Jamie Murray
Jamie Murray
2023-01-28
Quality fast and reliable service with a cracking bunch of lads definitely recommended
Bill Mitchell
Bill Mitchell
2021-09-14
Contracted this company to clear the flat of my deceased mother. Two young guys cleared EVERYTHING out of the rented property, including furniture, carpets, ornaments, white goods and food/household products, politely, efficiently, and respectfully. Excellent service.
Charles winter
Charles winter
2021-05-21
The guys from Northern House Clearance have just cleared a house for me in Scotland. The house was packed not only with a lifetimes worth of memories, but all the clutter that goes with it. Within 2 days it was emptied down to the floorboards. A great job from a good team of lads. Highly recommended.
Graeme hatton
Graeme hatton
2021-02-24
An excellent 5 star service. Firstly the compassion shown due to the circumstances which resulted in having to use their services, not just on the phone but by the team who arrived, on time, to perform the job. Above all a friendly attitude goes a long way in stressful times. Professional from the start to the end of the day and due to the amount of clutter a second day was needed. I could not believe how much was cleared in just one day, it was as if the clutter had it's own clutter to clear. Hope that I never need to use them again, but if I have to clear another property they will be the only people that I call. Highly recommend them. G.Hatton. Cheshire.
Lorna Hamilton
Lorna Hamilton
2021-02-05
Fantastic service. Highly recommend. The team was so helpful.
Richard Foster
Richard Foster
2020-11-26
The guys from Northern house clearing cleared my deceased brothers house which was in a state. They were very discrete and great guys very understanding at such a sad time. Great job guys thank you.
Xiu Yun Chen
Xiu Yun Chen
2020-11-25
This is a good company would highly recommend these guys. Very efficent and helpful.
Laura
Laura
2020-11-05
Highly recommended. From my initial enquiry I found them to be efficient and professional and was given an immediate quote. On the day the guys arrived promptly and were friendly, helpful and thorough. I would not hesitate to use this company again and I would recommend to others. I felt in good hands and I, m very happy with the service I received.
Ruth Lawrence
Ruth Lawrence
2020-08-22
The team arrived bang on time and began work immediately. They continued for five solid days and completed the entire clearance of my late uncles house, which was a case of extreme hoarding over many decades. They even removed carpets, curtains and swept up so the house was ready for sale. They were exeptionally hard working, polite and charged a reasonable price for this incredibly difficult job. Terrific service, absolutely recommended.

Robert Carey’s Ride

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In 1603, Sir Robert Carey was the Warden of the English Middle March. He was the younger brother of George, Lord Hunsdon, Privy Counsellor and Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed.

Robert was a colourful character, who recorded his exploits in his Memoirs. He fought at sea against the Spanish Armada, and on land against the Scots on the Border and in the army in the Netherlands.

On one occasion, to clear a gambling debt, he won the sum of £2,000 in a wager that he could walk all the way from London to Berwick.

In London at the time of Queen Elizabeth’s last illness, he was determined to be the man who carried the news of the Queen’s death to her nearest living relative, King James VI of Scotland.

Some time earlier, King James had sent a blue sapphire ring to Sir Robert’s sister, Lady Scrope, one of Queen Elizabeth’s courtiers with whom James had kept constant correspondence for many years. He instructed her to return it to him by special messenger as soon as the Queen had actually expired, which the King would take as proof of Elizabeth’s death.

Between one and two o’ clock on the morning of Thursday 24th March, Carey received the news that Elizabeth had died from a contact who had been present in the Queen’s chamber.

Queen Elizabeth’s court was alive with factional back-biting and intrigue. Many of the Queen’s counsellors had their own agendas and would do all they could to prevent Carey from taking the news to Edinburgh, to ensure their own preferment with King James. The Lords of the Council summoned Carey and informed him that he would not be allowed to set off for Scotland until he received their warrant. In fact, they planned to imprison him and send a messenger of their own choice instead.

With the aid of his brother, Lord Hunsdon, Sir Robert managed to evade his potential captors and left Whitehall.

Lady Scrope had been unable to give King James’s ring to her brother, as evidence of the Queen’s death. However, as Sir Robert passed beneath her window in the Palace, she threw the ring down to him. Despite the lack of authority from the Lords of the Council, between 9 and ten o’clock that night, Carey took horse and rode to Doncaster.

The following day, he rode to his own house at Widdrington in Northumberland, where he stayed for the night and from where he gave orders the next morning that King James of Scotland should be proclaimed King of England at Morpeth and Alnwick.

Very early on the morning of Saturday 26th March, Carey left Widdrington for Edinburgh. He came to Norham at about 12 noon, and expected to arrive in Edinburgh by supper time. Unfortunately, Sir Robert fell from his horse on the way, and was hit on the head by his horse’s hoof, which made him so weak that he was forced to ride at a “soft pace after, so the King was newly gone to bed by the time that I knocked at the gate” of Holyrood House.

Sir Robert was taken up to the King’s chamber, where he gave the news of Elizabeth’s death. Asked what letters he carried from the Council to prove the fact, Sir Robert replied that he had none, but that he brought the King a blue ring from a fair lady, that he hoped would give him assurance of the truth of what he reported.

The King sent for his surgeons to attend Carey’s wound, and Sir Robert left for the house of Lord Home, where he was to spend the night.

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