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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
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