Friday, June 30, 2023
The Lewis Carroll Connection -- June 30, 2023 — The Blog Will Be Public For One Week
My goal this summer is to be in the library five days each week this summer. One can track the books that have caught my eye at this blog.
Today, while reading a biography of Lewis Carroll, I come to discover that in 1843, at the age of 11, his family to include 10 siblings, moved too Croft-on-Tees, north Yorkshire.
In fact, Croft-on-Tees is a one-hour drive north of Pateley Bridge. Our trips were mostly south and east of Pateley Bridge and so we missed that connection. Kind of sad in a way, but it would have laid another brick in our foundation which, as you noted, would have been troublesome at some point.
However, after his father gained a well-deserved promotion to Rector at that location, he was made residentiary canon of the ancient cathedral at Ripon, Yorkshire, and after that, he and his family spent time in Ripon as well as Croft.
Wow, we visited Ripon almost every weekend, on our way to somewhere else or to visit Ripon itself.