. PHOTO GALLERY - Events Pickering Events Picture 1 Henry Coverdale JP with his children, Alice, Arther, William, Lorraine, ted and Tom - unfortunately it is not known which is which. They are shown with a bullock that was donated for Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887. The bullock was later roasted on Smiddy Hill as part of the Jubilee celebrations. Pickering Events Picture 2 Pickering Cycle club, with decorated cycles, are about to start a race or parade, to mark Queen Victoria's Silver Jubilee in 1887. They are pictured in Pickering Market Place. The wording on the vaults reads: Trousdale Cheap Stores. The White Swan pub was the cycle club's headquarters at the time. Pickering Events Picture 3 This procession of old traction engines and wagons is setting out from Newbridge in celebration of the relief of Mafeking in the Boer War on 23rd May 1900. The placard on the first engine reads 'God Bless Queen and Empire'. in the background are the lime kilns and railway trucks loaded with lime stone. In 1890 the Parish Church had a mission hall to serve the community of Newbridge. Picture By: Dodds, Pickering. Pickering Events Picture 4 The visit of Revd S. Chadwick, J. Hurst, H. Dawson and Revd W. Branfield, to a religious meeting in Pickering Market Place on 2nd August 1909. The horse drawn cart on the left bears the name of Sam Baker of the High Mill. This was the man who took on Pickering Urban Council in the famous court case of 1898, which became known as the 'High Mill Saga'. The council refused to allow the building of a brick wall at the road edge in Undercliffe, near the side of the mill. Sam took the case to the high court and won. he retuned to Pickering by train and was given a hero's welcome. Being marched to the mill behind the town band. The wall he built can still be seen today. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 5 The funeral precession of John frank Esq, of Pickering. It passes Mayfield on the way to the new cemetery on the Whitby Road. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 6 Wreaths at the funeral of John Frank Esq. JP of Pickering, June 1910. A huge pile of wreaths sent by inhabitants of the town, show the affection felt for John Frank. this was one of four postcards of the funeral. the man on the left, next to the lady in the large hat, is Mr. Alf Taylor, a Pickering builder. One of Taylor's main contracts was to turn the old steam mill into Pickering's War Memorial Hall in 1922. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 7 The young girls, bedecked with flowers, are assembled in front of the railway wall, at the bottom of Pickering Market Place. They are taking part in a temperance demonstration. The wall and the railway lines have since been removed, to make way for the Ropery Road. Sidney Smith. Pickering Events Picture 8 Temperance demonstration at Pickering in July 1910. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 9 Temperance demonstration at Pickering in July 1915. The girl on the left, up on the trap, is thought to be Mary Hesp. They are seen at the bottom of the Market Place, Arnetts Cafe and Cake Shop can be seen on the left. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 10 William Albert Foster and his brother John Arnold Foster, as they appeared in the Pickering Pageant, which was held in the castle in August 1910. A large number of the towns inhabitants took part and the pageant was hailed a great success. Extra train excursions brought many spectators to the event. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 11 Pickering Gala, 1910. The gala was held in the grounds of the High Hall, in Castlegate, the home of the Michelson family. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 12 Coronation festivities on the 22nd of June 1911. the parade is in Park Street, passing the Station Hotel. The little shop in the centre was later turned into a garage by Sidney Smith, after he returned from the First World War. The small boy with the flag (behind the man in the boater hat) is Arthur Baden Powell Hey. Pickering Events Picture 13 Coronation of King George V, 22 June 1911. Horse drawn floats, sporting the letters 'G.R' lead the precession down the market place. Notice the Royal Coat of Arms on the top of Barbers butcher shop, on the left of the picture. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 14 Further Coronation festivities. Here we see the procession passing Southgate and Train Lane, heading to the railway level crossing - the site of the present traffic lights. The row of houses behind built in the background were given the name of Coronation Terrace. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 15 The festivities continue. A troop of Pickering Boy Scouts parade outside the High Hall in Castlegate. The man on the far right of the front row (with the buttonhole) is Roy Pickering, who later owned a garage in Eastgate. The man on the far right of the row behind him is Jim Pickering, his brother. Pickering Events Picture 16 The crowd in Pickering Market Place takes part in the coronation festivities in 1911. The banner held by the boy in the foreground reads ' Independent Sunday School'. The building on the right, built by Nicholas Piper, Pickering's whaling captain, became, two years later, a bank and then the Conservative Club. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 17 Dolly Shepherd, the famous balloonist is shown taking off in her hot air balloon, at the Pickering Gala, on Wednesday 26 July 1911. She struck a tree branch on her ascent, it stuck in her clothing and can be seen above her head. The gala was held in the Avenue Field, next to Pickering Castle. Dolly Shepherd would tour the country transporting her balloon to events with four horses and a wagon. The balloon was inflated with hot air after building a bonfire close to it. When the balloon rose Dolly hung onto a trapeze below. When it was high enough she would pull a rip cord in order to make the balloon collapse. She would then open a parachute and float back down to the ground. Dolly earned a place in the record books when she came to the rescue of another parachutist in mid-air in 1908. She managed to hoist the girl, who was in trouble, under her canopy at about 11,000 feet and the two descended together. Dolly's daughter, Molly Sedgewick, now undertakes parachute jumps with the 'Red Devils' free fall parachute team of the British Parachute Regiment. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 18 Outside The Primitive Methodist Chapel on Potter Hill, in 1912. this was when Pickering Wesleyan Methodist circuit was formed, after being joined with the Scarborough circuit for many years. Pickering Events Picture 19 Opening of the Conservative Club Rooms and Public Hall, 28 October 1913. In the centre of the doorway is Sir Gervaise Beckett MP (without a hat). Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 20 This is thought to be a Sunday School outing from the Primitive Chapel on Potter Hill in 1915. They are pictured on South Parade now part of Bridge Street. The old mill on the left was later converted to become the towns Memorial Hall. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 21 Tommy Pickering and Shields Coates, with Pickering Urban District Council's dust cart, outside the bank in Market Place. The horse and cart are decorated ready to take part in a procession. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 22 Peace Day at Pickering. The procession down the Market Place was to celebrate the end of the First World War. On the left can be seen the town's horse-drawn fire engine and driver in a brass fire helmet. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 23 Decorated horses and carts from the procession through Market Place. Sidney Smith's shop can just be seen to the extreme left. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 24 Sailors Day 14 July 1919. These ladies with their stall at the bottom of the Market Place are about to sell flags in the shape of pansies to raise funds for the Mission to Seamen. Behind the wall are the London and north Eastern Railway lines to Malton and Scarborough and the crossing keeper can be seen in the signal box (which has long since been demolished. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 25 Raising the Spar Flag on the War Memorial Hall, 9 January 1922. This scene shows the raising of the Spar Flag on the roof timbers, during the conversion of the old steam mill, bought by public subscription, into the War Memorial Hall, by Alf Taylor, builder. Workmen on the roof are Alf Wilson, joiner, in a white apron and Alf Taylor, in a dark hat, the two main contractors. Among the crown are Mr. Shipman (Midland Bank Manager), Jim Thompson (painter and decorator), Mrs Pickup, Charlie Headly (chairman of the Urban District Council), Harry Place (dentist) and Mr Bustard (retired policeman). Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 26 Ten days before the official opening of the Memorial Hall, General Sir Ivor Maxse, head of the British Legion, unveiled the memorial tablets, recording the names of those from Pickering and district who gave their lives in the First World War. The date was 1922. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 27 Opening of the Memorial Hall, 26 April 1922. The opening ceremony on the steps of Pickering War Memorial Hall was performed by Mrs Arthur Kitching, with various civic dignitaries in attendance. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 28 First meeting of Pickering motor Club on 2 January 1924. Club members with their numbered motor cycles are gathered outside the York City and County Banking Company Bank at the bottom of the Market Place. The building on the left id the Whitby Brewery off-licence, which has since been demolished and replaced. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 29 Ramsey Muir MP, visiting Pickering on 1 May 1931. The member of parliament addressed the crowd on Smiddly Hill. The policeman on the right, nearest the car, is sergeant Savage. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 30 Rt. Hon. Lloyd George at Pickering, 1 may 1931. David Lloyd George addresses the crowd on Smiddy Hill, assisted by Ramsey Muir, during an election rally in Pickering. Note the man who has climbed a tree to obtain a better view. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 31 Opening of Council Houses, by Lord Howard 12 April 1933. Pickering's first council houses were situated in Goslipgate and were built by Mr G. T. Potts of Norton-on-Tees. Thirty-two houses were built at a cost of £9,420 the cost of the site was £500. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 32 Pickering Parish Church, new vestries in 1935. They were a memorial to Revd Fairclough (1919-1933), who was the former curate. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 33 This was the scene of a fatal accident in Eastgate, 13 February 1933. Roberts Godfrey, a Rosedale miner, was crushed to death while tunnelling to lay a new sewer pipe in the road as part of the new Pickering sewage scheme. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 34 This was the scene of a fatal accident in Eastgate, 13 February 1933. Roberts Godfrey, a Rosedale miner, was crushed to death while tunnelling to lay a new sewer pipe in the road as part of the new Pickering sewage scheme. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 35 Scene of a car crash in Eastgate. An Army officer crashed into this tree near the North Riding Engineering Garage, owned by Fred Ford and known locally as 'The Green Garage' Pickering Events Picture 36 Children's Welfare 1934. This group of mothers and children illustrates a forerunner of the National Health Service. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 37 Potter Hill Methodist Church, Pickering Jubilee, 1885 to 1935. They are pictured in the yard behind the church. Photo By: William Hayes of Hutton Le Hole. Pickering Events Picture 38 Silver Jubilee Bonfire, Beacon Hill, 6 May 1935. This giant bonfire was built by locals as part of the jubilee celebrations that were enjoyed in the town. The girl in the white dress in the centre on the front row is Lilian Ewbank, daughter of the family who owned Mount Farm on Potter Hill, and in whose field the bonfire was built. On the left are Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bennett and Mrs. J beaver. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 39 Memorial service to King George V, procession at Pickering on 23 January 1936. Boy Scouts, Cubs and Girl Guides march up Pickering Market Place past the Vaults and into Pickering Parish Church for the memorial service. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 40 Royal visit to Pickering Parish Church, by Her Majesty Queen Mary, and the Princess Royal to view the newly restored frescoes on 18 September 1937. The photograph shows The Queen walking from Hallgarth into Church Lane with Revd Austin carrying the umbrella, followed by Lord and Lady Lacell. The man on the right is a police officer. Pictured among the crowd are Mrs E. Hey, with a hat, and Mrs Winnie Watson - they are the two ladies on the left standing under a large umbrella. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 41 The old folks Coronation celebration, 12 May 1937. This group stands on the steps of Pickering Memorial Hall where they would have enjoyed a free afternoon tea as part of the town's celebrations. The steps were removed when the entrance was altered in 1952 at a cost of £3,900. It was altered also to commemorate those who died in the Second World War. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 42 Coronation celebrations, 12 May 1937. Children's decorated bicycles form part of the fancy dress parade outside the chapel on Potter Hill as part of the coronation celebrations. The man in the overcoat and trilby hat, standing behind the decorated three-wheeler, is Walter Holmes who lost a leg in the First World War. He later became caretaker of the Memorial Hall. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 43 Further celebrations. Pickering Town Band, about to march down the Market Place. The band had just been formed and did not have any uniforms until the following year. The band was founded by Duncan Warriner, who purchased instruments in Manchester to get it started. Street collections and concerts were then held to help pay for them. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 44 Wesley Day, 24 May 1938. This group of Pickering townspeople are gathered in Willowgate, to celebrate the bi-centenary of conversion of John Wesley in 1738. The rubble on the right is thought to be the result of the demolition of Flitch's hardware shop, which made way for the Castle Cinema in Burgate. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 45 Armistice Sunday, 1938. In the procession we see Pickering Girl Guides and Cubs, marching over the railway crossing at the bottom of the Market Place. The crossing keeper's signal box is on the left and the railway lamp building is on the right. Both have since been demolished. The sign on the left 'to the golf link', refers to the town's golfing connection at the Rookers. Picture By: Sidney Smith Pickering Events Picture 46 Pickering Hungate Methodist Jubilee Celebrations, 24 May 1940. The group took part in the celebrations. The church was building built in 1890 and the last service was held in 1974 prior to its closure. it was re-opened by Pickering Musical Society as the Kirk Theatre in 1977.   The Landscape Portraits Streets And Buildings At Work Farming Sport And Leisure Events Extreme Weather Transport War About | Virtual Tour | Photo Gallery | Education | Events | Visitor Info | News | Contact www.beckislemuseum.co.uk