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WHERE DID APPLEBY GET ITS WATER?
Posted 15th August 2018 by Maggie Clowes
Applebians didn't start paying water rates until 1963 because the waterworks set up in 1874 were so efficient and economical to run. But if you'd been around in 1874 you might well have wondered whether the town would ever get an effective supply of water. Applebians didn't start paying water rates until 1963 because the waterworks set up in 1874 were so efficient and econ…
AN UNPUBLISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Posted 14th January 2018 by Maggie Clowes
Fancy letting your son go and watch the drunken gypsies being collected from the town pubs during Fair Week. And who was this irresponsible father? None there than John Rigg, fire chief for many years and mayor on several occasions. Information arrives unexpectedly. Clearing out her attic a lady from Nottingham came across the account her god-father had written of his earl…
THE MESMERISING VICAR
Posted 31st October 2017 by Maggie Clowes
THERE CAN HAVE BEEN FEW DULL MOMENTS IN APPLEBY AFTER THE ARRIVAL OF THE REVEREND ALBERT WARREN AS VICAR OF ST MICHAEL’S, BONGATE. There can have been few dull moments in Appleby after the arrival of the Reverend Albert Warren as vicar of St Michael's Bongate. He hit the local headlines with a no holds barred correspondence about the use of mesmerism as a cure, he organis…
THE APPLEBY LEGION
Posted 22nd October 2017 by Maggie Clowes
The Royal British Legion hasn’t always been around. A British Legion was formed in 1921 and didn’t become “Royal” until 1971. Find out about its beginnings in Appleby. In 1916 a national group calling itself the Federation of Discharged and Demobilized Sailors and Soldiers was set up to protect their interests. Penrith had already formed a branch when a meeting wa…
WILBERFORCE
Posted 22nd October 2017 by Maggie Clowes
Why was this little boy who died in Appleby given the name of the great reformer of the slave trade? His memorial stone in the porch of St Lawrence church tells us that he only lived for a week. He died in 1838, the son of the Vicar of St Lawrence, and his wife, Mary, a Milner before she married having been taken in as an orphan by her great-uncle, Isaac Milner. He was among…
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