KIRKLEATHAM – Annual Fair.

Accreditation the Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 23/06/1871.

KIRKLEATHAM ANNUAL FAIR.

            The annual fair, which has been celebrated for many years on Old Midsummer Day, is to take place on Saturday next (01/07), and according to custom, the Museum attached to the Hospital, in which is stored a large and interesting variety of natural and artificial curiosities, such as the hand of a mummy, the figure of St. George and the Dragon carved boxwood with a penknife by a English prisoner in one of the French dungeons during Napoleon’s wars, &C., will be available for public inspection.

 

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