History & Heritage People
THOMAS Elliot Harrison was born in London in 1808 and grew up in Monkwearmouth, Sunderland.
Harrison was apprenticed as an engineer and surveyor in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he met the great railway engineers George Stephenson and his son Robert Stephenson.
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DURHAM County Local History Society was formed in 1964 to encourage and promote interest in the study of the history of Durham County.
County Durham played a major part in the economic and industrial growth of the country, and the Society's work highlights that contribution to the industrial, social, religious and political development of Britain.
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