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Chipchase Castle is a 17th-century Jacobean mansion incorporating a substantial 14th-century pele tower, which stands north of Hadrian's Wall, near Wark on Tyne, between Bellingham and Hexham in Northumberland, England.
Thanks to new pieces that weren't available when I first made him, I was finally able to give Bumblebee some knee and elbow articulation, while still keeping him at a smaller scale than my other up-sized Kreons. He's freed from the Frankenstein stiff poses he used to only be capable of.
Plus, Spike and Sparkplug now have their trademark boots! Their torsos are all from the Indiana Jones line, so they're perhaps a bit more rugged than they were in the old cartoon. But I can live with that.
Hebburn is a town in the South Tyneside borough of Tyne and Wear, England. It was formerly in County Durham until 1974 with its own urban district from 1894 until 1974. It is on the south bank of the River Tyne between Gateshead and Jarrow and opposite Wallsend and Walker.
The population of Hebburn was 18,808 in 2001.
In Saxon times Hebburn was a small fishing hamlet upon the river Tyne. It is thought that the name Hebburn may be derived from the Old English terms, heah meaning "high", and byrgen meaning a "burial mound", though it could also mean the high place beside the water. The first record of Hebburn mentions a settlement of fishermen's huts in the 8th century, which were burned by the Vikings.
In the 14th century, the landscape was dominated by a peel tower. A 4-foot-6-inch-tall (137-centimetre) wall, a portion of which still remains at St. John's Church, could also be seen. The Lordship of the Manor of Hebburn passed through the hands of a number of families during the Middle Ages, including the Hodgsons of Hebburn (James 1974, Hodgson).
In the early 1600s, the wealthy Newcastle family, the Ellisons, acquired the land of Hebburn. Coal was mined at Hebburn as early as the 17th century. In 1792 the Ellisons received royalties from coal mining expansion when Hebburn Colliery opened. The colliery eventually operated three pits. In 1786 the Ellisons’ Hebburn estate also made income from dumping ships ballast at Hebburn Quay. By the 1800s the Ellison family had expanded Hebburn Manor into their Hebburn Hall estate. Hebburn Colliery played an important role in the investigations into the development of mine safety, following the mining disaster at Felling Colliery in 1812.
Humphry Davy stayed with Cuthbert Ellison at Hebburn Hall in 1815 and took samples of the explosive methane 'fire damp' gas from the Hebburn mine which were taken to London in wine bottles for experiments into the development of a miners' safety lamp. Davy's lamps were tested in the Hebburn mine and remarkably the gauze that protected the naked flames could actually absorb the fire damp so that the lamps could shine more effectively.
In 1853, Andrew Leslie arrived from Aberdeen, Scotland. He expanded the Ellison estate, further, with shipbuilding and in 200 years of industrialisation, Hebburn grew into a modern town of 20,000 inhabitants. When the railways arrived in Hebburn in 1872, further growth took off in the Ellison estate, with the growth of the brick, metal and chemical industries.
Andrew Leslie's shipyard launched two hundred and fifty-five ships before 1885. In 1885 the shipyard merged with local locomotive builder W Hawthorne, and then changed its name to Hawthorn Leslie and Company, and grew even more.
Hebburn also hosted its own Highland Games, with the first one being held in 1883, which were usually held annually in July or August, spanning over three decades and with professional sportsmen coming from Scotland and as far as Oban to compete.
In 1894, Hebburn was recognized as its own independent Urban District; it was no longer the private land of the Ellison family; and it also adopted the Ellison family crest as its coat of arms.
In 1901, Alphonse Reyrolle's, Reyrolle Electrical Switchgear Company opened. In 1932 Hebburn colliery closed. 200 miners were killed during the life of the colliery. The youngest were 10 years old. In 1936 Monkton Coke Works was built by the Government, in response to the Jarrow Hunger March in 1932.
In the Second World War, the Battle of Britain occurred in 1940, and Hitler had planned an amphibious attack that was predicated on defeating the RAF in the battle. Hitler's planned first wave of attack, in his Operation Sea Lion plan, was to try and capture Aberdeen and Newcastle. Hitler's Operation Sea Lion documents had detailed plans to capture the Reyrolle Electrical Switchgear Company.
Hawthorn Leslie built everything from liners to tankers. Many Royal Navy battleships were built at Hawthorn Leslie shipyard. In WWII the yard built 41 naval vessels and repaired another 120. 1n 1944, the yard also built D-day landing craft, including the Landing Craft Tank (LCT) 7074. In April 2020, the craft was housed in the D-Day Story museum. In 2020, the boat was only one of ten craft of its kind to survive postwar.
One ship built at the shipyard was HMS Kelly, launched in 1938 and commanded by Lord Louis Mountbatten. The ship, a K-Class destroyer, was commissioned just eleven days before WWII. The ship was hit three times. In December 1939, she was damaged by a German mine not far from the river Tyne. On 9 May 1940, she was torpedoed off Norway with the loss of 27 lives. Badly damaged, she crawled back to Hawthorn Leslie on a 92-hour journey to be repaired. In 1941, HMS Kelly was sunk off Crete. One hundred and thirty men were killed in the disaster and they are remembered in memorials at Hebburn Cemetery, which were erected by surviving members of the crew and workers from Hawthorn Leslie. The ship's story forms the basis of the 1942 film In Which We Serve. The shipyard is now owned by A&P Group but lies vacant.
The Monkton Coke Works plant closed in 1990, and was demolished in 1992 The former British Short-Circuit Testing Station in Victoria Road West within the town, owned by A. Reyrolle & Company provided the backdrop for the Gary Numan video "Metal". The facility was demolished in 2011.
In 2012, the BBC commissioned a television series Hebburn to be set in the town. It was created and co-written by Jason Cook, who was raised in Hebburn. The first episode was broadcast on 18 October 2012.
4th Battalion the Parachute Regiment and 23 SAS Reserves have bases in Hebburn. The Air Cadets have a unit located at Hebburn TA Centre.
Hebburn has an ecology centre powered by wind turbines. It is the location of a shipyard, operated by A&P Group.
Hebburn has two secondary schools: St Joseph's Catholic Academy (formerly St Joseph's Comprehensive School) and Hebburn Comprehensive School.
Hebburn Town F.C., formed in 1912, and Hebburn Reyrolle F.C. are the town's local non-league football teams. Hebburn Argyle, which existed in the early 1900s, reformed several years ago as a youth club.
Athletics is also catered for at Monkton Stadium, home of Jarrow and Hebburn Athletic Club, where Brendan Foster, Steve Cram and David Sharpe are notable past runners.
A short lived greyhound racing track was opened in 1945. The plans to build the track were passed in September 1944 and it cost £30,000 to construct a venue that could accommodate 6,000 people. The racing was independent (not affiliated to the sports governing body the National Greyhound Racing Club) and was known as a flapping track, which was the nickname given to independent tracks. The track was trading in 1947 but it is not known when it closed.
Hebburn Metro station is a stop on the Tyne and Wear Metro. The Yellow line serves stations between South Shields, Newcastle Central, Whitley Bay and St James.
The nearest National Rail station is at Heworth, which is a stop on the Durham Coast Line between Newcastle, Sunderland, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough; services are operated by Northern Trains.
Bus services are provided predominantly by Stagecoach North East and Go North East; routes link the town to South Shields, Jarrow, Gateshead and Newcastle.
A mid-Tyne ferry service, which was owned by several shipyards, once operated between Hebburn, Walker and Wallsend; it last ran in 1986. One of the fleet, run by the Mid Tyne Ferry Co, was called the Tyne Queen; in 2020, she was named the Jacobite Queen and was still working on Loch Ness, Inverness, Scotland.
Notable people
Academia
Dominic Bruce, RAF officer and later a college principal who in WWII, escaped from Colditz Castle[31] and Schloss Spangenberg
Arthur Holmes, geologist
John Miles (musician) Songwriter
Brian David Smith, academic researcher
John Steven Watson, English historian
Paul Younger, hydrogeologist and environmental engineer
Engineering
Andrew Leslie, shipbuilder
Entertainment
Jason Cook, comedian, writer of the BBC sitcom Hebburn
Robert Saint, composer, best known for his musical composition "Gresford", also known as "The Miners Hymn"
Frank Wappat, BBC Radio presenter and disc jockey, founder of Memory Lane magazine
Politics
Sir Fergus Montgomery, Conservative MP and Margaret Thatcher's Parliamentary Private Secretary (prior to her becoming Prime Minister)
Sport
George Armstrong, football player with Arsenal F.C.
Chris Basham, football player with Blackpool F.C., Bolton Wanderers F.C and Sheffield United F.C
Ian Chipchase, athlete and gold medalist at the 1974 Commonwealth Games
Josef Craig, British Paralympic swimmer, who won Gold at the 2012 Paralympic Games
Johnny Dixon, football player with Aston Villa F.C.
Jack English, football player
Carl Finnigan, football player with St Johnstone F.C, Falkirk F.C., South Shields F.C. and Newcastle United F.C
Brendan Foster, athlete and sports commentator
Wilfred Milne, football player
Chris Rigg, football player with Sunderland A.F.C.
Ray Wood, football player with Manchester United F.C.
Tyne and Wear is a ceremonial county in North East England. It borders Northumberland to the north and County Durham to the south, and the largest settlement is the city of Newcastle upon Tyne.
The county is largely urbanised. It had a population of 1.14 million in 2021. After Newcastle (300,125) the largest settlements are the city of Sunderland (170,134), Gateshead (120,046), and South Shields (75,337). Nearly all of the county's settlements belong to either the Tyneside or Wearside conurbations, the latter of which also extends into County Durham. Tyne and Wear contains five metropolitan boroughs: Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, North Tyneside and South Tyneside, and is covered by two combined authorities, North of Tyne and North East. The county was established in 1974 and was historically part of Northumberland and County Durham, with the River Tyne forming the border between the two.
The most notable geographic features of the county are the River Tyne and River Wear, after which it is named and along which its major settlements developed. The county is also notable for its coastline to the North Sea in the east, which is characterised by tall limestone cliffs and wide beaches.
In the late 600s and into the 700s Saint Bede lived as a monk at the monastery of St. Peter and of St. Paul writing histories of the Early Middle Ages including the Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
Roughly 150 years ago, in the village of Marsden in South Shields, Souter Lighthouse was built, the first electric structure of this type.
The Local Government Act 1888 constituted Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead and Sunderland as county boroughs (Newcastle had "county corporate" status as the "County and Town of Newcastle upon Tyne" since 1400). Tynemouth joined them in 1904. Between the county boroughs, various other settlements also formed part of the administrative counties of Durham and of Northumberland.
The need to reform local government on Tyneside was recognised by the government as early as 1935, when a Royal Commission to Investigate the Conditions of Local Government on Tyneside was appointed. The three commissioners were to examine the system of local government in the areas of local government north and south of the river Tyne from the sea to the boundary of the Rural District of Castle Ward and Hexham in the County of Northumberland and to the Western boundary of the County of Durham, to consider what changes, if any, should be made in the existing arrangements with a view to securing greater economy and efficiency, and to make recommendations.
The report of the Royal Commission, published in 1937, recommended the establishment of a Regional Council for Northumberland and Tyneside (to be called the "Northumberland Regional Council") to administer services that needed to be exercised over a wide area, with a second tier of smaller units for other local-government purposes. The second-tier units would form by amalgamating the various existing boroughs and districts. The county boroughs in the area would lose their status. Within this area, a single municipality would be formed covering the four county boroughs of Newcastle, Gateshead, Tynemouth, South Shields and other urban districts and boroughs.
A minority report proposed amalgamation of Newcastle, Gateshead, Wallsend, Jarrow, Felling, Gosforth, Hebburn and Newburn into a single "county borough of Newcastle-on-Tyneside". The 1937 proposals never came into operation: local authorities could not agree on a scheme and the legislation of the time did not allow central government to compel one.
Tyneside (excluding Sunderland) was a Special Review Area under the Local Government Act 1958. The Local Government Commission for England came back with a recommendation to create a new county of Tyneside based on the review area, divided into four separate boroughs. This was not implemented. The Redcliffe-Maud Report proposed a Tyneside unitary authority, again excluding Sunderland, which would have set up a separate East Durham unitary authority.
The White Paper that led to the Local Government Act 1972 proposed as "area 2" a metropolitan county including Newcastle and Sunderland, extending as far south down the coast as Seaham and Easington, and bordering "area 4" (which would become Tees Valley). The Bill as presented in November 1971 pruned back the southern edge of the area, and gave it the name "Tyneside". The name "Tyneside" proved controversial on Wearside, and a government amendment changed the name to "Tyne and Wear" at the request of Sunderland County Borough Council.
Tyne and Wear either has or closely borders two official Met Office stations, neither located in one of the major urban centres. The locations for those are in marine Tynemouth where Tyne meets the North Sea east of Newcastle and inland Durham in County Durham around 20 kilometres (12 mi) south-west of Sunderland. There are some clear differences between the stations temperature and precipitation patterns even though both have a cool-summer and mild-winter oceanic climate.
Tyne and Wear contains green belt interspersed throughout the county, mainly on the fringes of the Tyneside/Wearside conurbation. There is also an inter-urban line of belt helping to keep the districts of South Tyneside, Gateshead, and Sunderland separated. It was first drawn up from the 1950s. All the county's districts contain some portion of belt.
Although Tyne and Wear County Council was abolished in 1986, several joint bodies exist to run certain services on a county-wide basis. Most notable is the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Authority, which co-ordinates transport policy. Through its passenger transport executive, known as Nexus, it owns and operates the Tyne and Wear Metro light rail system, and the Shields ferry service and the Tyne Tunnel, linking communities on either side of the River Tyne. Also through Nexus, the authority subsidises socially necessary transport services (including taxis) and operates a concessionary fares scheme for the elderly and disabled. Nexus has been an executive body of the North East Joint Transport Committee since November 2018.
Other joint bodies include the Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service and Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, which was created from the merger of the Tyne and Wear Archives Service and Tyne and Wear Museums. These joint bodies are administered by representatives of all five of the constituent councils. In addition the Northumbria Police force covers Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.
There have been occasional calls for Tyne and Wear to be abolished and the traditional border between Northumberland and County Durham to be restored.
Tyne and Wear is divided into 12 Parliamentary constituencies. Historically, the area has been a Labour stronghold; South Shields is the only Parliamentary constituency that has never returned a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons since the Reform Act of 1832.
Newcastle and Sunderland are known for declaring their election results early on election night. Therefore, they frequently give the first indication of nationwide trends. An example of this was at the 2016 European Union referendum. Newcastle was the first large city to declare, and 50.6% of voters voted to Remain; this proportion was far lower than predicted by experts. Sunderland declared soon after and gave a 62% vote to Leave, much higher than expected. These two results were seen as an early sign that the United Kingdom had voted to Leave.
Offshore Group Newcastle make oil platforms. Sage Group, who produce accounting software, are based at Hazlerigg at the northern end of the Newcastle bypass. Northern Rock, which became a bank in 1997 and was taken over by Virgin Money in November 2011, and the Newcastle Building Society are based in Gosforth. The Gosforth-based bakery Greggs now has over 1,500 shops. The Balliol Business Park in Longbenton contains Procter & Gamble research and global business centres and a tax credits call centre for HMRC, and is the former home of Findus UK. The Government National Insurance Contributions Office in Longbenton, demolished and replaced in 2000, had a 1 mile (1.6 km) long corridor.
Be-Ro and the Go-Ahead Group bus company are in central Newcastle. Nestlé use the former Rowntrees chocolate factory on the east of the A1. BAE Systems Land & Armaments in Scotswood, formerly Vickers-Armstrongs, is the main producer of British Army tanks such as the Challenger 2. A Rolls-Royce apprentice training site is next door.[18] Siemens Energy Service Fossil make steam turbines at the CA Parsons Works in South Heaton. Sir Charles Parsons invented the steam turbine in 1884, and developed an important local company. Domestos, a product whose main ingredient is sodium hypochlorite, was originated in Newcastle in 1929 by William Handley, and was distributed from the area for many years.
Clarke Chapman is next to the A167 in Gateshead. The MetroCentre, the largest shopping centre in Europe, is in Dunston. Scottish & Newcastle was the largest UK-owned brewery until it was bought by Heineken and Carlsberg in April 2008, and produced Newcastle Brown Ale at the Newcastle Federation Brewery in Dunston until production moved to Tadcaster in September 2010. At Team Valley are De La Rue, with their largest banknote printing facility, and Myson Radiators, the second largest in the UK market. Petards make surveillance equipment including ANPR cameras, and its Joyce-Loebl division makes electronic warfare systems and countermeasure dispensing systems such as the AN/ALE-47. Sevcon, an international company formed from a part of Smith Electric, is a world leader in electric vehicle controls. AEI Cables and Komatsu UK construction equipment at Birtley.
J. Barbour & Sons make outdoor clothing in Simonside, Jarrow. SAFT Batteries make primary lithium batteries on the Tyne in South Shields. Bellway plc houses is in Seaton Burn in North Tyneside. Cobalt Business Park, the largest office park in the UK, is at Wallsend, on the former site of Atmel, and is the home of North Tyneside Council. Swan Hunter until 2006 made ships in Wallsend, and still designs ships. Soil Machine Dynamics in Wallsend on the Tyne makes Remotely operated underwater vehicles, and its Ultra Trencher 1 is the world's largest submersible robot.
The car dealership Evans Halshaw is in Sunderland. The car factory owned by Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK between North Hylton and Washington is the largest in the UK. Grundfos, the world's leading pump manufacturer, builds pumps in Sunderland. Calsonic Kansei UK, formerly Magna, make automotive instrument panels and car trim at the Pennywell Industrial Estate. Gestamp UK make automotive components. Smith Electric Vehicles originated in Washington. The LG Electronics microwave oven factory opened in 1989, closed in May 2004, and later became the site of the Tanfield Group. Goodyear Dunlop had their only UK car tyre factory next to the Tanfield site until its 2006 closure. BAE Systems Global Combat Systems moved to a new £75 million factory at the former Goodyear site in 2011, where they make large calibre ammunition for tanks and artillery.
The government's child benefit office is in Washington. Liebherr build cranes next to the Wear at Deptford. The outdoor clothing company Berghaus is in Castletown. Vaux Breweries, who owned Swallow Hotels, closed in 1999. ScS Sofas are on Borough Road. There are many call centres in Sunderland, notably EDF Energy at the Doxford International Business Park, which is also the home of the headquarters of the large international transport company Arriva and Nike UK. Rolls-Royce planned to move their production of fan and turbine discs to BAE Systems' new site in 2016.
Basildon Park
Basildon Park estate was bought by Francis Sykes in 1771.
Sykes had made his fortune in the East India Company and required a home befitting his status. He demolished the original house and employed architect John Carr to build the mansion that survives to this day.
The Sykes family owned the house until 1838.
The Morrison family owned Basildon Park from 1838 to 1928. It was originally bought by Liberal MP James Morrison who passed it to his eldest son Charles. On his death it was inherited by his sister Ellen who died just seven months later, leaving it to her nephew Major James Archibald Morrison.
During the Second World War, the estate was requisitioned. It served several purposes including being used by the 101st Airborne Division of the American Army for D-Day training, and later as a prisoner-of-war camp for German and Italian soldiers. This was all vital to the war effort but inevitably resulted in severe damage to the house and estate.
In 1952 Lord and Lady Iliffe bought the semi-ruined Basildon Park.
The couple set about restoring the house sensitively to its former glory, with the addition of modern-day comforts such as central heating, a contemporary kitchen and bathrooms.
They restored the elegant interior and scoured the country searching for 18th-century architectural fixtures and fittings to fill their comfortable new home.
The fine paintings, fabrics and furniture they bought can still be enjoyed by visitors today.
The house and gardens have been featured in several Film and TV drama productions including Pride and Prejudice, Bridgerton, Downtown Abbey, The Gentlemen and The Crown.
Lord and Lady Iliffe gifted the house, together with 400 acres of parkland, to the National Trust in 1978.
Grade I Listed
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The Bamboo Bedroom
So-called after the bed, which is painted in imitation of Bamboo.
Tester Bed
by Chipchase & Proctor
1814
Wood, Cotton, Linen.
Church of St Nicholas, Dunkeswell Devon - the area was settled by the Saxons and a small community had grown up in the sheltered spot, certainly by 800AD. "Doduceswilla" is listed in the 1086 Doomesday Survey as having a population of at least 11 families of freemen and several slaves under their Lord. The population now is over 1600
The present church is at least the fourth on the site and was built between 1865 and 1869 funded by the Miss Simcoe of Wolford Lodge who together with their mother the widow of John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, also erected the nearby Dunkeswell Abbey chapel.in 1842 . .
It consists of a chancel, nave, north and south aisles, south porch and west tower
Since its completion in 1869, the major change has been the replacement of the original tower which had been considerably and dangerously weakened by the vibration of the engines of the Dunkeswell based US Navy Liberators and Catalinas of Fleet Air Wing 7, from 1943-45. The tower had to be demolished urgently in 1947, and was not to be rebuilt for another 7 years, the bells being restored to the tower.in 1959
The Norman font is carved with intriguing figures including an elephant which possibly dates it after 1255 the first time this animal was known in England
The registers date: baptisms, 1750; marriages, 1743; burials, 1740.
New modernisation includes a kitchen, outside WC & and a loop system
Nick Chipchase CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4877948
Wednesday, July 24, 2013 Aspen, CO
Fortune Brainstorm TECH
10:25 AM DESIGN DRIVES CHANGE
Which designers are leading change? Around the globe, the company and the customer.
Kate Aronowitz, Design Director, Facebook
Jan Chipchase, Executive Creative Director of Global Insights, frog
Krista Donaldson, CEO, D-Rev: Design Revolution
Mauro Porcini, Chief Design Officer, Pepsico
Moderator: Jessi Hempel, Fortune
Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune Brainstorm TECH
Alabaster & marble wall monument which has not fared well over time:
"Here lies buried the most virtuous Lady Catherine Graham wife of Sir Richard Graham of Netherby in the county of Cumberland, knight and Bart, daughter of Thomas Musgrove of Cumcach Esq and Susanna his wife. Well beloved in her country as being a very hospitable and charitable matron, she died March 1649 in the 48th year of her age leaving behind her 2 sons and 4 daughters namely George, Richard, Mary, Elizabeth, Susanna and Henrietta Maria."
Richard, bc.1583 was the 2nd son of Fergus Graham 1625 of Plump, Kirkandrews-upon-Esk and Sybil daughter of William Bell of Scotsbrig, Middlebie, Dumfries & Brockethouse by Elizabeth Bowmont
He was knighted on 9th January 1629 and created a baronet on 29th March 1629
He was groom to George, 1st Marquess (later Duke) of Buckingham by 1617, gentleman of the horse 1619-28;8 joint. clerk of customs bills 1619-21;9 equerry, King’s Stables 1629-?44; master of the harriers 1644- Member, Council in the North 1629-41 .......
Sir Richard came from one of the more obscure branches of a border clan, notorious for its participation in violent raiding, that settled at Plump by the middle of the sixteenth century His elder brother was deported to the Low Countries after a particularly audacious week of pillage in 1603, and his ‘debatable lands’ were granted to George Clifford, 3rd earl of Cumberland. Sir Richard himself ‘came on foot to London and got entertained into ... Buckingham’s service, having some spark of wit, and skill in moss-trooping and horse-coursing’. Despite a temporary loss of office in 1620 after a duel with his employer’s kinsman, a younger son of Basil Feilding*, he was able to lay out £3,955 on the purchase of property in Lincolnshire in 1621-2. As a part-time resident in Cumberland, he endeavoured to reform vice there by building a church and educating the young Appointed customer of Carlisle in 1623, he was granted permission to execute the office by deputy on account of his attendance at Court. In the same year, with Sir Francis Cottington* and Endymion Porter†, he accompanied Buckingham and Prince Charles on their ill-fated journey to Spain to woo the Infanta.
In 1624 the year of his marriage, Richard bought Norton Conyers from his wife’s father (whose own father had purchased it from the Crown in 1593 ) with 'all messuages, granges, mills, lands, tenements, tithes, waters, warrens, leet lawdays, views of frankpledge' and other liberties for £6,500.28 During the autumn he fought a duel with another follower of Buckingham, Sackville Crowe*, but again escaped serious consequences Graham took the credit for persuading Lord Robartes to buy a peerage for £3,000 in 1625, and Edward Clarke* heard that he had been rewarded with a suit valued at £500 a year.
He m 1624 Catherine daughter of Thomas Musgrove 1600 of 1600 of Cumcatch Manor, Brampton, Cumberland & Susanna Thwaites
Children
1. George 2nd Bart c1624-58 married Mary daughter of James Johnstone 1st Earl of Hartfell and 1st wife Margaret daughter of William Douglas, 1st Earl of Queensberry & Isabel Kerr
2. Richard 1635 - 1711 was made a baronet in 1662 for services to the royal cause in the Civil War . He m Elizabeth daughter of Chichester Fortescue & Elizabeth Slingsby
Elizabeth was the grand-daughter of William Slingsby www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/6123004013/ and had a son Reginald 1728 who married Frances Bellingham
3. Mary m Edward 1st baron Musgrave 1673 of Hayton Castle, Cumberland
4. Elizabeth m (1st wife) Sir Cuthbert Heron of Chipchase Castle
5. Susanna
6. Henrietta Maria
Sir Richard was first elected MP for Carlisle, ten miles from his Cumbrian estate, in 1626, during the mayoralty of his kinsman Edward Aglionby*, who acted as returning officer. He left no trace on the records of the second Caroline Parliament, though he may have heard his transaction with Robartes mentioned in Sir John Eliot’s* report on 24 Mar. 1626 of the charges of corruption levelled against Buckingham. Graham attended his master on the expedition to the Ile de Ré in 1627, and with John Ashburnham* helped to rally a faltering regiment at the landing He was re-elected in 1628, but again went unnoticed in the parliamentary records. On 8 July he re-purchased Nicholl Forest and other ‘debatable lands’ formerly confiscated from his family, from the Cliffords at the favourable price of £7,050.33 After his Buckingham’s assassination he was granted a market and fair on his Cumberland estate, and rebuilt Kirkandrews church in 1637, though in a thoroughly shoddy manner.
Richard was created a baronet in 1629.
He fought on the side of Charles I at the Battle of Edgehill in 1642, where he was severely wounded and lived in the York garrison until 1 July when the city was relieved by Prince Rupert of the Rhine. However Rupert and Newcastle were defeated the next day at the decisive Battle of Marston Moor, where Richard suffered 26 wounds returning home on horseback more dead than alive .
Later taken prisoner while on his way from Oxford to Newark in November 1645, he promptly submitted to Parliament and was thus able to compound for his delinquency at a favourable rate, paying £2,385 on an estate of just under £1,250 a year.
Sir Richard made his will on 26 March 1653, leaving a portion of £1,500 for his only unmarried daughter , named after the queen, Henrietta Maria, and an annuity of £20 for a cousin at whose house in Newmarket he died on 28th January 1654 and was buried here at Wath.
His Cumberland property had been settled on his elder son George who died before the 1660 Restoration of King Charles ll , however his grandson Sir Richard Grahame reeped the rewards for their loyalty to the Crown, and was given a Scottish peerage and represented the county under James II.
His younger son Richard founded another branch of the family at Norton Conyers where they still live . He was created 1st Baronet Graham of Norton Conyers for his loyal services in the Civil War,
(The descendants of George & William seem to have intermarried in the 17c & 18c www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/88Rn92 )
Monument repaired by Sir Bellingham Graham Bart 1783 "
A brass inscription placed on the wall underneath, is said by Longstaffe to refer to Katherine - "..Enobled virtue lyes within this tombe, whose life & death inferiour was to none. Her soules in heaven, this tombe is but a tent. Her endless worth is her owne monument" www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/877569
www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1604-1629/member/graham-richard... www.geni.com/people/Sir-Richard-Graham-of-Esk-1st-Baronet...
- Church of St Mary, Wath, Yorkshire
Children detail: Alabaster & marble wall monument which has not fared well over time:
"Here lies buried the most virtuous Lady Catherine Graham wife of Sir Richard Graham of Netherby in the county of Cumberland, knight and Bart, daughter of Thomas Musgrove of Cumcach Esq and Susanna his wife. Well beloved in her country as being a very hospitable and charitable matron, she died March 1649 in the 48th year of her age leaving behind her 2 sons and 4 daughters namely George, Richard, Mary, Elizabeth, Susanna and Henrietta Maria."
Richard, bc.1583 was the 2nd son of Fergus Graham 1625 of Plump, Kirkandrews-upon-Esk and Sybil daughter of William Bell of Scotsbrig, Middlebie, Dumfries & Brockethouse by Elizabeth Bowmont
He was knighted on 9th January 1629 and created a baronet on 29th March 1629
He was groom to George, 1st Marquess (later Duke) of Buckingham by 1617, gentleman of the horse 1619-28;8 joint. clerk of customs bills 1619-21;9 equerry, King’s Stables 1629-?44; master of the harriers 1644- Member, Council in the North 1629-41 .......
Sir Richard came from one of the more obscure branches of a border clan, notorious for its participation in violent raiding, that settled at Plump by the middle of the sixteenth century His elder brother was deported to the Low Countries after a particularly audacious week of pillage in 1603, and his ‘debatable lands’ were granted to George Clifford, 3rd earl of Cumberland. Sir Richard himself ‘came on foot to London and got entertained into ... Buckingham’s service, having some spark of wit, and skill in moss-trooping and horse-coursing’. Despite a temporary loss of office in 1620 after a duel with his employer’s kinsman, a younger son of Basil Feilding*, he was able to lay out £3,955 on the purchase of property in Lincolnshire in 1621-2. As a part-time resident in Cumberland, he endeavoured to reform vice there by building a church and educating the young Appointed customer of Carlisle in 1623, he was granted permission to execute the office by deputy on account of his attendance at Court. In the same year, with Sir Francis Cottington* and Endymion Porter†, he accompanied Buckingham and Prince Charles on their ill-fated journey to Spain to woo the Infanta.
In 1624 the year of his marriage, Richard bought Norton Conyers from his wife’s father (whose own father had purchased it from the Crown in 1593 ) with 'all messuages, granges, mills, lands, tenements, tithes, waters, warrens, leet lawdays, views of frankpledge' and other liberties for £6,500.28 During the autumn he fought a duel with another follower of Buckingham, Sackville Crowe*, but again escaped serious consequences Graham took the credit for persuading Lord Robartes to buy a peerage for £3,000 in 1625, and Edward Clarke* heard that he had been rewarded with a suit valued at £500 a year.
He m 1624 Catherine daughter of Thomas Musgrove 1600 of 1600 of Cumcatch Manor, Brampton, Cumberland & Susanna Thwaites
Children
1. George 2nd Bart c1624-58 married Mary daughter of James Johnstone 1st Earl of Hartfell and 1st wife Margaret daughter of William Douglas, 1st Earl of Queensberry & Isabel Kerr
2. Richard 1635 - 1711 was made a baronet in 1662 for services to the royal cause in the Civil War . He m Elizabeth daughter of Chichester Fortescue & Elizabeth Slingsby
Elizabeth was the grand-daughter of William Slingsby www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/6123004013/ and had a son Reginald 1728 who married Frances Bellingham
3. Mary m Edward 1st baron Musgrave 1673 of Hayton Castle, Cumberland
4. Elizabeth m (1st wife) Sir Cuthbert Heron of Chipchase Castle
5. Susanna
6. Henrietta Maria
Sir Richard was first elected MP for Carlisle, ten miles from his Cumbrian estate, in 1626, during the mayoralty of his kinsman Edward Aglionby*, who acted as returning officer. He left no trace on the records of the second Caroline Parliament, though he may have heard his transaction with Robartes mentioned in Sir John Eliot’s* report on 24 Mar. 1626 of the charges of corruption levelled against Buckingham. Graham attended his master on the expedition to the Ile de Ré in 1627, and with John Ashburnham* helped to rally a faltering regiment at the landing He was re-elected in 1628, but again went unnoticed in the parliamentary records. On 8 July he re-purchased Nicholl Forest and other ‘debatable lands’ formerly confiscated from his family, from the Cliffords at the favourable price of £7,050.33 After his Buckingham’s assassination he was granted a market and fair on his Cumberland estate, and rebuilt Kirkandrews church in 1637, though in a thoroughly shoddy manner.
Richard was created a baronet in 1629.
He fought on the side of Charles I at the Battle of Edgehill in 1642, where he was severely wounded and lived in the York garrison until 1 July when the city was relieved by Prince Rupert of the Rhine. However Rupert and Newcastle were defeated the next day at the decisive Battle of Marston Moor, where Richard suffered 26 wounds returning home on horseback more dead than alive .
Later taken prisoner while on his way from Oxford to Newark in November 1645, he promptly submitted to Parliament and was thus able to compound for his delinquency at a favourable rate, paying £2,385 on an estate of just under £1,250 a year.
Sir Richard made his will on 26 March 1653, leaving a portion of £1,500 for his only unmarried daughter , named after the queen, Henrietta Maria, and an annuity of £20 for a cousin at whose house in Newmarket he died on 28th January 1654 and was buried here at Wath.
His Cumberland property had been settled on his elder son George who died before the 1660 Restoration of King Charles ll , however his grandson Sir Richard Grahame reeped the rewards for their loyalty to the Crown, and was given a Scottish peerage and represented the county under James II.
His younger son Richard founded another branch of the family at Norton Conyers where they still live . He was created 1st Baronet Graham of Norton Conyers for his loyal services in the Civil War,
(The descendants of George & William seem to have intermarried in the 17c & 18c www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/88Rn92 )
Monument repaired by Sir Bellingham Graham Bart 1783 "
A brass inscription placed on the wall underneath, is said by Longstaffe to refer to Katherine - "..Enobled virtue lyes within this tombe, whose life & death inferiour was to none. Her soules in heaven, this tombe is but a tent. Her endless worth is her owne monument" www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/877569
www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1604-1629/member/graham-richard... www.geni.com/people/Sir-Richard-Graham-of-Esk-1st-Baronet...
- Church of St Mary, Wath, Yorkshire
Entering the village of Culmstock in Devon with the church of All Saints in the background
Nick Chipchase CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5062808
Alabaster & marble wall monument which has not fared well over time:
"Here lies buried the most virtuous Lady Catherine Graham wife of Sir Richard Graham of Netherby in the county of Cumberland, knight and Bart, daughter of Thomas Musgrove of Cumcach Esq and Susanna his wife. Well beloved in her country as being a very hospitable and charitable matron, she died March 1649 in the 48th year of her age leaving behind her 2 sons and 4 daughters namely George, Richard, Mary, Elizabeth, Susanna and Henrietta Maria."
Richard, bc.1583 was the 2nd son of Fergus Graham 1625 of Plump, Kirkandrews-upon-Esk and Sybil daughter of William Bell of Scotsbrig, Middlebie, Dumfries & Brockethouse by Elizabeth Bowmont
He was knighted on 9th January 1629 and created a baronet on 29th March 1629
He was groom to George, 1st Marquess (later Duke) of Buckingham by 1617, gentleman of the horse 1619-28;8 joint. clerk of customs bills 1619-21;9 equerry, King’s Stables 1629-?44; master of the harriers 1644- Member, Council in the North 1629-41 .......
Sir Richard came from one of the more obscure branches of a border clan, notorious for its participation in violent raiding, that settled at Plump by the middle of the sixteenth century His elder brother was deported to the Low Countries after a particularly audacious week of pillage in 1603, and his ‘debatable lands’ were granted to George Clifford, 3rd earl of Cumberland. Sir Richard himself ‘came on foot to London and got entertained into ... Buckingham’s service, having some spark of wit, and skill in moss-trooping and horse-coursing’. Despite a temporary loss of office in 1620 after a duel with his employer’s kinsman, a younger son of Basil Feilding*, he was able to lay out £3,955 on the purchase of property in Lincolnshire in 1621-2. As a part-time resident in Cumberland, he endeavoured to reform vice there by building a church and educating the young Appointed customer of Carlisle in 1623, he was granted permission to execute the office by deputy on account of his attendance at Court. In the same year, with Sir Francis Cottington* and Endymion Porter†, he accompanied Buckingham and Prince Charles on their ill-fated journey to Spain to woo the Infanta.
In 1624 the year of his marriage, Richard bought Norton Conyers from his wife’s father (whose own father had purchased it from the Crown in 1593 ) with 'all messuages, granges, mills, lands, tenements, tithes, waters, warrens, leet lawdays, views of frankpledge' and other liberties for £6,500.28 During the autumn he fought a duel with another follower of Buckingham, Sackville Crowe*, but again escaped serious consequences Graham took the credit for persuading Lord Robartes to buy a peerage for £3,000 in 1625, and Edward Clarke* heard that he had been rewarded with a suit valued at £500 a year.
He m 1624 Catherine daughter of Thomas Musgrove 1600 of 1600 of Cumcatch Manor, Brampton, Cumberland & Susanna Thwaites
Children
1. George 2nd Bart c1624-58 married Mary daughter of James Johnstone 1st Earl of Hartfell and 1st wife Margaret daughter of William Douglas, 1st Earl of Queensberry & Isabel Kerr
2. Richard 1635 - 1711 was made a baronet in 1662 for services to the royal cause in the Civil War . He m Elizabeth daughter of Chichester Fortescue & Elizabeth Slingsby
Elizabeth was the grand-daughter of William Slingsby www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/6123004013/ and had a son Reginald 1728 who married Frances Bellingham
3. Mary m Edward 1st baron Musgrave 1673 of Hayton Castle, Cumberland
4. Elizabeth m (1st wife) Sir Cuthbert Heron of Chipchase Castle
5. Susanna
6. Henrietta Maria
Sir Richard was first elected MP for Carlisle, ten miles from his Cumbrian estate, in 1626, during the mayoralty of his kinsman Edward Aglionby*, who acted as returning officer. He left no trace on the records of the second Caroline Parliament, though he may have heard his transaction with Robartes mentioned in Sir John Eliot’s* report on 24 Mar. 1626 of the charges of corruption levelled against Buckingham. Graham attended his master on the expedition to the Ile de Ré in 1627, and with John Ashburnham* helped to rally a faltering regiment at the landing He was re-elected in 1628, but again went unnoticed in the parliamentary records. On 8 July he re-purchased Nicholl Forest and other ‘debatable lands’ formerly confiscated from his family, from the Cliffords at the favourable price of £7,050.33 After his Buckingham’s assassination he was granted a market and fair on his Cumberland estate, and rebuilt Kirkandrews church in 1637, though in a thoroughly shoddy manner.
Richard was created a baronet in 1629.
He fought on the side of Charles I at the Battle of Edgehill in 1642, where he was severely wounded and lived in the York garrison until 1 July when the city was relieved by Prince Rupert of the Rhine. However Rupert and Newcastle were defeated the next day at the decisive Battle of Marston Moor, where Richard suffered 26 wounds returning home on horseback more dead than alive .
Later taken prisoner while on his way from Oxford to Newark in November 1645, he promptly submitted to Parliament and was thus able to compound for his delinquency at a favourable rate, paying £2,385 on an estate of just under £1,250 a year.
Sir Richard made his will on 26 March 1653, leaving a portion of £1,500 for his only unmarried daughter , named after the queen, Henrietta Maria, and an annuity of £20 for a cousin at whose house in Newmarket he died on 28th January 1654 and was buried here at Wath.
His Cumberland property had been settled on his elder son George who died before the 1660 Restoration of King Charles ll , however his grandson Sir Richard Grahame reeped the rewards for their loyalty to the Crown, and was given a Scottish peerage and represented the county under James II.
His younger son Richard founded another branch of the family at Norton Conyers where they still live . He was created 1st Baronet Graham of Norton Conyers for his loyal services in the Civil War,
(The descendants of George & William seem to have intermarried in the 17c & 18c www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/88Rn92 )
Monument repaired by Sir Bellingham Graham Bart 1783 "
A brass inscription placed on the wall underneath, is said by Longstaffe to refer to Katherine - "..Enobled virtue lyes within this tombe, whose life & death inferiour was to none. Her soules in heaven, this tombe is but a tent. Her endless worth is her owne monument" www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/877569
www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1604-1629/member/graham-richard... www.geni.com/people/Sir-Richard-Graham-of-Esk-1st-Baronet...
- Church of St Mary, Wath, Yorkshire
Wednesday, July 24, 2013 Aspen, CO
Fortune Brainstorm TECH
10:25 AM DESIGN DRIVES CHANGE
Which designers are leading change? Around the globe, the company and the customer.
Kate Aronowitz, Design Director, Facebook
Jan Chipchase, Executive Creative Director of Global Insights, frog
Krista Donaldson, CEO, D-Rev: Design Revolution
Mauro Porcini, Chief Design Officer, Pepsico
Moderator: Jessi Hempel, Fortune
Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune Brainstorm TECH
Wednesday, July 24, 2013 Aspen, CO
Fortune Brainstorm TECH
10:25 AM DESIGN DRIVES CHANGE
Which designers are leading change? Around the globe, the company and the customer.
Kate Aronowitz, Design Director, Facebook
Jan Chipchase, Executive Creative Director of Global Insights, frog
Krista Donaldson, CEO, D-Rev: Design Revolution
Mauro Porcini, Chief Design Officer, Pepsico
Moderator: Jessi Hempel, Fortune
Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune Brainstorm TECH
Wednesday, July 24, 2013 Aspen, CO
Fortune Brainstorm TECH
10:25 AM DESIGN DRIVES CHANGE
Which designers are leading change? Around the globe, the company and the customer.
Kate Aronowitz, Design Director, Facebook
Jan Chipchase, Executive Creative Director of Global Insights, frog
Krista Donaldson, CEO, D-Rev: Design Revolution
Mauro Porcini, Chief Design Officer, Pepsico
Moderator: Jessi Hempel, Fortune
Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune Brainstorm TECH
Alabaster & marble wall monument which has not fared well over time:
"Here lies buried the most virtuous Lady Catherine Graham wife of Sir Richard Graham of Netherby in the county of Cumberland, knight and Bart, daughter of Thomas Musgrove of Cumcach Esq and Susanna his wife. Well beloved in her country as being a very hospitable and charitable matron, she died March 1649 in the 48th year of her age leaving behind her 2 sons and 4 daughters namely George, Richard, Mary, Elizabeth, Susanna and Henrietta Maria."
Richard, bc.1583 was the 2nd son of Fergus Graham 1625 of Plump, Kirkandrews-upon-Esk and Sybil daughter of William Bell of Scotsbrig, Middlebie, Dumfries & Brockethouse by Elizabeth Bowmont
He was knighted on 9th January 1629 and created a baronet on 29th March 1629
He was groom to George, 1st Marquess (later Duke) of Buckingham by 1617, gentleman of the horse 1619-28;8 joint. clerk of customs bills 1619-21;9 equerry, King’s Stables 1629-?44; master of the harriers 1644- Member, Council in the North 1629-41 .......
Sir Richard came from one of the more obscure branches of a border clan, notorious for its participation in violent raiding, that settled at Plump by the middle of the sixteenth century His elder brother was deported to the Low Countries after a particularly audacious week of pillage in 1603, and his ‘debatable lands’ were granted to George Clifford, 3rd earl of Cumberland. Sir Richard himself ‘came on foot to London and got entertained into ... Buckingham’s service, having some spark of wit, and skill in moss-trooping and horse-coursing’. Despite a temporary loss of office in 1620 after a duel with his employer’s kinsman, a younger son of Basil Feilding*, he was able to lay out £3,955 on the purchase of property in Lincolnshire in 1621-2. As a part-time resident in Cumberland, he endeavoured to reform vice there by building a church and educating the young Appointed customer of Carlisle in 1623, he was granted permission to execute the office by deputy on account of his attendance at Court. In the same year, with Sir Francis Cottington* and Endymion Porter†, he accompanied Buckingham and Prince Charles on their ill-fated journey to Spain to woo the Infanta.
In 1624 the year of his marriage, Richard bought Norton Conyers from his wife’s father (whose own father had purchased it from the Crown in 1593 ) with 'all messuages, granges, mills, lands, tenements, tithes, waters, warrens, leet lawdays, views of frankpledge' and other liberties for £6,500.28 During the autumn he fought a duel with another follower of Buckingham, Sackville Crowe*, but again escaped serious consequences Graham took the credit for persuading Lord Robartes to buy a peerage for £3,000 in 1625, and Edward Clarke* heard that he had been rewarded with a suit valued at £500 a year.
He m 1624 Catherine daughter of Thomas Musgrove 1600 of 1600 of Cumcatch Manor, Brampton, Cumberland & Susanna Thwaites
Children
1. George 2nd Bart c1624-58 married Mary daughter of James Johnstone 1st Earl of Hartfell and 1st wife Margaret daughter of William Douglas, 1st Earl of Queensberry & Isabel Kerr
2. Richard 1635 - 1711 was made a baronet in 1662 for services to the royal cause in the Civil War . He m Elizabeth daughter of Chichester Fortescue & Elizabeth Slingsby
Elizabeth was the grand-daughter of William Slingsby www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/6123004013/ and had a son Reginald 1728 who married Frances Bellingham
3. Mary m Edward 1st baron Musgrave 1673 of Hayton Castle, Cumberland
4. Elizabeth m (1st wife) Sir Cuthbert Heron of Chipchase Castle
5. Susanna
6. Henrietta Maria
Sir Richard was first elected MP for Carlisle, ten miles from his Cumbrian estate, in 1626, during the mayoralty of his kinsman Edward Aglionby*, who acted as returning officer. He left no trace on the records of the second Caroline Parliament, though he may have heard his transaction with Robartes mentioned in Sir John Eliot’s* report on 24 Mar. 1626 of the charges of corruption levelled against Buckingham. Graham attended his master on the expedition to the Ile de Ré in 1627, and with John Ashburnham* helped to rally a faltering regiment at the landing He was re-elected in 1628, but again went unnoticed in the parliamentary records. On 8 July he re-purchased Nicholl Forest and other ‘debatable lands’ formerly confiscated from his family, from the Cliffords at the favourable price of £7,050.33 After his Buckingham’s assassination he was granted a market and fair on his Cumberland estate, and rebuilt Kirkandrews church in 1637, though in a thoroughly shoddy manner.
Richard was created a baronet in 1629.
He fought on the side of Charles I at the Battle of Edgehill in 1642, where he was severely wounded and lived in the York garrison until 1 July when the city was relieved by Prince Rupert of the Rhine. However Rupert and Newcastle were defeated the next day at the decisive Battle of Marston Moor, where Richard suffered 26 wounds returning home on horseback more dead than alive .
Later taken prisoner while on his way from Oxford to Newark in November 1645, he promptly submitted to Parliament and was thus able to compound for his delinquency at a favourable rate, paying £2,385 on an estate of just under £1,250 a year.
Sir Richard made his will on 26 March 1653, leaving a portion of £1,500 for his only unmarried daughter , named after the queen, Henrietta Maria, and an annuity of £20 for a cousin at whose house in Newmarket he died on 28th January 1654 and was buried here at Wath.
His Cumberland property had been settled on his elder son George who died before the 1660 Restoration of King Charles ll , however his grandson Sir Richard Grahame reeped the rewards for their loyalty to the Crown, and was given a Scottish peerage and represented the county under James II.
His younger son Richard founded another branch of the family at Norton Conyers where they still live . He was created 1st Baronet Graham of Norton Conyers for his loyal services in the Civil War,
(The descendants of George & William seem to have intermarried in the 17c & 18c www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/88Rn92 )
Monument repaired by Sir Bellingham Graham bart 1783, their hands are much too big !!
A brass inscription placed on the wall underneath, is said by Longstaffe to refer to Katherine - "..Enobled virtue lyes within this tombe, whose life & death inferiour was to none. Her soules in heaven, this tombe is but a tent. Her endless worth is her owne monument" www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/877569
- Church of St Mary, Wath, Yorkshire
www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1604-1629/member/graham-richard... www.geni.com/people/Sir-Richard-Graham-of-Esk-1st-Baronet...
- Church of St Mary, Wath, Yorkshire
Inscription detail: Alabaster & marble wall monument which has not fared well over time:
"Here lies buried the most virtuous Lady Catherine Graham wife of Sir Richard Graham of Netherby in the county of Cumberland, knight and Bart, daughter of Thomas Musgrove of Cumcach Esq and Susanna his wife. Well beloved in her country as being a very hospitable and charitable matron, she died March 1649 in the 48th year of her age leaving behind her 2 sons and 4 daughters namely George, Richard, Mary, Elizabeth, Susanna and Henrietta Maria."
Richard, bc.1583 was the 2nd son of Fergus Graham 1625 of Plump, Kirkandrews-upon-Esk and Sybil daughter of William Bell of Scotsbrig, Middlebie, Dumfries & Brockethouse by Elizabeth Bowmont
He was knighted on 9th January 1629 and created a baronet on 29th March 1629
He was groom to George, 1st Marquess (later Duke) of Buckingham by 1617, gentleman of the horse 1619-28;8 joint. clerk of customs bills 1619-21;9 equerry, King’s Stables 1629-?44; master of the harriers 1644- Member, Council in the North 1629-41 .......
Sir Richard came from one of the more obscure branches of a border clan, notorious for its participation in violent raiding, that settled at Plump by the middle of the sixteenth century His elder brother was deported to the Low Countries after a particularly audacious week of pillage in 1603, and his ‘debatable lands’ were granted to George Clifford, 3rd earl of Cumberland. Sir Richard himself ‘came on foot to London and got entertained into ... Buckingham’s service, having some spark of wit, and skill in moss-trooping and horse-coursing’. Despite a temporary loss of office in 1620 after a duel with his employer’s kinsman, a younger son of Basil Feilding*, he was able to lay out £3,955 on the purchase of property in Lincolnshire in 1621-2. As a part-time resident in Cumberland, he endeavoured to reform vice there by building a church and educating the young Appointed customer of Carlisle in 1623, he was granted permission to execute the office by deputy on account of his attendance at Court. In the same year, with Sir Francis Cottington* and Endymion Porter†, he accompanied Buckingham and Prince Charles on their ill-fated journey to Spain to woo the Infanta.
In 1624 the year of his marriage, Richard bought Norton Conyers from his wife’s father (whose own father had purchased it from the Crown in 1593 ) with 'all messuages, granges, mills, lands, tenements, tithes, waters, warrens, leet lawdays, views of frankpledge' and other liberties for £6,500.28 During the autumn he fought a duel with another follower of Buckingham, Sackville Crowe*, but again escaped serious consequences Graham took the credit for persuading Lord Robartes to buy a peerage for £3,000 in 1625, and Edward Clarke* heard that he had been rewarded with a suit valued at £500 a year.
He m 1624 Catherine daughter of Thomas Musgrove 1600 of 1600 of Cumcatch Manor, Brampton, Cumberland & Susanna Thwaites
Children
1. George 2nd Bart c1624-58 married Mary daughter of James Johnstone 1st Earl of Hartfell and 1st wife Margaret daughter of William Douglas, 1st Earl of Queensberry & Isabel Kerr
2. Richard 1635 - 1711 was made a baronet in 1662 for services to the royal cause in the Civil War . He m Elizabeth daughter of Chichester Fortescue & Elizabeth Slingsby
Elizabeth was the grand-daughter of William Slingsby www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/6123004013/ and had a son Reginald 1728 who married Frances Bellingham
3. Mary m Edward 1st baron Musgrave 1673 of Hayton Castle, Cumberland
4. Elizabeth m (1st wife) Sir Cuthbert Heron of Chipchase Castle
5. Susanna
6. Henrietta Maria
Sir Richard was first elected MP for Carlisle, ten miles from his Cumbrian estate, in 1626, during the mayoralty of his kinsman Edward Aglionby*, who acted as returning officer. He left no trace on the records of the second Caroline Parliament, though he may have heard his transaction with Robartes mentioned in Sir John Eliot’s* report on 24 Mar. 1626 of the charges of corruption levelled against Buckingham. Graham attended his master on the expedition to the Ile de Ré in 1627, and with John Ashburnham* helped to rally a faltering regiment at the landing He was re-elected in 1628, but again went unnoticed in the parliamentary records. On 8 July he re-purchased Nicholl Forest and other ‘debatable lands’ formerly confiscated from his family, from the Cliffords at the favourable price of £7,050.33 After his Buckingham’s assassination he was granted a market and fair on his Cumberland estate, and rebuilt Kirkandrews church in 1637, though in a thoroughly shoddy manner.
Richard was created a baronet in 1629.
He fought on the side of Charles I at the Battle of Edgehill in 1642, where he was severely wounded and lived in the York garrison until 1 July when the city was relieved by Prince Rupert of the Rhine. However Rupert and Newcastle were defeated the next day at the decisive Battle of Marston Moor, where Richard suffered 26 wounds returning home on horseback more dead than alive .
Later taken prisoner while on his way from Oxford to Newark in November 1645, he promptly submitted to Parliament and was thus able to compound for his delinquency at a favourable rate, paying £2,385 on an estate of just under £1,250 a year.
Sir Richard made his will on 26 March 1653, leaving a portion of £1,500 for his only unmarried daughter , named after the queen, Henrietta Maria, and an annuity of £20 for a cousin at whose house in Newmarket he died on 28th January 1654 and was buried here at Wath.
His Cumberland property had been settled on his elder son George who died before the 1660 Restoration of King Charles ll , however his grandson Sir Richard Grahame reeped the rewards for their loyalty to the Crown, and was given a Scottish peerage and represented the county under James II.
His younger son Richard founded another branch of the family at Norton Conyers where they still live . He was created 1st Baronet Graham of Norton Conyers for his loyal services in the Civil War,
(The descendants of George & William seem to have intermarried in the 17c & 18c www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/88Rn92 )
Monument repaired by Sir Bellingham Graham Bart 1783 "
A brass inscription placed on the wall underneath, is said by Longstaffe to refer to Katherine - "..Enobled virtue lyes within this tombe, whose life & death inferiour was to none. Her soules in heaven, this tombe is but a tent. Her endless worth is her owne monument" www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/877569
www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1604-1629/member/graham-richard... www.geni.com/people/Sir-Richard-Graham-of-Esk-1st-Baronet...
- Church of St Mary, Wath, Yorkshire
Heraldry detail: Alabaster & marble wall monument which has not fared well over time:
"Here lies buried the most virtuous Lady Catherine Graham wife of Sir Richard Graham of Netherby in the county of Cumberland, knight and Bart, daughter of Thomas Musgrove of Cumcach Esq and Susanna his wife. Well beloved in her country as being a very hospitable and charitable matron, she died March 1649 in the 48th year of her age leaving behind her 2 sons and 4 daughters namely George, Richard, Mary, Elizabeth, Susanna and Henrietta Maria."
Richard, bc.1583 was the 2nd son of Fergus Graham 1625 of Plump, Kirkandrews-upon-Esk and Sybil daughter of William Bell of Scotsbrig, Middlebie, Dumfries & Brockethouse by Elizabeth Bowmont
He was knighted on 9th January 1629 and created a baronet on 29th March 1629
He was groom to George, 1st Marquess (later Duke) of Buckingham by 1617, gentleman of the horse 1619-28;8 joint. clerk of customs bills 1619-21;9 equerry, King’s Stables 1629-?44; master of the harriers 1644- Member, Council in the North 1629-41 .......
Sir Richard came from one of the more obscure branches of a border clan, notorious for its participation in violent raiding, that settled at Plump by the middle of the sixteenth century His elder brother was deported to the Low Countries after a particularly audacious week of pillage in 1603, and his ‘debatable lands’ were granted to George Clifford, 3rd earl of Cumberland. Sir Richard himself ‘came on foot to London and got entertained into ... Buckingham’s service, having some spark of wit, and skill in moss-trooping and horse-coursing’. Despite a temporary loss of office in 1620 after a duel with his employer’s kinsman, a younger son of Basil Feilding*, he was able to lay out £3,955 on the purchase of property in Lincolnshire in 1621-2. As a part-time resident in Cumberland, he endeavoured to reform vice there by building a church and educating the young Appointed customer of Carlisle in 1623, he was granted permission to execute the office by deputy on account of his attendance at Court. In the same year, with Sir Francis Cottington* and Endymion Porter†, he accompanied Buckingham and Prince Charles on their ill-fated journey to Spain to woo the Infanta.
In 1624 the year of his marriage, Richard bought Norton Conyers from his wife’s father (whose own father had purchased it from the Crown in 1593 ) with 'all messuages, granges, mills, lands, tenements, tithes, waters, warrens, leet lawdays, views of frankpledge' and other liberties for £6,500.28 During the autumn he fought a duel with another follower of Buckingham, Sackville Crowe*, but again escaped serious consequences Graham took the credit for persuading Lord Robartes to buy a peerage for £3,000 in 1625, and Edward Clarke* heard that he had been rewarded with a suit valued at £500 a year.
He m 1624 Catherine daughter of Thomas Musgrove 1600 of 1600 of Cumcatch Manor, Brampton, Cumberland & Susanna Thwaites
Children
1. George 2nd Bart c1624-58 married Mary daughter of James Johnstone 1st Earl of Hartfell and 1st wife Margaret daughter of William Douglas, 1st Earl of Queensberry & Isabel Kerr
2. Richard 1635 - 1711 was made a baronet in 1662 for services to the royal cause in the Civil War . He m Elizabeth daughter of Chichester Fortescue & Elizabeth Slingsby
Elizabeth was the grand-daughter of William Slingsby www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/6123004013/ and had a son Reginald 1728 who married Frances Bellingham
3. Mary m Edward 1st baron Musgrave 1673 of Hayton Castle, Cumberland
4. Elizabeth m (1st wife) Sir Cuthbert Heron of Chipchase Castle
5. Susanna
6. Henrietta Maria
Sir Richard was first elected MP for Carlisle, ten miles from his Cumbrian estate, in 1626, during the mayoralty of his kinsman Edward Aglionby*, who acted as returning officer. He left no trace on the records of the second Caroline Parliament, though he may have heard his transaction with Robartes mentioned in Sir John Eliot’s* report on 24 Mar. 1626 of the charges of corruption levelled against Buckingham. Graham attended his master on the expedition to the Ile de Ré in 1627, and with John Ashburnham* helped to rally a faltering regiment at the landing He was re-elected in 1628, but again went unnoticed in the parliamentary records. On 8 July he re-purchased Nicholl Forest and other ‘debatable lands’ formerly confiscated from his family, from the Cliffords at the favourable price of £7,050.33 After his Buckingham’s assassination he was granted a market and fair on his Cumberland estate, and rebuilt Kirkandrews church in 1637, though in a thoroughly shoddy manner.
Richard was created a baronet in 1629.
He fought on the side of Charles I at the Battle of Edgehill in 1642, where he was severely wounded and lived in the York garrison until 1 July when the city was relieved by Prince Rupert of the Rhine. However Rupert and Newcastle were defeated the next day at the decisive Battle of Marston Moor, where Richard suffered 26 wounds returning home on horseback more dead than alive .
Later taken prisoner while on his way from Oxford to Newark in November 1645, he promptly submitted to Parliament and was thus able to compound for his delinquency at a favourable rate, paying £2,385 on an estate of just under £1,250 a year.
Sir Richard made his will on 26 March 1653, leaving a portion of £1,500 for his only unmarried daughter , named after the queen, Henrietta Maria, and an annuity of £20 for a cousin at whose house in Newmarket he died on 28th January 1654 and was buried here at Wath.
His Cumberland property had been settled on his elder son George who died before the 1660 Restoration of King Charles ll , however his grandson Sir Richard Grahame reeped the rewards for their loyalty to the Crown, and was given a Scottish peerage and represented the county under James II.
His younger son Richard founded another branch of the family at Norton Conyers where they still live . He was created 1st Baronet Graham of Norton Conyers for his loyal services in the Civil War,
(The descendants of George & William seem to have intermarried in the 17c & 18c www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/88Rn92 )
Monument repaired by Sir Bellingham Graham Bart 1783 "
A brass inscription placed on the wall underneath, is said by Longstaffe to refer to Katherine - "..Enobled virtue lyes within this tombe, whose life & death inferiour was to none. Her soules in heaven, this tombe is but a tent. Her endless worth is her owne monument" www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/877569
www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1604-1629/member/graham-richard... www.geni.com/people/Sir-Richard-Graham-of-Esk-1st-Baronet...
- Church of St Mary, Wath, Yorkshire
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Thatched cottage opposite the church in Dunkeswell Devon
Nick Chipchase CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4877973
Belsay Castle is a massive Border Tower originally surrounded by a Barmkin built in 1340. Whilst built for defence in what were the turbulent borderlands between England and Scotland it was intended to provide home comforts for Sir John Middleton who headed the Middleton family. The Tower saw little action; it's very size being something of a deterrent. The Tower is three storeys high although the south west corner is 2 storeys higher. There are machiolated turrets, a feature of some other borderland fortifications including Chipchase Castle and Greenknowe Tower. The Tower, typical of the Borders, included many features of those defensive structures. The Middleton family continued to live in the Tower. By the beginning of the 17th century the need for defensive structures had passed and in the early 17th century a new Jacobean wing was added to the Tower increasing the accommodation and the comforts. The Tower and Jacobean hall were supplemented by a plain Georgian extension in 1711. In 1817 the family left the resulting building in favour of Belsay Hall, which was built nearby in the Grecian Revival fashion, in 1817. The Estate Steward lived in the old building in the late 19th century and it was used by the Gamekeeper in the 1930s. In 1980 the Middletons moved to another property on the Estate and the tower was finally abandoned.
....and volunteer Roy.
A triple-expansion marine engine from the steam tug ‘Chipchase’
The tug was built in 1953 by Clelands (Successors) Ltd, Wallsend-on-Tyne, with engines by Plenty of Newbury. She was built for the Blyth Harbour Commissioners, and later passed to the Seaham Harbour Dock Co, County Durham. The vessel was acquired in 1984 for a project to establish a maritime museum at Maryport, West Cumberland, and taken over by the Town Council in 1986. The vessel was scrapped, but the engines were salvaged, and one set was purchased by the SMM for display in Clydebuilt at Braehead
Though of English make, this object is representative of the triple-expansion type of marine engine, developed to practicality on the Clyde in the 1870s and 80s.
This is important to the collection of marine engines in the SMM as an example of one of the most important types of engine. It also forms a group with part of the boiler front, a boiler feed pump, and a generating set, all from the same vessel, and all at kept together.
Formerly part of the exhibition at Braehead, now moved to Irvine..
Photography by Alan Kempster for SMM
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Hebburn is a town in the South Tyneside borough of Tyne and Wear, England. It was formerly in County Durham until 1974 with its own urban district from 1894 until 1974. It is on the south bank of the River Tyne between Gateshead and Jarrow and opposite Wallsend and Walker.
The population of Hebburn was 18,808 in 2001.
In Saxon times Hebburn was a small fishing hamlet upon the river Tyne. It is thought that the name Hebburn may be derived from the Old English terms, heah meaning "high", and byrgen meaning a "burial mound", though it could also mean the high place beside the water. The first record of Hebburn mentions a settlement of fishermen's huts in the 8th century, which were burned by the Vikings.
In the 14th century, the landscape was dominated by a peel tower. A 4-foot-6-inch-tall (137-centimetre) wall, a portion of which still remains at St. John's Church, could also be seen. The Lordship of the Manor of Hebburn passed through the hands of a number of families during the Middle Ages, including the Hodgsons of Hebburn (James 1974, Hodgson).
In the early 1600s, the wealthy Newcastle family, the Ellisons, acquired the land of Hebburn. Coal was mined at Hebburn as early as the 17th century. In 1792 the Ellisons received royalties from coal mining expansion when Hebburn Colliery opened. The colliery eventually operated three pits. In 1786 the Ellisons’ Hebburn estate also made income from dumping ships ballast at Hebburn Quay. By the 1800s the Ellison family had expanded Hebburn Manor into their Hebburn Hall estate. Hebburn Colliery played an important role in the investigations into the development of mine safety, following the mining disaster at Felling Colliery in 1812.
Humphry Davy stayed with Cuthbert Ellison at Hebburn Hall in 1815 and took samples of the explosive methane 'fire damp' gas from the Hebburn mine which were taken to London in wine bottles for experiments into the development of a miners' safety lamp. Davy's lamps were tested in the Hebburn mine and remarkably the gauze that protected the naked flames could actually absorb the fire damp so that the lamps could shine more effectively.
In 1853, Andrew Leslie arrived from Aberdeen, Scotland. He expanded the Ellison estate, further, with shipbuilding,[4] and in 200 years of industrialisation, Hebburn grew into a modern town of 20,000 inhabitants. When the railways arrived in Hebburn in 1872, further growth took off in the Ellison estate, with the growth of the brick, metal and chemical industries.
Andrew Leslie's shipyard launched two hundred and fifty-five ships before 1885. In 1885 the shipyard merged with local locomotive builder W Hawthorne, and then changed its name to Hawthorn Leslie and Company, and grew even more.
Hebburn also hosted its own Highland Games, with the first one being held in 1883, which were usually held annually in July or August, spanning over three decades and with professional sportsmen coming from Scotland and as far as Oban to compete.
In 1894, Hebburn was recognized as its own independent Urban District; it was no longer the private land of the Ellison family; and it also adopted the Ellison family crest as its coat of arms.
In 1901, Alphonse Reyrolle's, Reyrolle Electrical Switchgear Company opened. In 1932 Hebburn colliery closed. 200 miners were killed during the life of the colliery. The youngest were 10 years old. In 1936 Monkton Coke Works was built by the Government, in response to the Jarrow Hunger March in 1932.
In the Second World War, the Battle of Britain occurred in 1940, and Hitler had planned an amphibious attack that was predicated on defeating the RAF in the battle. Hitler's planned first wave of attack, in his Operation Sea Lion plan, was to try and capture Aberdeen and Newcastle. Hitler's Operation Sea Lion documents had detailed plans to capture the Reyrolle Electrical Switchgear Company.
Hawthorn Leslie built everything from liners to tankers. Many Royal Navy battleships were built at Hawthorn Leslie shipyard. In WWII the yard built 41 naval vessels and repaired another 120. 1n 1944, the yard also built D-day landing craft, including the Landing Craft Tank (LCT) 7074. In April 2020, the craft was housed in the D-Day Story museum. In 2020, the boat was only one of ten craft of its kind to survive postwar.
One ship built at the shipyard was HMS Kelly, launched in 1938 and commanded by Lord Louis Mountbatten. The ship, a K-Class destroyer, was commissioned just eleven days before WWII. The ship was hit three times. In December 1939, she was damaged by a German mine not far from the river Tyne. On 9 May 1940, she was torpedoed off Norway with the loss of 27 lives. Badly damaged, she crawled back to Hawthorn Leslie on a 92-hour journey to be repaired.[6] In 1941, HMS Kelly was sunk off Crete. One hundred and thirty men were killed in the disaster and they are remembered in memorials at Hebburn Cemetery, which were erected by surviving members of the crew and workers from Hawthorn Leslie. The ship's story forms the basis of the 1942 film In Which We Serve. The shipyard is now owned by A&P Group but lies vacant.
The Monkton Coke Works plant closed in 1990, and was demolished in 1992. The former British Short-Circuit Testing Station in Victoria Road West within the town, owned by A. Reyrolle & Company provided the backdrop for the Gary Numan video "Metal". The facility was demolished in 2011.
In 2012, the BBC commissioned a television series Hebburn to be set in the town. It was created and co-written by Jason Cook, who was raised in Hebburn. The first episode was broadcast on 18 October 2012.
4th Battalion the Parachute Regiment and 23 SAS Reserves have bases in Hebburn. The Air Cadets have a unit located at Hebburn TA Centre.
Hebburn has an ecology centre powered by wind turbines. It is the location of a shipyard, operated by A&P Group.
Hebburn has two secondary schools: St Joseph's Catholic Academy (formerly St Joseph's Comprehensive School) and Hebburn Comprehensive School.
Hebburn Town F.C., formed in 1912, and Hebburn Reyrolle F.C. are the town's local non-league football teams. Hebburn Argyle, which existed in the early 1900s, reformed several years ago as a youth club.
Athletics is also catered for at Monkton Stadium, home of Jarrow and Hebburn Athletic Club, where Brendan Foster, Steve Cram and David Sharpe are notable past runners.
A short lived greyhound racing track was opened in 1945. The plans to build the track were passed in September 1944 and it cost £30,000 to construct a venue that could accommodate 6,000 people. The racing was independent (not affiliated to the sports governing body the National Greyhound Racing Club) and was known as a flapping track, which was the nickname given to independent tracks. The track was trading in 1947 but it is not known when it closed.
Hebburn Metro station is a stop on the Tyne and Wear Metro. The Yellow line serves stations between South Shields, Newcastle Central, Whitley Bay and St James.
The nearest National Rail station is at Heworth, which is a stop on the Durham Coast Line between Newcastle, Sunderland, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough; services are operated by Northern Trains.
Bus services are provided predominantly by Stagecoach North East and Go North East; routes link the town to South Shields, Jarrow, Gateshead and Newcastle.
A mid-Tyne ferry service, which was owned by several shipyards, once operated between Hebburn, Walker and Wallsend; it last ran in 1986. One of the fleet, run by the Mid Tyne Ferry Co, was called the Tyne Queen; in 2020, she was named the Jacobite Queen and was still working on Loch Ness, Inverness, Scotland.
Notable people
Academia
Dominic Bruce, RAF officer and later a college principal who in WWII, escaped from Colditz Castle and Schloss Spangenberg
Arthur Holmes, geologist
John Miles (musician) Songwriter
Brian David Smith, academic researcher
John Steven Watson, English historian
Paul Younger, hydrogeologist and environmental engineer
Engineering
Andrew Leslie, shipbuilder
Entertainment
Jason Cook, comedian, writer of the BBC sitcom Hebburn
Robert Saint, composer, best known for his musical composition "Gresford", also known as "The Miners Hymn"
Frank Wappat, BBC Radio presenter and disc jockey, founder of Memory Lane magazine
Politics
Sir Fergus Montgomery, Conservative MP and Margaret Thatcher's Parliamentary Private Secretary (prior to her becoming Prime Minister)
Sport
George Armstrong, football player with Arsenal F.C.
Chris Basham, football player with Blackpool F.C., Bolton Wanderers F.C and Sheffield United F.C
Ian Chipchase, athlete and gold medalist at the 1974 Commonwealth Games
Josef Craig, British Paralympic swimmer, who won Gold at the 2012 Paralympic Games
Johnny Dixon, football player with Aston Villa F.C.
Jack English, football player
Carl Finnigan, football player with St Johnstone F.C, Falkirk F.C., South Shields F.C. and Newcastle United F.C
Brendan Foster, athlete and sports commentator
Wilfred Milne, football player
Chris Rigg, football player with Sunderland A.F.C.
Ray Wood, football player with Manchester United F.C.
Tyne and Wear is a ceremonial county in North East England. It borders Northumberland to the north and County Durham to the south, and the largest settlement is the city of Newcastle upon Tyne.
The county is largely urbanised. It had a population of 1.14 million in 2021. After Newcastle (300,125) the largest settlements are the city of Sunderland (170,134), Gateshead (120,046), and South Shields (75,337). Nearly all of the county's settlements belong to either the Tyneside or Wearside conurbations, the latter of which also extends into County Durham. Tyne and Wear contains five metropolitan boroughs: Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, North Tyneside and South Tyneside, and is covered by two combined authorities, North of Tyne and North East. The county was established in 1974 and was historically part of Northumberland and County Durham, with the River Tyne forming the border between the two.
The most notable geographic features of the county are the River Tyne and River Wear, after which it is named and along which its major settlements developed. The county is also notable for its coastline to the North Sea in the east, which is characterised by tall limestone cliffs and wide beaches.
In the late 600s and into the 700s Saint Bede lived as a monk at the monastery of St. Peter and of St. Paul writing histories of the Early Middle Ages including the Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
Roughly 150 years ago, in the village of Marsden in South Shields, Souter Lighthouse was built, the first electric structure of this type.
The Local Government Act 1888 constituted Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead and Sunderland as county boroughs (Newcastle had "county corporate" status as the "County and Town of Newcastle upon Tyne" since 1400). Tynemouth joined them in 1904. Between the county boroughs, various other settlements also formed part of the administrative counties of Durham and of Northumberland.
The need to reform local government on Tyneside was recognised by the government as early as 1935, when a Royal Commission to Investigate the Conditions of Local Government on Tyneside was appointed. The three commissioners were to examine the system of local government in the areas of local government north and south of the river Tyne from the sea to the boundary of the Rural District of Castle Ward and Hexham in the County of Northumberland and to the Western boundary of the County of Durham, to consider what changes, if any, should be made in the existing arrangements with a view to securing greater economy and efficiency, and to make recommendations.
The report of the Royal Commission, published in 1937, recommended the establishment of a Regional Council for Northumberland and Tyneside (to be called the "Northumberland Regional Council") to administer services that needed to be exercised over a wide area, with a second tier of smaller units for other local-government purposes. The second-tier units would form by amalgamating the various existing boroughs and districts. The county boroughs in the area would lose their status. Within this area, a single municipality would be formed covering the four county boroughs of Newcastle, Gateshead, Tynemouth, South Shields and other urban districts and boroughs.
A minority report proposed amalgamation of Newcastle, Gateshead, Wallsend, Jarrow, Felling, Gosforth, Hebburn and Newburn into a single "county borough of Newcastle-on-Tyneside". The 1937 proposals never came into operation: local authorities could not agree on a scheme and the legislation of the time did not allow central government to compel one.
Tyneside (excluding Sunderland) was a Special Review Area under the Local Government Act 1958. The Local Government Commission for England came back with a recommendation to create a new county of Tyneside based on the review area, divided into four separate boroughs. This was not implemented. The Redcliffe-Maud Report proposed a Tyneside unitary authority, again excluding Sunderland, which would have set up a separate East Durham unitary authority.
The White Paper that led to the Local Government Act 1972 proposed as "area 2" a metropolitan county including Newcastle and Sunderland, extending as far south down the coast as Seaham and Easington, and bordering "area 4" (which would become Tees Valley). The Bill as presented in November 1971 pruned back the southern edge of the area, and gave it the name "Tyneside". The name "Tyneside" proved controversial on Wearside, and a government amendment changed the name to "Tyne and Wear" at the request of Sunderland County Borough Council.
Tyne and Wear either has or closely borders two official Met Office stations, neither located in one of the major urban centres. The locations for those are in marine Tynemouth where Tyne meets the North Sea east of Newcastle and inland Durham in County Durham around 20 kilometres (12 mi) south-west of Sunderland. There are some clear differences between the stations temperature and precipitation patterns even though both have a cool-summer and mild-winter oceanic climate.
Tyne and Wear contains green belt interspersed throughout the county, mainly on the fringes of the Tyneside/Wearside conurbation. There is also an inter-urban line of belt helping to keep the districts of South Tyneside, Gateshead, and Sunderland separated. It was first drawn up from the 1950s. All the county's districts contain some portion of belt.
Although Tyne and Wear County Council was abolished in 1986, several joint bodies exist to run certain services on a county-wide basis. Most notable is the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Authority, which co-ordinates transport policy. Through its passenger transport executive, known as Nexus, it owns and operates the Tyne and Wear Metro light rail system, and the Shields ferry service and the Tyne Tunnel, linking communities on either side of the River Tyne. Also through Nexus, the authority subsidises socially necessary transport services (including taxis) and operates a concessionary fares scheme for the elderly and disabled. Nexus has been an executive body of the North East Joint Transport Committee since November 2018.
Other joint bodies include the Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service and Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, which was created from the merger of the Tyne and Wear Archives Service and Tyne and Wear Museums. These joint bodies are administered by representatives of all five of the constituent councils. In addition the Northumbria Police force covers Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.
There have been occasional calls for Tyne and Wear to be abolished and the traditional border between Northumberland and County Durham to be restored.
Tyne and Wear is divided into 12 Parliamentary constituencies. Historically, the area has been a Labour stronghold; South Shields is the only Parliamentary constituency that has never returned a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons since the Reform Act of 1832.
Newcastle and Sunderland are known for declaring their election results early on election night. Therefore, they frequently give the first indication of nationwide trends. An example of this was at the 2016 European Union referendum. Newcastle was the first large city to declare, and 50.6% of voters voted to Remain; this proportion was far lower than predicted by experts. Sunderland declared soon after and gave a 62% vote to Leave, much higher than expected. These two results were seen as an early sign that the United Kingdom had voted to Leave.
Offshore Group Newcastle make oil platforms. Sage Group, who produce accounting software, are based at Hazlerigg at the northern end of the Newcastle bypass. Northern Rock, which became a bank in 1997 and was taken over by Virgin Money in November 2011, and the Newcastle Building Society are based in Gosforth. The Gosforth-based bakery Greggs now has over 1,500 shops. The Balliol Business Park in Longbenton contains Procter & Gamble research and global business centres and a tax credits call centre for HMRC, and is the former home of Findus UK. The Government National Insurance Contributions Office in Longbenton, demolished and replaced in 2000, had a 1 mile (1.6 km) long corridor.
Be-Ro and the Go-Ahead Group bus company are in central Newcastle. Nestlé use the former Rowntrees chocolate factory on the east of the A1. BAE Systems Land & Armaments in Scotswood, formerly Vickers-Armstrongs, is the main producer of British Army tanks such as the Challenger 2. A Rolls-Royce apprentice training site is next door.[18] Siemens Energy Service Fossil make steam turbines at the CA Parsons Works in South Heaton. Sir Charles Parsons invented the steam turbine in 1884, and developed an important local company. Domestos, a product whose main ingredient is sodium hypochlorite, was originated in Newcastle in 1929 by William Handley, and was distributed from the area for many years.
Clarke Chapman is next to the A167 in Gateshead. The MetroCentre, the largest shopping centre in Europe, is in Dunston. Scottish & Newcastle was the largest UK-owned brewery until it was bought by Heineken and Carlsberg in April 2008, and produced Newcastle Brown Ale at the Newcastle Federation Brewery in Dunston until production moved to Tadcaster in September 2010. At Team Valley are De La Rue, with their largest banknote printing facility, and Myson Radiators, the second largest in the UK market. Petards make surveillance equipment including ANPR cameras, and its Joyce-Loebl division makes electronic warfare systems and countermeasure dispensing systems such as the AN/ALE-47. Sevcon, an international company formed from a part of Smith Electric, is a world leader in electric vehicle controls. AEI Cables and Komatsu UK construction equipment at Birtley.
J. Barbour & Sons make outdoor clothing in Simonside, Jarrow. SAFT Batteries make primary lithium batteries on the Tyne in South Shields. Bellway plc houses is in Seaton Burn in North Tyneside. Cobalt Business Park, the largest office park in the UK, is at Wallsend, on the former site of Atmel, and is the home of North Tyneside Council. Swan Hunter until 2006 made ships in Wallsend, and still designs ships. Soil Machine Dynamics in Wallsend on the Tyne makes Remotely operated underwater vehicles, and its Ultra Trencher 1 is the world's largest submersible robot.
The car dealership Evans Halshaw is in Sunderland. The car factory owned by Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK between North Hylton and Washington is the largest in the UK. Grundfos, the world's leading pump manufacturer, builds pumps in Sunderland. Calsonic Kansei UK, formerly Magna, make automotive instrument panels and car trim at the Pennywell Industrial Estate. Gestamp UK make automotive components. Smith Electric Vehicles originated in Washington. The LG Electronics microwave oven factory opened in 1989, closed in May 2004, and later became the site of the Tanfield Group. Goodyear Dunlop had their only UK car tyre factory next to the Tanfield site until its 2006 closure. BAE Systems Global Combat Systems moved to a new £75 million factory at the former Goodyear site in 2011, where they make large calibre ammunition for tanks and artillery.
The government's child benefit office is in Washington. Liebherr build cranes next to the Wear at Deptford. The outdoor clothing company Berghaus is in Castletown. Vaux Breweries, who owned Swallow Hotels, closed in 1999. ScS Sofas are on Borough Road. There are many call centres in Sunderland, notably EDF Energy at the Doxford International Business Park, which is also the home of the headquarters of the large international transport company Arriva and Nike UK. Rolls-Royce planned to move their production of fan and turbine discs to BAE Systems' new site in 2016.
The tug was built in 1953 by Clelands (Successors) Ltd, Wallsend-on-Tyne, with engines by Plenty of Newbury. See www.flickr.com/photos/scottishmaritimemuseum/4989576815/
She was built for the Blyth Harbour Commissioners, and later passed to the Seaham Harbour Dock Co, County Durham. The vessel was acquired in 1984 for a project to establish a maritime museum at Maryport, West Cumberland, and taken over by the Town Council in 1986. The vessel was scrapped, but the engines were salvaged, and one set was purchased by the SMM for display in Clydebuilt at Braehead
Though of English make, this object is representative of the triple-expansion type of marine engine, developed to practicality on the Clyde in the 1870s and 80s.
This is important to the collection of marine engines in the SMM as an example of one of the most important types of engine. It also forms a group with part of the boiler front, a boiler feed pump, and a generating set, all from the same vessel, and all at kept together.
Formerly part of the exhibition at Braehead, in the process of being moved to Irvine.
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A triple-expansion marine engine from the steam tug ‘Chipchase’
The tug was built in 1953 by Clelands (Successors) Ltd, Wallsend-on-Tyne, with engines by Plenty of Newbury. She was built for the Blyth Harbour Commissioners, and later passed to the Seaham Harbour Dock Co, County Durham. The vessel was acquired in 1984 for a project to establish a maritime museum at Maryport, West Cumberland, and taken over by the Town Council in 1986. The vessel was scrapped, but the engines were salvaged, and one set was purchased by the SMM for display in Clydebuilt at Braehead
Though of English make, this object is representative of the triple-expansion type of marine engine, developed to practicality on the Clyde in the 1870s and 80s.
This is important to the collection of marine engines in the SMM as an example of one of the most important types of engine. It also forms a group with part of the boiler front, a boiler feed pump, and a generating set, all from the same vessel, and all at kept together.
Formerly part of the exhibition at Braehead, now moved to Irvine.
Photo by Alan Kempster for SMM
Looking east down he aisled nave, all built between 1865 and 1869 funded by the Miss Simcoe of Wolford Lodge who together with their mother the widow of John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, also erected the nearby Dunkeswell Abbey chapel.in 1842 . .
- Church of St Nicholas, Dunkeswell Devon
Nick Chipchase CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4877981
This message is posted in solidarity with our friends at Hackney Tree Nursery and Forest Garden:
The Hackney Community Tree Nursery and Forest Garden is currently under threat and we need your help. Please forward this email to relevant networks and if you have the time then please send a quick email to John Wade. See below.
For those of you who have not been there, the tree nursery is a wonderful resource run completely by volunteers.
I know that it is often a pain to find the time to write letters and emails but I am hoping that a few of you from this list might take a minute or two to write to John Wade. He's the council person making the decision on this. Even a couple of lines would be great. He is supposed to make a final decision this week and I think he is already rethinking.
Many thanks for any support you can muster and a reminder again that the Tree Nursery is a resource that many of you can/should use for skillshares and more.
In the spirit of 2010 campaigning I have just set a up a Facebook group page to help get the message out there and to keep people informed of upcoming events. Group name: 'Hackney Marshes User Group, Tree Nursery & Forest Garden'
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An urgent pleas for support from HMUG and Hackney Community Tree Nursery
and Forest Garden.
Please help to spread the word.
There is a very immediate threat to Hackney Community Tree Nursery and the Hackney Marshes User Group would like to call on your support to ensure that any loss of land does not happen. The site provides a valuable resource in terms of propagation and growing on of trees for planting out around the borough; food growing; and a relaxing haven. The tree nursery has also become an important educational site providing free training in food growing, woodland management and low impact living and sessions
attract people from all over London.
As far as the list of things we stand to lose if they have to be transplanted/moved;
1 Fig tree
1 Olive tree
2 Apricot trees
1 Almond tree
1 Walnut tree
3 Elder
2 Kiwi vines
2 Hops
5 Grape vines
2 Japanese quince and the woven fence that they are growing up
3 Raised beds that have got annual crops in
2 Holding areas for young trees that are being grown on
All this as well as having to move our office and all the raised beds and woven fencing that were built around it only last year as well as all the climbing plants that are now growing up and around it.
If you have the time please do read the background information below and if you agree with us that this threat to the Tree Nursery is unacceptable then please write an email or send a letter objecting to these plans a.s.a.p..
Send letters and emails supporting the Tree Nursery to the Hackney Gazette, your local councillors and most importantly:
Hackney's Director of Green Spaces:
John Wade
Maurice Bishop House,
17 Reading Lane,
London, E8 1HH;
and / or
email John.Wade@hackney.gov.uk) and a copy to HMUG at
many thanks from all at HMUG
This provides some background detail on the situation.
In early May 2009, HMUG was presented with plans for the South Marsh
Sports Hub development by Mick Beanse (Hackney 2012 Unit). The plans
included a new layout for the car park covering the area currently
occupied by East London Community Recycling Project (ELCRP) and we asked
what was happening to the composting facilities. We were told that this
must be a mistake and that ELCRP would not be affected. Annie Chipchase
(Chair HMUG) subsequently had a meeting with Mick Beanse on May 13th, at
which he again assured her that ELCRP would not be affected. Later plans
presented to us still showed their site subsumed by a car park. HMUG
contacted ELCRP to find out what they knew - which was nothing: no-one had
spoken to them! We told the council, and eventually it sunk in and was a
cause of major embarrassment.
This left the problem of relocating ELCRP so that the site redevelopment
could proceed. An initial suggestion was that of moving ELCRP into the
Park's depot and linking their compost bays with the Tree Nursery, so that
we had easy access to them. This appeared fine to us and we moved two
raised beds away from the fenceline to allow for this. Time passed with no
further developments, apart from rumours flying around.
HMUG attended a meeting called by John Wade (Head of Green Spaces) in
December 2009, to discuss another issue - and we were then presented with
a plan to take the northern part of the tree nursery to provide an access
road and turning circle for the public to collect compost. We objected to
this, and two of our members drew up alternative plans to accomodate the
composting facility within the depot with no loss of tree nursery land. We
were awaiting response to this when we received an email from John Wade,
saying he was 'minded' to go with the original proposal. We know that time
is tight on this (the Hub development, scheduled to commence in July last
year, started in January this year). Hence our letter to the Hackney
Gazette. On hearing of the Gazette's interest in the story, John Wade
called a hasty meeting on 17th Feb, where he presented us with hand-drawn
maps of their latest proposal. These paid no heed to our proposals and
still involved a loss, though smaller, of tree nursery land. The
discussion that followed showed that our alternative plans had not been
'understood'. John Wade said that there should be no loss of parking
spaces - which we had to point out that there would not be. So more time
has been wasted. As
it currently stands, the council has said it will reconsider HMUG's
proposals.
An added complication is new Environment Agency regulations coming into
force in April regarding composting facilities. Neither the council, nor
ELCRP, nor the EA are very clear about what these involve, and the
regulations will have a bearing on the design of the composting
facilities.
We will keep you posted. Thank you for your support.
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Hackney Community Tree Nursery and Edible Forest Garden is currently under
threat. Please check out the following website for more information:
www.clubplan.org/CMS/page.asp?org=2673&id=765 (catchy I know)
Come along and join us growing food and caring for young trees, and for a free programme of low impact living skill-shares.
We are open for our regular sessions on:
Tuesday's 12 noon - 3pm
Friday's 9am - 12 noon
First Saturday of every month Noon - 3 pm
We will be running two free apple tree grafting sessions 26th and 27th
Feb. Noon -3pm as well as another woodland management session on Sunday
Feb 28th.
For other skill-shares and news see:
www.hackneyenvironment.org.uk/TNFG
To be added to our email list and / or to get involved please contact:HMUG@km551818.demon.co.uk
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Jan Chipchase, Executive Creative Director of Global Insights, frog
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A triple-expansion marine engine from the steam tug ‘Chipchase’
The tug was built in 1953 by Clelands (Successors) Ltd, Wallsend-on-Tyne, with engines by Plenty of Newbury. She was built for the Blyth Harbour Commissioners, and later passed to the Seaham Harbour Dock Co, County Durham. The vessel was acquired in 1984 for a project to establish a maritime museum at Maryport, West Cumberland, and taken over by the Town Council in 1986. The vessel was scrapped, but the engines were salvaged, and one set was purchased by the SMM for display in Clydebuilt at Braehead
Though of English make, this object is representative of the triple-expansion type of marine engine, developed to practicality on the Clyde in the 1870s and 80s.
This is important to the collection of marine engines in the SMM as an example of one of the most important types of engine. It also forms a group with part of the boiler front, a boiler feed pump, and a generating set, all from the same vessel, and all at kept together.
Formerly part of the exhibition at Braehead, now moved to Irvine.
Photo by Alan Kempster for SMM
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Kate Aronowitz, Design Director, Facebook
Jan Chipchase, Executive Creative Director of Global Insights, frog
Krista Donaldson, CEO, D-Rev: Design Revolution
Mauro Porcini, Chief Design Officer, Pepsico
Moderator: Jessi Hempel, Fortune
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