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.