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Thorp Perrow, near Bedale, which was the scene of a great wedding between two of the North-East s leading shipping families 100 years ago this week
From the Darlington & Stockton Times of June 25, 1921 A MARRIAGE made in shipping heaven was celebrated in Bedale 100 years ago when Margarita Gray, the fourth daughter of Sir William Cresswell Gray of Thorp Perrow, married Major William Ropner, of West Hartlepool. “The festivity of the occasion was advertised by the stream of motor cars and the display of bunting, flags and a line of streamers over the street, while there were streamers over the gateway of Thorp Perrow Park and about the hall,” said the D&S Times.
WE VE been on a flight of fancy chronicling the area s dovecotes recently, and now, thanks to Ian Hillary, from Hurworth, we re able to link the wife who survived Henry VIII with a North Yorkshire pigeon pie. Now lockdown has eased, Ian has been out into North Yorkshire to check on some dovecotes which we haven’t yet mentioned in our tour of these curious structures. Dovecotes, of course, were important in the days before refrigerators as they proved a fresh source of eggs and meat. They became fashionable accessories to a country estate around 1700, although the older, more rustic, Durham ones are centuries older than that. Most of the building of dovecotes in our area was done by 1800.