Askrigg, Post Office 1911
Photo ref: 63469
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Photo ref: 63469
Photo of Askrigg, Post Office 1911

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The staff of Askrigg post office pose for the cameraman. Many of the buildings along the main street are imposing, three-storey houses, dating from the period when the town was a centre for lead-mining, cotton and worsted manufacture. Only the ordinary workers lived in nearby dilapidated cottages.

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Winnville opposite Askrigg Post Office was the residence of George Winn and his wife Elizabeth. George was born in 1808 in Nappa Hall Askrigg along with his brothers Richard Metcalfe Winn and John Winn who became the vicar of St Andrews Church in Aysgarth. George followed the family tradition and became a solicitor. His son William Edmund Metcalfe Winn was born in Winnville in 1845 and followed his father and became a ...see more