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Pickering men sawing timber, 100 years
ago. They are using a saw bench, belt
driven from a flywheel on a steam engine,
and a barrel type water cart is there to
keep the engine supplied with water. The
logs would be taken away in the wagon in
the background.
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William Foster, carrier of Pickering,
who died in February 1915. For fifty-one
years he was a carrier of goods and
travelled twice weekly between pickering
and Malton. It is estimated he made 5,300
journeys and covered a total of nearly
95,000 miles. He is pictured off Westgate.
Picture By: Sidney Smith
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Pickering Church spire, 1910. This
shows the steeple jacks, with ropes and
ladders, working on the church spire. For
many years it was thought that Eric
Taylor, a Pickering builder was the first
local person to climb to the top of the
church spire. However, Mrs. Grace
Winterton, nee Scales accomplished the
task on the 31st of August 1913 when a
painter teased her and promised her a
three penny piece if she would climb to
the top. Her father was Rooke Scales, a
local builder who had worked on the church
spire previously. Probably the only
surviving local person to have touched the
clock on the top of Pickering Church spire
is Pickering author and historian Ron
Scales. In 1950 Taylors Builders of
Pickering scaffolded the steeple to a bout
20 feet from the top and Mr. Scales
climbed a ladder from the top of the
scaffold and touched the cock bird, which
is the size of a small donkey. Picture By:
Sidney Smith
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Fletchers Butchers Shop in Bridge
Street. Displaying fresh meat and
sheepskins outside the shop. Two brothers
owned the shop and Bob Fletcher is on the
right. Next to the door Mr. R. Dodds is
standing in the doorway of the drapers
shop. The railway crossing can be seen on
the right. Probably by Sidney Smith.
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Harry Skaife, beekeeper, with his straw
bee skeps or hives. All the Skaife
families living in pickering were
beekeepers and built their own skeps from
straw. Probably by Boak of Pickering.
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Pickering Postmen and the postmaster
are pictures outside the Post Office in
the Market Place in 1903. The post office
has since been converted into Boots
Chemists. On the back row, the man on the
far left is the postmaster Mr. F. Burn,
who was appointed on 8th July 1902. Third
from the left is postman William C.
Mayment. On the front row, the young man
third from the left (without a cap) is Tom
Taylor.
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The driest summer on record, 1933. A
daily scene at Newbridge, was farmers
taking water from Pickering Beck and
filling wooden barrels to be transported
by horse and two wheeled block cart back
to the farm. The activity is watched by
local children. Picture By: Sidney Smith
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Washing sheep, Newbridge. This is taken
from a set of Sidney Smith postcards
showing different events in the
countryside and shows farmers washing
sheep in Pickering Beck before the days of
chemical sheep dip. Picture By: Sidney
Smith
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Members of Pickering police and members
of the special constabulary line up
proudly outside the Irish Hall, Eastgate
in the 1930's. John Frank who farmed at
Irish Hall is on the back row, with a pipe
in his mouth. Picture By: Sidney Smith
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Morning delivery. Mr. Robert Hogarth of
Black Bull, near Pickering, delivers fresh
milk by pony and trap at the bottom of
Brant Hill, opposite the railway station.
Picture By: Sidney Smith
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Blacksmith brothers Matt and Harold
Fletcher outside their blacksmith's shop
in Park Street. They are hooping a wooden
cartwheel by fitting a red hot steel hoop
or band onto the wheel that is fixed onto
the steel hooping plate. They would then
cool the hoop with water, in order to make
it shrink onto the wood.
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This working scene is at 49 Eastgate,
the yard of the Dale brothers,
wheelwrights and general dealers. On the
left is Harold Johnson a wheelwright from
Ebberston who worked for them. Richard
"Dickie" Dale, wheelwright, is kneeling
and Thomas "Tommy" Dale, general dealer,
is on the right.
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Pickering Fire Brigade in action,
November 1930. Mr. Charles Boulton was
repairing his car in the garage and
joiners shop in Willowgate, when the car
caught fire and the petrol tank exploded.
The car and all the contents of the
building were destroyed and Mr. Boulton
was severely burnt. The fireman holding
the hose is Joe Taylor. It was reported by
a member of the admiring onlookers that as
a joke one of the firemen turned the hose
onto the crowd in order to cool them down.
Picture By: Sidney Smith
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Pickering Fire Brigade in 1940.
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The Station Garage in Park Street was
next to the Station Hotel and for a number
of years was owned by Sidney Smith before
passing to Tommy Thompson and then later
being demolished. From left to right :
Edmund "Eddie" Smith son of Sidney Smith,
Len Watson (employed at the garage),
Harold Fletcher (blacksmith from next
door) and George Watson who worked for the
Pickering Gas and Water Company (he is
sitting on the handcart belonging to the
company). Picture By: Sidney Smith
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Workmen from Pickering Urban Council
are resurfacing the road at the bottom of
Potter Hill, near the Memorial Hall.
Boiling tar is taken from the tar boiler
and spread over the road surface. Small
stones are added before the road roller
(seen on the left) finishes the work.
Picture By: Sidney Smith
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Two forestry workers, thought to be
employed by the Duchy of Lancaster Estate
Yard at Newbridge, are seen felling a
timber near the hunting bridge of
Pickering Forest. Picture By: Sidney
Smith.
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Morning brush up. Mr. Matt Rudd of
Pickering is seen sweeping the stoned
footpath at the bottom of Brant Hill, just
opposite the railway station. he worked
for Pickering Urban District Council.
Picture By: Sidney Smith
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The blacksmith seen hard at work is Mr.
Harold Fletcher. He is fitting a new shoe
to a horse called Queenie, while the owner
Mr. Fred Ward, of Kirby-O-Carr Farm,
Kirbymisperton holds her steady. they are
pictured behind Harold and brother Matt's
blacksmith shop in Park Street. Picture
By: Sidney Smith
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Wheelwright. Richard "Dickie" Dale is
working on a wooden cartwheel outside his
joiners shop in Eastgate 1953. He would
make a two wheeled flat cart from scratch,
build the wheels, fit on the iron tyres or
hoops, then give it several coats of paint
before adding decoration, followed by
numerous coats of varnish. the finished
work of art was then sold and usually went
to Middlesborough for selling fruit in the
markets. Picture By: Gordon Clitheroe
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Pickering barber Jack Redman, who had
his barber shop in Park Street, is cutting
the hair of his small customer, Colin
truck, as his mother Livorna assists by
holding him. Jack played the drum in the
Pickering Town Band and the drum had pride
of place over the shop door.
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