Bishop Wilton Local History Index to Bulletins 1 to 18 February 2008
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Article Titles by Bulletin Article Title Bulletin Page No. From Men’s Institute to Village Hall 1 2 The Village Wheel-chair 1 3 Ochrepit Hill 1 4 The Vicar’s Tree 1 4 Stonetable Hill 1 6 An Introduction to Family History 1 7 History in the Making 2 2 Arthur West 2 3 Watching the Waste 2 4 Weathervane 2 6 Hospital Contributory Scheme 2 7 Press Cutting - York County Hospital Contributory Scheme 2 7 Beedham Family History 2 8 The Mystery of the lost Roman town of Delgovicia 2 10 Fanny By Gaslight 2 12 Map Exploration 2 13 Yorkshire Wagons 2 15 Place Names 2 15 And Did Those Feet? 2 16 History in the Making 3 2 Wilton Water 3 3 Approximate comparison of average rainfall 3 11 The effect of 18th Century enclosures on the development of Bishop Wilton 3 11 Bishop Wilton Open Field System Prior To 1772 3 14 The Eagle Had Landed 3 15 Wild Flower Survey 3 15 Manna Green Farm 3 16 Hedge Dating 3 17 What is the connection? 3 19 Sledmere Estate Sale of Bishop Wilton Property, 1917 3 19 Beechwood and the Houfe Family 3 21 And Did Those Feet? 3 27 Answer to …… What is the connection? 3 27 My Best Day(s) Ever (With Apologies To The Dalesman) 4 2 Bishop Wilton Show 1965 – Price of Admission 4 3 Albert, The Last Coo Tenterer 4 4 The 1901 Census for Bishop Wilton Parish 4 4 Wilton At War 4 7 The 1st Bishop Wilton Show – 1897 4 9
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Article Title Bulletin Page No. A Long Way from Tipperary 4 10 Press Cutting - Back from the Front 4 11 A Surprise Holiday In Spain 4 12 Press Cutting - Saw Pit & Pinfold 4 13 To Ben Wilkinson 4 14 Hairstyles in Stone - 1 4 15 Geology of The Wolds 4 16 Gospel Family History 4 17 The A8 Submarine Disaster 4 21 Milestones 4 23 The Fleece Inn Sign 4 25 Garrowby AA Box 4 27 The Opening of the Pavilion 4 28 PC 45, William Stephenson 4 29 Cricket: Bishop Wilton v Barmby Moor, 1901 4 30 The Last Tenants of Hall Farm 5 2 Press Cutting - Chistmas Eve 1864 5 5 Village Improvements in the Late 19th Century 5 6 Hairstyles in Stone 5 10 Interview with Mrs Fisher 5 11 Policing Bishop Wilton: From Parish Constable to Police Constable 5 13 Back Garden Find - ERC Badge 5 16 The Site of the Archbishop of York’s Palace 5 17 Aerial View of Hall Garth, Bishop Wilton 5 20 Athelstan Rex 5 20 The Saxons 5 21 Still Waters 5 22 The Helm 5 26 Charlie Cullum 5 27 What Is It? 5 28 Bishop Wilton Terrier 5 29 Aerial View of Hall Garth, Bishop Wilton (continued) 5 30 Feedback 6 2 Hairstyles in Stone 6 2 Bishop Wilton School May Day Boards 6 2 What Was It? 6 4 Malcolm Burgess: Memories of Bishop Wilton 6 5 The York to Beverley Railway 6 15 Did Typhoid kill your ancestors? 6 16 Cycling Up Garrowby Hill 6 18 Press Cutting: Diamond Jubilee - 1897 6 19
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Article Title Bulletin Page No. Roman Scandal (The decline and fall of Roman coinage) 6 20 The New Vicarage 6 21 My Memories of Tony Metcalfe, 1944-1972 6 23 The Early Lords of Bishop Wilton and their Manor House (Part 1) 6 25 Family Tree: The Hildyard Family of Winestead & Bishop Wilton 6 28 Family Tree: The Darley Family of Buttercrambe & Bishop Wilton 6 29 Family Tree: The Norton Family of Sawley and Bishop Wilton 6 30 Music in St Edith’s, Bishop Wilton 7 2 Moatside Skeleton 7 3 Bishop Wilton Revisited 7 4 Press Cutting - Driffield Times, February 29, 1868 7 5 Former Residents 7 5 Village Life In The 1950s 7 6 Bishop Wilton Had Its Own Bank! 7 9 The Farm That Time Nearly Forgot 7 9 Wilton’s Deer Park 7 10 Bishop Wilton Parish Council 7 15 From Bishop Wilton to the Canadian Prairie - Was this ‘The Good Life’? 7 16 What Are They? 7 18 The Early Lords of Bishop Wilton and their Manor House - Part 2 7 19 What I Remember 7 24 Sale of Farm Stock by R. M. English - 1936 7 25 The Turnpike Trust 7 26 Field Names 7 28 How The Veteran Cricketers Got Started? 7 29 Isn’t History Interesting? 7 30 Initials in Stone 7 30 Feedback 8 2 What I Remember - Part 2 8 2 Beechwood Farm Tenancy 8 4 Steam Ploughing in Bishop Wilton 8 5 Press Cutting - Cottage Delapidations 8 8 Backgarden Archaeology at No. 11 – Part 1 8 9 Derivations - Braygate & Worsendale 8 11 Advertisement - Procter’s 8 11 The 1851 census for Bishop Wilton 8 12 Net News - White Rose 8 15 Dorothy Beaumont: Land Army Girl 8 16 Bishop Wilton’s Oldest Parish Register 8 20 Press Cutting - Coronation Festivities 1902 8 20 Old Yorkshire Words 8 21
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Article Title Bulletin Page No. “Luking” 8 23 Backgarden Finds - Lead Toys 8 24 Fitting People To Houses 8 25 The Carlton Family 8 26 Bishop Wilton’s Weaving Industry 8 27 It has been said that - Windmill dismantled 8 27 South Doorway, St Edith’s Church 8 28 Parish Magazine – September, 1931 - Garden Party & Marriages 8 29 Fred Sissons with Jim and Laddie 8 30 Feedback 9 2 What I Remember - Part 3 9 2 School Pig Club 9 3 Rev. Fawcett’s Co-op Number revealed! 9 4 Local Expressions 9 4 A War-time Letter from Bishop Wilton 9 5 It has been said that - Walnut Tree 9 5 Quote - J. R. Mortimer 9 6 Wilton Beacon 9 6 Hedges: How and When 9 7 Family Connections with Bishop Wilton 9 8 Bugthorpe or Buckthorpe? 9 10 A Poem by Florence Campbell 9 11 The Barkers of Bishop Wilton 9 12 Bricks: Look Closer! 9 14 The Goose’s Wing 9 14 The Dating of the Palace Site 9 15 The Yorkshire Penny Bank 9 18 Interpreting the Domesday Book Entry 9 18 Black Pudding 9 20 Account of John Mortimer, Reeve of Bishop Wilton, for 1427 9 21 Derivations - “Farm” 9 23 Vicar’s Ascension 9 23 John Loughborough Pearson, Architect (1817-1897) 9 24 Police Sergeant Jefferson 9 26 Kiss Marks! 9 27 Backgarden Archaeology at No. 11 – Part 2 9 28 Bishop Wilton Show – Highlights From The Early Years 9 29 Wilton’s Deer Park – Update 9 29 Veteran Cricketers & Womenfolk, c1928 9 30 Feedback 10 2 The Dating of the Palace Site – Update 10 2
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Article Title Bulletin Page No. The Day The Church Spire Moved 10 3 Fish Pond or Moat? 10 4 Back Garden Find - Richard Hood & Son pottery 10 6 A Ha’penny for a Mug of Horlicks 10 6 Bishop Wilton Playing Fields Association 10 7 In Memoriam: Geoff Scott 10 8 It has been said that - Owen Robinson’s old map 10 8 “Old Age Cricket” 10 9 Backgarden Archaeology at No. 11 – Part 3 10 12 Archbishop Herring’s Visitation Returns for 1743 10 14 A Survey of the Possessions of the Archbishopric of York 10 15 It’s a small world … Daphne Wood; “yougange” 10 18 A Famous Yorkshire Roadster Stallion 10 18 PC Harrison & Family 10 21 Survey of Earthworks in Park Field near to Worsendale Road hedge 10 22 The Church Clock 10 23 Reading the Stone Work of St Edith’s Church 10 24 Enquire Within No 1 10 26 Who, Where & When? - Auction at Wilton Lodge 10 27 Roman coins and other finds in Bishop Wilton 10 28 Vicarage Lane, c1936/37 10 29 Penrose – Newby Wedding 10 30 Local Expressions 11 9 Memories of the 20s and 30s 11 10 The Ancient Spirit of the Wolds 11 11 The Extent of Wylton for 1388 11 12 Antique Artworks via Australia! 11 15 A Tale of Two Manors 11 17 The Prebend of Wilton 11 19 Temperance Reform 11 20 Enquire Within No 2 11 21 Fish Pond or Moat - Revisited 11 22 Everyday Life in Victorian Times 11 23 Methodism in Bishop Wilton 11 23 Streetlamps 12 2 Fisher’s Corner During the War Years 12 3 The Dales Family 12 4 Memories of a Sunderland Evacuee 12 5 Wilkinsons & Carltons 12 8 No. 75, Main Street 12 9 Cot Nab Excavation, 1966 12 10
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Article Title Bulletin Page No. Restoring a Dew Pond 12 11 The Clifford Sisters 12 13 Enquire Within No 3 12 16 Postcard Detail 12 17 Backgarden Find – A Medal 12 18 Backgarden Find – A Cartridge Case 12 18 Feedback 12 19 Comforts for the Troops 12 19 Forester of Bysshopwylton 12 20 Harry Smith 12 21 A Bent Spire 12 24 Bishop Wilton Charities 12 25 The New Vicarage 12 29 The Mysterious Well of Saint Leonard 12 30 Acknowledgements 12 32 An Evacuee Returns 13 2 Looance Tahmes 13 2 Domesday Book Entry Revisited 13 3 A ‘load of cobblers’ from Bugthorpe 13 4 Manor Croft Dig, 2000: A Summary 13 6 “Wilton” Update 13 7 Tithe Apportionments and Maps for the Parish of Bishop Wilton 1841 13 8 Eton College Beagles 13 10 The Layout of the Archbishops’ Palace Site 13 11 The Birds 13 11 St Edith 13 13 Book Review – “The Forgotten Landscapes of the Yorkshire Wolds” 13 16 Thoughts on Barn Conversions 13 17 Account of Archbishop’s Temporalities 1304 to 1306 13 18 Toads Crossing 13 18 The Reverend George Herbert Stock, B. A. 13 20 The Old North Field 13 22 The Athelstan Gift 13 24 Worsendale: Gated Road 13 26 John Henry Quarton Newby (1924 – 2005) 13 27 History in the Making 13 28 Eileen Hopper (1915 – 2005) 13 28 Eileen Hopper’s Press Cuttings – 1 13 30 The Old School and the Sheep Wash 13 31 George Brown & Family c1895 14 2 Eileen Hopper’s Press Cuttings & Photographs - 2 14 2
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Article Title Bulletin Page No. Backgarden Archaeology at No 11 - Part 4 14 6 Coldon 14 7 F. Slights, Photographer, Pocklington 14 8 Rev. Fawcett’s Tennis Court 14 9 Memories of a Yorkshire Lass 14 9 The Tennyson Family 14 10 Bishop Wilton School Photo - 1952 14 13 The Layout of the Archbishops’ Palace Site - Part 2 14 14 The Show Boxes 14 16 Richard Holderness 14 17 Aircraft Crash - 1943 14 19 Tithe Disputes in Bishop Wilton 14 20 Rabbits and Warrens 14 21 The Importance of Horses in the 14th Century 14 23 An Archaeological Coincidence 14 24 Football Team - Junior Cup Winners - 1952/3 14 25 Copyhold 14 25 Ridge & Furrow 14 26 A Visual In-Joke 14 30 Church Cleaning 14 30 The Hearth Tax 14 31 Storm Causes Havoc 14 32 Memories of the ‘Great’ Flood of 1983 15 2 The Co-op Delivery Van & Man 15 3 Children’s Games 15 3 Eileen Hopper’s Photographs - 3 15 4 Memories of Captain Cook 15 5 The Brickyard at Bishop Wilton 15 6 Pocklington Bricks 15 9 Exhibition in 1978 15 10 Bishop Wilton Shop 15 12 The Fawcett Family 15 12 WWII Protection of Crops 15 14 The Site of the Palace of the Archbishops of York at Bishop Wilton 15 14 The Archbishops’ Fish Ponds 15 17 “Ponds below Ponds” 15 20 Thomas Rispin and Yorkshire Emigration to Nova Scotia 15 21 Hall Farm - 1980s 15 22 Two Photographs 15 23 Railway Mania 15 24 Dwellinghouse for Sale 15 24
February, 2008
Article Title Bulletin Page No. The Settlement of Bishop Wilton - Part 1 15 25 Terriers 1684 to 1865 15 28 Stained Glass Windows in St Edith’s 15 32 Editorial Comment 16 2 Feedback 16 2 The Early Days of the Bishop Wilton WI 16 3 Fossil Find at Fleece 16 5 Pocklington Bricks - 2 16 5 Memories of the Bishop Wilton Show 16 6 The Siting of the Show 16 7 Show Loo Seat Survives! 16 8 A Strange Event, 1777 16 8 World War II Invasion Scheme 16 9 Muster Rolls – Bishop Wilton fighting men 16 14 WI Picnic at Millington - 1950s 16 15 Bishop Wilton Village School Log Books 16 16 A Palace Fit for a King 16 20 Official Palace Site Archaeology 16 21 The Fish Pond - Back to Square One? 16 21 An ancient seal found in Bishop Wilton 16 22 ‘Infield-Outfield’ 16 23 W. L. Fisher, Farrier 16 24 The Kiplingcotes Race 16 25 Bankruptcy 16 25 Blanche K. Brown 16 26 1939-1945 16 28 People: John Jordan 16 28 The Manor of Bolton 16 30 The Apportionment of Tithes for Bolton 16 30 William Gospel of Bolton (c1774 - 1849) 16 33 The Great Sock Theft 16 34 The Bardwells of Bolton Hall 16 34 A Roman Find 16 35 Bolton Methodist Chapel 16 35 “...there is great waters oftentimes” 16 36 Feedback 17 2 A Relic of the Men’s Institute 17 2 Quaker Sufferings 17 3 Guess Who? 17 3 The Wolds 17 3 The Brickyard at Bishop Wilton – Part 2 17 4
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Article Title Bulletin Page No. The Barton Family 17 6 War-Time Rationing 17 7 Ringing Day 17 8 Wolds Barrow - An Island of Prehistory 17 9 The Wilton Roman Mosaic 17 10 Old Show Field Excavation - 1993 17 12 Vermin 17 14 WW II Messenger 17 15 Advertisements 17 15 Bishop Wilton School Log Books – continued 17 16 Triptych 17 18 Ruth Theasby Barker 17 19 Mason’s Garth 17 20 An Expanse of Postcards 17 21 Wilton Large Blacks 17 22 The Manor of Belthorpe 17 23 The Belthorpe Estates at Bishop Wilton 17 24 A Commuter Route 17 25 Belthorpe Tithe Apportionment 1849 17 25 Belthorpe Field Names in 1849 17 27 “Belthorpe” Derivation 17 27 The Fawcetts of Belthorpe 17 28 Pew Dispute 17 29 Belthorpe Grange 1629 17 30 Cover Art 18 2 Editorial Comment 18 2 Correction re Holderness & Dales Families 18 2 Surrender of Bishop Wilton 18 2 Minster Marriages 18 3 Feedback from Captain William Cook 18 4 Main Street, Bishop Wilton, c1890s 18 6 Archbishops’ Visitation Returns 18 7 The Sykes Churches – Part I 18 9 May Day Celebrations 1942 18 10 The Raimes at Mosquito Cottage 18 12 Rev John Adams Eldridge 18 13 Marriages in Bishop Wilton 18 14 Old School Finds 18 14 Scottish Raids and Lawlessness in the Fourteenth Century 18 15 The Fair Comes to the Village? 18 18 The First Bishop Wilton Show – August 2nd, 1897 18 22
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Article Title Bulletin Page No. Clothing Club 18 24 More about the Sinking of the “Athelknight” 18 25 Account Roll – 1468 to 1469 18 26 Sheepdogs at West End Farm 18 28 WWII – Victory in Europe Celebrations 18 29 The Beedhams of Gowthorpe 18 30 The Jebsons and Beedhams 18 31
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Contributor Article Title Bulletin Page No.
Alex Mee Wilton At War 4 7 Andrew Boyce John Loughborough Pearson, Architect (1817-1897) 9 24 Andrew Boyce The Layout of the Archbishops’ Palace Site - Part 2 14 14 Andrew Hall The Fleece Inn Sign 4 25 Andrew Hall Sheepdogs at West End Farm 18 28 Andrew Sefton An Introduction to Family History 1 7 Andrew Sefton The Mystery of the lost Roman town of Delgovicia 2 10 Andrew Sefton The effect of 18th Century enclosures on the development of Bishop 3 11 Wilton Andrew Sefton The 1901 Census for Bishop Wilton Parish 4 4 Andrew Sefton The Last Tenants of Hall Farm 5 2 Andrew Sefton Back Garden Find - ERC Badge 5 16 Andrew Sefton The Site of the Archbishop of York’s Palace 5 17 Andrew Sefton The Early Lords of Bishop Wilton and their Manor House (Part 1) 6 25 Andrew Sefton Family Tree: The Hildyard Family of Winestead & Bishop Wilton 6 28 Andrew Sefton Family Tree: The Darley Family of Buttercrambe & Bishop Wilton 6 29 Andrew Sefton Family Tree: The Norton Family of Sawley and Bishop Wilton 6 30 Andrew Sefton The Early Lords of Bishop Wilton and their Manor House - Part 2 7 19 Andrew Sefton The 1851 census for Bishop Wilton 8 12 Andrew Sefton Old Yorkshire Words 8 21 Andrew Sefton Wilton Beacon 9 6 Andrew Sefton The Barkers of Bishop Wilton 9 12 Andrew Sefton Account of John Mortimer, Reeve of Bishop Wilton, for 1427 9 21 Andrew Sefton Archbishop Herring’s Visitation Returns for 1743 10 14 Andrew Sefton Roman coins and other finds in Bishop Wilton 10 28 Andrew Sefton The Extent of Wylton for 1388 11 12 Andrew Sefton A Tale of Two Manors 11 17 Andrew Sefton The Mysterious Well of Saint Leonatd 12 30 Andrew Sefton The Athelstan Gift 13 24 Andrew Sefton Richard Holderness 14 17 Andrew Sefton Memories of the ‘Great’ Flood of 1983 15 2 Andrew Sefton The Brickyard at Bishop Wilton 15 6 Andrew Sefton Muster Rolls – Bishop Wilton fighting men 16 14 Andrew Sefton A Palace Fit for a King 16 20 Andrew Sefton An ancient seal found in Bishop Wilton 16 22 Andrew Sefton Quaker Sufferings 17 3 Andrew Sefton The Brickyard at Bishop Wilton – Part 2 17 4 Andrew Sefton Advertisements 17 15
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Contributor Article Title Bulletin Page No. Andrew Sefton Triptych 17 18 Andrew Sefton Belthorpe Grange 1629 17 30 Andrew Sefton Scottish Raids and Lawlessness in the Fourteenth Century 18 15 Andrew Sefton & Fitting People To Houses 8 25 Mike Pratt Andrew Sefton & The Fawcetts of Belthorpe 17 28 Mike Pratt Avril Gibson A Ha’penny for a Mug of Horlicks 10 6 Barry Trotter To Ben Wilkinson 4 14 Barry Trotter The Church Clock 10 23 Barry Trotter Comforts for the Troops 12 19 Bill Chandler & Everyday Life in Victorian Times 11 23 Herbert Knowlson Billy King Fisher’s Corner During the War Years - Photograph 12 3 Bishop Wilton The Saxons 5 21 School Bob Sefton In Memoriam: Geoff Scott 10 8 Brenda Hill An Evacuee Returns 13 2 (formerly Flounders) Brian Tennyson Thomas Rispin and Yorkshire Emigration to Nova Scotia 15 21 Catherine Horsley Eileen Hopper’s Press Cuttings – 1 13 30 Christine Dinsdale Parish Magazine – September, 1931 - Garden Party & Marriages 8 29 Daniel Inman Beedham Family History 2 8 Daniel Inman The Beedhams of Gowthorpe 18 30 Daniel Tunnicliffe The Raimes at Mosquito Cottage 18 12 Dave Walker 1939-1945 16 28 David Lang Music in St Edith’s, Bishop Wilton 7 2 David Walker Bishop Wilton Show 1965 – Price of Admission 4 3 David Walker & E. Bishop Wilton Revisited 7 4 W. Slater Derek H. Wileman Tithe Apportionments and Maps for the Parish of Bishop Wilton 1841 13 8 Derek Wileman William Gospel of Bolton (c1774 - 1849) 16 33 Diana Forrester The Belthorpe Estates at Bishop Wilton 17 24 Dorothy Beaumont A War-time Letter from Bishop Wilton 9 5 Edward Walker What I Remember 7 24 Edward Walker What I Remember - Part 2 8 2 Edward Walker What I Remember - Part 3 9 2 Edward Walker Memories of the 20s and 30s 11 10 Eileen Hopper Bishop Wilton Had Its Own Bank! 7 9 Eileen Hopper Eileen Hopper (1915 – 2005) 13 28
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Contributor Article Title Bulletin Page No. Elsie Miller & Eileen Veteran Cricketers & Womenfolk, c1928 9 30 Hopper Florence Campbell A Poem by Florence Campbell 9 11 Geoff Scott The Opening of the Pavilion 4 28 Geoff Scott The York to Beverley Railway 6 15 Geoff Scott Bishop Wilton Parish Council 7 15 Geoff Scott Bishop Wilton Playing Fields Association 10 7 George Mitchell Beechwood Farm Tenancy 8 4 Hilda Duffy Memories of a Sunderland Evacuee 12 5 Howard Peach Looance Tahmes 13 2 Iain Samuel Penrose – Newby Wedding 10 30 Iain Samuel Pocklington Bricks - 2 16 5 Ian Massie Restoring a Dew Pond 12 11 Irene Megginson Manna Green Farm 3 16 Irene Megginson “Luking” 8 23 Irene Megginson Thoughts on Barn Conversions 13 17 Irene Megginson Hall Farm - 1980s 15 22 Irene Megginson Memories of the Bishop Wilton Show 16 6 J A Theasby Ruth Theasby Barker 17 19 Jean Wilson Beechwood and the Houfe Family 3 21 Jim Sissons Fred Sissons with Jim and Laddie 8 30 Joan & Caroline The Reverend George Herbert Stock, B. A. 13 20 Wise Joan & Rowland Rev. Fawcett’s Tennis Court 14 9 Goy John & Pam Ibson W. L. Fisher, Farrier 16 24 John Ibson The Wilton Roman Mosaic 17 10 Judith Armstrong The Fawcett Family 15 12 Judith Sampson Eton College Beagles 13 10 Judith Sampson The Kiplingcotes Race 16 25 Judy Tarran Arthur West 2 3 Judy Tarran My Best Day(s) Ever (With Apologies To The Dalesman) 4 2 Judy Tarran A Surprise Holiday In Spain 4 12 Judy Tarran Village Life In The 1950s 7 6 Judy Tarran The Co-op Delivery Van & Man 15 3 Kate & Mike Pratt Interview with Mrs Fisher 5 11 Kate & Mike Pratt The Farm That Time Nearly Forgot 7 9 Kate & Mike Pratt Dorothy Beaumont: Land Army Girl 8 16 Kate & Mike Pratt The Tennyson Family 14 10 Kate & Mike Pratt Exhibition in 1978 15 10 Kate & Mike Pratt World War II Invasion Scheme 16 9
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Contributor Article Title Bulletin Page No.
Kate & Mike Pratt “Belthorpe” Derivation 17 27 Kate Pratt From Men’s Institute to Village Hall 1 2 Kate Pratt The Village Wheel-chair 1 3 Kate Pratt Ochrepit Hill 1 4 Kate Pratt Place Names 2 15 Kate Pratt Approximate comparison of average rainfall 3 11 Kate Pratt Milestones 4 23 Kate Pratt PC 45, William Stephenson 4 29 Kate Pratt Policing Bishop Wilton: From Parish Constable to Police Constable 5 13 Kate Pratt Cycling Up Garrowby Hill 6 18 Kate Pratt The Turnpike Trust 7 26 Kate Pratt Isn’t History Interesting? 7 30 Kate Pratt Bishop Wilton’s Oldest Parish Register 8 20 Kate Pratt Interpreting the Domesday Book Entry 9 18 Kate Pratt Reading the Stone Work of St Edith’s Church 10 24 Kate Pratt 1298 Inventory for the Manor of Wilton - The Italian Connection 11 4 Kate Pratt Methodism in Bishop Wilton 11 23 Kate Pratt Streetlamps 12 2 Kate Pratt Forester of Bysshopwyton 12 20 Kate Pratt Bishop Wilton Charities 12 25 Kate Pratt Domesday Book Entry Revisited 13 3 Kate Pratt “Wilton” Update 13 7 Kate Pratt St Edith 13 13 Kate Pratt Coldon 14 7 Kate Pratt Tithe Disputes in Bishop Wilton 14 20 Kate Pratt The Importance of Horses in the 14th Century 14 23 Kate Pratt Church Cleaning 14 30 Kate Pratt Railway Mania 15 24 Kate Pratt Terriers 1684 to 1865 15 28 Kate Pratt Stained Glass Windows in St Edith’s 15 32 Kate Pratt A Strange Event, 1777 16 8 Kate Pratt Bankruptcy 16 25 Kate Pratt Bolton Methodist Chapel 16 35 Kate Pratt A Relic of the Men’s Institute 17 2 Kate Pratt Ringing Day 17 8 Kate Pratt Vermin 17 14 Kate Pratt The Manor of Belthorpe 17 23 Kate Pratt Pew Dispute 17 29 Kate Pratt Surrender of Bishop Wilton 18 2 Kate Pratt Archbishops’ Visitation Returns 18 7
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Contributor Article Title Bulletin Page No. Kate Pratt Clothing Club 18 24 Kate Pratt Wilton Large Blacks 17 22 Kate Pratt & Kath Bishop Wilton School Log Books – continued 17 16 Nevens Kath Nevens Fanny By Gaslight 2 12 Kath Nevens The Old School and the Sheep Wash 13 31 Kath Nevens & Kate Bishop Wilton Village School Log Books 16 16 Pratt Keith McWilliam Watching the Waste 2 4 Keith McWilliam The Eagle Had Landed 3 15 Keith McWilliam Albert, The Last Coo Tenterer 4 4 Keith McWilliam A Long Way from Tipperary 4 10 Keith McWilliam Still Waters 5 22 Keith McWilliam Roman Scandal (The decline and fall of Roman coinage) 6 20 Keith McWilliam Enquire Within No 1 10 26 Keith McWilliam Enquire Within No 2 11 21 Keith McWilliam Enquire Within No 3 12 16 Ken Tinson Fossil Find at Fleece 16 5 Kevin Askham Cover Art 18 2 Lawrence West WWII Messenger 17 15 Lily Jebson Agricultural Wages in 1933 5 22 Lily Jebson The Jebsons and Beedhams 18 31 Lorna Sleightholme The Early Days of the Bishop Wilton WI 16 3 Lorna Sleightholme WI Picnic at Millington - 1950s 16 15 Lucy Sharp From Bishop Wilton to the Canadian Prairie - Was this ‘The Good Life’? 7 16 Lynne & Jennifer No 75, Main Street 12 9 Scott Malcolm Burgess Malcolm Burgess: Memories of Bishop Wilton 6 5 Malcolm Burgess Vicarage Lane, c1936/37 - Photograph 10 29 Mary Anne Gourley The Dales Family 12 4 Mary Carlton The Carlton Family 8 26 Mary Carlton Wilkinsons & Carltons 12 8 Mike & Kate Pratt Backgarden Archaeology at No. 11 – Part 1 8 9 Mike & Kate Pratt Derivations - Braygate & Worsendale 8 11 Mike & Kate Pratt Police Sergeant Jefferson 9 26 Mike & Kate Pratt Backgarden Archaeology at No. 11 – Part 2 9 28 Mike & Kate Pratt “Old Age Cricket” 10 9 Mike & Kate Pratt Backgarden Archaeology at No. 11 – Part 3 10 12 Mike & Kate Pratt A Survey of the Possessions of the Archbishopric of York 10 15 Mike & Kate Pratt The Clifford Sisters 12 13 Mike & Kate Pratt Harry Smith 12 21
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Contributor Article Title Bulletin Page No. Mike & Kate Pratt Acknowledgements 12 32 Mike & Kate Pratt Account of Archbishop’s Temporalities 1304 to 1306 13 18 Mike & Kate Pratt Backgarden Archaeology at No 11 - Part 4 14 6 Mike & Kate Pratt Aircraft Crash - 1943 14 19 Mike & Kate Pratt Blanche K. Brown 16 26 Mike & Kate Pratt Mason’s Garth 17 20 Mike & Kate Pratt Marriages in Bishop Wilton 18 14 Mike & Kate Pratt Old School Finds 18 14 Mike Pratt The Vicar’s Tree 1 4 Mike Pratt Stonetable Hill 1 6 Mike Pratt Bishop Wilton Open Field System Prior To 1772 3 14 Mike Pratt Sledmere Estate Sale of Bishop Wilton Property, 1917 3 19 Mike Pratt The 1st Bishop Wilton Show – 1897 4 9 Mike Pratt Village Improvements in the Late 19th Century 5 6 Mike Pratt Aerial View of Hall Garth, Bishop Wilton 5 20 Mike Pratt Bishop Wilton School May Day Boards 6 2 Mike Pratt The New Vicarage 6 21 Mike Pratt Wilton’s Deer Park 7 10 Mike Pratt Field Names 7 28 Mike Pratt How The Veteran Cricketers Got Started? 7 29 Mike Pratt The Goose’s Wing 9 14 Mike Pratt Wilton’s Deer Park – Update 9 29 Mike Pratt The Dating of the Palace Site – Update 10 2 Mike Pratt Fish Pond or Moat? 10 4 Mike Pratt The Blacksmith’s Door 11 7 Mike Pratt The Ancient Spirit of the Wolds 11 11 Mike Pratt Fish Pond or Moat - Revisited 11 22 Mike Pratt Cot Nab Excavation, 1966 12 10 Mike Pratt The Old North Field 13 22 Mike Pratt An Archaeological Coincidence 14 24 Mike Pratt Copyhold 14 25 Mike Pratt Ridge & Furrow 14 26 Mike Pratt A Visual In-Joke 14 30 Mike Pratt The Archbishops’ Fish Ponds 15 17 Mike Pratt “Ponds below Ponds” 15 20 Mike Pratt The Settlement of Bishop Wilton - Part 1 15 25 Mike Pratt The Siting of the Show 16 7 Mike Pratt Show Loo Seat Survives! 16 8 Mike Pratt Official Palace Site Archaeology 16 21 Mike Pratt The Fish Pond - Back to Square One? 16 21 Mike Pratt ‘Infield-Outfield’ 16 23
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Contributor Article Title Bulletin Page No. Mike Pratt The Manor of Bolton 16 30 Mike Pratt Wolds Barrow - An Island of Prehistory 17 9 Mike Pratt Old Show Field Excavation - 1993 17 12 Mike Pratt Belthorpe Tithe Apportionment 1849 17 25 Mike Pratt Belthorpe Field Names in 1849 17 27 Mike Pratt Minster Marriages 18 3 Mike Pratt The Sykes Churches – Part I 18 9 Mike Pratt Rev John Adams Eldridge 18 13 Mike Pratt The Fair Comes to the Village? 18 18 Mike Pratt The First Bishop Wilton Show – August 2nd, 1897 18 22 Mike Pratt The Show Boxes 14 16 Mike Pratt & The Dating of the Palace Site 9 15 Andrew Sefton Mike Pratt & Arthur Steam Ploughing in Bishop Wilton 8 5 Woolas Mike Pratt & Iain F. Slights, Photographer, Pocklington 14 8 Samuel Mike Pratt, Peter & Field Names from the 1726 Enclosure Award - Part 1 11 2 Pat Gospel Mike Tanner Wilton Water 3 3 Mike Tanner The A8 Submarine Disaster 4 21 Mr & Mrs Cook of Antique Artworks via Australia! 11 15 Australia Nancie Boyes Charlie Cullum 5 27 Nancy Hutchinson Hospital Contributory Scheme 2 7 Nancy Hutchinson The Yorkshire Penny Bank 9 18 Nancy Hutchinson Black Pudding 9 20 Nancy Hutchinson War-Time Rationing 17 7 Peter Cook The Day The Church Spire Moved 10 3 Peter Gilding Book Review – “The Forgotten Landscapes of the Yorkshire Wolds” 13 16 Peter Gospel Gospel Family History 4 17 Peter Gospel Did Typhoid kill your ancestors? 6 16 Peter Gospel A ‘load of cobblers’ from Bugthorpe 13 4 Richard E. Walgate Family Connections with Bishop Wilton 9 8 Roy Sumpner Back Garden Find - Richard Hood & Son pottery 10 6 Ruth Walker A Bent Spire 12 24 Sheila Barton The Barton Family 17 6 Sonia Coffey (nee Memories of a Yorkshire Lass 14 9 Powell) Sonia Coffey (nee Bishop Wilton School Photo - 1952 14 13 Powell) Spencer Moses Backgarden Finds - Lead Toys 8 24
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Contributor Article Title Bulletin Page No. Steven Oliver The Apportionment of Tithes for Bolton 16 30 Steven Oliver “...there is great waters oftentimes” 16 36 Sue Lucas PC Harrison & Family 10 21 Sylvia Ward A Roman Find 16 35 Ted Gommersall Geology of The Wolds 4 16 Thomas Ryder A Famous Yorkshire Roadster Stallion 10 18 Tim & Elaine Backgarden Find - A Medal & a Cartridge Case 12 18 Burrows, Connor Jenner Tony & Irene My Memories of Tony Metcalfe, 1944-1972 6 23 Megginson Wendy Gilding Wild Flower Survey 3 15 Wendy Gilding Hedge Dating 3 17 Wendy Gilding Bishop Wilton Terrier 5 29 Wendy Gilding Hedges: How and When 9 7 Wendy Gilding Bricks: Look Closer! 9 14 Wendy Gilding Survey of Earthworks in Park Field near to Worsendale Road hedge 10 22 Wendy Gilding Manor Croft Dig, 2000: A Summary 13 6 Wendy Gilding Rabbits and Warrens 14 21 Wendy Gilding The Hearth Tax 14 31 Wendy Gilding Children’s Games 15 3 Wendy Gilding The Wolds 17 3 Wendy Gilding Account Roll – 1468 to 1469 18 26 William Cook Memories of Captain Cook 15 5 William Cook Feedback from Captain William Cook 18 4 William Cook More about the Sinking of the “Athelknight” 18 25 York Minster The Prebend of Wilton 11 19 Archivist
Unattributed History in the Making 2 2 Unattributed Weathervane 2 6 Unattributed Press Cutting - York County Hospital Contributory Scheme 2 7 Unattributed Map Exploration 2 13 Unattributed Yorkshire Wagons 2 15 Unattributed And Did Those Feet? 2 16 Unattributed History in the Making 3 2 Unattributed What is the connection - between ridge & furrow, a rifle and a 3 19 millstone? Unattributed And Did Those Feet? 3 27 Unattributed Answer to …… What is the connection? 3 27 Unattributed Press Cutting - Back from the Front - Trooper John Clint 4 11 Unattributed Press Cutting - Saw Pit & Pinfold 4 13
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Contributor Article Title Bulletin Page No. Unattributed Hairstyles in Stone - 1 4 15 Unattributed Garrowby AA Box 4 27 Unattributed Cricket: Bishop Wilton v Barmby Moor, 1901 4 30 Unattributed Press Cutting - Chistmas Eve 1864 5 5 Unattributed Hairstyles in Stone 5 10 Unattributed Athelstan Rex 5 20 Unattributed The Helm 5 26 Unattributed What Is It? 5 28 Unattributed Aerial View of Hall Garth, Bishop Wilton (continued) 5 30 Unattributed Feedback 6 2 Unattributed Hairstyles in Stone 6 2 Unattributed What Was It? 6 4 Unattributed Press Cutting: Diamond Jubilee - 1897 6 19 Unattributed Moatside Skeleton 7 3 Unattributed Former Residents 7 5 Unattributed Press Cutting - Driffield Times, February 29, 1868 - Thomas Blakey 7 5 Unattributed What Are They? 7 18 Unattributed Sale of Farm Stock by R. M. English - 1936 7 25 Unattributed Initials in Stone 7 30 Unattributed Feedback 8 2 Unattributed Press Cutting - Cottage Delapidations 1908 8 8 Unattributed Advertisement - Procter’s 8 11 Unattributed Net News - White Rose 8 15 Unattributed Press Cutting - Coronation Festivities 1902 8 20 Unattributed Bishop Wilton’s Weaving Industry - Recollections of Quarton Adamson 8 27 Unattributed It has been said that - Windmill dismantled 8 27 Unattributed South Doorway, St Edith’s Church 8 28 Unattributed Feedback 9 2 Unattributed School Pig Club - from Bishop Wilton School Log 9 3 Unattributed Local Expressions 9 4 Unattributed Rev. Fawcett’s Co-op Number revealed! 9 4 Unattributed It has been said that - Walnut Tree 9 5 Unattributed Quote - J. R. Mortimer 9 6 Unattributed Bugthorpe or Buckthorpe? 9 10 Unattributed Derivations - “Farm” 9 23 Unattributed Vicar’s Ascension from the Yorkshire Herald, 1931 9 23 Unattributed Kiss Marks (on Pocklington Bricks)! 9 27 Unattributed Bishop Wilton Show – Highlights From The Early Years 9 29 Unattributed Feedback 10 2 Unattributed It has been said that - Owen Robinson’s old map 10 8 Unattributed It’s a small world … Daphne Wood; “yougange” 10 18
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Contributor Article Title Bulletin Page No. Unattributed Who, Where & When? - Photograph of Auction at Wilton Lodge 10 27 Unattributed Feedback 11 2 Unattributed Local Expressions - “Garing” 11 9 Unattributed Temperance Reform 11 20 Unattributed Postcard Detail - Nos 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7 & 6 Main Street 12 17 Unattributed Feedback 12 18 Unattributed The New Vicarage - Old Postcard 1907 12 29 Unattributed The Layout of the Archbishops’ Palace Site 13 11 Unattributed The Birds 13 11 Unattributed Toads Crossing 13 18 Unattributed Worsendale: Gated Road 13 26 Unattributed John Henry Quarton Newby (1924 – 2005) 13 27 Unattributed History in the Making Local History Group Committee 13 28 Unattributed George Brown & Family c1895 14 2 Unattributed Eileen Hopper’s Press Cuttings & Photographs - 2 14 2 Unattributed Football Team - Junior Cup Winners - 1952/3 14 25 Unattributed Storm Causes Havoc 14 32 Unattributed Eileen Hopper’s Photographs - 3 15 4 Unattributed Pocklington Bricks 15 9 Unattributed Bishop Wilton Shop 15 12 Unattributed WWII Protection of Crops 15 14 Unattributed The Site of the Palace of the Archbishops of York at Bishop Wilton 15 14 Unattributed Two Photographs 15 23 Unattributed Dwellinghouse for Sale 15 24 Unattributed Editorial Comment 16 2 Unattributed Feedback 16 2 Unattributed People: John Jordan 16 28 Unattributed The Great Sock Theft 16 34 Unattributed The Bardwells of Bolton Hall 16 34 Unattributed Feedback 17 2 Unattributed Guess Who? 17 3 Unattributed An Expanse of Postcards 17 21 Unattributed A Commuter Route 17 25 Unattributed Editorial Comment 18 2 Unattributed Correction re Holderness & Dales Families 18 2 Unattributed Main Street, Bishop Wilton, c1890s 18 6 Unattributed May Day Celebrations 1942 18 10 Unattributed WWII – Victory in Europe Celebrations 18 29
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