PENELOPE HEMINGWAY
I made some databases, number crunching the known Dales knitters from the censuses 1841-61. And it’s been some time but our day out yesterday in rainy, beautiful Gayle and Hawes made me think that some of you, Dear Readers, might be interested to see this data …
“…These men have a decided provincial character; and their galloways also, which are always overloaded, have a manner of going peculiarly their own…”
From the Patients’ Disbursement Books, The Retreat, York. Ref: Ret 3/10/1/1 Judith Robertson 1799 10 Sept, 1799 Knitting needle 3d 1800 8 June Patent knitting needles 3d Pasteboard 4d – 7d 22 Sept shrowd – 7-/ 6d coffin 42 -/ (Pasteboard = cardboard, used to make bonnet brims). The casual – and all too […]
PENELOPE HEMINGWAY 