Transcript of the entry for the Post Office, professions and trades
for BISHOPTHORPE in Bulmer's Directory of 1890.
BISHOPTHORPE TOWNSHIP.
Post:
Postal address: Bishopthorpe, York.
Post and telegraph Office. Letters arrive at 7 a.m. from York by mail cart,
and at 6-30 p.m. by foot postman, and are despatched at 5-10 p.m. by mail cart, and
at 6-40 p.m. by foot postman to York, The nearest Money Order Office is at Bishopthorpe
road, York. Postal Orders are issued at Bishopthorpe. Mrs. Ellen Hawkridge, sub-postmistress.
Miscellany of trades
Archbishop of York (The Right Hon. and Most Rev. William Thomson, P.C., D.D., F.R.S.,
Primate of England, The Palace
Beauchamp Mrs. Esther, grocer and draper
Blakeney Rev. Rd., M.A., The Vicarage
Booker Robt. Arthur Daniel, private secretary
Burnell Bros. (Geo. and Wm.), blacksmiths
Carbert Fredk., asst. overseer and parish clerk
Cooper Mr. Henry William
Dixon Thomas
Gowthorpe Robt. Appleton, vict., Marcia Hotel
Hall Henry, head gardener
Harper Mr. Henry Robert
Horner & Son (Rd., junr. & Rd., senr.), builders
Hutton Miss Mary, grocer
Johnson Richard and Walter, joiners
Johnson Scott, bootmaker
Medcalf Chas., vict., Woodman Inn
Mitchell Mrs.
Pew John, schoolmaster
Preston Henry Edwd., Esq., J.P., The Cottage
Scholey George, butcher
Shepherd Mr. George, The Poplars
Simpson John Richard, vict., Ebor Hotel
Spink Mrs. Eliza, dressmaker and milliner
Steward Miss Eleanor, The Laurels
Taylor Fred, grocer
Townend Mr. William Hy. Smirthwaite, Ash villa
Walker Mrs. Mary
Farmers.
Dixon Alfred
Hill William, Temple hill
Horner Tom, Glebe farm
Lofthouse Walter
Williamson Hobert, Providence green
Market Gardeners.
Archer John, red Mire farm
Gowthorpe John, Rose cottage
Johnson William
Kirk Lewis (and secretary to Oddfellows)
Midgley Samuel (and coal agent), Prospect of Hope house
Midgley Thomas, Primrose cottage
MIDDLETHORPE TOWNSHIP.
Letters via York, The nearest Post and Telegraph Office is at Bishopthorpe;
and the nearest Money Order Office is at Bishopthorpe road, York.
Miscellany of trades
Cattley Mr. Walter, Ash field
Dunnington-Jefferson Merryn, Esq., J.P., Middlethorpe hall
Flowers Fredk., bailiff, Manor farm
Lascelles The Hon. Egremont William, J.P. Middlethorpe manor
Mills Mr. Joseph, Middlethorpe lodge
Oldfield Mr. George, Dringthorpe
Smallwood Henry, farmer
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