by Lisa Johnstone | Apr 9, 2021 | Events
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by Lisa Johnstone | Apr 9, 2021 | Events 2025
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by Lisa Johnstone | Mar 25, 2021 | People Of The S&DR
Thomas MacNay was the S&DR’s secretary 1849-69 and company director of South Durham Ironworks on the Blackwell Estate along with H. Pease, J. B .Pease, and A. Kitching. (see Holmes 1975, 64) However, his career with the S&DR started with a more humble...
by Lisa Johnstone | Mar 25, 2021 | People Of The S&DR
THIS ARTICLE was originally published in The Globe, December 2020. It is about George Stephenson of the Stockton and Darlington Railway – but not the man you first think of. This George was also a Northumbrian who rose from humble rural beginnings and was...
by Lisa Johnstone | Mar 25, 2021 | People Of The S&DR
THIS IS THE STORY of a man who worked on the Stockton and Darlington Railway during its first decade and a half of operation. He was not an investor, an engineer or a bridge-designer, but nor was he one of the labouring masses. Percival Tully was his name, and his...
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