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Skaife's Band pose outside Middleton
Village Hall in 1897.
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This splendidly attired cricket team,
from Newbridge, is pictured in 1902. The
names of only three men are known. The man
at the bottom right is Charles Henry
Nicholson, the man standing with leather
gloves and pads on is John Smoth, and
lying down in front is Albert Snowdon.
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Pickering Football Club.Known are, back
row - second from left: Sam Weldon. Middle
row - on right: Yarb Wilson. Front row -
second from left: Charlie Clark, Second
from right: George Snowden.
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Pickering Male Voice Choir, 1909
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Pickering Wesleyan FC, 1909/10. The
team had won the Pickering and District
Schools Football League Shield. On the
left is Major Michelson from High Hall and
the man standing on the back row under the
trees is thought to be Joe Ward from
Southgate. Picture By: Sidney Smith
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Pickering Independent Bazaar, January
1910. On the middle row, the man to the
right of the knight is Billy Maud. Picture
By: Sidney Smith
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Pickering Football Club pose in front
of friends in front of the Meeting House
after winning a silver cup. Picture By:
Sidney Smith
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Pickering Hockey Club 1910/11. the
mixed hockey team is shown on the ground
in Goslipgate at the junction with Vivis
Lane. The lady on the back row, second
from the right is Mrs. Charles Boulton and
on the middle row, the lady on the right
is Mrs. T Taylor, though she may have been
Miss Isobel Rivis at the time.
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Pickering Hotspur FC 1910/11. It is
thought that the team played on a football
field in Goslipgate at the time.
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A Pickering Methodist Sunday School
outing in 1913. The children in the
picture were being taken on a picnic
treat. The rulley pulled by the two horses
is about to start off from outside the
Methodist Church in Hungate with its load
of about thirty boys, along with other
horse drawn carts carrying the girls and
adults. They would travel past Newbridge
and onto Park Gates to enjoy games and a
picnic tea, before returning home to
Pickering. Picture By: Sidney Smith
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This farm wagon pulled by two horses
decorated with flowers and horse brasses
is filled with ladies in their best hats
and dresses. It is passing the top of
Pickering Market Place for a day's outing.
The photo was taken soon after 1912, the
year in which T. Johnson's grocery shop
was extended and the thatched roof
replaced with tiles. The driver is Teddy
Eddon from Stape.
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A Catholic outing by coach sets off
from outside the Catholic Church on Potter
Hill, some time before 1912. Marshalls
joinery shop and entrance into their yard
can be seen in the background. Local
dentist, Harry Place, is in the driving
seat.
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First annual whist drive of The
Pickering Tradesmen, 31st December 1913.
This may have been held at the Central
Hall, which later became the Central
Cinema and is now an auction room. The
lady at the front right, holding a tea
cup, is Mrs. Madge Johnson. The man with
the moustache on the right is Charlie
Turner - who used to wind up the church
clock. the man on the left of the man
holding a paper to his lips is Arthur
"Codge" Frank, a huckster who lived on
Potter Hill. The lady to the front right
is Nora Smith who later worked at the
Central Cinema playing the piano and as an
usherette. Picture By: Sidney Smith
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Pickering Bowling Club, May 1914. The
club played inside Pickering Castle. The
castle provided playing facilities for
both bowls and tennis until the First
World War.
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Capt. Vane's Hounds at Pickering, 14th
January 1914. The hounds and riders are
about to start off from a garden in
Pickering. Picture By: Sidney Smith
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Flashlight Group Independent Bazaar,
1914. On the second row the lady fifth
from the left, with a fan, is Lisa Hood
(nee Maud) and the man on the far right is
Billy Maud. Picture By: Sidney Smith
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Cafe Chantant, Central Hall. Picture
By: Sidney Smith
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Primitive Methodists from Pickering
enjoy their Sunday School treat at Park
Gates. They travelled here by horses and
wagons. The right hand side of the
farmhouse has since been demolished.
Picture By: Sidney Smith
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Primitive Methodist tea feast, 1915.
The group of Primitive Methodists pose for
the camera at Park Gates. This was the
start of Sunday School treats, later on
they travelled by train to Scarborough.
Picture By: Sidney Smith
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Pickering Cricket Club, who have just
won a silver cup, pose in the Avenue field
sometime before 1915. On the back row the
central figure is Roberts Frank (who
captained Yorkshire County Second Eleven
for several years), on the right is Major
Michelson (from the High Hall in
Castlegate - now demolished).
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Pickering Castle Tennis Club. They are
pictured inside the castle in 1920. The
castle provided facilities for both bowls
and tennis but the club went into decline
after the First World War.
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Pickering Town Football Club victorious
team of 1919/20 with the two cups they
have won. Picture By: Sidney Smith
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Miss Green's private tennis club in
Kirkham Lane, 1931. the tennis court was
in Miss Green's garden next to the infant
school. From left to right: Miss Ellen
Green, Aline Lax, Mrs. T. H. Lax, Miss
Madge Johnson, -?-, Mrs. Boulton, Lillian
Stork, Revd Arnold Pendlebury.
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Police Ball, 16 March 1933. This is
thought to have been held in the Memorial
Hall. Sidney Smith.
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Pickering Town Football Club, winning
team pictured with their two cups from the
1934/35 season.
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Pickering Scouts and Cubs pose on the
Memorial Hall steps. the occasion is
unknown but the date is thought to be
1936. Picture By: Sidney Smith
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Pickering Town Band, 17th May 1937.
they are pictured in the Recreation Field,
on the band's first anniversary. Some
bands men purchased their own instruments,
with all the money from playing at events
providing the remaining instruments
required and then a year later a new
uniform for each band member. Picture By:
Sidney Smith
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Pickering Town Silver Prize Band 1938.
the band pose in their new uniforms, in
front of Pickering Memorial Hall. The
steps and doorway have since been removed.
Sidney Smith.
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Pickering Cubs pose in front of the
entrance porch of Pickering Parish Church
after taking part in a church service. The
date is thought to be 1937. Picture By:
Sidney Smith
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Keld Head Spring. Edmund "Eddie" Smith,
son of Sidney Smith, is seen in his
fathers home made boat on Keld Head
Spring. In the background is Keld Head
Hall, built by Nicholas Piper, Pickering's
whaling captain, whose two whaling ships
Henrietta and Swallow sailed from Whitby
to make his fortune. Picture By: Sidney
Smith
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Sidney Smith on his motorcycle, with
nephew Donald Watson (wearing his Lady
Lumleys Grammar School cap) sitting in the
sidecar.
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Wesley Guild Tennis Club, in
Goslipgate. On the back row, fourth and
fifth from the left respectively are Mrs
Watson and Miss Harrison, with Jessie
Barnes on the extreme right. On the middle
row (in deck chairs) are Miss Madge
Johnson (second from right) and Walter Guy
Watson (extreme right).
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Children reading comics at the bottom
of Brant Hill in 1948 or 49. From left to
right: Derek Potter, Anita Ayres, Derek
Cousins, Rex the dog and, standing in the
passage entrance: Brian Middleton and
David Potter. Sidney Smith was riding past
on his bicycle when he saw this group of
children, he stopped and ordered the
children to carry on reading while he
recorded the event. Picture By: Sidney
Smith
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Pickering Town Football Club officials
and second team, seen in front of the old
pavilion on the Pickering Ground in the
1948/49 season. Picture by: Les Shaw.
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Mount St Mary's Convent staging their
play, Robin Hood 1952. The convent was on
the Middleton Road and after its closure
was turned into a residential nursing
home. Picture By: Sidney Smith
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The Horse Shoe Pub outing from
Pickering, thought to be in the 1950's.
The tip was to Stockton, it was organised
by the domino team and funded from their
raffles.
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