On the trail of yet more curious cowhouses in Northallerton
Travellers entering Northallerton from the north are currently greeted by a rough bit of boggy, scratty land with a collapsing cowhouse on it.
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How cowhouses were used to milk the vote in Northallerton | Darlington and Stockton Times
In the days when scorping and burking were well known political tactics, cowhouses were once used to milk votes in Northallerton.
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Why so many cow houses were built on land at Northallerton
The last of the Battie-Wrightson family’s land in the Northallerton area was auctioned 100 years ago this week in the Golden Lion Hotel. It…
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Could one man with a tureen sweep clean the rotten borough of Northallerton?
NORTHALLERTON was a “pocket borough”. It needed cleaning up. A new broom was required to sweep away centuries of rottenness and open the town up…
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Captain Boss: The new broom who was meant to sweep rotten Northallerton clean
How was it done? A splendid, 190-year-old silver tureen, one of the great treasures of the town, tells the story. The inscription on the tureen, which is topped by a hand clasping a key, says it was presented to Captain John George Boss by the friends of “reform and liberty of conscience”. The inscriptions says it was presented to him “as a token of esteem for his unwearied exertions in an arduous contest of six months, making every sacrifice even when visited with deep domestic affliction for the liberation of that borough which had been held in thraldom upwards of 60 years and...
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