Archive 21 7 penny readings Does anyone remember the Tweddles? all sold for the same price and could not be EARLIER this year I started an glimpses of the lives of ances- reserved. Due to their popularity, people often email to you trying to comfort letters & emails tors throught the stories of had to be turned away. But it was noted that whoever posted me the Archive the post office, opened it im- their neighbours. Once again when different prices were allowed, the numbers without enough stamps on mediately and read it walking – thanks for all the hours that attending would fall dramatically. it (my fault! –Ed) but I went through the town, smiling. your group contribute to the down with a bad bout of flu Very little of the information magazine. Penny Readings in the Dales and have only now got round is relevant to me – but I can My father (one of the Cam- THE Penny Readings were as popular in the to contacting you. take such pleasure in other erons farming in Barningham villages as they were in the towns and cities. The email said the newslet- people finding the information in 1916 – see Archive 13) There are many reports of them being held all ter was worth every penny of that they want. used to say his best friend was over the Dales. the excess postage. I had just People are so generous with George Tweddle. The season started in about October and ran been seen walking into lamp- their time and research. It Apparently in school they through to April, presumably as the working posts having collected it from is very rewarding to catch would sing the tonic-solfa men would not be as busy in those months scale and George would al- and everyone would be glad of something to ways sing “Toe” instead of brighten up the dark nights. Three brothers who never “Doe”. My dad said that the At Middleton-in-Teesdale, Penny Readings came back from the war teacher would yell “I’ll give took place in the London Lead Mining Com- WITH reference to Henry is buried in Hutton churchyard. you my big toe, George Twed- pany’s school rooms. Mr R W Bainbridge dle!” Nelson (Archive 20, 1841 She had eleven children, presided and in his opening speech he explained census trail): I see on my grandfather’s that the object for which these readings were seven boys and four girls. She A penny reading poster from Swindon showing Henry’s son John and his lost one baby boy at birth and funeral report in the 1960s established was “the recreation and instruction reserved seats were available and indeed it that there is a J. G Tweddle of of the labouring classes, and the cultivation of wife Eleanor had three chil- another boy at nine years old, was possible to buy season tickets. However, dren, Mary Ellen, John George then lost the three eldest sons Cross Lanes and I wondered a taste for a higher order of literature than at there were ‘Free tickets (as usual) for Working if it was by any chance THE present prevailed”. and Elizabeth, who was just in the first world war. My fa- Men & their Wives’. three months old at the time ther was her seventh son and George Tweddle? He hoped to hear of the young men spending of the 1861 census. She was tenth child, called Septimus Was J G known as George? their evenings at home reading to their mothers out for criticism. “ Mr R Taylor is a very good my grandmother. which means seventh. This would be 1922. Are there and sisters while engaged in their household reader, and is well appreciated, but he should Tweddles still around? Where duties, instead of wasting their time standing remember that his reading, like that of most Elizabeth left Barningham Elizabeth’s husband was the village blacksmith and church- did he go to school? There are at the street corners. In conclusion, he assured non-professionals, is not perfection, and his to go and live with her uncle warden for 20 years. He had an no Tweddles or similar in the them that nothing of an objectionable character George Westmorland (spelt depreciating smile at the other readers will not accident with a horse and died school register at my dad’s should be presented to them and he hoped “that improve his own in the eyes of the public,” said Westmarland in some docu- ments) at Hutton Fields, and aged 45. My grandmother re- later schools (1923 onwards) the audience would by their attention show their another review. ally did have a hard life. so I wondered if this related to appreciation of the efforts of the performers” in 1881 is listed as a domestic And sometimes it was the content that came servant. Her brother John became his brief time in Barningham. One wonders if the mothers and sisters would under scrutiny. “The hall was crowded and In 1886 she married Mat- first postmaster at Hutton in Is Cross Lanes near enough appreciate the young men’s efforts! many could not gain admittance. The entertain- November 1898. to Barningham for anyone ment was concluded by Mr Watson’s imitations thew Hind at Hutton Magna Performances were always carried out by church by special licence MARIAN LEWIS to know the family of J G amateurs and consequently often didn’t meet of wild animals, &c. Though good, we think Tweddle? this class of thing is likely to lower the tone of which cost ten shillings (I’ve Hutton Magna with the audience’s approval. If the reader was got the licence). Their home  More on Nelsons – Page 9 Thanks again. bad or the piece too “dry”, the audience would the readings,” said a report on a Penny Reading DANI MILES, Hampshire at Gainford. was Plum Tree Cottage where I cough or stamp their feet! In December 1867, now live. She died in 1946 and [email protected] the first of a season of readings was held in the The Gainford organisers were reported to  Several members at the last New Music Hall in Barnard Castle. Follow- be disappointed by the almost total absence of Great-aunt Ethel left us a field WHILE surfing the net for info on Barningham I came across history group meeting recalled ing the event, an article in the Darlington and ladies to take part in the vocal or instrumental George Tweddall (that’s how Stockton Times dated December 14th read: “It is parts of the progamme, “which it is hoped will your website... very interesting! I would like to become a mem- ber and order some of your publications. A great-aunt, Ethel he spelt it) and said his brother hoped that the readers will select shorter pieces be duly weighed and acted upon by those whom Stan’s son Brian was still Westmarland, lived in Lees House and left it to my mother, and for future readings. Ten minutes is reasonable, it may concern”. It seems that ladies were not running a blacksmith’s shop but twenty-five minutes is unbearable.” thought suitable to do readings. I and three cousins inherited a field! in Eppleby. We’ve contacted Examples of readings can be seen on the The performances could sometimes be too PAM TOMLIN, Sutton, Surrey [email protected] Brian who says he’d be happy internet; even the short ones are pretty long. successful, an example of which can be seen  The Westmarland Connections – See Page 16 to make contact with Dani to Sometimes individual performers were singled talk about her father. – Ed. 8 Archive 21 Archive 21 13 What’s afoot? The case for clogs In for a penny, in for a good night out ONE of my old photographs I particularly enjoy shows PENNY READINGS: En- a group of boys and girls in a Dales village indulging tertainments consisting of in some form of street game, a rare sight in these days readings with music, &c, the of fast-moving traffic. price of admission being a All the children are wearing clogs. Although penny. – Dictionary Isaac Coates (the Victorian farmer’s son on whose memoirs these notes are based) makes no mention PENNY Readings were in- of this type of footwear I suspect that he and all stituted in the mid-19th cen- his school mates would have worn them. tury, mostly promoted by the churches, both traditional and I have spoken to a number of people who wore Wesleyan Methodist. clogs while attending Dalton school in the early twentieth century and all stress their warmth, At the time the Wesleyans in airiness and general comfort. They did not pick particular were becoming more up the mud and were excellent ened dire penalties on any popular. The chapel in Barn- on slippery surfaces. By MERRYNE WATSON boy wearing clogs who dared ingham was considerably ex- tended and extra services were According to Mr Isaac Rut- From his book A Farmer’s to enter the wooden-floored being held. The Penny Readings ter, there appear to have been Boy, about life in the Gayles classroom. were a unique opportunity for two schools of thought as to area in the 1860s, published Hardly anyone wears clogs A crowded Penny Reading, from a Victorian engraving the clergy to woo people away whether clogs were good for by BLHG nowadays. I suppose rubber gaff,’ or roaming about the from the public houses. ANN ORTON was highly streets, getting into mischief, corns, some believing that they were manufactured at Ke- wellingtons have taken their commended in this year’s Ar- kept them at bay while others verstone near Staindrop. Mr place. But a week or so ago Their cheapness made them or perhaps, thanks to the per- affordable for the working chive Awards for her project nicious ‘thieves’ literature’ asserted that they encouraged Rutter tells me that he made (this was written in the 1970s on Penny Readings. Here are their development. his own clogs by attaching to – Ed) I had occasion to visit classes. Their aim was to attract which is at present ruining people from all stations of life excerpts. hundreds of boys, planning William Wise, who was a ready-made soles uppers cut Holgate Farm where Mr Jack and to entertain them, but at the some scheme for becoming boy at Richmond in the 1820s, from old boots. Lynas proudly showed me an ing man,” explained the Dar- same time introduce them to a ‘boy house-breakers’ or ‘boy tells how the scholars at the It was not a very difficult excellent pair of clogs he was lington & Stockton Times in higher form of literature than highwaymen’.” Richmond National School task to insert the edges of the wearing. the 1860s, “and in their vari- they would normally enjoy. It marched to church on Sundays upper into the channel cut He finds them of great value ety, working men of almost The programmes were var- was hoped that it would keep through the paved rectory yard along the side of the clog sole round the farm and serviceable every taste find something to ied, with readings from Dick- them out of “the pot houses” and to make sure that every- and then nail on a welt to hold when riding his motorcycle suit them, and large numbers ens or Shakespeare, comic and take the young men off the body heard them coming, fell it in position. He purchased which he uses as a help in his of working boys now attend songs and the playing of mu- street corners. into step and thereby made a the caulkers – the sole and shepherding. them; who, were they not at sical instruments. They were “Their cheapness puts them the readings, would probably also a great leveller of the tremendous clatter, for “more heel irons – for a few pence He must be one of the few within the reach of every work- be at some disreputable ‘penny classes as usually seats were than half the lads wore clogs”. a packet. Men and boys wore sheep farmers in this district The wood of a number of clogs with laces while women who has adopted this New tree species made excellent and girls favoured those which Zealand practice. My cousin’s FOR YOUR DELECTATION & DELIGHT... clog soles: beech, silver birch fastened with clasps. son, who farms in that country, A typical evening’s entertainment at an early Penny Reading might read as follows: and alder, the latter being par- Clogs had some disadvan- not only uses a motorcycle but ticularly prized as it produced tages. Snow tended to ball up has a kind of wooden ‘flap- Pianoforte Solo...... Mr Crochet Reading: ‘Mr Pickwick and the a quiet clog. I have not been under them and this could eas- per bracket’ attached behind Reading: The Trial Scene from the Merchant Lady with Yellow Curl Papers’ able to trace the existence of ily result in a sprained ankle. the saddle on which ride two of Venice (Shakespeare)...... Mr O. Rater (Dickens)...... Mr Smith a master clogger – that is, a Some children, I am told, de- sheepdogs, one an eyer and the Song: ‘The Gleaner’ ...... Mr D. Robinson Recitation: ‘Lord Tom Noddy’ craftsman who not only fash- liberately competed in building other a huntaway (a huntaway Recitation: ‘The Combat’ from The Lady of (Barham) ...... Mr Brown ioned the wooden soles but up snow stilts. Snow balling is a type of sheepdog which the Lake (Sir Walter Scott) ...... Mr S. Poulter Song: ‘Madoline’ ...... Miss Arline Crotchet attached the leather uppers to could be reduced to a certain controls the flock by barking Flute Solo Airs from ‘The Rose of Reading: ‘The Rioters at the Maypole’ them – in this neighbourhood, extent by greasing the soles. rather than by silently crouch- Castile’ ...... Mr Potts (Dickens) ...... Mr Tomkins and I assume that the local boot The caulkers undoubtedly ing low and eyeing the sheep). Part Song: ‘The Red Cross and shoe makers purchased Glee: ‘Hail, Smiling scarred wooden floors and I Mr Lynas, whose cycle is Mona’ ...... Boughtborough Glee Union Knight’ ...... Boughtborough Glee Union ready-made clog soles from understand that the last head- not fitted for dogs to ride be- outside. master at the Dakyn Grammar hind him, has one dog which How many of us could sit through that today? For many years clog soles School in Kirby Hill threat- will sit on the tank in front of 12 Archive 21 Archive 21 9 best of the barns Widows, dolls and a schoolmaster OVER the next few issues we’ll be featur- WE ended last month introduc- 1841 census trail an agricultural worker, and his ing some of the field barns investigated by ing Henry Mason, a stonemason wife Ruth. At the age of 30 she Ed Simpson as part of his Archive Award living in Virginia Cottage. Continuing our series tracing married a local labourer Rich- project. Here are the first two... One of his grand-daughters Barningham’s 1841 census ard Copeland and the couple (as you’ve probably already form collector through the left the area within the next read – see letter on Page 7) village few years. was the grandmother of history Now we come to Christ-opher group member Marian Lewis. Page, the village schoolmaster By 1851 Henry was 62, in 1841. Born in Newsham, he widowed and living with his was in his early fifties, married daughter Elizabeth and her three to Sarah (nee Greenhow) and children. Elizabeth was already clearly a man of some ability, widowed, too: she had married a as he’d started off his working Triple Arch Barn in field east of Barningham House cartwright called John Sowerby life as a shoemaker and later Position: 54o29.406N, 1o51.620W who died aged only 29 in 1849, served as parish clerk for more than two decades. Faces south, aligned east/west leaving her destitute. The Pages were familar with Altitude: 186m The children were all girls, Mary Ann, 8, Elizabeth, 7, and tragic death. They had eight Dimensions: Length 14.0m Width five-year-old Sarah. Henry died children, of whom at least five 5.3m Height 4m in 1862, after which we lose died before reaching adulthood. Date: Unknown track of the three girls and their By 1851 there is only one we Construction: Triple archway barn mother. The Greenhow/Page memorial know for certain was still alive: with single door barn at eastern Henry’s son William by his in Barningham churchyard 32-year-old Mary, unmarried end. Dressed stone quoins on first marriage became a stone and living with her parents. southern face, much rougher at rear mason like his father and mar- its diminutive form, Dolly, was There was also a seven-year- (northern) edge. Dressed archways. ried Harriet Richardson, a so popular in the 18th century old grand-daughter, Rosanna, Pegged beams Gilling-born servant girl. They that it gave its name to girls’ whose parentage is uncertain favourite playthings – dolls. Roof: Gabled. Slates removed had two sons before he, too, died and who remained with them aged 29, leaving her a pauper. Next on the 1841 census until the death of Sarah in 1859 Note: Understood to be awaiting trail were the Johnson family, and Christopher two years later. renovation She eked out a living as a charwoman in Barningham, 50-year-old farm worker Jo- She was then just 14, re- bringing up the two boys and seph, his wife Grace, and chil- corded as her grandfather’s in 1864 gave birth to a daughter, dren Eleanor, ten, and Thomas, housekeeper. We don’t know Dorothy, father unrecorded. seven. what happened to her: she left Dorothy grew up and followed That’s all we know about the village and we can’t find any her mother’s example; at the age them: by 1851 they had left trace of her thereafter. of nineteen she had an illegiti- the parish. Lastly this month, we reach mate son James who was living After the Johnsons came the Lawsons of Eastwood. with his grandmother in 1891. George Alderson, a 45-year- Head of the family was John, There’s no sign of his mother, old butcher unmarried and a 30-year-old land agent, mar- Norbeck Bridge Barn and both Harriet and James living alone. ried to Mary, 25. Living with Position: 54o26.615N, 1o52.274W Facing disappear from the records He was the brother of Da- them were two young women east on north/south alignment after that. vid Alderson of Hilltop Farm called Lawson we suppose were (see Archive 5 house histories John’s sisters, 25-year-old Han- Altitude: 183m There had been Nelsons in Barningham since at least 1585, and Archive 15 census trail). nah, and Mary, aged 20. Dimensions: Length 4.9m Width 3.8m when a Dorothe Nellson was George died in February 1864. The family had gone by Height 5m (est.) buried in the churchyard. The Also living alone in 1841 1851, but a John and Mary Date: On 1860-1866 map name Dorothy Nelson runs was our next entry, a young Lawson of Early Lodge had a Construction: Small stone barn. One door, through the centuries, with dressmaker called Mary Spen- son Edward in 1858, so perhaps no window. Dressed quoins, lintels and women of that name appearing ce-ley. Born in Kinninvie in that’s where they went. jambs in doorway regularly in the records. The 1823, she was one of eight Roof: Gabled. East roof has stone tiles, name means ‘gift of God’ and children of George Spenceley, west corrugated iron sheets 10 Archive 21 Archive 21 11 from the parish mag 115 YEARS AGO: Mr Stubbs, Haytime project book goes on sale the Schoolmaster, has received his OUR history group guest back in haytime you know your hay cock and half diploma from the College of Precep- June 2010 was Neil Diment, project rucks from your kyles and pikes?) and tors, strongly recommended by the leader for the Teesdale Haytime Pro- from the past, telling the story of the harvest suppers. Royal Commission on Education. ject which was recording memories farming year in the days before trac- Here are a handful of pictures from The School Managers, having re- of farming in the first half of the last tors, combine harvesters and all the the book, all taken in Teesdale. ceived a warning from His Majesty’s century. rest of the machinery revolutionised Inspector that the desks and school No Five O’clock on our Calendars, furniture should be at once renewed, Neil’s work has culminated in the haymaking. published by the North Pennines publication of a fascinating book No are taking steps to do so. The Inspec- Hand-manuring, harrowing, mow- AONB Partnership, is on sale now in tor also recommended that pictures, Five O’clock on our Calendars, and ing and scything, turning and strew- bookshops or from the AONB offices &c, should be hung upon the walls. he’s sent us a copy as a thank-you for ing, snigging and sledging, raking in Stanhope (details at www.northpen- If any friends desire to make a gift in our help. and rowing and sweeping are all in nines.org.uk). It costs £6.99. this way we hope they will do so. It’s full of pictures and anecdotes there, with sections on hay ricks (do – November 1896 95 YEARS AGO: We have to grieve over the names of two men The Haytime book from here who have been killed in action. Edwin Atkinson, Royal Engineers, previous to going to the Front had weekend leaves several times and his family and friends have comforting thoughts as they remember him occupying his seat in Church, accompanied by one of his little children. Christopher Johnson, Yorks Regiment, a son of our church- warden, was well known to us, and it is but a few Sundays since he knelt at the Holy Table with those so dear to him to receive the Holy Sacrament. Above: Mowing and raking the hay in the 1930s (the boy was just 12, no health and safety inspectors back then!) Below: fam- The dear boy was amongst the first ily, friends and farmworkers gather for a haytime tea in 1915. Right: A haymaking group from the 1940s. to enrol on the outbreak of the great War. – November 1916 75 YEARS AGO: The British Le- gion Poppies will be brought round on November 7th. The need for money grows no less as the years go by. If you hear any people saying that it is time the Poppy Day business was stopped, remind them that the suffering of the disabled men still goes on. – November 1936 55 YEARS AGO: Scientists aver that their experimental bomb explo- sions have no effect on the weather. But we mere lay people are not blind to the effect of local electric distur- bances in the heavens... if they told us all, they might confess they are meddling with forces beyond their ultimate control. –November 1956