My friend Prudence Bebb, with whom I taught many years ago now, at Howden School, has recently published the latest in her acclaimed series of books on towns in Regency Yorkshire.
This volume, Regency Halifax, deals with the woollen town of Halifax in Regency times. It looks at the lives of the people from John Greenwood and Michael Pickles who were hanged for theft to the Rawson family who were eminent bankers. The Rawson family home and bank still exists in Halifax, now restored as Somerset House and available for weddings.
Prue has already written about Regency York, Poppleton, Harrogate, Scarborough, Whitby, Beverley and Bridlington. This latest addition to the series is beautifully produced and contains several colour pictures.
Those Rawsons were every where & I'm still trying to find out which branch was entitled to the arms. And did you know that a Rawson married into Amaziah Empson's family?
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