Helmington Hall

Submitted by alkirtley on Fri, 11/22/2019 - 14:38
Helmington Hall
Helmington Hall

Situated on the outskirts of Hunwick, near Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham, it was described by Brigadier General H. Conyers Surtees in his “Parish Histories” 1923 [i] as follows:

Sockburn Hall

Submitted by alkirtley on Fri, 11/22/2019 - 14:09
Sockburn Hall
Sockburn Hall

Situated in a beautiful location on the north side of a loop of the River Tees, near Darlington, Sockburn Hall has extensive grounds in which part of a pre-Norman Chapel still stands.

The new way of courting connected with Bretton Hall by Jimmy Mann

Submitted by alkirtley on Fri, 11/22/2019 - 14:02

At Bretton Hall near Wakefield, known so well,
Sir William Wentworth Blackett did once dwell:
That mansion was his home; there with his bride,
In pomp and splendour, he once did reside
Yet, in the midst of all that he possessed,
A rambling mind disturbed Sir William’s breast;
His lady and his home he left behind,
Says he, “The end of this wide world I’ll find;
The Earth’s extensive, but you may depend on’t,
Before ere I return I’ll find the end on’t.”
So he embarked on board a ship, we find,