Henry Heaviside – Stockton Printer, Poet,Musician, Historian.

George Markham Tweddell about Henry Heavisides in The Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham in 1872 (extracted here). Out of the back of the old Stockton on Tees museum -now the TeesMusic Allience recording studios, is a replica of Henry Heaviside‘s print shop (formerly in nearby Finkle Street.). Steve Thompson took this photo of it and I wrote a short bio of Heavisides to go with it on Steve’s Community Media site (reproduced here).

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Photo by Steve Thompson

The following is a quote from Professor Malcolm Chase – Labour Movement Historian at Leeds University in his article Chartism, 1838 – 1858; Responses in Two Teesside Towns. (I came across this after the above article had been published on Steve’s site).

“Two key figures particularly stood out arming (the proletariat): Thomas Whalley, a potter and Henry Heavisides, a journeyman printer and leading Stockton radical. Both ‘strongly condemned the violent proceedings’ which Heavisides believed ‘retarded the progress of reform’ ‘Denounced as a traitor’ in consequence, Heaviside left the movement in which he played no further part.”

The following is a chapter on Henry Heavisides from George Markham Tweddell‘s The Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham 1872

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