100 years ago: Bunting and streamers for Thorp Perrow society wedding
LOOKING BACK Thorp Perrow, near Bedale, which was the scene of a great wedding between two of the North-East's leading shipping families 100 years ago this week From the Darlington & Stockton Times of June 25, 1921 A MARRIAGE made in shipping heaven was celebrated in Bedale 100 years ago when Margarita Gray, the fourth daughter of Sir William Cresswell Gray of Thorp Perrow, married Major William Ropner, of West Hartlepool. “The festivity of the occasion was advertised by the stream of motor cars and the display of bunting, flags and a line of streamers over the street, while there were ...
Source: darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk