Category Archives: Yorkshire History and Heritage

What makes us what we are if not our history, heritage and heredity.

Alum Industry at Runswick

Become part of the Alum alumni. What use is alum you may wonder? Alum was added during the preparatory stages of papermaking and later it was used as a size. Alum combined with a dye or stain and thereby fixes … Continue reading

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Ironstone Quarrying near Whitby

Ironstone quarrying is hard work and these grafters gather for a breather and a photograph at Whinstone quarry in Rosedale. Stone merchant William Berriman and Ironstone miner John Berriman plus Robert and Joseph are all recorded in the census from … Continue reading

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Old and Very Old Yorkshire

Well this is the colour of the dreaded European Passport so I am not sure that a Yorkshire blue would not be more appropriate. Yes I am sure. It also says God’s Own Country when we know and accept that … Continue reading

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Thrifty Yorkshire Hoarders

  Yorkshire folk are well known for their thrift and canny ways with money. Perhaps some of this rubbed off on our Viking visitors who first arrived around AD780. Skip forward to 2007 when a hoard of coins and jewelry … Continue reading

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Rotherham’s Serious Crimes

For fourteen years Jayne Senior tried to help girls from Rotherham who had been groomed, raped, tortured, pimped and threatened with violence by sex traffickers. Only by becoming  a whistleblower, sharing confidential documents to expose the scandal for The Times … Continue reading

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Seven or More Yorkshire Cathedrals and Minsters

Top Cathedrals for age and Architecture 1.York Minster Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of St Peter is the Mother church of the Province of York AD 627. 2. Ripon Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Wilfrid AD 655. Parish and … Continue reading

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Sculptures New and Ancient

  Lizards from Cornwall have been carving a path through our dry stone walls. See more sculptures around Chevin Park and Surprise View. Human foot marks have eroded part of the Calf as folk try the ascent to the summit. … Continue reading

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The East Riding or Wolds Waggon

Leeds Art Gallery has been closed for far too long. Amongst the unviewable treasures are the historic plates by George Walker depicting working costumes and regional garb from the Ridings. They are however available in Flickr The East Riding or … Continue reading

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Even Older Yorkshire Folk from the Stone Age

The first Yorkshire folk were from the Palaeolithic era over 10,000 years B.C. These 12,000 year old Fred Flintstone characters were able to cross from Europe as the glacial waters of the ice ages melted away and plant and animal … Continue reading

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Are The Oldest Yorkshiremen 10,000 Years Old?

On the road from Scarborough to Malton is Seamer, at the easterly end of the Vale of Pickering. It is here that pollen analysis and radio carbon dating have identified a site occupied circa 7,500 B.C. by Early Mesolithic Yorkshiremen. … Continue reading

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