The BromptonMatters website was created originally to satisfy a need/requirement to make available images of maps, people, places, documents etc to/for/by Readers and List members of the Opc-NRY-Brompton-by-Northallerton Family History mailing list. This Group, known as "the List", which was started and administered/moderated by Richard Thomson, was very successful and extremely busy, very much thanks to Richard's hard work, enthusiasm, knowledge and ability to engage with more than 125 list members. It ran very successfully from 2003 until 2007 when it ceased to operate because of technical problems related to Spam.

In May 2007 the Brompton Heritage Group came on board the BromptonMatters website, with the aim of assembling a number of items of information relating to Local Village Heritage & History.

This site has developed into a very useful aid for anyone interested in the Local History of Brompton and it has now become quite an extensive record of Village life.

The site continued to be an aid to anyone researching their Family History however although the website has had a message board,a guest book and a page for listing Searches for Ancestors, it has in no way been a substitute for exchanging information as can be done on an active Forum.

Now that the new "British Genealogy - Brompton by Northallerton" Forum is up and running again, it is anticipated that the Website and the Forum will run in parallel as an aid to research relating to all aspects of Village History, the Forum being the place to be for Family History research.

The website is split into various sections and "stories", one of the aims of the BHG was to record villager's stories of life in years gone by. There are lots of images which have been passed to us for posting on the site and it is very much a site for people to contribute memories or documents or photographs. For example, the People and Places section has more than 50 images and if printed out would take up about 39 pages of A4 text. There is a lot to read so sit back and enjoy!
There is a Guest Book where you may make entries but please make sure you put some contact details if you want readers to reply to you (Guest Book etc has a slightly complicated registration system - please be patient with it..........."Lizzie Hall" the administrator will send you an email which confuses most people).
Please make an entry in the Guest Book to let us know what you think or there is a Private Mailing form where you can ask questions, offers articles for publication or indeed to complain about something you don't like if you would like to do this privately.

You can be sure that we welcome any comments however please be patient when contacting us, we are a very small organisation and do not have unlimited manpower (Human Resources!!)
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Brompton Matters