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Scan 129
John Askew, the Stanhope violin maker, 1914
21 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 99. See the scan on archive.org.
A town on its own line is one of the directory's headings. That is where the town on a maker's page comes from.
1John Askew—Violin Maker.
3Newcastle-on-Tyne Royal Mining Engineering and Industrial Exhibition (International and Colonial), Jubilee Year, 1887.
516, Market Street,
6Newcastle-on-Tyne,
715th August, 1888.
9Dear Sir,
11I beg to advise you that I have this day forwarded to your address, per parcels post, the Certificate which you were awarded in the Artisans' Section of the above Exhibition.
13I am, yours faithfully,
14N. Strzelecki,
15Acting Secretary.
17Mr. John Askew,
18Stanhope, Darlington.
20Our violin-maker used to send his violins to various places to get them tested. Evidently the late Mr. Joseph Roddam, Violinist, previously mentioned, had some of Askew's fiddles according to the following letter;—
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