Transcript of the entry for the Post Office, professions and trades
for BOWES in Bulmer's Directory of 1890.
BOWES TOWNSHIP.
Parish Church of St. Giles - Rev. Chas. Bradford Wardale, M.A., vicar; Michael
Sayer, sexton
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel - In the Barnard Castle Circuit
Parish Reading Room and Library - Rev. C. B. Wardale, M.A., president; Rev.
William Rigg, secretary and treasurer
Governors of Bowes Grammar School - John Bousfield, Esq. (chairman), Bowes;
William Watson,
Esq., Barnard Castle; Thompson Richardson, Esq., Barnard Castle; Rev. C. B. Wardale,
M.A., Bowes Vicarage; R. T. Richardson, Esq., Barnard Castle; Robert Barker, Esq.,
Barnard Castle; Dr. Mitchell, Barnard Castle; and two Churchwardens (for the time being)
of the Parish of Bowes
Bowes Station, on the Barnard Castle and South Durham Section of the North Eastern
Railway; Isaac Wilson, station master
Post:
Post Office at William Hutton's. Letters arrive via Darlington at 8-30 a.m.,
and are despatched
at 5-20 p.m. No Sunday business. Postal Orders are issued. Letters for Bowes Cross and
farms south of Kilmond Scar, come via Boldron and Barnard Castle.
Miscellany of trades
Aarah Moses, tailor
Alderson Alfred, joiner and cartwright
Alderson Mrs. Ellen
Bell Miss Eleanor
Booker George, railway inspector
Bousfield John, Esq., Bowes villa
Bousfield Robert, gamekeeper to the Lessees of Bowes moor