Local records: or, Historical register of remarkable events which have occurred in Northumberland and Durham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Berwick-upon-Tweed, a continuation of the work by J. SykesT. Fordyce, 1867 - 474 trang |
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accident occurred afternoon afterwards aged Alderman Alnwick Alnwick Castle April arrived August bank bart Bell Berwick Bishopwearmouth boat body borough Bridge building Captain Castle church coal Colliery commenced corporation county of Durham damage Darlington daughter death deceased December dinner district drowned Duke Earl elected Elswick engine erected explosion February feet fell friends Gateshead gentlemen George Grey Hall Hartlepool Headlam Henry Hexham High Level Bridge Hodgson honour horse injury innkeeper James January Jarrow Joseph July June Lady Liddell London Lord March Matthew White Ridley mayor Messrs miles Monkwearmouth morning Morpeth named neighbourhood Newcastle Newcastle John Newcastle-upon-Tyne North Northumberland and Durham November o'clock occasion October party premises presented proceeded Quayside Railway Ravensworth Ravensworth Castle residence Ridley river river Tyne Robert Robson Rothbury royal September sheriff South Shields Sunderland Thomas Thompson took place town Tyne Tynemouth upwards vessel William workmen yards
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Trang 236 - how do you think I managed ? I betook myself to mending my neighbours' clocks and watches at night, after my daily labour was done, and thus I procured the means of educating my son. He became my assistant and my companion. He got an appointment as under
Trang 236 - right, for if when they went to Parliament I talked of going at a greater rate than ten miles an hour I would put a ' cross on the concern.' It was not an easy task for me to keep the engine down to ten miles an hour, but it had to be done, and I did my
Trang 255 - Mr. Bigge, who succeeded to the family estates on the death of his father in 1794, was appointed, in 1798, Lieutenant-Colonel of the second battalion of the Northumberland Militia. In 1829 he succeeded Thomas Clennell, esq., as Chairman of the Bench of Magistrates, the duties of which office he continued to discharge with great ability until
Trang 236 - when he was a little boy, I saw how deficient I was in education, and made up my mind that he should not labour under the same defect, but that I would put him to a good school and give him a liberal training.
Trang 258 - meeting was held in the Lecture Room, Newcastle, for the purpose of hearing a statement from Captain Ibbetson, who had been deputed by Her Majesty's Commissioners to assist in promoting an Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations, to be held in London in 1851. The Mayor (Mr. Crawhall) presided, and
Trang 316 - and the noble poet speaking of his schoolfellows in his journal says of him " Clayton was another school monster of learning and talent and hope, but what has become of him I do not know. He was certainly a genius.
Trang 90 - The Children in the Wood," "Zorinski," " The Way to Get Married," " A Cure for the Heart-Ache," " Speed the Plough," "The School of Reform," "A Roland for an Oliver," and several other pieces of high reputation. Mr. Morton
Trang 374 - on the under-mentioned gentleman, whose claim to the same has been submitted for her majesty's approval, on account of an act of bravery performed by him in India, as recorded against his name,
Trang 337 - the enemy. Then the soldiers, shouting for ' El Chico Blanco' (the fair boy—so they called him, for he was very young, and had light hair), with one shock broke through the French, and this at the very moment when their centre was flying under the fire of
Trang 287 - You may easily guess my anxiety when I overheard the men who were to put it into the frame disputing as to which was the top of the picture." The work was, however, sold, for fifty guineas.