CAPTAIN COOK.
SITE OF BIRTHPLACE. GIFT TO NATIVE TOWN. [FROM oun OWN CORRESPONDENT.] LONDON, May 30. There was a public ceremony at Middlesbrough on May 23 to mark the opening of the Stewart Park, Marton, a grass and woodland Yorkshire beauty spot, given to the town by Mr. Thomas D. Stewart, an ox-Mayor, and Mrs. Stewart. On this estato "'as the cottage in which Captain Cook was born.
Tho new park, of over 100 acres, surrounds Marton Hall, onco the residence of tho late Mr. H. W- F. Bolckow, who was tho first Mayor and first member of Parliament for the town. Tho hall is includod in the deed of gift. Another interesting possession which will now be tho town's is a handsome granite vaso in tho now park grounds, making the spot where tho famous explorer was born. Unfortunately, tho cottage was not preserved, or it would have been the central shrine in a series of pilgrimages which aro being arranged in tho Cleveland district for the bicentenary celebrations of Cook's birth next October.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19991, 6 July 1928, Page 11
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