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| One of the earliest Pocklington photographs. This remarkable photograph was discovered in an old Primitive Methodist Book. How do we know it is old? The farmhouse shown was extensively altered and extended to replace the cottage in the centre, to become the building we now know as the Garden Chinese Restaurant. We know it is prior to 1897 as that was the year the beck down Grape Lane was culverted (Beastfair bridge can be seen on the right of the picture). It is even older than this because there is no Wilberforce House, which according to Pevsner was built in 1867 by Thomas Grant. There seems to be no railway line, but it may not be possible to see the railway line from this angle. The methodist text gives a clue to the source of the photographs. ''Through the kindness of Rev. G. Ellis we are enabled to give views taken from old prints... of a view of a barn (long since pulled down to make way for a modern mansion) in which the night service was held, As recalling some vanished outward features, then before the eyes of Clowes and his hearers, these views are not without their interest.'' James Francis Ellis was vicar of Pocklington from 1840 until his death in 1876. Is this the barn that John Wesley held his early meetings in Pocklington? |
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