Captain’s wife launches screw steamer

From this newspaper 150 years ago - 

Ship launches. On Thursday week, an iron screw steamer was launched from the shipyard of Messrs Richardson, Duck and Co at South Stockton. Her principal dimensions are: Length overall 171ft; breadth 22ft 6in; depth of hold 11ft; tonnage, OM 408. She was christened "Marshland" by Mrs Hough, the wife of the future captain, and left the ways about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. This is the 100th vessel built by the above firm, besides 2 iron caissons for the Brazilian Government, several barges, and other work which has been sub-let. The "Marshland" is built on a peculiar model, the design of Captain E Hough, and is intended for the Antwerp and Goole trade; she is fitted with a pair of 45 horse direct acting engines by Messrs Fossick and Hackworth, of Stockton.

- On Thursday last, a fine barque was launched from the same yard. Her dimensions are as follows: Length overall 144ft; breadth 27ft; depth of hold, 16ft; tonnage, OM 441. She was named "Unicorn" by Mrs Horn, wife of the captain. She was built for the East India and London trade.

From this newspaper 100 years ago

From almost every part of the industrial regions of England, as well as from Ireland, come reports of strikes and strife in the labour world. Matters in Dublin seem to be going from bad to worse. The employers are unwavering in their determination to suppress "Larkinism,"

and thousands of men who have refused to resign membership of the Transport Workers' Union have this week been added to the numbers of those now walking the streets in idleness.

The employers still decline to meet the trade union delegates.

ANYONE FOR TONIC: From this newspaper 100 years ago

More seriousstill, the trouble spread on Monday to Liverpool, where the London and North Western railwaymen refused to handle Dublin traffic, and were suspended, with the result that others struck work, and nearly 2,000 men are idle, several goods stations having to be closed. The Manchester dockers' dispute is still unsettled; a number of engineers have been locked out at Blackburn; thousands of South Wales miners have refused to work because of the employment of a few non-unionists; and there are signs of unrest in many other directions. The strike of Sheffield moulders tends to spread; the strike of mohair and alpaca sorters in Bradford and Keighley, which has now lasted over twenty weeks, shows no sign of ending, and there are minor disputes on Tyneside.

From this newspaper 50 years ago

Bedale, the country market town at the gateway to the Yorkshire Dales, has a problem to resolve, and must do so in the near future if it is to make progress.

It is the seemingly perennial problem of the cobbled market which, it is generally accepted, must be improved.

The opportunity is there, and the time is ripe for the Bedale Rural Council or the Bedale Parish Council to acquire the market rights from the Lords of the Manor (Sir Henry Beresford-Pierse and Lady Beaumont) who are willing to sell. The North Riding Highways Committee is also in cooperative mood to work with the local authority on the joint problem of giving Bedale a 20th-century look, with improved highways and road verges.

ROOMS AVAILABLE: From this newspaper 150 years ago

Then the Highways committee asked the pertinent question: "Is there agreement in reconstructing the Market Place in modern materials, or is it considered that the cobbles should be retained?" Coun W G Fowler, elected to Bedale Rural Council three years ago after moving to Bedale from Northallerton where the cobblestones were done away with over a quarter of a century ago, maintained he was elected on a mandate for improving the market place with modern road surfacing. This was disputed by Coun Norman Atkinson.

Coun Atkinson said: "This has never been an election issue. Everybody wants the market putting right. I like the idea of re-setting of cobblestones in cement."