Here are some notes on York Cathedral after the fire: RED LION HOTEL, REDCAR, 1840, Sept. 7.

" The following extracts are from letters written to his wife while on the above trip in Yorkshire and Cumberland: RED LION INN, REDCAR, 1841, Sept. 11.

he asked; 'do you mean Redcar?

CONTENTS CHAPTER I ACROSS THE MOORS FROM PICKERING TO WHITBY CHAPTER II ALONG THE ESK VALLEY CHAPTER III THE COAST FROM WHITBY TO REDCAR CHAPTER

CHAPTER III THE COAST FROM WHITBY TO REDCAR

But now that familiarity with these bridges, which are of the same pattern across every wooded ravine up the coast-line to Redcar, has blunted my impressions, I can think of the picturesqueness of East Row without remembering the railway.

Low alluvial cliffs take the place of the rocky precipices, and the coast becomes flatter and flatter as you approach Redcar and the marshy country at the mouth of the Tees.

In 1842 Redcar was a mere village, though more apparent on the map than Saltburn; but, like its neighbour, it has grown into a great watering-place, having developed two piers, a long esplanade other features, which I am glad to leave to those for whom they were made, and betake myself to the more romantic spots so plentiful in this broad county.

He was one of several children, most of whom died young; John, the eldest, who lived till he was twenty-three, and Margaret, who married a Redcar fisherman named James Fleck, being the only two that came to maturity.

Colman in his Random Recollections, writing of a visit he paid to Redcar about 1773, relates how a venerable old man was pointed out who: "only two or three years previously had learnt to read that he might gratify a parent's pride and love by perusing his son's first voyage round the world.

He claimed to have carved the inscription on the family tombstone in Great Ayton churchyard, and after spending the last years of his life under the roof of his son-in-law, James Fleck of Redcar, he died on 1st April 1778, aged eighty-four years.

His college vacations were spent either in London with college friends, or with a reading party under Wilkinson, the tutor, at Redcar.