The Dedication of the New Vicarage - February 11th 1907

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The individuals who can be named are numbered and identified below

This group stands beside the newly built vicarage on the right (now called The Rectory). A number of buildings in Worsendale Road are visible behind the group and the land rising up to the Wold top is covered in snow.

Named members of the group:

1. Over 10 years ago, before the Local History Group was formed, there used to be modest displays of old postcards in the Horticulture Tent at the Bishop Wilton Show. When this postcard was exhibited, the granddaughter of one of the participants came forward and named him as George Brown (the tall bowler-hatted gentleman under the number 1). George Brown was a Tailor & Draper. He lived and worked at what is now No. 13 Main Street. He is pictured here with his second wife, Emily (formerly Hardy). The two younger girls standing in front (the youngest holding Emily's hand) are Freda and Doris. The young lady next to Emily and the young man next to her are thought to be George's children by his first marriage to Sarah, Blanche Ketureh and Ernest. The granddaughter who identified George was Christine Dinsdale of Fulford whose mother was Freda Brown. You can find out more about the Brown family via the Family History section.
2. The man in the clerical garb (beneath the number 2), to the right of the one in a black hat, is the Rev. Edward Peters of St Edith's Bishop Wilton. It is said that his wife refused to live in the Old Vicarage by the church and as a result the New Vicarage was built.
3. James Newby stands at the right hand end of the group (under the number 3). According to his grandson, the late Henry Newby, James paced and staked-out the ground-plan of the New Vicarage prior to it being built.