The Story of “Joe the Quilter”

A brief story of Joseph Hedley – also know as “Joe the Quilter” Joseph Hedley 1749/1750 – January 1826, aka Joe the Quilter, was from Northumberland. Even though he was renowned for the quality of his craftmanship, not only locally but even as far as America, in his later life he lived on ‘parish relief.’  […]