George Raper News Today

In some circles in Yorkshire the Mighty Whites is a name more associated with affection for a football team but at Eastrington Show, one of the East Riding’s very few remaining agricultural shows, taking place once again on Saturday 17 June, the name could easily relate to the family that has been at the helm of the show’s cattle classes for many years.

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George Carter (1737-1795) Death of Captain Cook, 1781. The Pictures collection includes material in a wide variety of formats which document significant people, places and events in Australian history and society and to some extent, the activities of Australians overseas, especially in Antarctica and Papua New Guinea. Comprising photographs, prints, drawings, watercolours, cartoons, miniatures, paintings, architectural plans, objects and sculpture, the collection documents the lives of past and...

From the Darlington & Stockton Times of March 4, 1871 THE rector of Romaldkirk found himself catapulted into the national headlines for daring to stand-up to the silly, giggling extravagance of the “ton of daughters” he had had the misfortune to father. In a court case that could have come from the pages of Pride and Prejudice, the Reverend Henry Cleveland was in the dock, cast as the Mr Bennet character. The rector was refusing to pay a £155 bill to William Whiteley, founder of a fa...