STOKESLEY’S HERITAGE PROJECT

WORKSHOP ON MONDAY, 15 OCTOBER 2012

You are welcome to attend the Workshop next Monday, as usual in St Joseph’s Church Hall, starting at 10 am (9.30 am for those helping to set up the room). Please come if possible, as we start the programme for the coming year. For anyone interested in finding out more about the project, this is a good opportunity. We plan to:

1. Choose topics and consider how to proceed with them.
2. Review the resources with available with Kev Cale and how best to use them.
3. Offer tickets for the talk by John Grundy on the 19 Nov, price £5.

Participants are encouraged to contribute ideas for topics, and to choose those that interest them. There is a list of possible topics below, to help stimulate ideas.

TOPIC LIST

• Manor:
  • Thomas Alderson (who bought the Manor in 946).
  • Old field system and tithe maps.
• Buildings and the story of the people that lived in them.
• History of Flax and Linen in the region.
• Local Archaeology.
• History of local Tanning.
  • Dyers.
  • Banking
• New Blue Plaques, with wide participation in proposing and selecting properties.
• Survey of the brick types and patterns.
• Local Brick production.
• Local Families:
  • Pennyman.
  • Heaviside - dyers in C18.
  • Braithewaite - Farming, Printing, Bricks.
• History of the flour mills.
• Local Packhorse trails.
• Railway: Impact on Stokesley.
• The history of the Post Office in Stokesley.
• C20:
  • World Wars.
  • Yards.
  • Great Recession.
• Sources of 18th Century prosperity.
• Role as a Market Town:
  • The Market and trade.
  • Exports, imports by land and sea.
  • Logistics: Pannier ways, roads, rail.
  • Comparison with other market towns in the area.

Hugh Charman