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@northyorksc's Archives service. Follow for events and interesting tweets on North Yorkshire history. Visit our shop at https://t.co/FVkGbrtWZw.
Northallerton, North Yorkshire
Joined June 2013
Our collection of #maps includes examples of #Yorkshire and the #Ridings - like John Speed's 'The North & East Ridings of Yorkshire' from 1610 #MapMonday 🗺️
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Did you know good slippers can reduce the risk of older people falling by up to 60%? So, come to our Slipper Social at Catterick Library next week! Meet others for a brew, hear some useful information, and get yourself a FREE pair of new slippers 🤩
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Mapmakers varied in the extent to which they decorated and embellished their plans. It seems Robert Sowerby, drawing 'Lands at Catterick' 1739, had a sense of humour depicting the compass as a jolly sun! #MapMakers #MapMonday [ZRL]
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Some welcome games and fresh air in between lessons at #Scalby school, captured by photographer Bertram Unné in the 1960s #EYAEducation [BU]
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Have you explored our tithe maps website? You can view maps and searchable apportionments for places like #Fearby (1838), shown here. We keep adding, so keep checking back ➡️ https://t.co/bOgZMbHbyj
#MapMonday
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Edwardian children with their teacher at Applegarth School #Northallerton #EYAEducation 🍎 [EF 482]
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#September means #BackToSchool for many children. Here are pupils from Low Dunsforth with their rather serious-looking teacher, captured by local amateur photographer Louisa Kruckenberg (early 20th-century) #EYAEducation 👨🏫 [EF 467]
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It's #MapMonday! How about this wonderful map of the manor of Barton in the Willows, listing names of tenants and freeholders, 1711 [M 81]
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This month's #ExploreYourArchive theme is #Education! Hutton-le-Hole's school syllabus for the year 1901 included English, Arithmetic and Geography #EYAEducation 📝[S-HTH]
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We have a couple of places left on our next Public Tour of the Archives: Wed 17 September, 1.30-3.30pm, cost £3.30 pp. Book your place via our online shop ➡️ https://t.co/GRMj8pHn7P
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New blog alert! We take a look at some early Medieval charters and illuminated manuscripts - amongst the earliest documents we hold at the Archives. Continuing our North Yorkshire Archives Treasures' series #ExploreYourArchive
https://t.co/Zg3J7zq47e 👑
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For this week's #MapMonday check out this beautifully drawn map of the lordship of #Walburn, surveyed for Sir Rodger Beckwith Bart. by Mark Burleigh [ZAZ]
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Happy September, It's #MapMonday! This mid-18th century estate survey of land at #Birdforth is from the Fairfax of Gilling archive #explorearchives [ZQG-F]
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This humorous Christmas card is from a mid-Victorian scrapbook, thought to belong to Adeline Bruce, a relative of the Coore family of #Scruton Hall #EYAHumour [ZNB]
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For #MapMonday here's detail from a plan of the bay and entrance to the River Tees - including "Marton, where Captain Cook was born" and Cargo Fleet wharf. Surveyed for Lord Dundas by Palliser Thompson in 1815 [ZK]
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New blog alert! This latest post explores some of the beautifully decorated pedigrees and grants of arms held at the Archives - part of our North Yorkshire Archives Treasures' series #ExploreYourArchive
https://t.co/nIoZo4B4Sm [Image from collection ZDV-F]
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Raising a few laughs on South Sands, Scarborough - Catlin's Pierrots entertaining the crowds on a summer's day #Clowns #EYAHumour [SC]
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We love the fine detail on this plan of Swinton Park, 1820, showing the extensive formal gardens and orchards of the house #MapMonday [ZS] 🌳
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Amongst a small collection of 20th-century postcards of #Whitby is this funny example: 'Very Comfortable in Whitby' #EYAHumour [EF] 😁
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For #MapMonday, this plan of T. Hodgson's estate at #Sandhutton (1842) comes complete with an informative Reference guide to plots and properties [ZQP]
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