DIRECTORY.J . SOUNTHORPE. 5ll St. Oswald, and held sinee 1909 by the Rev. Thomas and secrl'tary's offici!, and adjoining is a caretaker's, Boughton M.A. of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge~ cottage: the prl'mises were built by a limited company who resides at Crosby. ~The Wesleyan thapel and with a capital 4)f £3,000 in .l,r shares, and are rented to Sunday schools here were ere<:ted in 1900 at a cost of the club committt>e-: there are now (1913) about 400 £,7,4oo in place of the former structure built in 1888. members. The LibE"ral Club is in Cole street, -and There is also a Congregayonal chapel, built in 1912, at there are other workmen's clubs. The Cattle Market~ a cost. of £3,000, and seatmg 65o persons. The Primitive with slaughter-house, covering an acre of ground, is in Methodist chapel,. in High street, built in. 1891 at a Market hill ; a market is held on Saturday and every cost, including 111ite, schools and vestries, and an organ, alternate Tuesday, and a fat stock show and fair of .£,2,3c-o, will seat 6oo ·persons. The Primitive Metho­ yearly about the third week in December. The Fire dist chapel, in Frodingham road, was built in 1908 at Station, uected 5n Cole street by the Urban District a cost, including sitl', schools, institute and an organ, Council, at a cost of £3,000, has a steam fire engine~ of about £s,soo: there are 700 sittings. A cemetery of presented by Sir Berkeley D. G. Sheffield bart. fire 3i acres was formed in 1884, at a cost of .£,3,000: escape and hose cart. For years past flint implements it has a chapel and mortuary, and is under the control have been found in this locality, some being of quite of the Urban District Council. The court house and minute form. is a sandy district, co'f"ered police station was built at a cost of £6,ooo, and here with heather and bracken, and where a sandhill has the petty sessions are held. The Assembly Rooms are been broken and dispersPd by the wind, these very in Manley street ; the Public Hall, in High street, small flints may be found in some quantity. Lord St. holds 700 and has a dramatic license; these are avail­ Oswald, of Ncstell Priorv,• W. Yorks, who is lord of able for public meetings and entertainments. The Free the manor, and" Robert John Hinman Parkinson esq. Library, in Station road, was erected in 1903-4 by aid of Ravendale Hall, , are the principal land­ of a grant of £1,5oo from Mr. Carnegie; the site was owners. The area is 1,028 acres of land, 8 of inland and given by Joseph Cliff esq. D.L., J.P. of Scawby Grove. 8 of tidal water and 3 of foreshore ; rateable value, The St. Lawrence Lodge of Freemasons, No. 2,078, £43,420 ; the population in 1901 was 6,750 in the civil meet~ at the Masonic Rooms, Manley street. The Scun­ parish and Urban District; in 1911, 10,17o. The popu­ thorpe, Frodingham and District Working Men's Consti­ lation of the ecclesiastical parish in 1911 was 13,33Et tutional Club occupies commodious premises on the (which includes part of Cros.by ). Station road, opened 20 Oct. 1897, by the Earl of Verger, Horace L. Paynter. Yarborough, and comprising a billiard room with four tables, reading and smoking rooms, an American bowling CROSBY now forms part of this parish for eccle­ saloon, bar, skittle alley and quoit ground; there are siastical purposes, and will be found under a separate also three baths, cellars and heating apparatus ; above heading. is a large assembly room, games and committee rooms OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, LOCAL INSTITUTIONS &c. Post, M. 0. & T. 0. & Telephonic Express Delivery Jones Richard esq. Brumby hall, Scunthorpe Office.-Wilfred Haywood, sub-postmaster. Letters Sheffield Sir Berkeley Digby George bart. Normanby should have Lines added. Letters are deli'\"ered at hall, Doncaster 7.25 & 9 a.m. & 1.30 & 6.40 p.m.; dispatched at 6, Spilman ~\lex. Aitken esq. Kirmington vale, Brock!esby 10 & 11.30 a.m. ~ 4· xo, 6.40 & 8 p.m.; no deliYery or Spilman John Rae esq. Winterton, Doncastel' dispatch on sundays Spink Thomas Marshall esq. Old Manor house, .Alk- Telegraph office open sundays, 8 to 10 a.m borough, Doncaster Town Sub-Post & M. 0. Office, 126 High street.- Tennant John e<:q. 89 Frodingham road, Scunthorpe Maurice F. Geary, sub-postmaster. Letter box cleared The Chairmen, for the time being, of the Urban District · Councils of Brumbv &i Frodingham, Scunthorpe & a t 9.30 & 11.20 a.m. & 3.15, 6 .15 & 7.30 p.m . Winterton are ex-officio justices Wall Letter Boxes.-Market h1ll, cleared at 9·45 & II-35 Clerk to the Justices, George Edmund Davy, x8a~

a.m. & 3.3o, 6.20 & 7-40 p.m.;. Mary street, clear~d at 1 Hig-h street, Scunthorpe 9 &_ 11.2o a.m. & 3· 15, 6.15 & 7.20 p.m. ; Railway i Petty Sessions are held at the Petty Sessional Court statiOn~ cleared at 8.15, 10.15 & 11.50 a.m. & 3· 6.50, 1 House each wl'dne~day at 10.30 a.m. & daily when 7.50 & 8.20 p.m required The places in the division a.re :-Alkborough, Appleby, URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. Ashby, Bottesford, , Burton-upon-Stather, Meets at the Free Library on 2nd wed. in each month, East Butterwick, Brumby, Crosby, Flixborough, Frod­ at 7 p.m. ingham, Gunhouse, West Halton, Holme, Manton, Members. Messingham, Raventhorpe, Ro:xby-with-Risby, Scun­ thorpe, Twigmoor, Whitton, Winteringham k Winter­ Chairman, John Long. ton Vice-Chairman, John Fowler. SCUNTHORPE S'CB-CO)BHTTEE OF LINDSEY Retire April, 19!4· LOC~\L PENSION COMMITTEE. John Dargue William Newbert The following parishes are included in the area of the David Di:xon Wm. Marsden Robertshaw Sub-District :-Althorpe, Apple by, Amcotts, .Ashby~ John Fowler Belton, Brumby, Burring-ham, Burton-on-Stather, Retire April, 1915. East Buttf>rwick, West Butterwick, Crosby, Crowle~ John Long 1 Samuel Smith Eastoft, Flixborou2'h, Frodingham, Gunness, West Halton, Keadby, Lnddington, Scunthorpe & David Jn.Kingsley Quibell 1 Joseph Barnard T1·afford Alfred Read I :'\Ieetings are held at the Police court, Scunthorpe &i Retire April, 1916. Council schools, _\lthorpe, in alternate months on John William Grten James Edwin Simpson the tul'sday following the last friday of each month, Thomas Edwa.rd Molloy Thomas Sudlow the former at 6 in the eYening, the latt~r at 4·45 Fred T. Robinson Chairman, James Stephensou J.P Clerk, John Gibson, Ha'\\"thOTne house, Cross st. Crowle Officers. Pension Officers, Edward Latchford, Field Side, Crowle Clerk, Henry Metcalfe Hett, 18a, High street & Thomas B. Ca~well, 29 Clayfield road. Scunthorpe Treasurer, A. H. L. Melville, Union of A1:i Smiths Bank, Lincoln · PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS. Medical Officer of Health, Maximilian Raphael Julius Behrendt L.R.C.P. & S.Edin. 175 High street Assembly Rooms, Manley street, R. I. Swaby, proprietor EngineeT to Water Works & Surveyor, Charles OurtU! CeiJletery,Wilfred Haywood, clerk to the burial committee Gray,. lligh street County Police Statio,n, superintendent, Melbourne. Jpspec~ of Nuisances• Charles Wal:Mr, High strt!etr Holmes; 1 in~pector,. 1- sergeant & 12 constables Collector,. Arthu~ Bolt, Belgrave square Free l4brary• George Bartle.. librarian ):.abQl;J.r Exchange (Board of Trade), 189 & 191 High JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR SCUNTHORPE ~treet, David Price, clerk in chame PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISION. Palace Theatre, Cole street, Albert E. Dobney, manager Fletcher Joseph esq. u High st. Scunthorpe, chairma~ Public ij:all. High street, John Connolly, lessee Brown William Coulman esq. Appleby, Doncaster Cliff J. T. Talbot esq. Fir croft, TERRITORIAL FORCE. Constable James Goulton esq. Walcot hall, Doncaster ;th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment (G Co. ). DriU hall. Outts John George esq. 42 High street, Scunthorpe 19 Home street, Capt. H. I. Robinson ; Color-Sl'rgt. Jarvis Be~ Fras• .Amcotts M.A. Burton vicarage,Doncstr John T. Atton, drill in~tructor