Guisborough, Church Street 1913
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Photo ref: 66018
Photo of Guisborough, Church Street 1913

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D E Baker's department store (extreme left) flanks the entry to Church Street from the Market Place; the road was very much narrower than today, following the road widening scheme and demolition of the property on the right carried out in 1962/63. Richardson's ironmongery shop is further up on the left. Then comes Wear's Café and Barker Brothers (antiques, restoration and cabinet making). The Red Lion Inn beyond was popular with farmers visiting the cattle mart, which lay to the rear, off Patten Lane. On the opposite side is the Abbey Café, named again, incorrectly, after the priory. The window on the extreme right was rescued during the demolition and taken to the Castle Museum in York, where it was incorporated into a reconstructed Victorian street.

A Selection of Memories from Guisborough

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Guisborough

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This was my Dad's shop where he started his butchering business in the 1930's till, he closed in 1973. Both my brother Tom and I worked there. Tom from 1955 till it closed and I began in 1962 and left in 1966, for Australia. In those days we had our own slaughterhouse. as most other butchers in Guisborough did. It was a pain to push the barrow with the hind and forequarter of a bullock across the busy road on a Tuesday ...see more
I am sure my mother worked as a kitchen maid at Guisborough Hall in 1952 when it was possibly a nursing home, Cant find anything about the history in that era. My mothers name at that time was Gorgina Mary Mc Cormick. I always remember a photo she had of herself in her uniform outside the hall. My mother is no longer alive and I am on a discovery of my past so any memories any one may have regarding above would be most welcome. ...see more
This photo rings back memories of delivering meat to nursing home on a bi weekly basis, In the 1960’s this hall was used as a nursing home and my dad supplied the meat. My memories were of the heat from the kitchen, the smell of nursing home patients and the trophies shot by previous Lord Gisborough’s on their safari’s throughout the Empire. I bet that they still hang on the walls,somewhere
We used to eat at the Fox Inn on a regular basis in the 1960's. Mrs Armstrong, the owner and chef, made the best ox tail I've ever eaten . You couldn't beat Yorkshire food at it's best Great food and beer. Norman Robinson owned the newsagents next door, where I'd buy my papers