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Welcome to Brompton - with Maps of Village and surrounding area

All Brompton Heritage Group(BHG)-including Events Programme

A Brief History of Brompton's Linen Industry

Brompton Heritage & Family History Day

*****LATEST NEWS & DETAILS OF NEW ITEMS ADDED *********

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

Article under construction

"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’

More stories of Brompton past by George Appleby

From Brompton to Australia - the Wilford Family in Australia

LORNA EMMERSON (nee FLETCHER) - My Brompton Days -

Links for Brompton Matters

Guestbook

Mail Form

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Farming pictures and stories

Looking north over Brompton from Bullamoor Lane

(Picture kindly contributed by Harry Cooke)

We aim to add a number of pages relating to Brompton's Farming history.
The Farming industry has for many years been an important part of Brompton's History and daily life. Unlike the Linen Industry which went into decline and is no longer, farming continues to thrive and is a major part of life in Brompton today.
If you have an article/image etc you would like to donate/publish, please get in touch. Thanks


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Ploughing Competition 6th December 1951

(Picture kindly contributed by Colin Narramore)
Brompton & Great Smeaton Ploughing Competition


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SALE OF SIX FARMS



(Picture kindly contributed by Colin Narramore)

Good prices at an auction at Northallerton

Messrs Geo,Tarn Bainbridge and son auctioneers,conducted a successful sale of farms,small holdings accommodation land and houses at Northallerton.
Six lots were disposed of for a total of £6,900.
The copyhold farm "Church House farm" Appleton Wiske (of about 32 acres,rental £79 per year), was sold for £1720 to Mr Trewhit;
a freehold small holding "Emerson House" Appleton Wiske (17 acres,rental £46) to Mr J W Haig, of Linthorpe, for £1,250;
the copyhold farm "Town End Farm" Brompton Northallerton (44 acres rental £80) to Mr George Corner,Cocklebury for £1,970.
"Pear Tree House" a copyhold small holding at Brompton (9 acres rental £34) was knocked down to the tenant, Mr Mark Wright for £750;
the freehold premises comprising dwelling -house,cottage and other buildings at Brompton village were sold for £610 to Mr Thomas Thwaites Brompton;
and Mr John Wroughton, Brompton,bought for £600 a freehold accommodation grass field of 4 acres at Brompton


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Farming Families - The Trewhitt family


This family portrait ( kindly contributed by Cathy Trewhitt) shows Cathy’s Gt Gt Uncle William Trewhitt who was born in Appleton Wiske in 1829. William is shown here outside Harrowgate House Farm Brompton with his wife Mary and some of their children. He farmed at Appleton Wiske and Welbury before moving to Harrowgate House.
The Trewhitt families still farm locally in the Brompton, Rounton and Appleton Wiske areas. If any of them are reading this, perhaps they might like to contribute some items to the website. Thanks

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William Trewhitt


This memorial ( also kindly contributed by Cathy Trewhitt) pays tribute to William Trewhitt who died in 1902 aged 73 years


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Trewhitt family at Shop End Brompton


This delightful picture ((again kindly contributed by Cathy Trewhitt) was taken at Shop End in Brompton. It shows one of the Trewhitt family with his horse and cart, it looks like the horse is about to share the apple core in Mr Trewhitt’s hand. It is likely, judging from the fact that the horse is "done up" and "decorated" to be an entry in the judging of best horse and cart at our annual Whitsuntide Carnival, Fair and Sports day which now takes place on the late Spring Bank holiday at the end of May each year. Cathy is not sure which member of the family it is? Perhaps you can help?
The Crown Inn is on the left with a group of “customers” outside and the Three Horse Shoes (unfortunately now closed with it’s future unsure –July 2008) is over the crossroads on the right. A car negotiates the crossroad which is a little quieter then than it is now, other than that, surprisingly little change.


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BERT LANGTHORNE'S MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD IN WW2

BERT LANGTHORNE'S MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD IN WW2
(story as told to the Brompton Heritage Group)

Bert was 6 years old at the beginning of the War and already attending Brompton Primary School. He lived on his parents’ farm on the edge of the village and walked to school along with other local children. One particular memory has stayed with Bert, though he didn’t realise its significance at the time. It must have been just before the war had started and as he walked along the lane he was eating a banana. It broke in half and the piece that fell to the ground was instantly covered in grit, so he kicked it away into the hedge side. Little did he know that it would be 6 years or more before he had the chance to eat another banana.

Bert has known the village to flood 6 times, the first occasion he can remember being in 1939. His grandfather lived in a house near where Orchard Grove is now and Bert vividly remembers how the water went into his granddad’s house through the front door and out through the back door. The house must have seemed like part of the beck.

When the War started, children who didn’t go home for lunch still took their own sandwiches, which they ate sitting on the heating pipes in school. Now though, along with their bit of food, they had something extra to carry each day – their gas masks. Before long, however, proper school lunches were provided for all the children, the food arriving in containers from kitchens in Northallerton. Parents paid 2 shillings a week or 5d a day (10p a week / 2p a day).

Bert remembers being able to look into the linen mill near the school when the mill doors were open. He could see the roaring furnaces which produced the steam power for the looms. Coal for the furnaces was brought into Brompton by train and the coal yards were adjacent to the railway line up Station Road. At midday, a very noisy hooter at the mill announced that it was time for the workers to knock off for lunch, and the children at school could see all the girls pouring out for their lunch-break.

On the farm there was no electricity or piped water until after the war. Lighting came from paraffin lamps, and the milking was done by hand. Milk was taken into Northallerton in churns in a trap pulled by a pony. As it went round the homes people came out with their jugs, and the milk was measured out with a metal measuring scoop attached to a long handle with a curved section on the end so that it could lodge safely on the edge of the churn. The health and hygiene people would never allow that today!

Living on a farm, the family was never short of food. They were allowed to kill 2 pigs a year, for which a licence was required, and there were always plenty of rabbits, pigeons and hares to put into a pie. Bert’s mother made butter and cheese, and there were plenty of eggs from the hens, the surplus of which could be sold locally. Bert’s mother used to take produce down to Northallerton on market days, and sell it on the same site where the Farmers’ Market is held today.

The need for the country to produce more food brought about changes in farming. Farmers were paid £3 for every acre of pasture which they ploughed up to use for growing wheat. The government dictated the amount. Livestock that went to the mart were graded, priced, then sold – there was no auction.

The most striking change, however, was in the introduction of tractors. Before this time, all the hauling was done by horses. Bert remembers his father getting a Fordson tractor, a basic machine which could only be used for pulling. Later the more sophisticated Ferguson was invented. This had hydraulics so that things could be lifted. Gradually horses were phased out, and fewer people were needed to work the farm. After the War, combine harvesters came in, along with other types of machinery, and a traditional way of life had been changed forever. Also, mains water was brought in to Brompton, and electricity arrived.

Though Brompton was in a very rural area and well away from the theatre of war and the bombing, there were many signs of military activity. The surrounding countryside was used for a number of air fields, not only Leeming, and consequently the drone of aircraft could frequently be heard – our own planes setting off and returning, and enemy aircraft heading for Teesside. There were 2 plane crashes near the village. One Sunday morning a Spitfire came down in flames just off the Stokesley Road, not far from Stone Cross, as villagers watched in horror. There is a stone monument to the pilot at the side of the road. Another of our planes, also on fire, came down at Lovesome Hill, just missing the chapel. Bert also remembers well the search light on one of his fields on the farm.

Another occasion sticks in his mind, when an army unit parked its lorries at the end of Scots Pit Lane and soldiers came to the farm to ask for food. There were about 15-20 men, so Bert’s mother set about frying eggs for them all, for which they paid with petrol, a precious commodity in those days as it was severely rationed.

When the bus loads of evacuees came into the village from Newcastle, Teesside, Hartlepool and Sunderland, Bert’s parents took in 2 girls, who were with them for a year to 18 months. Their mothers stayed with them until they were settled, then headed back home.

Bert’s father was an air raid warden, along with the other men who were in reserved occupations. Bert remembers 3 bombs coming down on Brompton Banks, landing in the fields, though one didn’t go off.

Bert’s most abiding memory is of one night in 1945 when the sky was filled with the throb of aircraft. For an hour, villagers stood and watched as plane upon plane passed overhead as far as the eye could see, each one pulling a glider. Then all was quiet. This sobering and impressive scene marked the beginning of the end of the War. D-Day was about to start.


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Welcome to Brompton - with Maps of Village and surrounding area |All Brompton Heritage Group(BHG)-including Events Programme |A Brief History of Brompton's Linen Industry |Brompton Heritage & Family History Day |*****LATEST NEWS & DETAILS OF NEW ITEMS ADDED ********* |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 |Article under construction |"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’ |More stories of Brompton past by George Appleby |From Brompton to Australia - the Wilford Family in Australia |LORNA EMMERSON (nee FLETCHER) - My Brompton Days - |Links for Brompton Matters |Guestbook |Mail Form