Welcome to Brompton - with Maps of Village and surrounding area
Brompton Heritage Group (BHG)
A Brief History of Brompton's Linen Industry
2009 Brompton Heritage & Family History Day - Sat 14 March
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BROMPTON IN FLOOD - Pictures and stories
PEOPLE & PLACES IN DAYS GONE BY - Pictures & Stories
A WALK ROUND BROMPTON as it is now -- come & join us........
BROMPTON SCHOOLDAYS - Pictures & Stories
VERA BRITTAIN'S - My Brompton Days in pictures & words
DOREEN NEWCOMBE nee FORTH - My Brompton Days
John Wilford & Sons - Linen Manufacturers
Pattison-Yeoman, Linen Manufacturers-Old Pictures
FARMING around Brompton - People, Places & Stories
Northallerton & District Local History Society (N.D.L.H.S.)
WATER END UPSTREAM, DOWNSTREAM. By George Appleby
FOOTBALL IN BROMPTON - History and Pictures
ST THOMAS CHURCH APPEAL
"CLACKING SHUTTLES" & Florence Bone
LOOKING FOR ANCESTORS/FAMILY HISTORY/GENEALOGY
WHITSUNTIDE CARNIVAL & SPORTS- pictures
"My Family Life in Brompton" by Betty Dobson (Baines)
The Boon Family story - Fred and Desmond (Dizzy) Boon
The Chartists of Brompton - from a talk by Harry Fairburn
EVACUATION TO BROMPTON - WW2 - Sunderland Bede Collegiate Boys’
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The WILFORD family
This section is still under construction but in the meantime here is a picture kindly contributed by Mary Nowe-Wilford from Belgium.
It shows a scene in Broadstairs in December 1914 when the family in Belgium were evacuated to safety in England when the Germans invaded Belgium. The little boy in the middle is an uncle of Mary - Louis De Smedt son of Jenny Wilford and Arthur De Smedt.
A number of the family came to Brompton during World War 1 staying at Mill Hill House, more details will be published in due course.
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Aerial View of Linen Mills looking NorthEast
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This view looking roughly NorthEast shows in the foreground the Pattison-Yeoman mill which is the present Linen Way housing estate.
This is separated by a long high brick wall from the Wilford mill which is at the other side of the beck. The winding line of trees shows the upstream view of the beck and the Wilford mill can be identified by the tall chimney which was demolished in Nov 2003.
At the top right corner is the old Windmill which has been recently restored (story being prepared now and coming soon).
Running from R to L just beyond Wilford's mill is Station Road and at the very bottom right can be seen the tower of St Thomas church and the north side of Church View running across the bottom right hand corner.
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Aerial View of Linen Mills looking West
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This view has the Wilford mill in the foreground and the Pattison-Yeoman mill beyond the wall.
The railway can be clearly seen and the area between the Wilford mill and the railway had sidings originally, for loading and unloading coal, flax and finished linen. The coal yard is still working but the coal is now delivered by road.
The "field" beyond the mills this side of the railway is now housing.
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