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Market Place Market Place
Note the new building in the photo on the corner.
Regent Street Regent Street
Note the 'Old Red Lion Hotel'
Chapmangate Chapmangate
Note the independent chapel built in 1807 to the left.
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Woldgate History Woldgate History

"A History of Woldgate School"

* 60 pages
* Fully illustrated
* Only £5.00
epp Exploring Pocklington's Past

* Peter Halkon
* Summary of
Pocklington Archaeology
* Only £5.00
Heritage Trail Heritage Trail

"A Pock History & Heritage Trail"

* 2nd edition
* 27 pages
* Old photos
* Only £4.99

People and Places Thumb Old Pock

"People and Places of Old Pocklington"

* 40 pages
* Old photos
* Only £5.99
Adieu WW1 Book

"Adieu to dear old Pock"

  * ww1 diary
  * 53 profiles
  * Local News
  * 299 soldiers
  * 246 pages
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Scouts meeting at Ousethorpe
This newspaper clipping is an early Scouts meeting at Ousethorpe camp in 1909 and interestingly mentions a Cinematograph display in the open air. The Scouts movement was founded only 2 years prior to this event by Robert Baden-Powell.
Early scouts

Hull Daily Mail - Saturday 24 July 1909
Image © Local World Limited.
Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Image reproduced with kind permission of http://www.thebritishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/


Hull Daily Mail
Hull Daily Mail - Tuesday 2 January 1912
Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Image reproduced with kind permission of http://www.thebritishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/

Hull Daily Mail
Hull Daily Mail - Friday 23 February 1912
Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Image reproduced with kind permission of http://www.thebritishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/