Records Of The Family Of Pennyman Of Ormesby

Author : James Worsley Pennyman
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333231422
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Records of the Family of Pennyman of Ormesby (Classic Reprint) written by James Worsley Pennyman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Records of the Family of Pennyman of Ormesby At the beginning of the last century the neighbourhood was solely agricultural. The estate reached to the river Tees, a few miles from its mouth, and one of the farm-tenants had to pay, in the days when rents were paid partly in kind, two salmon fishes to his landlord. Four miles from Ormesby there was, according to Graves' History of Cleve land, published in 1808, a township or chapelry of Middlesbrough, which consists only of four farm houses. Now the iron trade has come. Middlesbrough is its capital, and has a population fast getting on for many of the villages in the district have become towns; the river is murky with smoke and resounds to the c'lang of machinery for miles of its course. Yet the little village of Ormesby has hardly changed. It still nestles among its trees, a pretty, peaceful spot for the busy worker from grimy Middlesbrough to cycle through on a summer's evening. Indeed if it were not for these cyclists and other traffic passing through the village, one might well fancy oneself in the depths of rural England. \yithin an afternoon's walk are the Cleveland hills, rising to heights of as much as feet. From some of their summits there are views of unusual diversity, stretching over other hills, over the sea, which is but eight miles from Ormesby, over the course of the Tees fringed with chimneys and furnaces, and over miles of level plain to the west. Ormesby Hall is a curiously built house. The older part, date un known, is a square two-storied building, with a court-yard in the middle. This now contains the servants' offices, and one can easily see that they were built for the living rooms of the family thus the kitchen measures 28 ft. By 20 ft. By 20 ft. The newer part, built by Dorothy, daughter and co-heiress of \villiam \vake, Archbishop of Canterbury, (it is said to have been begun by her husband, who died in 1743, and to have been finished after her death in is like the older, built of yellow sand stone, and is a solid square three-storied block, ugly from the outside, but most comfortable to live in, with many of the rooms panelled and with mouldings and decorations of a style that it is now difficult to obtain. This part contains the living rooms and bedrooms for the family and their guests. The whole house contains between fifty and sixty-rooms. The two parts of it are placed corner to corner; many years ago there was no in-door communication between them the food was all cooked in one part, and brought out of doors through the open-air to the other. This must have been delightful ou snowy evenings. Now there are passages through, on both first and second floors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.