Tag: Thomas Thrush

  • The courage of Thomas Thrush

    The courage of Thomas Thrush

    Less than four miles from Kilburn, my brother’s home in north Yorkshire till his death last November, is the village of Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe.  It sits at the foot of the steep escarpment known as Sutton Bank, on the main road between Thirsk and Scarborough.  Sutton was the home in the 1820s of a remarkable but little-known…