http://yorkstories.co.uk A resident's record of York and its changes Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://yorkstories.co.uk/memorials/a-forgotten-tragedy-rigg-family-monument/#comment-649981 Mon, 28 Dec 2015 21:38:52 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/ten/?page_id=1139#comment-649981 Cheers Chris, I had a quick Google and found a poem by Montgomery written in York Castle, about a ‘water wagtail’ – which nicely fits with recent comments regarding the seasonal wagtail flocks in Parliament St. (Not sure what type of wagtail a water wagtail is, but water very much an issue too, of course, at present … and we like it here on York Stories when one story naturally leads into another, in this multi-layered, multi-storied place …)

]]> http://yorkstories.co.uk/memorials/a-forgotten-tragedy-rigg-family-monument/#comment-649806 Mon, 21 Dec 2015 00:11:33 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/ten/?page_id=1139#comment-649806 Lisa, did you know that Montgomery spent some time (IIRC, 2 years) imprisoned in York Castle for publishing an unstamped newspaper around 1799? There’s info on him in there. After he got out, he went back to editing the ‘Sheffield Iris’ up to about 1820. He could write.

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