History
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John Hemingway (1795-1872) of Dewsbury and Menai
The story of John Hemingway of Dewsbury, WR Yorkshire, who was Master Mason on the stonework of the world famous Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait. John was a partner in Nowell, Hemingway and Pearson.
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Shoddy and Mungo
Description of the shoddy and mungo industries of West Yorkshire and the author's family connections to that process. The final post in a four section sequence about the wool industry of the West Riding.
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Medieval Archery
The origin of the Archer name and the the first known Archer family of Dewsbury.
