Famous Names in North Country's History

Dick Turpin  -  Highwayman Executed in York City

Lord Armstrong – Victorian Engineer

Guy Fawkes  -  November 5th Gunpowder Plot & Treason

Somerville of Lariston  - Slew the 'Worme of Linton'

Captain James Cook  -  Teesside & Yorkshire Coast

Grace Darling  -  R.N.L.I. Heroine - Bamburgh

Lord Collingwood  -  Nelson's Second at Trafalgar

Stan Laurel  -  North Shields & Ulverston

Donald Campbell  -  Water Speed Record on Coniston

Alfred Wainwright  -  Cumbrian Walking Author

Emily Davidson  - Suffragette - Died under King's Horse

Tomlinson  -  16th Century Historian