Notebook 1 – Pages 1 to 42 - Rowley Collection

SKIPTON LIBRARY – ROWLEY COLLECTION P.G. Rowley – “High Street; Sheep Street; Properties, owners, tenants; Notebook 1” ; (n.d., The Rowley Collection, Item M)

Notebook 1 – Pages 1 to 42

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CONTENTS PAGE

Page Building and/or

address

Page Building and/or address

5 3 High Street [357] CH 161

55 High St, Hole -in-the-wall

11 44 Sheep St, Ship

165 79 High St

17 81 High Street 169 5-13 High St

21 41 High St, Old George

171 5, 7, 9 High St

27 54-56 High St, Black Bull

173 11 High St

33 60 High St, Angel

175 13 High St

37 61 High St 179 15,17,19 High St

CH 43

62-64 High St, Sun

181 15, 17 High St

47 8 High St, Fountain

181 [sic]

19 High St

51 52 High St, Wine mcht

[339] 83

21 High St, Vicarage

55 6 Sheep St 187 21 High St, Shop

57 2 Sheep St 189 21 High St, Town Hall

59 70 High St 191 25 High St

63 27 High St, Red Lion

195 31-33 High St [Alcock]

363 - 69

29 High St, Thanet Arms

199 35-37 High St [Bradshaw]

73 53 High St, Ale & Porter

205 39 High St

77 59 High St, Inn 207 45 High St

81 10 Sheep St 209 47 High St


91 16 High St, Black Horse

215 51 High St



103 26 High St 223 67-69 High St [Heelis]


109 38-40 Sheep St, Brick Hall

227 73 High St

113 65 High St, Wheatsheaf

231 77 High St



125 46 High St, Bay Horse

241 93 High St


135 86-90 High St 249 40 High St

141 58 High St 251 12 Sheep St

[Hall]

145 48-50 High St 255 18 Sheep St

CH 149

44 High St, King’s Arms

259 30 Sheep St

155 40-42 High St [Barrow]

261 28-30 High St

267 32-34 High St

273 18-22 High St

279 [see footnote below]1

1This part of the index- complied by Rowley - is incomplete; see transcriber’s additions to this index on next page



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Building

No. Page Ref Supp. ref nos

3 5

5 7 9

171

241 237 243

245 247

10 173

13 117-175

15 17 19

179

21 183-5-7 221

23 165

25 191

27 63

29 69-363

4 6

301

343

8 97

10 281

12 14

283

16 91

18 20 22

273

329

24 99 321

26 103

28 30

261

309

31 195

33 197

32 34

267

35 199

36 243

37 201

38 109

39 205

40 42

155/249

41 21

43 121

44 149

45 207

46 125

47 209

49 213

48 50

145

51 215

52 51

53 73

54 56

27

55 161-357

57 217

58 141

59 77

60 33 263-7

61 37

62 64

43

63 221

65 113

66 293 359

68 47

67 69

223

70 59 263

72 297 349

71 73

225 4.29 227

74 337 353

76 285 357

78 341 361

75 77 79

319 231 167 165

49

80 347 363

81 83 85 87

17 335 4- 359-13

82

84 129 251

86 88 90

135

257

89



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Mucell Inns Brick Hall Rose & Crown 370 White Horse Joiners Arms 371 Albion 372 Butchers Arms Star Inn 373 New Ship 376 Vicars 165

2 These additional references are written in red ink

Building No.

Page Ref Supp. ref nos.2

SHEEP ST

2 57 63 271

4 307 301

6 55 305

8 365

10 81

12 251 251

14 283

209

16 203 205

18 255 197 205

20 87 187

22 289 181

24 327 175

26 315

221

28

30 259 / 311 175

32 369

221

34

36 309

38 109

121

40

42 353

44 11 33



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{Table of contents} 279 23, 25 Sheep Street3 281 8 – 14 High Street 283 10 High Street 285 76 High Street 287 Parish clerks 289 22 Sheep Street 293 66 High Street 297 72 High Street 299 70 – 74 High Street (Toll Booth) 301 4 – 6 High Street 305 100 High Street 307 4 Sheep Street 309 36 Sheep Street 311 30 Sheep Street 315 26 Sheep Street 317 26, 28, 30 Sheep Street 319 75 High Street 321 14 – 16 Sheep Street 327 24 Sheep Street 329 94 – 96 High Street 333 98 High Street 335 81 - 87 High Street 337 74 High Street 338 Hamilton Thompson – Bolton Priory 339 Vicars of Skipton 341 78 High Street 343 Corner House 347 80 High Street 349 Bland’s Cottage 353 42 Sheep Street 357 Hole in the Wall, 55 High Street 359 81 – 87 High Street 363 Thanet’s Arms, 29 High Street 367 10, 18, 24 Sheep Street 369 32 – 34 Sheep Street 370 Brick Hall 370 White Horse, Rose and Crown 371 Miscellaneous inns, White Horse, Joiners Arms 372 Albion 373 Butchers Arms, Star Inn 374 Heber 375 Malham, Dewhurst 376 New Ship 377 Pedigrees

3 This following list of contents was added by the transcriber and is not in the original notebook}



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(page 3) C.H. Sep 1857 “The usual annual fair of horses was held on Saturday the 22nd August, as the 23rd (which is the usual horse fair day) fell on a Sunday. The show of horses was not so great as we have seen in former years, but a few good horses were offered for sale, and many useful animals disposed of at high prices. The fair, unlike most of its predecessors, was without casualties, and free from pickpockets.”

(page 4) (3 High Street) 4

1650 Rent Roll. “Dorothie Hodge £2.17.6” Resident CB 1655- 1698 Poll Tax. “Dorothy Hodgson 1/-“ In 1733 John Hansen John Alcock, gent. In 1737 Jn Hanson. Jn Alcock, gen. Up to abt. 1730 Jn Alcock on Mill Bridge next to Bradfords 1704. School – Thos Hodgson late Dorothy. Messuage £5.10. The Manor Call Book of 1689 records Mrs Dorothy Hodgson as the occupier, [followed by Thomas Hodgson from 1690 to 93, Francis Ingleby in 1694, George Brogden until 1697, then Mary Brogden. George Brogden bur. 19.11.1696.

In 1698 Dorothy Hodgson succeeded Mary Brogden.] 28.9.1668. Tho. Hodgson of SK = Catharine the dau of Mr Brian Ferrand of Flasby 31.7.1694. Mrs Olive wife of Franciss5 Ingleby Esq of Skipton. bur Dorothy Hodgson died in 1700 and was succeeded by Richard Sugden junr until 1706 when Mary Wallace came. In 1708 William Dring followed, and John Knowles was in part of the property William Dring was tenant at £4.10.0 a year when the 1715 Valuation was made

[Rac…Good …was the daughter of … the King’s Head] 6 Presumably Thomas Hodgson was Dorothy’s son. A Thomas Hodgson m. Catharine d. of Brian Ferrand of Flasby in 1668, and “Mrs Catharine, wife of Mr Thomas Hodgson of Brokabank” was buried in 1694. Church seating 1719. “41. The Earl of Thanet’s servants & Dorothy Hodgson, Tent.”

4 This is now a listed building; occupied by Walker, Charlesworth & Foster, solicitors 5 Sic 6 This line written in pencil is barely legible – probably refers to Rachel Goodgion (see page 5)



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John Alcock came to occupy part of the property in 1733. In 1737 John Hansen ceased residing here and Alcock apparently took over the property. John Hansen was a churchwarden in 1731 John Alcock is described as “of Threshfield” in 1735, but “of Skipton” in 1736.

(page 5) 3 HIGH STREET. The pleasant house known as “The Bailey”, opposite the churchyard, and now occupied by Messrs Walker, Charlesworth & Foster, solicitors, has long associations with the law. 7 The present house appears to date from the late 18th century, for in a Lease of 1785 it is described as a “newly erected dwellinghouse at the upper end of the town”, but a former house on the same site can be traced back to 1650, when it was leased by Lady Anne Clifford to Dorothy Hodgson, as a “messuage or burgage house on the East side of Skipton.” In 1685 the Lease was renewed in favour of her son Thomas Hodgson, although Dorothy Hodgson survived to 1700, when the Parish Registers record her death “aged almost 90”; It is possible that the Hodgsons did not themselves occupy the house, but underlet it, and by 1713 it seems that the occupier was the parish clerk, William Dring. Mr Dring’s loss of the office of parish clerk was probably due to his personal conduct, on which some light is thrown by the Parish Registers. 14th August 1712. Elizabeth, daughter of William Dring and Rachel Goodgion of Skipton, baptized (the parish clerk, marry’d and perform’d penance as Adulterer) 3rd February 1715-6. William, base son of William Dring (late Parish Clerk of Skipton) and Martha Knowles of the same, baptized. From the Call Book of the Manor of Skipton, it appears that Mr Dring lived in this house until November 1715, but by April 1716 there is a new tenant – Thomas Sawley, a shoemaker, but probably a reasonably prosperous shoemaker as he had in 1714 married Grace Birtwhistle, a member of the well-to-do Skipton family of graziers. They had one child only, Mary, before Thomas died in 1718, aged 29, and his widow remarried in the house, but the Call Book for October 1720 lists the occupier as “Grace Sawley, now John Hansen”. What the arrangement was is not clear, but at all events John Hansen, a yeoman farmer from Kirkby Malhamdale, married Grace Sawley, widow, in 1724. On 1st Jan 1735-6, Grace’s daughter, Mary Sawley … {continued on page 7}

(page 6) (3 High Street) John Alcock had been articled to Richard Robinson, the Earl of Thanet’s steward at Skipton Castle. In documents up to 24th Jan 1735-6 he attesd as “John Alcock of Threshfield”, but on 2nd Feb 1735-6 he is “John Alcock of Skipton” In 1741 John Hanson of Skipton voted in respect of property at Kirkby Malhamdale

7 “History : WALKER FOSTER was originally established in Skipton in 1919 by Arthur H. Walker, whose grandson Peter is one of the current partners. Following his premature death in 1939, the firm was caretaken by C. H. (Charlie) Charlesworth until Arthur Walker's son Brian, together with William Foster, joined the firm in 1949. The firm's name then became Walker Charlesworth & Foster, a title retained until 1992, when shortened to the current Walker Foster, following the death of C.H. Charlesworth, although he himself had retired in 1962. … The firm's head office is at 3 HIGH STREET, SKIPTON, a prominent Georgian building at the top of the eastern side of the high street opposite the Parish Church. This building was purchased in 1958 and was converted at that time from a private house into offices, a use to which it was and remains very well suited. The rear of the property was the original office of the Craven bank, established as the first bank in Craven in 1791. Having passed through the hands of Martins Bank between 1906 and 1969, it finally became Barclays Bank.” (source: http://www.walkerfoster.com/history.cfm accessed 14.11.07)

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A brass in the Parish Church refers to “John Alcock, of this town, whose conduct in life was an honour to his profession.” Churchwardens’ A/Cs.

14.9.1729 To Grace Sawley for bread for sacraments from Xmas last to this day 21 loafs @ 2d a loaf 3/6d

7.5.1732 To Jno Hanson for Bread for communion 3/2d 9.3.1738 To John Hanson for Bread ye whole year 4/10d 9.5.1742 John Hanson for Communion bread for a year 5/6d 11.9.1748 John Hanson Corn: Bread 4/9d 27.5.1750 John Hanson for Bread 3/6 do 21.4.1751 2/- 19.5.1754 7/- 13.4.1755 John Hanson for Sacramental Bread 5/8d 6.5.1759 Mr Alcock for Bread 8/11d

1834 Poll Book. Henry Alcock, High St. Fr. Ho & land [Gan?]flat William Alcock m. 1787 Eliz. d of John Nicholson of Appleby and granddaughter of Richard Robinson. John Nicholson was first cousin of the Rt. Hon. John Robinson M.P., Lord North’s political manager.

Henry Alcock’s residence is given as High St. in the Poll Books of 1835 and 1838, but at Aireville in 1841. In the Parish Registers he appears as of Aireville in 1838. c.1838-9. Insce proposal by Isaac Dewhurst of Skipton Cotton Mfr on “cotton wool deposited in a warehouse in Skipton under which Mr. D. has a stable and coach house these all adjoin his dwelling house.”

(page 7) (3 High Street) {continued from page 5}… married John Alcock, an attorney, and they founded a family which became the most prominent and influential in the town. In 1739 the house was leased to John Alcock for 21 years, as a “messuage farm or tenement commonly called Hodgson tenement, consisting of the said messuage, one barn and one stable adjoining, all in the possession of John Hanson,” and the same John Alcock took a renewal of the Lease for a further 21 years in 1760, and appears as the occupier in a Window Tax Assessment of 1771, in which the house was taxed 14 shillings on 11 windows. He died in 1783, and was succeeded by his only surviving son William Alcock, who took the next 21 years’ Lease in 1785, and it must be shortly before this that the present building was erected. William Alcock was also an attorney, and became in 1791 one of the original partners in the Craven Bank. A Castle Estate Survey of 1792 returns the new house as “A handsome house called Hanson’s tenement,” although John Hanson had died in 1758 and his widow in 1771. William Alcock died in 1819, and his son Henry followed him on this property, in the attorney’s practice and in the Craven Bank. He remarried at “The Bailey” until the late 1830s and built “Aireville” as his new residence in the late 1840s. A glimpse of the lush living of the Alcock family at this time is given by Mr R.B. Cragg, writing in “The Craven Herald” in 1899: “The last sedan chair in Skipton. This belonged to the late Mr Alcock, when he lived where Mr T.P. Brown now lives, immediately before he built and went to reside at Aireville. It was generally used to take his two daughters to school… They were daily taken to a school kept by a Miss Wimberley which was held in



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Lascelles Hall. One old lady informed the writer that they were carried by two footmen who wore plush knee-breeches, with canary coloured waistcoats and cut-away swallow-tailed coats, and when they had to take the young ladies to evening parties, their hair was powdered. This would be in the year 1835 or so.” On leaving High Street, Henry Alcock let this house to Isaac Dewhurst, cotton spinner, who appears there in a Castle Estate Valuation of 1838 and in a Land Tax Assessment of 1847. The 1851 Census Return and a local Directory of … {continued on page 9}

(page 8) (3 High Street) Thos Brown’s wife Mary, who died in 1874, was the eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Bradley of the Devonshire Hotel, who would be born whilst her parents were at the old “Sun” Inn in High Street. Thomas Brown was the great-nephew of John Parkinson, attorney, of Otterburn, who d. unm. In 1834 & left his estates to Thomas. John Parkinson was the great-grandson of Wm. Parkinson of Eastburn 1623-74, whose uncle Thos. Parkinson of Carleton 1607-71 was admitted to Grays Inn and purchased the Carleton estate from the Ferrands in 1651. Ann dau. of Thos. Parkinson m Dr Martin Lister F.R.S.

(page 9) (3 High Street) {continued from page 7}… 1853 show that John Slingsby, another cotton spinner, followed Isaac Dewhurst, and by the time the new Local Board of Health issued its first rate book in 1859 Thomas Brown was living in the house. Thomas Brown was a solicitor and the Craven Coroner, and on his death in 1876 his son Thomas Parkinson Brown succeeded to the practice and the coronership. He also lived at “the Bailey” until his death in 1905, after which his sister Miss Isabel Brown lived there. It is curious that in 1904 Mr T.P. Brown had (with his partner Mr Edgar Wood) amalgamated with the firm of Charlesworths & Wilson, who had succeeded to the Alcock practice. C.H. 23.10.1903. Cragg. Thomas Brown moved 48 years since [1855]. Before that time he had his office and house opposite the Devonshire Hotel, Newmarket Street. [prob. cf. p. 231] 30.10.03. Edmondson; office occupied site of The Devonshire taproom on S. Nmt.

(page 10) (44 Sheep Street, The Ship Hotel) 8 In 1606 there was a Lease to Wm. Heelis of a messuage, lathe, barn, garden & baillside, and 2 oxgangs of land in his possession. 17.7.1637. William Heelis of Skipton, bur. 1650 Rent Roll. “John Stainton, for Mr Shaftoo’s messauge and ten’te, for the halfe of the old rent only. 9/-“ 5.7.1634. George Shaftoe = Margret Goodjion [see p.110] 1.3.1635/6 Mary, d. of Mr George Shaftoe of Skipton, bap. 24.7.1639 Francis d. of Mr George Shaftoe of Skipton. bap. In 1639 George Shaftoe of Skipton, Gent. took a Lease of Closehouse. 1680 Valuation. John Howarth at will. Messuage, 3 cottages, 2 barns, stable, 2 gardens, backside. 1685 Lease to Daniel Fenton 1719 Church seating. “41. 2d Thanet’s for Fenton 2 persons”

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1722 [Wm Varley] Th Capstick … 1726 Mich Brown m. Wm Varley 9 Henry Barrowes, see p. 156; 12.10.1745 pd to John Towson for Drinks for ye watch

28.1.1757 pd to Emanl Lowcock for Meat & drink 1/6d 24.5.1760 Ale at Emanuel Lowcock 1/4d

Constables’ Accounts: May 11.1760 to 35 pints of ale at Emanuel Lowcock’s 5/10d Church seating 1719 42. Ld. Thanet for Fenton 2 persons From the Manor Call Book it appears that “Emannuel Laycock” took over the property from John Towson in 1750. The Constables’ Accounts of 1745 have an entry “Pd to Jno Towson for drink for ye watch 1s 1d” – a reference to the precautions against the rebel invasion from Scotland. In 1743 the Call Book names John, followed by Eleanor Wilson and John Wilson, a victualler, died in that year. In 1740 Richard Sugden appears in the Call Book, and an earlier Call Book of 1732 refers to “Thomas Capsticks now Richard Sugden.” The Parish Registers have baptisms of children of Richard Sugden, victualler, 1732 and 1736. Thomas Capstacks, formerly a weaver, appears as a victualler from 1723 to 1732; he was a “Bayliff” when he died in 1737. The Call Books show that Thomas Capstick in 1722 followed William Varley, who does not appear in the Parish Registers, & who had followed Michael Borran in 1720. Michael Borran, a victualler from Bradley is mentioned in the Skipton Registers from 1717 to 1723.

(page 11)

44 SHEEP STREET 10

The “Ship Inn” on Ship Corner stood where Timothy Whites & Taylors now have their chemist’s shop11. In a schedule of Castle Estate Leases these premises appear as a “Messuage farm or tenement within the Town Field of Skipton, heretofore in the possession of William Heelis deceased” and they were let in 1650 to John Staynton on a 21 years’ lease. This entry is annotated “1684 Daniell Fenton now tenant at will.” Daniell Fenton, from Leeds, had married Frances Preston of Skipton in 1682, and in 1685 there was a new Lease to Daniell and Frances Fenton, innholders at Leeds, of “a messuage dwellinghouse 3 cottages 2 barns and one stable at the lower end of the west side of High Street.” Beside this entry is the comment “Most of the buildings are ruinous.”

9 This line of notes is written in pencil and is barely legible 10 This is now a listed building 11 2007 – this is now (2020) occupied by Oxfam and The Kibble Coffee House (formerly the Candle Shop); the upper storeys recently converted into luxury apartments and named “The Old Ship Hotel”.



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This Lease must have been surrendered, because in the 1690s the same premises now described as “Fenton’s Farm” were comprised in a new 21-year Lease to Henry Barrows, a tallow chandler, and an early 18th Century Castle Estate Valuation c1715 records his son Richard Barrows (also a Chandler) as the tenant, and notes that “the houses are old and require great charge repairs.” In 1721 the property was leased to Edward Heelis, described as a yeoman, for 31 years and this lease wqas renewed in 1754 for a further 21 years. In 1772 we find the first reference to the “Ship”; when the premises were leased in that year to John Heelis they were described as a “Messuage farm or tenement consisting of a dwellinghouse being the sign of the Ship and two cottages, two houses and two barns with a stable and small shop.” It is possible that the name of the “Ship” is due to its proximity to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, the Skipton section of which was opened in 1773, but which would be under construction by thirsty labourers for a few years before that. Whatever the origin of the name, however, it is clear that the premises were licenced premises, perhaps under another name, earlier than this, in the 1771 Window Tax Assessment Emanuel Lowcock is named as the occupier, and the 10 windows were taxed at 11s 4d. The parish registers contain entries of the baptism of children to Emanuel Lowcock, innkeeper, and Catharine his wife in 1763 and 1764 and …{continued on page 13}

(page 12) (44 Sheep Street) 1717 Mich Barron n. Hen. Chapman 1714 Rob. Johnson n. Alice Gibb m. Hen Chapman 1713 Alice Gibb wo. n. Tho. Williamson 1712 Thos. Williamson n. Jn. Judson m. Wid. Gibb 1708-11 John Judson 1707 Fra. Pearson m. Jn. Judson ?1699-1702 Jane Castle widow ?1691-96 Matt Cooke [then exchanged with Jn. Boocock apoth. across Ship Corner] Presentment 1711 “Skipton. Cor. Alicia Gibb, for suffering company to tiple drink in her house in time of divine service” Court Leet 23.10.1771 Clean passage of highway at the North end Constable’s Acct. paid at Wm. Lowcock for the inquest

Bk Nov 1794. dinner of a child that was burnt to death 13s 0d Wm Alcocks A/Cs 21.1.1818 News Room. Skipton. On the 19th instant paid by subn. £1.10 for 1818 to Th. Landld of the Ship C.B. 1799 Wm. Lowcock: 1800-10 > Ezra Thornton [Eliz Lowcock] 1810-24 [Ez to Thornton] Wm Brown 1827 4.9.1800 Wm Lowcock of Skipton Innholder d.43 “Killd by a fall from his horse” 20.2.1799-80 Wm Lowcock Butcher M/cr = Eliz Lowcock Spr this par [d. of Emanuel Lowcock] His wife’s mother was fmly Mary Lowcock Ezra Thornton was a coal dealer in 1806, when he m. Ann Beck. His daughter Ruth m. in 1810 The children of William and Hannah Brown, innkeeper, are baptd from 1815 to 1831 17.9.1835 John Howson, Plumber & Glazier, Bach. = Hannah Varley, wid. NEW SHIP 7.7.1837 Leeds Intelligencer. “Mr Pearson, of the Ship Inn”



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C.H. 1906 Aug 31: Ct. Leet. The Ship Tavern, the house of John Howson 1854 C.P. 26.3.1870 Saml 19.2.1876 Mr Atkinson, Ship Inn Hotel, Skipton Court Leet 9.11.1808 } Ezra Thornton, Inn holder

4.5.1814 } 1.5.1822 William Brown, the Ship Inn

23.20.1805 Mrs Eliz Lowcock. Innholder 6.5.1829 Wm Brown’s The Ship Inn 18.5.1832 Jas Varley; Ship Inn 21.4.1836 Ship Inn, Jn Howson

C.P. 27.11.1885 “Mr John Hogg, a well known auctioneer and landlord of the Ship Hotel, has just retired from the position of a licensed victualler, he being succeeded at that well known hostelry by Mr Francis Addyman, who has given up his own business as a currier in Skipton… it has always appeared to be his aim to make his house a quiet and comfortable place of meeting for the respectable tradesmen of the town than a place of carousal for tipplers… As his successor is a respectable tradesman of the town, connected with the Methodist body, there is good reason to hope that as a house for commercial men, the Ship Hotel will continue to merit the good name it has enjoyed under Mr Hogg for quietness and p ish12 comfort.”

(page 13) (44 Sheep Street) {continued from page 11} … Emanuel Lowcock was buried in 1774. His widow, Catherine, carried on the public house until she died in 1793. [Ct. Leet. 17.10.1781. Causing dunghills & rubbish to remain on fronts. Catherine Lowcock] The Castle Estate Valuation of 1792 calls the property “The Ship Alehouse at the corner of Swadforth.” The next lease was in 1797, when John Heelis Jnr. of Skipton Castle took 40 years Lease at £14 a year, on the understanding that he would lay out £400 in the erection of a good and substantial building. The premises are now described as: “All that messuage, dwellinghouse and tenement called by the name of Nook End situate at the corner of Swadforth consisting of the Ship Public House with several small dwellings or cottages, a Barn, Stable and other buildings adjoining fronting the street on both sides of the said corner.” The Land Tax Returns, which from 1783 to 1790 call this portion of John Heelis’s property “Lowcock tenement” in 1795 and 1796 refer to it as “Nook End.” From the Manor Call Books it seems that Elizabeth Lowcock was under-tenant in the early 1800s, being succeeded by Ezra Thornton who appears in the Parish Registers as an innkeeper in 1808 to 1812. His daughter Hannah married in 1814 William Brown, a farmer from Gisburn, who appears as a licensee in local directories from 1822 to 1834. In 1834 James Varley is named as the landlord, and from 1838 to 1859 John Howson, a plumber. There seems to have been some connection between the Howsons and the Varleys, because in the 1841 Census Returns there were living at the “Ship” John Howson, Publican, Hannah his wife and Thomas Varley, then aged 13, and in the 1861 Census Return we find “Thomas Varley, Farmer and Innkeeper”. To these occupations Mr Varley, who died in 1868, added those of Solicitor and Deputy Coroner. Samuel Atkinson then took over the house for a short period, but by 1874 John Hogg was the landlord; he was a son of Thomas Hogg, who was a cabinet maker in Caroline Square for many years, and he (John) had followed him as a cabinet maker and also practiced as an auctioneer. Francis Addyman, 1886-8, was the next landlord, and then the old inn was completely demolished and rebuilt, the frontage being set back to widen the roadway which is said to have been… {continued on page 15}

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(page 14) (44 Sheep Street) C.P. 3.12.1886. Mr F. Addyman has established himself at the Ship Hotel vice Mr. J. Hogg, who has retired from that portion of his business, leaving to his successor a good house and a worthy example to follow. 25.5.1888 “The new buildings comprising the post office, shop and general offices in Swadford St. erected by

Messrs Scott and Robinson, are now approaching completion, and the long talked of demolition of the Ship Hotel will soon be commenced prior to the second section of the block of new buildings which will complete the Ship Corner alterations being commenced. It is intended to unroof the Ship Hotel the first week in June, & we understand a licence is to be applied for to carry on the business temporarily in the new post office buildings. Mr Addyman, the landlord, has taken the house formerly occupied by the late Mr John Calvert in Newmarket Street to reside in himself and to accommodate the commercial travellers who have for many years made the Ship Hotel their home when on the road.”

6.7.1888 “The work of demolishing the Ship Hotel is about to be begun. Mr F. Addyman the tenant having this

week removed to what will afterwards be the new Post Office in Swadford St, where the business of the Ship will be carried on during alterations.”

17.8.1888 “The Ship Hotel and the shop recently occupied by Mr Porri have been razed to the ground and the

work of digging out the foundation of the new building will be begun forthwith… It is intended to have the building completed in May.”

3.2.1893. “Mr Miles Ackernley, a gentleman well known & respected throughout the town and district, will shortly

be tenant of the Ship Hotel, in success [sic] to the late Mr. W. Sanguine.” 11.10.1887. Etching of P.O. & Ship Bgs. Increase with 23’ to 42’ at narrowest point. 12.3.1649. “Geo. Shaftoe gent by Capt. Henry Goodgion has asked that a Lease be made of one burgage house

and one garden in Skipton now in his possn and one little close late Townleys.” Raikes Cemetery. Thomas Hogg of 6.9.1859 @ 55; Ellen wife of Miles Ackernley & dau of Thomas Hogg d.6.11.1870 in 33rd year. Mary Ann wife of Thomas d. 8.5.1873 @ 68 Miles Ackernley d.16.5.1902 @ 65 at Ship, pupil-teacher at British School, traveler for Dewhirsts, traveller for Scott & Co. “Arty Momms” Ticklers b. at Bradley. Arty Momms Ticklers [1880] p.78 [19.12.1874]. “The most interesting feature about the Ship Corner is the

triumphal arch which has been erected there once a year since the establishment of our far famed Agricultural Show, now over 20 years ago.”

C.H. 5.6.1914. Andrew Waterhouse, Ship Inn. 13

(page 15) (44 Sheep Street) {continued from page 13} … so narrow at Ship Corner that two vehicles could not comfortably pass each other. Francis Addyman continued as licensee of the rebuilt “Ship” until February 1892. Mr Wm. Sanguine then took over for 10 months until his death on 27th Dec 1892 at the age of 38.

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C.P. 7.2.1890. “The Ship Corner alterations which have extended over a period of two years, have practically just been completed by the formal opening of the newly constructed Ship Hotel. It may be remembered that the Local Board purchased from Messrs Scott & Robinson, at a cost of £2600, as much ground as would enable them to increase the width of the Ship Corner from 23 ft to 42 ft at its narrowest point.” 17.5.89. “The plasterers employed by Mr Bailey at the new Yorkshire Bank and the new Ship Hotel struck work on Monday for an increase of wages. Mr Bailey immediately took steps to replace the strikers and it is stated that very little inconvenience has been felt in consequence of his being able to fill the vacant places with fresh men.” 12.7.89. The footpath around the Ship Corner has just been kerbed and flagged, and the interior fittings of the house are being rapidly pushed forward, as are also those of the Yorkshire Bank… The footpath at the Ship Corner is not an inch too wide, and may prove too narrow unless the police make a determined stand against the obstructive “corner men”. C.P. 28.4.1877. Scarcely had the decision of the Local Board to postpone the alteration of the Ship Corner been made public, when an accident occurred on the very same spot, as if by way of protest against the flagrant neglect to which it has been thus so unexpectedly consigned.” 22.1.1886. “The long talked of alterations at the “Ship” Corner” in Skipton now appear more likely to be realized. The L.B.H. have agreed with Mr John Scott, the owner of the Ship ppty, as to the terms of purchase, and it is probable that before long the work will be begun. This part is the busiest thoroughfare of the whole town, and the sooner the work of alteration is completed the better; for the narrowness of the road here and the sharp angle have been the cause of numerous accidents both to persons on foot and to persons on wheels.” The “Ship” was sold by the Castle Estate to John Scott and Thomas Robinson 11.2.1860, and by Scott & Co (Skipton) Ltd to Wm Fredk Bower, a licensed Victualler on 4.3.1921. He sold it to Kendall Chew, Ale & Porter Mcht on 16.1.1922. The last licensee, Mr Tinsley, gave up possession on 1st July 1924.

(page 16) (81 High Street) 14 The adjoining shop No 63 was \ sub / let in 1838/40 to Wm Laycock, who insured it \ contents / in 1829, \building described / as “very recently erected.” 1827 Rent. Jn Tillotson. Bgs. £5. 30/5/1816. Wm. Laycock of Lumb Mill, p. Kildwick, Grocer – Martha Tillotson. 1841 Census. Henry Butler, 55, Shopkeeper. 1851 “ \ cf p.205 / “ “ Patten Maker. Haigh: “Wild Harry, then Barraclough Confectioner then his son Robert, now J. Nayler. I remember a fire there 60 years ago.” C.P. 21.1.1865 quote Leeds < Mercury > Intell. “one of the inmates shouted out of a window 7 stories high.” L. Mercury: loss covered by insurance.“ C.H. 17.6.1910. Bard of the Glen. “Sparks from a satirical forge: or our Drapers’ Selling off” This is a poem of 40 6-line verses which were written as a result of a draper named Henry Howarth, who had opened the shop now occupied by Mr Barraclough, confectioner, and was gathering customers by underselling his contemporaries. He hailed from Bacup, and was consequently known in the town as Bacup Harry. This underselling caused a regular flutter in the drapery dovecots. But Harry’s career soon came to an end, for this mode of business had a more prejudicial effect on himself than on his contemporaries. Compounding with his creditors… [left town] Bacup Harry’s predecessor was old Harry Butler, whose shop was an omnium gatherum of odds and ends of every description. Here you could buy Everton toffee (md on the premises) and other sweets and confectionery, and

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here you could see a shop a shop window mainly devoted to a promiscuous assortment of old keys of all sizes shops and makes. Harry was a member of the Butler family of Carleton Biggin. This poem is dated <1858> \ 1851 / <when Harry Butler was still at the shop.>

(page 17) 81 HIGH STREET. The shop which formed the more easterly part of what is now Woolworth’s store formerly part of the Skipton Castle Estate. In a Survey of 1838 it <appears> \is recorded/ that John Tillotson was the lessee, and Henry Butler the under-tenant, and Henry Butler appears as a “clog and patten maker” in Caroline Square in directories from 1834 to 1853, although at varying times he is returned \also/ as a fruiterer (1838) and a bookbinder (1853). In November 1855 John Hargreaves and Mrs Scott took over the shop as a glass china and earthenware shop, and John Hargreaves, cooper, is named in Caroline Square in an 1857 Directory. <By 1861> In August 1862 The Craven Pioneer was advertising as to let “London House, Caroline Square” which had “been conducted as a drapery establishment for the last four years. Apply to Mr. Joseph Lambert,” and Mr Lambert was in fact a linen draper here at the time of the 1861 Census. The next chapters in the history of this property are graphically recorded in the Craven Pioneer in 1865. On the 14th January it is reported that on the previous Tuesday “the large and well-stocked shop of Mr. J.P. Cockshott, known as London House, was found to be on fire…A very general and loud complaint is made respecting the incapability, bungling and tardiness of some members of the fire brigade… Some members of the brigade, we are sorry to hear, were not in a fit state for their work and though they seemed in no need of beer, “allowance” was asked for before they would begin.” The only redeeming factor, we gather from the report is that the stock was insured. A month later the newspaper resumes the story. “We are sorry to hear that Mr. J.P. Cockshott’s trouble did not end with the recent fire in his drapery establishment. Mr. Marham, who was his assistant or partner, has suddenly left the town, and taken with him a large portion of the money received from the Insurance Company, between three and four hundred pounds we hear, his present whereabouts being unknown. This treacherous act has of course placed Mr Cockshott in an awkward position and we understand he has found it necessary to declare himself a bankrupt.” cf p 201. By June 1865 the paper is announcing that M. Barraclough (daughter of and successor to Ann Oldfield) has removed to the shop: … {continued on page 19}

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13.4.1888 15 Wm. W. Barraclough, confectioner, C.Sq d. Ap 8 @ 69. Formerly currier in the employment of the late Mr Peter Buck, m. daughter of late Mrs Oldfield, confectioner & succeeded to the business of his mother-in-law at her death. 22.6.1888 Robert Barraclough, confectioner, 81 H St, thanks for patronage bestowed on his late father since 1850, & to say that the business in future will be carried on by him. Skipton Drapers Selling Off. 16 Come, ye folks from Malham Moor, See a sight ne’er seen before; Drapers sell to rich and poor Cheap apparel! Bustles lay <and> on shelf and flor, Large as a barrel! Tho’ competition round us clatter, While we sell our paramattas,

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And the bairns stand laughing at us, Lee cries out Tp—ng ‘Till all be sold to settle matters, I sha’nt be flitting. Bad luck to all thy nine [?brg] Tailors, Who had no pity on poor failers, But stood to laugh at bitter wailers, And seem’d to thank Those who we called the “London nailors” Thrash Burn and Ba[?nk]. Garforth, poor man, left on the stubble, He better had pursued a bubble, It had not caus’d him half the trouble, Oh trial’s hard; If from this town he does not double, He’ll cheat the Bard. Ah! Smith, lyle Smith, does not agree With those thou sell cheap drapery; He’s not a grain of charity For puff paraders He says that Tip and Joseph Lee Are but invaders. Those fine big shops do murder all The petty ones which daily fall I was the last that Fate did call, But may be brother To those who shoot the puffing ball At one another. Skipton 1851.

(page 19) (81 High Street) “Bride’s Cakes, Funeral Biscuits and all kinds of confectionery supplied in shortest notice.” There still survives a copy of one of Ann Oldfield’s advertising circulars, beginning with the opening sentences of the burial services, and containing a doggerel rhyme “Come to judgment” which begins: “While with regret we hear from day to day Some much-\loved/ friend by death is snatched away.” This was apparently intended to induce the bereaved to buy Ann’s funeral biscuits. William Wormald Barraclough appears in \the 1858 Rate Book, and in/ Directories from 1866 to 1888 as a Confectioner, and he was succeeded by Robert Barraclough \confectioner and pork butcher./ In 1916 the shop passed to J. Naylor, butcher, then to James Brook Naylor, confectioner, and finally in 1934 it became part of Woolworth’s store. Sparks from a Satirical Forge Or, our Drapers Selling Off. ‘Tis now Eight years since last I strung, My humble harp, and loudly sung, How Drapers were by Drapers strung, And since that day Some, who to our town had clung, Were chased away. If country people could but see, Your selfish traps as well as me, I’m sure they would more wise be, Than buy your shoddy; Or run to where they only see, Dog biting Doggie. Success to our new beginner, - No matter whether saint or sinner, - In competition he’s yet the winner; No chubbs have married him



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Fearless of every Jinny-spinner, We will regard him. Skipton 1868.

(page 20) (41 High Street, Old George Inn) 17 12.3.1649. It is this daie agreed upon by The right honble Anne Countess Dowager of Pembroke and her honble Commissioner hereunder named That Robert Aiston of Skipton and Margaret Barrowe daugther unto Hugh Barrowe decd shall have a Lease of one messuage & tenement with thappurtenances in Skipton of the ancient yearly rent of 33s 8d. 21 years. 3 hens & 8 loads of coale. Fine £174.10.0 Survey c1600. Thomas Barrows. Lea. Eliz. M & b. 3 ½ oxgangs 33/7d & 1 clowe. 38/6d. Rent Roll 1611. Thomas Barrows. 21.10.1622. Hugh s Thos Barrowe of Skipton bap. 8.4.1644. Hugh Barrowes of Sk. qu. \bur./ 1.5.1644. Margret d Hugh Barrowes of Skipton bap. 21.2.1686.7. Jennet the wife of Hugh B. of Sk bur 8.4.1649. Maudlend. “ “ bap. 3.7.1639. Hugh B. = Jenit Buck 30.8.1657. Hugh B of Skipton bur. Hearth Tax 1672. Robert Aston. 9. 1650 Rent Roll. Robert Aiston, his half yere’s old rent 16/10d CB 1655 – 1699. Robert Ashton. 1678-80 \-85/ Mgt. Claphamson Wid. p. mess. nup. Robert Ashton. The Manor Call Books from 1689 to 1695 record Robert Claphamson as the occupier. He died in 1695 and was followed by Mary Claphamson until 1697, when Edward Chippendale succeeded her. He was buried 20.11.1698,8 followed by his widow Isabel, and in 1705\-7/ by Thomas Clarke. 30.4.1685. Thomas Clarke p. Longpreston = Eliz. Boulton of this par. 30.9.1673. Frances d Mr Rob: Claphamson Posthumus bap (bur 28.6.78) 1.5.1644. Margret fill: hugh Barrowes of Skiptonn bap. 28.6.1678. Frances ye Daughter of Margrett Claphamson of Sk. Bur. Ch. 22.9.1695. Robt Claphamson of Skipton bur. Sk. 22.9.1695. Robt Claphamson of Skipton bur. 18 B.A. 26.6.1740. Mary Claphamson widow bur. Thomas Moorhouse succeeded Thomas Clarke in 1707. Thos. Moorhouse = Sarah Green. 21.10.1682. Sarah wife of Thos Moorhouse of Sk Vict bur 19.8.1716. 1719 Church Seating “44. Henry Howson for … George Inn, all Ld Thanets.” Elizabeth, his second wife, was one of the Goodgions. Chdn’s A/cs. 12.6.1735. Pd. Will Hooson for the Dinner. Entries to 1760.

John Pullan appears from 1767. Wm. Howson was a Churchwarden in 1753. Ct Leet 19.10.1724. Hen Howson fined 6/8d for killing a bull without baiting. 18.10.1740. Wm. Howson and the occupiers of his slaughter house do permit blood and other offals

and unwholesome Garbage to run and be taken into the street.

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(page 21) 41 HIGH STREET Writing in a series of articles on local history in the “Craven Herald” in 1903, the local antiquary Mr. R.B. Cragg expressed the popular view of this inn; that it was “established about 150 years ago, the sign of the Old George being adopted in memory of the first or Farmer George, the first of the house of Brunswick” who reigned until 1727. In fact, popular tradition did this house an injustice – it is much older than was supposed, and is recorded in a Castle Estate Rent Roll of 1649 as “One ancient burgage, two stables, one great barn, one house and cow house, one garden, one croft and backside or fold, in which messuage or burgage is a wyne seller to which auntiently did belong a Pycers for retailing of wyne – Robert Aisten”. A late 17th Century Schedule of lettings reveals a 21-year Lease in 1650 to Robert Ashton, vintner, and Margaret the daughter of Hugh Barrow, of the messuage or tenement occupied by Robert Ashton, and the Lease as renewed in 1671 in favour of Robert Ashton and Robert Claphamson. Robert Ashton died in 1676, and the next Lease, in 1692, to Margaret and Robert Claphamson is of the “Messuage or Mansion house called The George Inn” which establishes that the name commemorates St. George (as in the “George and Dragon”) and not any of the Hanoverian Kings. In 1704 Mary (Mgt), the widow of the late Robert Claphamson, is tenant of the George Inn, and she appears as a pensioner of Thomas, the “Good Earl” of Thanet, in 1713-26, when she is described as “widow of Robert Claphamson, who farm’d the George Inn in Skipton.” Thomas Moorhourse (described in the Parish Registers as a victualler) was landlord from 1709, but in 1714 he was succeeded by Henry Howson, and the Parish Registers record in the death in 1721 of “Elizabeth, wife of Hen. Hooson, Victualer or rather Innekeeper.” Henry himself died in 1729, and was followed by his son William, to whom a 18-year Lease was granted in 1739, and a 21 year Lease in 1760, when the annual rent was £105 plus six loads of good coal plus three hens. It should be mentioned that this was the rent of a farm, of which the Inn would be the farmhouse, and not of the Inn alone, whose annual value in a Castle Estate Survey as late as 1807 is only £26… {continued on page 23}

(page 22) (41 High Street, Old George Inn) 9.6.1766. Jno. Pullan Tallow Chandler = Mgt Dale Spr. both Skipton 16.5.1770. Margaret d. Jn. Pullan Tallow Chandler & Mgt. w. Skipton bap. In the Court Leet 1775 Account of Cattlegates on the Ings, Wm Dale & Jn Pullan are occupying 77/10 gaits under the Earl of Thanet William Dale was the brother of John Pullan’s widow, Margaret David, s of Wm Dale is described as Innholder in 1801 The National School Accounts in 1816 show 5/- from “J. Phillip (O.G.)”

In 1817 the 5/- was from “J. Phillip D.A.”

25.12.22 b. 27.11.1822 Agnes d. Jn. Chippendale of Skipton Innkeeper & Eliz. bap. In the 1834 Poll Book John Chippendale is returned as occupier of the George Inn. He was formerly a Mason at Embsay: his wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Hirst, an innkeeper at Embsay. His eldest son William was born in 1805. Wm Alcock A/Cs 10.8.1818 To Mr Bradshaw my properties of Paving in the Old George Yard.



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Court Leet 14.5.1819 Adjourned to the house of Mr Jeremiah Phillip the Old George in Skipton 3.5.1827. John Chippendale, the Old George Inn 15.5.1811. David Dale innholder 27.10.1801, 17.10.1804, 28.10.1807 Ho. of David Dale, Innholder

CH. 29.1.1876. We understand the Old George Inn, Skipton, lately occ. by Mr Rd Wane, has been taken by Mr Adam Robinson, late of Crookwise 1859 Pool Bk. Wm Chippendale, Old George Inn

In 1857 Tamar Cowburn had been licensee of the Cock & Bottle CP. 4.5.1878. We understand that Mr Adam Robinson is about to leave the Old George which has undergone great input since coming into his possn & that Mr Thornton now ll. Of the Fountain Inn will enter into pn. CP. 5.7.1884. Mr James Bishop is now the occupant of the Old George Inn. 29.7.1887. Mr J. Bishop, landlord of the Old George Head, gave a treat to his servants and tenants. 21.11.1890. The Old George Inn, one of the oldest established houses in Skipton, has also been improved greatly by the addition of another storey.

(page 23) (41 High Street, Old George Inn) {continued from page 21} … William Howson died in 1762. The next landlord seems to have been John Pullan, who was at the property at the time of the 1771 Window Tax Assessment, and who paid £1.7.0 on the 16 windows of the Inn. He died in 1781, and the Parish Registers enter his burial as “John Pullan, Chandler and Innkeeper, George, Skipton.” In the following month the Township Accounts record a disbursement of 4s 6d “Paid at Wm Dale’s for meat and drink for the militiamen when sworn”, and in 1792 the Earl of Thanet granted William Dale a 14 years Lease of the George Inn, with an obligation to carry out repairs. According to the Parish Registers William Dale was also a grazier, and his son David had succeeded to the tenancy of the Inn by 1807, in which year we find the last reference to the “George Inn”. The next record, Baines’ Directory of 1822, lists John Chippendale as landlord of the “Old George”, and it is interesting to speculate whether the tenant felt that the “George” might be associated with George IV (acceded 1820), whose treatment of his wife Caroline had aroused widespread public resentment, and whether it was hoped that the “Old George” might mollify the customers by making it clear that one of the earlier three Georges was commemorated. It is said that during the trial of Caroline in 1820 (1821?), the effigy of her persecutor John Scott (afterwards Lord Eldon) was publicly burned at the lower end of High Street, in what is now known as Caroline Square, and it may well be that local feeling was such that the landlord of the “George Inn” dare not appear to be supporting the wrong George. John Chippendale was still the licensee in 1847, but by 1851 William Chippendale had taken over and stayed until at least 1857, and by the 1861 Census Return, Mr Tamar Cowburn was there, and in 1866 Richard Wane, who appears again in a Directory of 1875 as an Innkeeper and Farmer. In 1876-7 the landlord was Adam Robinson, from 1878 to 1883 William Thornton (late of the “Fountain Inn” in Middle Row) and from 1884 James Bishop. It was in 1890 that a third storey was added to the building to bring it up to the height of adjoining property. (CH. 28.12.06) James Bishop died @59 in 1906.



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(page 24) (41 High Street, Old George Inn)

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(page 25) (41 High Street, Old George Inn)

CH. 23.10.1903 A granddaughter of David Dale became the wife of Mr Leonard Horner 19 Wit 22.1.85-6 RO ASHTON CB fm 1647 d 1676 bur 23-4

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(page 26) (54-56 High Street, Sun Inn / Black Bull Inn) [Dawtry – De Altraripa. 24.7.1648 Ellin d. of Anthony Dalltry of Skipton bap 20.10.1629 James s. of Anthony Daltry of Skipton bap. 3.2.1650-1 James s. Anthony Dotry of Skip. Bur. Ch. [23.8.1674 Wm Horribin = Ellen Dawtrie both of Whaley ] 25.8.1622 Nicholas s. Mathew Daye of Skipton bap. 12.9.1624 Thomas s Matthew Day of Skipton bap. bur. 28.4.1652 ch. 19.6.1626 Ann d Matthew Day of Skipton bap. 20.4.1628 Margret d. Matthew Day of Skipton bap. 26.8.1630 William s. Mathew Day of Skipton bap. 6.11.1621 Genet d Mathew Daye of Skipton bur. 21.1.1652-3 Frances w. Mathew Day of Skipton bur. ch. 1650 Rent Roll. “Anthonie Dawtrie, for Mathew Daie’s house and ground.” CB 1660-80-89. Timothy Banks. 1655. Wm. Day 1719 Church Seatings “15 Mr. Robert Banks for The Black Bull Lord Thanets”



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Churchwardens A/cs. 25.5.1729 Pd. to Sarah Wilkinson for wine Ap 6. 4 Qtrs 8/- \ Nov 3. 3 Qtrs 6/- / 9.3.1738 To Sarah Wilkinson for wine £2.8. Up to 9.5.1742. Sarah Wilkinson. 6.5.1744 Thomas Towson, bill for Visitation £1.8.6. p.53 (Currer) After Richard Banks’ death the house was sub-let, first to John Wilkinson, who features as an “inne holder” in the 1715 Parish Register, and who died in 1731, then to Sarah and Caleb Wilkinson \ until 1737 / and <by> \ in / 1738\-40/ to Sarah Wilkinson alone, and from 1743 onwards to Thomas Towson, the barber from No. 52. \ ? from Hole-in-the Wall p.163 / P.R. 21.10.1713 Caleb s John Wilkinson Innholder & Sarah bap 1.12.1715 Sarah d “ Innkeeper & Sarah bap 20.7.1729 Wm. Wilkinson (Tapster at ye Bull) bur Bradford Antiquary VI p.163-4. Tax on Papists 1723, the first payment “to be made at the house of Mr. John Wilkinson in Skipton, Innholder, where Mr Tempest disbursed £54.16.11 on his assessment.” John Schofield moved from the Vicarage about 1799. Court Leet 30.11.1718 (Pavements) John Wilkinson John Whitaker is still described as a butcher in 1803 when his second daughter, Ann Towson by his second wife Ann, was baptised in 1809 he is described as an Innkeeper. A John Whitaker, aged 60, \ 48 /, was buried in 1815, and in 1816 Ann Whitaker, Widow, married Robert Twistleton, a Woolcomber from Stirton, who appears next to John Bradley in the 1813-27 Call Book. Twistleton was later landlord at The Royal Oak. He was an innkeeper by 1817 (Ct. Leet).

(page 27) 54-56 HIGH STREET The premises now occupied by Messrs G.H. Mason & Sons Ltd. were formerly the site of the Black Bull Inn. In 1650 Lady Anne Clifford leased to Anthony Dawtry for 21 years the “messauge or burgage house now in the possession of Mathew Day and Anthony Dawtry” and a Rental of 1671 refers “Mr. Timothy Banks, house and ground he holds formerly Anthony Dawtrey’s”. In 1680 a Valuation of the Castle Estates contains the item: “Timothy Banks, at will. Messuage, Barn, Stable and outbuildings. Garden. Half an acre. £3.10.0”, and in 1684 Timothy Banks, \ Innholder / was granted a 21-years’ Lease of the “Messuage or burgage house situate in the middle of the West side of High Street known as the Black Bull Inn.” Timothy Banks died in 1701, and the Inn passed to his youngest son Richard – his eldest son William being an Attorney and the father of the William Banks who became Headmaster of Skipton Grammar School. Richard Banks died in 1714, and* it appears that the property <then> passed to George Chamberlain, a prominent ironmonger and timber merchant in the town, who had in 1713 married Mary the daughter of William Banks the attorney. <as in> In 1739 the Black Bull Inn, [* a new Lease was in 1715 granted to \ his brother / Robert Banks, who lived until 1736, when] With one barn, stable, yard and land, was leased to George Chamberlain, but he probably sublet it. The Court Leet records indicate that Thomas Towson kept the Black Bull in 1752, and the Parish Registers, which had referred to him as a barber in entries up to 1744, refer to him as an Innholder or Victualler from 1749 onwards. <Th> He was Town Constable in 1750.



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The next Lease, in 1760, was granted to Thomas Towson, who died in \ May / 1771, leaving his widow Sarah to carry on the public house, and she features in the Window Tax Assessment of 1771, being charged £1.14.8 on 20 windows. Sarah Towson died in 1780, and was succeeded by her son Thomas, who is recorded <if> as having died of apoplexy in 1787, at the age of 37, who again was followed by his widow, Isabel, who was re-married in 1794 to John Whitaker, a butcher (the son of Thos Whitaker, an Innholder) The Land Tax Assessments of 1801 and 1803, and a Castle Estate Rental of 1807, return John Schofield as the tenant. He … {continued on page 29}

(page 28) (54-56 High Street, Sun Inn / Black Bull Inn) The birthplace of Lord St. Leonards is not given in any of the standard works on Peerage. He was born 12.2.1781 and admitted to Lincolns Inn 16.11.1802. Second son of Richard Sugden of Duke St. St. James’ Hairdresser. Mother Charlotte Burtenshaw \ <her parents> / m. 14.11.1778 \ St. George Hanover Sq./ Hart.i.293. Richard Sugden <does not feature at all in the Skipton Registers.> was bap. At Skipton 22.6.1757 the \ eldest / son of John Sugden, a barber (later promoted to Peruke Maker) who in 1798 was Sheriff’s Officer. By 1800 John Sugden had also moved to London. Dawson, Loose Leaves II, p137 says “In 1800 Sugden’s father moved to London.” Court Leet 10.5.1815 Ho of John Bradley innholder. Wm Alcocks A/cs in Feb 1818 refer to “Mr Bradley at the Sun Inn” 4.7.1819 John Shackleton Banker’s Clerk bach = Mary Bradley sp. 23.5.1822 Eliz d. Jn & Mary Shackleton Innkeeper b. The Parish Register of 1822 gives John Shackleton as an innkeeper Mason’s Yard was until comparatively recently known as Sun Inn Yard 1838 Poll Bk gives Thomas Wilkinson merely as of Skipton. The Natl School A/cs for 1830 show 5/- from “Mrs Phillip (Sun)” The Bradleys <then> took over the Devonshire Hotel, by 1820 1834 Pigot – Sun. Mary Phillip (& excise office) Mkt Place. William Wilkinson, who lived until 1893, “was one of the last two survivors of a band of youths who received their education at the Old Grammar School under the late Mr. Thomlinson” 1.6.1822 b.23 May. Eliz d John & Mary Shackleton innkeeper bap. C.P. 21.8.1869 Assignment dated 19th by Wm Wilkinson, Corn dealer, +/a. Thomas Wilkinson & Son. Joseph Maude “for 7½ years manager of The Practical Watch & Clock Dept at Mr Fattorini’s” 1874 Ad. 1836 Pigot. King’s Arms – Mary Phillip – Market Place “ Excise Office at Sun Inn, Market Place Court <Baron> \Leet/ 17.4.1834 Mary Phillip The Sun Inn 23.4.1823 John Shackleton Sun Inn Leeds Int. 26.12.1814 Comm of Bktcy agst Jn Schofield of Skipton Money Scrivener. 15.1.1810.



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(page 29) (54-56 High Street, Sun Inn / Black Bull Inn) {continued from page 27}… was an Attorney, the son of an army officer, and had married Mary, the only surviving daughter of Thomas and Isabel Towson, who died of consumption in 1800 at the age of 24. Dr. Dixon, in his “Chronicles and Stories of the Craven Dales” records that Edward Burtenshaw Sugden<s> who became Lord Chancellor as Lord St. Leonards, and lived until 1875, “was articled (?) to a Mr. Scofield, whose offices were in the house in <Skipton> High Street formerly known as the Sun Inn” but there is no other evidence to support this story. In 1810 John Bradley from Settle, who had been a coachman at \ one of / the other Skipton inns, married Ann the daughter of Benjamin Hutton, at one time landlord of \the/ “Sun” Public House, which stood at the top of the Middle Row where Manby’s now have their shop, and they took over the “Black Bull” and changed its name to the “Sun” The Earl of Thanet granted John Bradley a 31-years’ Lease of the \Sun/ Inn in 1813, and by 1822 the “Sun” was occupied by John Shackleton, an excise officer who retained it until 1830 but by 1838 local Directories give Thomas Wilkinson, a Corn and Flour Dealer and Maltster, as the occupier of the High Street premises, and John Bradley had in fact assigned his lease to Thomas Wilkinson in 1829. He lived until 1851, when his son William Wilkinson took over the business, \ but by 1856 he had moved to the Red Lion Inn./ In 1871, Edward Wilkinson was a corn merchant at the Premises, and in 1875 the local press announced that Mr G.H. Mason had moved to 54 High Street, recently occupied by Mr. Edward Wilkinson, corn dealer There were originally two shops – Nos 54 and 56 High Street, on the site of Messrs. G.H. Mason & Sons’ present premises, which were erected in 1928. From 187<4>\2/ to 1877 Mr J. Maule was a watchmaker and jeweler in the smaller shop, No 56, and from 1881 to 1885 the tenant was Mr Thomas Allen, a butcher, whose business was later taken over by Mr Phillip<s>. Messrs Phillip & Son, butchers, <were still in the> remained at No 56 until the property was demolished.

(page 30) (54-56 High Street, Sun Inn / Black Bull Inn) \ [p.122] / On 25.3.1649 Henry Currer applied for a Lease of the messuage and tenement barn stable and garden occupied by Mathew Daie (and of another house occupied by Benjamin Preston), but it appears that the new \ 21-years’ / Lease was granted in 1650 to Anthony Dawtry of the “messuage or burgage in Skipton now in his possession by Assignment from Henry Currer gen… now in the possession of the said Anthony Dawtry and Mathew Daie his father-in-law. The fine was £35.6.8 and the rent included five horse loads of coals and two hens per annum. \ v.p 62/3 / 20 CH. 22.7.1898 \ Cragg / Hospital of St Mary Magdalene at Skipton “Tradition says that where the Red Lion stands was its site. In adjoining Mr Dobson’s shop between it and the Red Lion – in the early part of this century – a little house stood, with long and narrow mullions. William Tillotson says that as a lad he was told this cottage was part of the old Hospital and the Red Lion was also part of it. If we enter the inn, we find traces of very old buildings; an arched fireplace, with the largest chimney in Skipton, and what is claimed by some to be part of an oratory, and large arched cellars. Tradition supplies no more, except it says it was for lepers. The Red Lion is certainly a very old house. It has been an inn for nearly three centuries. 60 years ago, between it and the Thanet’s Arms stood a cottage, with little bow windows, and the door posts and the stone work over the widows are still to be seen, and it was a house frequented by those engaged in the Scotch cattle trade.

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C.H. 13.1.1899 Cragg. Deposition by George Knowles of Skipton 21.11.1663 “on 29 Oct, coming from Keighley to Skipton, he met one William Day of Skipton, sometime a soldier against his Majesty, at Steeton Brow Foot. And the said Day, laughing and jeering, said that he knew well such and such men were plotters in the late plot, and that he would be hanged before he would disclose them.” Another witness said ”Day had formerly been a trumpeter in the Kings army, and afterwards a trooper in Lambert’s regiment, and was a violent person” 15.5.1653 Wm Day = Jane Atkinsonne Witn. 20.5.1656 21.11.1655 Matthew s. of Wm Day of Skipton bap 3.8.1654 A son of Wm Daye 26.10.1657 Frances d. “ - bur. Ch. 24.4.63 of Sk not bp. Bur ch. 1.3.1659-60 Cornelius s “ 27.3.1663 Ann<e> d “ - bur Ch. 29.3.63 7.7.1664 Jane wf of Wm Day of Skipton bur. Ch. 26.10.1628 Jane d. of Cornelius Atkinson bap. [he was bur ch 27.11.1639]

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25.6.68 Jane d Roger Swire bp. 16.12.66 „ Ric Jackman bp 10.9.76 „ Mr Jn Jac[?--] bp

(page 32) (60 High Street / 2 Sheep Street, Temperance Hotel) 21

In evidence at Wakefield Quarter Sessions in 1870, Thomas Wilkinson stated that he moved here in 1831 and remained here for 20 years. Came from 20 Sheep St. 1834 P. Thomas Wilkinson, Chymist & Druggist, Sh St

1841 – Thos Irving was an apprentice with Thos Wilkinson CH 30.10.1903. Edmondson. Mr [W.S.] King [druggist], who was a brother of the late Mr George King, afterwards removed to the shop now occupied by Mr J.H. Lee, succeeding in the tenancy of Mr Richard Wrathall, a son of old “Lup Rather” of Appletreewick. CH. 25.4.1906/ Court Leet. 11.5.1847. Finding that great danger was occasioned to the public by the very wide openings over or opposite to the cellar window under the shop of Mr Wilkinson druggist & they recommend that a grate with narrower openings or additional bars in the present one, ought to be provided, such alterations to be made by Mr George Chamberlain, the owner of the house.

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[Court Leet 24.4.1828 Thos Wilkinson – on drain next to Wm Stockdale [poss this is 8 Sheep St] CB. 1799-1813+ Geo. Chamberlain W.T. 1771 Mr Abram. Chamberlain 15. £1.5.6 he d. 1796

Valn. C.1805. G & W Chamberlain – Geo Chamberlain Shop & Barn £20. CH 17.9.1909. obit. Hen. Cowman, Otley St. “Some years ago Mr Cowman was in the millinery and drapery business in High Street”. Collector of income tax, retired as color-sgt to Skipton Corps of Volunteers 1885, director Skipton Bg Soc. CP. 14.6.1895. d13th @ 59 Ann Cowman, milliner, High St, wife of Henry Cowman. “She had carried on the millinery business in High St for upwards of 30 years.” CH. 7.4.1877. Mrs Cowman, 60 H St

CP. 11.3.90. Hy Cowman, dpr, fined 2/6 for having dog unmuzzled

CH. 30.3.1889. Hen. Cowman, 60 H St In 1875 Mr Utley moved to Bradford, and Henry Cowman entered on the premises as a tailor, his wife also carrying on business as a milliner. According to the “Bradford Observer” of the time “Mr Utley, the proprietor of a very successful temperance hotel at Skipton, has opened the Waverley Commercial Hotel in Leeds Road, Bradford, on thorough temperance principles.”

(page 33)

60 HIGH STREET An 1840 Valuation of Skipton returns this property as a house and shop, owned by George Chamberlain and let to Thomas Wilkinson, and the 1841 and 1851 Census Returns (which include these premises in Sheep Street) both record Thomas Wilkinson, druggist, as the occupier. By 1853, the title deeds name Mr Richard Wrathall as the tenant, and White’s Directory of that year identifies him as a grocer. In August 1854, the Home Visitor advertises that William King, chemist and druggist, has moved to the premises lately occupied by Mr Wrathall, grocer, Market Place, opposite Currer Street (the old name for Otley Street). By 1857, the property had become a temperance hotel, kept by Mrs Ann Ellison, who had formerly had a temperance coffee and eating house in the cellar below the shop in Middle Row now occupied by Marlor’s Tailors. She was a temperance enthusiast, given to addressing not very attentive audiences on Sheep Street Hill, and became a local celebrity under the name of “Ranting Nanny”. She was succeeded in High Street by Joseph Utley, who was there by 1866, and who was in 1868 advertising his establishment in the Craven Pioneer in not very good verse:

“To see that you are not ensnared I have a Temperance place prepared Where social glasses can be shared Without the drunkards bane… So if a stranger you may ken Who likes not drinks nor drunken men Say “Go to Joseph Utley’s then The poor man’s Temperance home.” ”

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CH. 3.11.1900. John H. Lee late of 8 Sheep St has removed to 60 High St. [son of Jonathan Lee, formerly shoemaker at 8 Sheep St]

(page 34) (60 High Street) CB. Tts.

1713-14 Tim Cowperson p.p. Chamberlain. Geo Chamberlain p.alt.pt 1715-18 Tim Cowperson Geo Chamberlain 1719 Tim Cowperson Geo Chbn m Jn Hodgson 1720 Tim Cowperson. Jn Hodgson m Chr Cook 1722 Tim Cowperson. Chr Cook Jn Hodgson

The Churchwarden’s Accounts

show payments to Sarah Cuperson for wine (1739). Sarah Cuperthon (1740). Sarah Cooperson (1741). Sarah Cowperson (1742). Sarah Cooperton (1743). Sarah Cowperson (1744) John Cooperson (1747). Ann Cooperson (1748) John Cooperson (1749), Tim Cooperson (1750). Ann Cooperson (1750) John Towson (1751, 1752, 1753, 1754, 1756, 1757, 1758)

Wt 1771.

Mr Thackray (next to Abm. Chbn) 11 windows

n Deed 1777 Jos. Thackeray of Skipton is an innholder.

(page 35) (60 High Street) The title deeds of No 58 High Street describe it as adjoining the Angel Inn in both 1736 and 1764, in which latter years it was occupied by George Wharton. George Wharton, an innkeeper in the Parish Register in 1762 and 1763 (but previously a shoemaker) appears at this property in the Call Books from 1757 to 1762. The previous occupier seems to have been John Towson, who came here from the Ship Inn in 1750, and who remained after Wharton came. Towson had followed Timothy Cooperson, who appears in the Call Books of 1748; in 1743 John Cooperson joined Sarah Cooperson (she died in 1745), and Sarah had followed her husband Timothy Cowpertham, who died in 1732. A Chamberlain Deed of 1742 describes this property as a “dwellinghouse in Skipton late in the possession of Timothy Cowperson decd now of Sarah Cowperson with the barn as laithe and other outhouses.” Tim Cowperson appears in the CB back to 1713. In 1736 the “Black Bull” adjoined the Angel Inn. John Towson appears in the Churchwarden’s Accounts for wine bills from 1751 to 1758. Sarah Cooperson had appeared from 1739 to 1744, John Cooperson in 1747, Ann Cooperson in 1748, John Cooperson in 1749 and Tim Cooperson in 1750, Ann Cooperson 1750. The Coopersons possibly moved from 2 Sheep St in 1731/2.



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CB 1685 Saml Mitchell 1691 Thos Chamberlain 1689-90 Saml. Mitchell m. Thomas Chamberlain 1678 Saml Mitchell 1680 \Saml Mitchell/ Rbt Moorhouse 1660 \Robt Moorhouse/ 1647-55 Robert Moorhouse Jn Mitchell g. Gargrave P.R. 12.5.1749. Samuel Crowther = Sarah Cowperson both of Skipton lic.

CH 14.7.1899. W.H. Dawson (in paper to Yorks. Dialect Soc. On Folk-lore of Skipton) “Mr Dawson remembered being told by an old resident in Skipton that although he knew nothing of the man, he could recollect as a lad hearing the saying “as cunning as Crowther”. “ sf. History of Skipton, p.390. Ct Leet. 4.5 1803. Hus & lands adjg Canal occ Mr Jn Wilkinson Tanner (4-8 Sheep St)

Mr Wm Chamberlain Mr Hall…

Hearth Tax 1672 Saml. Mitchell 5.

(page 36) (61 High Street) 22 CB 1762 Peter Wright [Jas Edmondson] [Jn Bowcock] The Manor Call Book of 1762 indicates that Peter Wright succeeded Matthew Wright – also a flaxman and roper – about that time. Matthew Wright, Roper, buried 30 Sept. 1764 The Deeds of 59 High Street in 1732 refer to the house of Matthew Wright on the south. The Call Books show Mathew Wright as the occupier back to 1720.

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Chdns A/Cs 20.4.1729 pd. to Mathew Wright for repairs of Bell ropes for the last half year 12/-

30.5.1731 To Mathew Wright as p. Bill for Bell Ropes 13/7d

Matthew Wright was a Churchwarden in the CB in 1720 John Buck, Tanner is in the 1807 Poll Book in respect of a freehold at Thornton B. Abbey 3.10.1803 David Binns bach. Sk. gcr = Mgt Holden [?Barden] spr 21

(page 37)

61 HIGH STREET The old shop on the site of the more northerly half of the present Midland Bank was for almost a century associated with the families of Wright and Buck. Peter Wright was a roper in Skipton in 1756, when the Township Accounts record a payment to him for a bell rope, and in 1763 he was the Town Constable. The Window Tax Assessment of 1771 shows that he was at this shop, paying 3/- on 6 windows, and according to the Parish Register he died of the stone in 1785, at the age of 55. The Land Tax Assessments establish that his widow, Mary Wright, continued to live in the property as a Linen Draper until her death in 1808. The tenancy then passed to Peter Wright’s daughter Mary who had married John Buck, a skinner or fellmonger. The Accounts of Carleton School show payments to John Buck, linen draper from 1808 to 1832, and to Mrs Mary Buck, linen draper from 1834 to 1849. The 1822 Directory gives John Buck as a Draper, Tanner and Roper in Caroline Square, and Dawson, in his History of Skipton (1884) says that in 1822 “John Buck was a rope-maker in Skipton. His ‘walk’ occupied the site of Providence Place.” A Valuation of Skipton in 1840 describes this property as “House shop and ropewalk” owned by the Duke of Devonshire and occupied by Mary Buck. By the 1851 Census the shop was in the possession of her eldest son, Peter Wright Buck, a fellmonger. Writing in the Craven Herald about old Skipton in 1904, Mr. R.B. Cragg said that the site of the Midland Bank was formerly two houses, one at each side of a passage which cut the block



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nearly in two equal portions: “Wright Buck occupied the one near Mr Henry Smiths.” (ie. The present Building Society)… “His tannery was where the Belle Vue Mills now have their warehouse… in some alterations when the premises were Mr Robert Smith’s they found several tan pits in the garden… An old Skiptonian told me that a cord or rope business was once carried on in one of these houses, and he has seen the man take his rope across the main street and on to Sheep Street Hill.” In the following week, Mr Thomas Edmondson enlarges on Cragg’s account: Buck’s shop “was devoted to the sale of all kinds of … {continued on page 39}

(page 38) (61 High Street) Arty Momus [1880] 28.12.75. P.O. p.13. “There was at one time a run-to-ruin sort of thoroughfare leading from this spot with Newmarket St, which has been much improved by our energetic townsmen Mr Rt. Smith.”

p.12. From Sheep St. Hill I get a commanding view of our elegant Post Office [n. 1879 – Now, alas, a barber’s shop]

1861 C. Robt. Smith. Burnley. 36. “Painter. Plumber, etc. Methodist local Preacher employing 6 men and 1 apprentice.” X 1859. Rates In 1877 John Symington’s affairs were again liquidated by arrangement after he had moved to Batley. C.H. 1906 Sep. Ct Leet. 1867. There was necessity for a flagged crossing from the Middle Row to the Post Office. CP. 23.9.1887. We understand that the Yorkshire Banking Co. are at last intending to build a local inhabitation of their own. The site was purchased many years ago. It is now occupied by the front shops between Mr Henry Smith’s and the Wheat Sheaf Inn. CP. 1.6.1888. Lock-up shop. High St. tenanted by Mr James Lister, hair-cutter “burglariously entered”. He also had a shop in Newmkt St. 18.3.1889 [Etching of New Yorkshire Bank] The manager of the Skipton Branch is Mr J. H. Haworth “the building is somewhat similar to one recently erected at Doncaster for the same Company, and is of a Grecian character architecturally. It has a frontage of 50’ to the High St, by 50’ high and it runs backward 80’. “

(page 39) (61 High Street) {continued from page 37}… leather and skin rugs, most of which were tanned and dressed at old Peter’s tannery and leather works off Broughton Road. The Bucks also carried on business as rope and twine manufacturers up the yard, but the statement that the rope-making operations extended across the main street to Sheep Street Hill is “incredible”. The property formed part of the Earl of Burlington’s Estate in Skipton and passed to the Dukes of Devonshire. In 1860 the Duke sold the freehold to Robert Smith, who occupied the adjoining shop as a painter; it was then described as “now or late in the occupation of P.W. Buck as tenant” although as early as 1853 a Directory shows that Wm Gledhill, a whitesmith, had succeeded him, and the 1861 Census records William Gledhill, ironmonger, as residing here. From here it is possible to trace the history of the shop from the local press: in the “Craven Pioneer” of 1861 William Gledhill is advertising as a “Whitesmith, Bell-hanger, Gas Fitter, Ironmonger, etc” but by December 1862 he is “selling of his remaining stock or ironmongery”. In 1865 John Symington, grocer, has his Italian Warehouse here, but in February 1866 he assigned his effects to trustees for his creditors, and the house and shop were



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advertised to let, with immediate possession, in the following April, but they seem to have remained empty for a further twelve months. In February 1867 the “Pioneer” reports that a “movement is on foot to effect the removal of the Post Office from High Street to a more central part of the town. Caroline Square is, no doubt, the proper place.” The old Post Office had been in part of what is now the Public Library, and Mr W. R. Hardcastle had been clerk to the former Postmaster, Mr John Farraday. In March 1867, “The Post Office is now removed, in accordance with the wish of very many of the inhabitants, to Caroline Square. The shop recently occupied by Mr J. Symington … has been fitted up in a manner very convenient to the public, who have business to do there. Mr Hardcastle has … accepted the Postmastership.” William Robinson Hardcastle kept the Post Office here until 1876, at which time he moved it to Ship Corner, and when Robert Smith’s Executors sold the property to the Yorkshire Banking Co in 1876 it is described as a messuage or dwellinghouse (part of a shop). Lately a … {continued on page 41}

(page 40) (61 High Street) Shortly after the Post office moved out, the shop was let to Henry Edmondson, saddler. Hearth Tax 1672 Mr Goodgion 5 Nos 61-63 High Street seem to have been (CB Tts) the home of Henry Goodgion gent in 1660 (1647-55) and Maria Goodgion Wid. Senr. In 1678-80. See Pedigree p.110. 1685-90 Hen Goodgion. 1692 Mgt Goodgion CB 1664-7-74 Maria Goodgion wo.

1682 Hen G Maria G. sr 1685 Hen G.

This was presumably “Capt. Henry Goodgion” who compounded for delinquency in 1646, claiming that he “was compelled by the governor to enter and assist the garrison at Skipton Castle against Parliament. In November 1645 communicated his desire to surrender to Col. Thornton commanding the besiegers, and was the means of the surrender of the Castle.” He paid a fine of £200 and his estate was discharged from sequestration. His brother-in-law Henry Currer also compounded for having taken a commission as captain under the Earl of Newcastle. CP. 17.5.1889. Strike during building of Yorkshire Bank p.15

[wife of Henry Jr.] 26.2.1730/1. Margaret Goodgion widow of Henry Goodgion late of Skipton. She was 92 years old and for … years last Past was Governesse or Mother of ye Widows at Beamsely Hospital, In wch Place she behav’d herself wth23 much Prudence and discretion.” Geo. d. 1605. ?Is this in December MS 1644-8 [L.L. 128-9] as “Capt. Goodgion, his house & backside, 2 oxgangs of land thereunto belonging, which my Lord (George Earl of Cumberland) exchanged with Marton Woode.”… “George Earl of Cumberland being seized of one parcel of woodie ground near Elslack in Craven called Marton Wood, did in his life exchange the same Marton Wood to Mr. Heber for some part of the messuages and cottages in Skipton.” Lea. 29.2.1629-8 Robt G the eldest of Sk p 21y Mess ho br & g in Sk win he now dwells

Lea 1606 Robt G. Burgage & laithes g & bks l. Geo. Waller

[sister of Hen. Goodgion]

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Court Leet 30.11.1718 Mrs Jackman for Goodgion’s Ten ? 3.3.1720 Mr Kitching for Pottykers house 18 yds CB Tts 1720-31 Thos Kitching. Mrs Ann Garforth’s children

1719 Jennet Cook p. Mrs Garforth’s children 1718 Eliz Garforth wo.

1713-7 Edm Garforth

(page 41) (61 High Street) {continued from page 39}… Post Office, formerly occupied by Peter Wright Buck, afterwards of William Gledhill, later of William Robinson Hardcastle, then of Mrs Taines.” From 1878 to 1887 James Lister, Hairdresser and Umbrella Repairer, was the tenant; he then moved to Newmarket Street and the old shop, with the adjoining one on the south, was demolished to provide the site of the Yorkshire Banking Co’s premises, which were opened on the 11th September 1889. In 1901 this Company amalgamated with the London City and Midland Bank Ltd, which in 1918 changed its name to the London Joint City and Midland Bank Ltd, and in 1923 to the Midland Bank Ltd. CH. 10.3.1883. J. Lister, Fishing tackle dealer, 61 H St. 1698 Poll Tax. Thomas Smith & his wife

CB Ttts 1698. Thos Smith weaver – 1704. 1705 Th Smith m. Jn Barrett.

1705. Jn Barrett m. Jn Mitchell. 1706 Jn Mitchell l. Rob Barrett m. Wm. Bordley to Oct 1707 Then no further entries.

1697 Th Smith [?...] n. Abigail Howarth. 1696 Ab. how. n. Wm Sawley 1695 Chr: Watson 1694 Geo. Burton m. Ch. Watson 1691 Geo. Burton Poss. Mgt Goodgion to 1692 Haigh : “Post office in 1872 several windows smashed in Nov 5 Riot.” CH. 1.2.1901. Obit. 25 Jan. Jas Lister, 74 Keighley Rd, commenced bus. as a hairdresser in Albert St, then Car Sq, then Ky Road. 1682 Fines Skipton Thomas Smith & Anne w [?labur hearers] [Ind 24]

Will. 30.1.1663 cf Henry Goodgion of Sk. gent. “sickly and weake of body” “whereas by the badnes of times payment of debts for my late brother Robert Goodgion and compositions for him and my self being both sequestered I have incurred several great debts which I do will and desire may be faithfully and truly paid.” 3 sons Henry Geo & Wm; now wife Mary; daus Mary G & Ellen G. eldest son Robt G.

Title and intl in the house where I now live in Skipton with the outhos. backside and appurtenances – to wife.

CH 31.8.1917 Retirement A.H. Dawes succ. by Douglas E. Wilson 31.12.1927 d. 29th @ Southport, aged abt 65, Alexr Henry Dawes, manager 1891-1917 in succn to J.H.

Howarth, one of principal workers to secure Free Library 15.3.1917 Obit. John Henry Howarth @64



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