Publications
We want to make the findings of our researches available to the wider public. One way to do this is through publications. Books are normally available through bookshops and we would recommend the local booksellers
Worthy Pearson
Park Square
Great Ayton
Book Emporium
87a High Street
Great Ayton
Guisborough Bookshop
4 Chaloner Street
Guisborough
Stokesley Bookshop at the Broadway
2 High Street
Stokesley
Stokesley Further Aspects of Victorian Everyday Life
Stokesley Further Aspects of Victorian Everyday Life
Stokesley in the 1860s – a North Yorkshire Market Town
Price £5.95 Pages 92 with 27 illustrations & Index of Stokesley Surnames
Chapters include: Art & Entertainment, Poverty, Education, Law & Order, Freemasonry, Friendly Societies, Religion
The research that has gone into this publication is tremendous with quotations from newspapers of the time. Where else could one read of “JM, carter, Great Ayton, was charged by PC Lowther with riding his wagon without reins, after having been cautioned. Fined 10s including costs.” Or of “John Layton, Innkeeper at Ingleby Greenhow was found guilty of furious driving at Great Ayton” Or “Joseph Grey, late of the Black Swan Inn was charged by George Harker, Superintendent of the Railway Police, with having been smoking on the platform of Stokesley Station.” Stokesley was ahead of its time in education with a schoolhouse, built by public subscription on land given by Bradshaw Pierson in 1734 even though education was not compulsory until the 1870s. Another Stokesley resident, John Preston, decreed in his will of 1805 the sum of £2000 to be invested in Government Bonds and the annual income from it used ‘in building a new school or enlarging the old one and afterwards in paying the schoolmaster duly qualified in teaching the classics, English, writing and arithmetic.’ This caused quite a bit of contention in his family when he died in 1814 but the Trustees carried out his wishes and when the court case was finally settled the investment had increased to over £4000. Quite a lot of money even by today’s standards but in the 1860s it would have been a small fortune. The school is still standing and is now a fast food outlet. Stokesley also saw the prelude to the establishment of the origins of local government in the formation of a Friendly Society in 1744. By 1833 the Oddfellows had opened a lodge in Stokesley and by the 1860s the lodge was prosperous and played an important part in helping one another. A collection at a local church raised £12.13s.2d for the widows and orphans – a substantial sum in those days. Beautiful illustrations again drawn by member Estelle Scott complement the text and although it could be a valuable asset to local and family historians, it will also appeal to anyone who wants a ‘good’ read.
Cheques made payable to Stokesley Local History Study Group to
Eric Lee, 71 Riverslea, Stokesley North Yorkshire TS9 5DE
Stokesley-Aspects of Victorian Everyday Life. Stokesley in the 1860s - a North Yorkshire Market Town
Stokesley – Aspects of Victorian Everyday Life
Stokesley in the 1860s a North Yorkshire Market Town
(originally published in 1995 as Stokesley in the 1860s)
Price £5.95 Pages 82 with 27 illustrations & Index of Stokesley Surnames
This book paints a picture of Stokesley, far removed from today. True the outward appearance has changed very little but the use is very different. ‘Stokesley, the Metropolis of Cleveland’ so quotes a newspaper of the day and so it was with 13 grocers, 21 butchers, 7 dressmakers, 6drapers,10 tailors,13 shoemakers a Hatter, 5 solicitors and 2 watchmakers, one doubling up as the local dentist! It contains a fascinating insight into everyday life in Stokesley in the 1860s. Where else could one read about Mr Mosley, sole inventor and Patenter of an Improvement in the Construction of Artificial Teeth, Gums and Plate and for which Her Majesty had granted him Her Royal Letters Patent who claimed “restoration of decayed and tender teeth to their former glory” and where this was impossible, “beautiful new dentures free from wires or springs.” New illustrations drawn by our member Estelle Scott, who is a retired art teacher, enhance the text.
Cheques made payable to Stokesley Local History Study Group to
Eric Lee, 71 Riverslea, Stokesley North Yorkshire TS9 5DE
Life at the ICI: Memories of working at ICI Billingham
Edited by Dr Margaret Williamson of the University of Teesside, the book draws on work by the Teesside Industrial Memories Project, chiefly interviews with over 80 men and women who worked at, or were associated with, the ICI at Billingham.
Published May 2008. 140pp
ISBN 978 1872239 54 5
Available from local bookshops.
Price £9.99
Historical Glimpses of the Town of Stoxley & The Parishes of Wiroleton, Billesdala, Kirkebie cum Broctun, Childale, Hoton-juxta-Rudbie, A Miscellany
45 pages, 1981 £2.70 + pp
Cheques made payable to Stokesley Local History Study Group to
Eric Lee, 71 Riverslea, Stokesley North Yorkshire TS9 5DE
Along Levenside. A Third Walk around Stokesley
Final book in set of three on a town walk around Levenside, Stokesley, giving historic facts as well as snippets of information on this North Yorkshire market town.
23 pages, 1989 £2.70 + pp
Cheques made payable to Stokesley Local History Study Group to
Eric Lee, 71 Riverslea, Stokesley North Yorkshire TS9 5DE
A Further Walk Around Stokesley
Second book in set of three on a town walk around Stokesley, giving historic facts as well as snippets of information on this North Yorkshire market town.
36 pages, 1985 £2.70 + pp
Cheques made payable to Stokesley Local History Study Group to
Eric Lee, 71 Riverslea, Stokesley North Yorkshire TS9 5DE
A Walk Around the Town of Stokesley No 1
First book in set of three on a town walk around Stokesley, giving historic facts as well as snippets of information on this North Yorkshire market town.
22 pages, 1982 £2.70 + pp
Cheques made payable to Stokesley Local History Study Group to
Eric Lee, 71 Riverslea, Stokesley North Yorkshire TS9 5DE
The Cleveland Repertory & Stokesley Advertiser 1843-1845
Extracts from W Braithwaite's magazine printed Jan 1843 to Dec 1845 in Stokesley. News items covering a wide range area of old Cleveland from Stockton & Middlesbrough, west to Northallerton & across the North York Moors to Staithes in the east with Stokesley at the heart of events, full of names & places.
124 A4 pbk 2004 £8.50 +pp. Index available on cd 50p
Send cheques made payable to Stokesley Local History Study Group to Eric Lee, 71 Riverslea, Stokesley North Yorkshire TS9 5DE
Stokesley Directories 1793-1901
Over 4000 names of Gentry, Residents & Trades People in Stokesley taken from 19 directories between 1793-1901. Listed by year & also alphabetically by surname.
215 A4 pages pbk, 2004 £10.50 + pp
To order
Cheques made payable to Stokesley Local History Study Group & send to
Eric Lee, 71 Riverslea, Stokesley North Yorkshire TS9 5DE
ROSEBERRY TOPPING
A new publication, with photographs by Joe Cornish and a text by members of the Great Ayton Community Archaeological Project.
For details, see the NEWS section on this website.
Langton House and the Carlen Brewery
Jennifer Deadman
Great Ayton Community Archaeology Project, 2005
This report is available direct from the Great Ayton Community Archaeology Project. It describes the history of buildings on Bridge Street in Great Ayton, including a survey and plans.
Lost on Easby Moor
Ian Pearce
ISBN 1 872239 40 4
Printability Publishing Ltd, Wolviston, 2003
This book describes the crash of an RAF Hudson aircraft near Captain Cook’s Monument in 1940. Unfortunately it is out of print but should be available in libraries.
