Mary met Laurence Simpson (Laurie), of Eskdaleside Sleights and they were married at St Hilda’s RC Church in Whitby in 1947. After a short spell living in Sandsend they moved to Sleights. Three ...

FEATURES: The dating of Easter – what really happened at Whitby Disagreements about when to celebrate this most important of Christian feasts is nothing new. Until 1752, the Gregorian Calendar ...

Hilda Frisch, 92, of Northampton, passed away on Monday, March 31, 2025, at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg. She was the wife of the late Raymond Frisch, who passed away in 1977. Born February 13… ...

Whitby has a deep heritage which spans more than a thousand years that inspired Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula - here is its history ahead of the Yorkshire town’s annual event Whitby Steampunk ...

The calf, named Hilda, is part the Dumfries-based Langhill Herd, which has been a source of data for the UK dairy industry for more than half a century.

Hilda Klingaman Imhoff, a Friends School of Baltimore English teacher who staged its plays and musicals, died Dec. 17 at the Springwell Senior Living Community. The former Bolton Hill resident was … ...

Whitby Abbey. I often stay overnight at the Priory, and I always think of the people who have been up there before me, not just the Hilda’s and the Caedmons, but all who have peopled the place ...

The wisdom and prudence of this holy woman were held in such high esteem that even kings and bishops asked for her advice. Venerable Hilda took special care of the poor and the oppressed, for which ...

Today’s a good time to celebrate wise women. Happy St. Hilda’s Day! Hilda (614-680) was a great-niece of King Edwin of Northumbria, a medieval kingdom in what’s now northern England and ...

It was a feast day, and that meant a celebration, not with wine, since it was too far north for grapevines, and what wine the good Abbess Hilda kept was for the sacrament and for visitors. They’d be ...

St Hilda might turn in her grave if she saw the modern Yorkshire town she helped to put on the map in the 7th Century, but there is still enough light to inspire a pilgrimage. Pottering around the ...