Another Memories story which is running well concerns Enid Steavenson, the wife of Dr Charles Steavenson. For the first 30 years of the 20th Century he - and I'm sure his wife helped, too - ran a sanatorium for TB sufferers in Middleton St George on the outskirts of Darlington. Goats were somehow implicated, as their milk was healthier than TB-infected cows'.
We're searching for her because her diary from August 1901 has just turned up in a saleroom. It covers her holiday, with her mother Lucy Ann Pease, among the Staithes artist colony on the Yorkshire coast.
Several readers have been in touch to mention one of Enid's daughters is still alive in the Lake District, and very soon I hope to have my hands on her phone number.
Just as interesting is the amount of Steavenson-related material is still around. I know that a couple of years ago I wrote some articles based on a box of photos that the village doctor, Dr Adrian Marshall, loaned me. His surgery is still in the Steavenson's Felix House - a name that comes, if I remember correctly, from Sir Felix Booth, the gin manufacturer who sponsored voyages to the Arctic.
I'm very intrigued to learn that a quantity of old documents and letters was retrieved from Felix House in the 1970s, and I'm hoping to get a look at them.
Tantalisingly, I'm told that Lucy's sister (that's Enid's aunt) "married Thomas Hanbury, a cloth merchant who made his fortune trading in China when very young and who retired to the Italian Riviera where he spent his fortune establishing one of the world’s renowned botanical gardens". Hanbury was a Quaker, so it seems very possible.
Finally, Anne Birtle from Middlesbrough emails that she has been assisting one of her relatives downsize, and this has enabled her to present Robin Steavenson's 1914 diary (Robin was Enid's son) to the Teesside Archive.
"It described the outbreak of war and the bombing of Hartlepool which was clearly heard in Middleton One Row, where they lived," she says. "The damage was a tourist attraction, the family taking a trip to see them."
The possibilities for follow-up articles are almost limitless. The trouble is finding the time to write them.
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