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John Askew, the Stanhope violin maker, 1914
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1Chapter III.
3THE COMING VIOLIN MAKER.
5It was only in his younger days that John Askew was associated with the Grey Bull Inn. The landlord of this Public House was his half-brother George, and after George's death it was kept by his widow. The coming fiddle maker lived in a house at Butts Head in the Market Place, and then at Albert Cottage at the east end of the town, then at Bond Isle Terrace and at High Street, Bainbridge's Building, and lastly to the house opposite the Queen's Head Inn, now occupied by Mr. Indian, shoemaker, who served his time with our violin maker.
7The principal associates of Askew during his early studies of the violin, were James Benson, John Maddison, John Hogarth, Thomas and Ralph Walton and other bandsmen, and the band instructor the late R. DeLacy, then of Sunderland, afterwards of London, and the late Thomas Wood, Military Instrument maker of Newcastle-on-Tyne. James Benson, schoolmaster was his greatest local friend. He was the older man by a few
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