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John Askew, the Stanhope violin maker, 1914
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1Benson, is also said to have got pine wood from the Church at the restoration in 1867. Evidently Askew and he were laying it up for future use, as it does not appear that our future fiddle-maker had commenced the "dream of his life" at this date. In 1894 he informed the purchaser of one of the London prize violins that he had made a good many fiddles, but only 10 or 12 what he considered perfect ones.
3Askew was born in 1834, and probably left the Grey Bull Inn soon after he married, and came to live at the Butt's Head in the Market Place, then he came to Albert Cottage, then to Bond Isle Terrace, and then to the Bainbridge buildings in the main street opposite to east part of the Rectory buildings, and from here he came to live at the house and shop opposite the Queen's Head Inn and now occupied by Mr. Indian. Askew was at Albert Cottage in the main street at the east end of Stanhope from May 13th, 1871 to November 23rd, 1874, and during his residence here he made his first fiddle. Mr. C. F. Tinkler, who knew Askew well, informed the writer that he frequently visited his shoemaker's shop at Albert Cottage, and on one occasion
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