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Pickering Territorials are
seen relaxing in the Avenue Field
close to the castle, before
leaving on 6 August 1914 to take
their place in the First World
War. Hundreds of people assembled
as they marched to the railway
station, under the command of Lt
W. Vause and Sgt Instructor F.C.
Sherwood, to join the battalion
in Scarborough. Picture By:
Sidney Smith
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Wartime Picture
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The Territorials leave
Pickering in 1914. They assembled
in Pickering Market Place,
outside Coverdales shoe shop,
then marched to the railway
station. Assembled to see them
off are friends, relations and
loved ones, all in sombre mood,
with no cheering or flag waving.
By the end of 1916 no fewer than
twenty-five of these Territorials
had been killed in action.
Picture By: Sidney Smith
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Wartime Picture
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The troops line up on the
platform of Pickering Station,
ready to embark on their journey.
They are being given a send-off
by the Boy Scouts and a group of
subdued locals. Sadly
seventy-four men failed to return
to the town after the Second
World War was over. Picture By:
Sidney Smith
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Wartime Picture
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Mrs Norah Kirk, wife of Dr
J.L. Kirk (founder of the Castle
Museum in York) is seen with hat
and coat, sitting in the middle
of a group of wounded soldiers
during the First World War, at
One Oak, Hallgarth. The house was
established as a Red Cross
Hospital in April 1915 and was
still open in 1919. Mrs Kirk was
the matron. The premises
continued in use, as a doctor's
surgery until a new surgery
opened on the Ropery in the
1970s. Picture By: Sidney Smith
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Wartime Picture
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Wounded soldiers from the
First World War are pictured in a
Pickering farmyard. There are
straw stacks and a traction
engine in the background. Picture
By: Sidney Smith
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Wartime Picture
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Pickering Home Defence Corps,
July 1915. The forerunners of the
Home Guard are seen marching over
the railway crossing in Bridge
Street. On the left is the signal
box and behind is the Temperance
Hall (now Beckside Crafts). The
band marching in front would be
either Skaife's Band or Smith's
Band, as the town had two active
bands at the time. Picture By:
Sidney Smith
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Wartime Picture
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The Home Defence Corps on
parade at the bottom of the
Market Place. In the background
are Milburns shoe shop, Dr
Murphy's house and the
Scarborough and Whitby Brewery
off-licence (now Boaks ice cream
shop). Picture By: Sidney Smith
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Wartime Picture
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Members of Pickering Royal
Observer Corps at the Beacon Hill
post in 1945.
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Wartime Picture
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7th North Riding Battalion
Home Guard, No. 2 Platoon 'D'
Company, August 1944. They are
pictured at Lady Lumleys Grammar
School on Middleton Road.
(Massers, Malton)
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