Category Archives: Social

Beginnings and Development

(Copyright Coxhoe Local History Group) Authored by Barbara Leo in 2008 An 1857 map shows Cow Close (now known as Meadow Close) as a row of cottages with a large and some smaller buildings in a field behind.  The brickyard is dated from around 1856 and was owned by William Cowburn, it is listed inContinue reading “Cow Close. The early years.”

(Copyright Coxhoe Local History Group) In the early 1800’s there was no professional Police Force, but it was introduced in 1829 by Sir Robert Peel. The Metropolitan Police Act was passed and provided paid Constables, commonly known as ‘Peelers’ or ‘Bobbies’. The Coxhoe Policemen of 1871 were Sgt. John Mielin and PC Peter Bulson; inContinue reading “Coxhoe Crime”

(Copyright Coxhoe Local History Group) Evidence of an early cycle club was recorded in a Northern Echo article in 1896. The Coxhoe and District Primrose Cycling Club held their annual meeting at head-quarters in the Commercial Inn, Coxhoe with John Nevison presiding. They decided to hold an open run to Stockton on Good Friday andContinue reading “Coxhoe and District Primrose Cycling Club”

(Copyright Coxhoe Local History Group) A look back to a time when Cinema was in its hey day and Coxhoe could boast more than one picture house to visit. In March 1899, Captain Carl August Topp, a Dane by birth but a naturalised British subject was living in the Clarence Villa Hotel and tendering forContinue reading “Coxhoe’s Cinemas”