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Jun 2022

Last Updated: 28/06/2022
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Harrogate historian Malcolm Neesam dies

by John Plummer

| 28 Jun, 2022
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Malcolm Neesam, who died on his 76th birthday today, wrote some of the most loved and popular books about Harrogate.

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Harrogate historian Malcolm Neesam, who wrote some of the most loved and popular books about the town, has died.

Mr Neesam, whose most recent book Wells and Swells: The Golden Age of the Harrogate Spa 1842-1923, was published in April, had been ill with cancer for a long time.

He died in the early hours of this morning, on his 76th birthday.

Mr Neesam was born in a nursing home on Ripon Road in Harrogate and grew up in the town.

He spent most of his working life as a librarian and archivist but writing and Harrogate were his enduring passions.

He was commissioned in 1973 to write a guide to children’s science fiction called Into Space, which proved to be the start of his writing career.

His most important works were Harrogate Great Chronicle 1332-1841 and Wells and Swells, which took up the town’s story after 1841, but he wrote numerous other books about the town and some of its most famous businesses.

Mr Neesam, who did not marry, has bequeathed his enormous collection of papers, which he stored in a room at his home, to the Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate.

We will be publishing an obituary about Mr Neesam as well as an article containing tributes.




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