The Gallery

Low St showing the school yard before railings fenced it off from the street. Part of the white cottage next door (now Golden Garth) was a shop 1921.

A modern brick porch has replaced the ornate woodwork seen in this 1917 photograph.
Notice the matching woodwork in the field gates.

The Village Green is a rough area.

Tenter Close is visible in the background.

Brass Castle (on the left) was demolished in the 1950s.

The two cottages next to the pub were auctioned in 1925 and demolished in 1930.

The anonymous motorcyclist is alongside an unfenced Village Green.

This photograph was taken from the church tower in 1880/90.
It shows the house on the Green, the Black Bull and Holly House. It looks up the Nookin Bank to Clarence House on the left.
Next to Holly House is Cote House. Attached to Cote House, and visible on its left, was a small cottage. It was known as the Jam Factory and was converted into a garage later.

Early 20th century postcard - postmarked 1904 showing children playing in Pilgrim Street (the name once used for the lower end of the Nookin).

Also seen, on the right hand side of the photo, is the house built about 1880/90, which later became the post office and is now called Cote House.

At the end of the road is seen the small creeper-clad cottage which once stood on what is now the eastern corner of the village green.

From The Mount House to The Blacksmith's Arms.

Passmans Row (now demolished) and Elphin View Council houses built in 1933.

High Street showing Prospect House (later demolished) around 1930's

Castle Terrace, once four cottages and a car outside the Blacksmith's.

Note the House next to the Pub.

Now Tenter Close.

Now Carlbury, Low St.

Closed in 1938.

Bank Cottage probably showing Miss Grace Taylor, (daughter of William Taylor) standing in the doorway, early 1900s

At an election address given by the Liberal candidate for the Thirsk and Malton seat during the
1908 general election, the candidate speaking to a crowd of villagers gathered on the village
green in Husthwaite stated that, if elected, his party would rid the nation of such "hovels" as
these, pointing to the house which stood there at that time. The gathering burst into fits of
laughter. The Liberal did not realise the house was the home of the chairman of the meeting he
was addressing!
Stephen Barker

Pilgrim Street (The Nookin) looking north.
(note the buildingwhere Slaters Yard is now situated.

Prospect House and adjacent cottages (demolished late 1950s)

Pickup Goods train at Husthwaite Gate station looking southwest in August 1964

© Patrick Howat

Mary Barker's Grandfather, who died in 1916.

Low St in the 1940s

Pilgrim St (now The Nookin) showing railings round Walnut House (previously called Braeside and Wayside) 1930s

"Surprise View" Pilgrim St (now The Nookin) looking towards the church, showing a small building on the left of Bank Cottages about 1923

High St 1920s showing the private house which later become the Cash Stores on rhs.

Slater's Yard - early 1930s

Slater's Firm HQ - early 1930s

Wedding at the Wesley Chapel, early 1900's.

Wedding at the Wesley Chapel, early 1900's.

John Robert Slater and Miriam E.A. Smith wedding group

Martha Slater (daughter of Elizabeth and Tom Slater, 1879-1950) and Ernest Ayre (1884-1946) wedding group outside Hazledene 1909 

Martha Slater/Ernest Ayre wedding group outside Hazledene 1909 with Rev George Gill

Pierrot troupes, alongside Punch & Judy and Pantomime are one of the only indigenous English performance forms.

The heritage and folk traditions of oral culture and misrule are epitomised in the eccentric Englishness of the Pierrot clown

Back - Minnie Kay, Mr Kay (of Kays Bank), Mr Buckle, Miss Cass, Mr Fox, Lucy Barker.
Front - Charles Watson, Miss Watson, Miss Grace Taylor and Mr George Fox.

Husthwaite Fete Aug. 3 1907, possibly on the tennis court at Beacon Banks.

Husthwaite Fete, Aug 3 1907.

Church fete at Beacon Banks or Highthorne?, Mrs Kay and Mrs Brenda Duffield on a stall with a customer Mrs Maxwell from Coxwold, 1961.

Husthwaite Choir, outside St Nicholas' Church, 1966/7. Harry Pinder, Mrs Tyler, Mrs Finch, Miss Norfar, Brig. Edwards, Ruth Hedgar, Mr John W. Clark, Mr Jackson (Carlton Husthwaite), Mr Penrose and ?. Front - Judy Chatton, Rosy Chatton, Elizabeth Bowes, Malcolm Muncaster

Husthwaite Show Committee, 1945/6 in the Searchlight field. Back - Norman Gill, Mrs Pearson Brown, ?, Mr John Wise, Mr Megson (secretary), John Clark, Norman Robinson, Mr Heath, John Rounthwaite, Mr Buffey, John Kirby (son), Mrs Turton, Robin Turton, Reg Dennis, Mr W. Idell, Edwin Ianson, Fred Richmond (senior), Laurie Shaw, Mr Atkinson (Wilden Hill). Front - Harold Houlston, Jack Smith, Willie Taylor, Claude Wentworth

The baby show, with Rev Jones. c 1960

l to r. 2 ladies from Carlton Husthwaite, Mrs Cockin, Jennifer Finch and Mrs Bell (seated)

Evergreen Club, at Whitegates,1980. Alison Newton's (lhs) presentation on leaving the village. She helped start the club for the over 60s in 1974

Wedding of (William) Abel Thompson (from Rievaulx) and Bertha Batty (from Husthwaite) 1911

Maypole dancers. From left: Mary Wain, Maureen Drinkhill, Eunice Thompson, Bunty Oxtoby, Joyce Pinder, Cicely Hutchinson, Frances Taylor, Grace Garbutt, Jean Drinkhill,
Sylvia Oxtoby, Violet Seaman, Phyllis Barton and Phyllis Moncaster.

All the children in the village on Coronation Day (June 2nd 1953) at a Fancy Dress Party in the
Wesley Hall,  The Fancy Dress Parade and tea party had to be held in the Village Hall because it was very wet!

Childrens Fancy Dress Parade 1950s,(near the Village Green with the White House in the background).

Husthwaite Wesleyan Band of Hope 1906-7

Front row, lhs – Gaythorne Drinkhill (father of Brenda Duffield and her four sisters), standing behind him with the large white collar is his brother Joe Drinkhill

Show Players 1930

Miss Taylor was an organist at the village church for many years and well known for her gift of poetry.

Grace Taylor at Bank Cottage, opposite fields at The Croft, 1949.

Grace Taylor boarding the train at Husthwaite Gate to go to London, 1948.

Mildred Finch (lhs), ?, Rev Jones, Mrs Maxwell and Brig. Edwards at Highthorne c 1960

Outside Beacon Banks around 1906

Joseph Naters Arnison (Joe) leaning on the gate at Beacon Banks.

Workers at Highthorne?? with the chauffeur standing next to the lady and gentleman of the house.

Bob Deighton, who worked at Sam Taylor at Lodge Farm (on Malton Street), 1940s-50s around "Stonehurst" (now Greystones)

Mrs Harry Deighton, outside the porch (once the pantry), in High Street Cottages (demolished), 1925-30.

Charlie Moncaster delivering milk in a churn, at Prospect House (demolished) in 1916, shortly before he was called up in WWI. The donkey was noted for sitting down in the shafts! The boy on the cart was a refugee from Antwerp, Belgium

Mr and Mrs Hursthouse, both teachers at the school, outside the School House, early 20th century

Mollie Jenkins, teacher, 1940s

Rev Francis Goodburn Buffey, Vicar 1932 - 1956

Top from lhs:

Col W.E. Wailes, Norman Wailes, middle from lhs, Marjoie Rowe (nee Wailes), Chris Wailes, Col. Harold Wailes, Evie Wailes, Margery Wailes and Frank Wailes.

Joseph Arnison and his wife Elizabeth are in the middle, with other family members and staff

Freddie Kendrew (lhs) & Laurie Cooper outside Louie
Ward's Cottage, late 1950s

John and Sarah Kay of Kays Bank.

John Kay was a well known horse breaker in the village.

Nellie and Jack Thompson outside their cottage in Pilgrim Street (part of the street now called The Nookin). It was in the middle of the row of terraced cottages, between Badgerdub and Wortley Cottages.

Mabel Dowson at the old Post Office
(now Cote House), late 1930s

Car at Lists House around 1902

Helen (Nellie) Hutchinson, Rose and Bob
Hutchinson at Brass Castle (next to Cote
House, The Nookin, demolished around
1950)

William John Hutchinson and his wife Emma (née Hare), 1917. (Harold's parents, who came to live at Alford House Farm in the early 1900s)

Robert and Mary Hutchinson, Oulston 1918. (Mary was the daughter of John Slater, founder of Slaters firm and Robert worked for the Newburgh Estate. They had a cottage at Oulston)

The tenants of the Inn were Mr and Mrs Cass and John Taylor. Horse and wagon owned by Mr Tom Colling with his son Henry and grandson Edgar Wood.

Ernest Hewison, Harry Kidd, Isaac Bowman. The boy on the bike is Jack Smith from Baxby. Photo 1930

Graves of Joseph Naters Arnison (died 1896), children Simpson Willie and Julia Maud.  The family lived at Beacon Banks from 1893-6.

March 1946 H.Q. 33 Ammunition Sub Depot, Highthorne House.  Sitting, lhs Capt. Fairfield

Back Row from the left: Geoff Hutchinson, George Sanderson, Francis Wilson, Don Hutchinson, Les Bowman, Peter Morse, Percy Moncaster.
Middle Row: Rosie Buckle, Peggy Fox, Marjorie Speight, Margaret Garbutt, Nancy Moncaster, Freda Drinkhill, JoanBowler, Nellie Johnson.
Front Row: Bert Batty, Kathie Garbutt, Eva Gray, Brenda Drinkhill, Betsey Thornton, Rita Slater, Consie Cooper, Eileen Speight.

Edgar Wood (born 1918) with the horse "Nelson" and cart housed at Slaters yard. He is carting ash away from the stationary steam engine which drove all the machinery. The engine was fired on wood waste from the works.

Freddie Richardson (engineer) and Billie Wood (bricklayer) are sitting on the "hooping plate", which was used for fixing the iron rim onto the wheel. These rims were heated in the oven shown behind Mr J. Summersgill (blacksmith) at Slaters firm.

Slaters Firm, workers, approx 1912-17. John Robert Slater is 4th from left on the back row.

Joseph Arnison is on lhs.  Probably near Lodge Farm.

Clockwise, with approximate ages - Jane (Jennie) Woods (11), Annie (10), David (5) and Louie (6).  Children of Probably standing outside a house in the Nookin.  They had also lived at Angram Cottage.

Artist, photographer, ex policeman etc died and buried Husthwaite 1888

Left to right –  Izzie, Elizabeth holding Charles, Joseph (Sr) standing behind her, Ralph sitting and Joseph (Jr.) standing behind him.

Died and buried in Husthwaite 1888

Joseph Naters Arnison (Sr) is the gentleman to the right.  The photographers logo on the back is F.Slights, Hall Garth House, East Cottingwith, York.

On a Cleveland Bay outside Beacon Banks

Brenda Duffield (1925-2011), local historian, spent all her life in Husthwaite and contributed many of the photos seen in the gallery.

Eliza Drinkhill (1859 – 1942), widow of Fred, mother of Gaythorne Drinkhill, granny of Brenda Duffield - in her cottage, which once stood behind Elphin View.

Wedding of Richard Passman (Newburgh) and Dora Long (Husthwaite) 1913 

Back row ?, ?, Alfred Passman, Annie Barton (née Long), ?, ?. ?, Hannah Long (mother), baby? and Elizabeth (Lizzie) Long. 

John Stanley Slater and Gladys Metcalfe wedding 1946

Miriam Elizabeth Ann Smith who married John Robert (Jack) Slater 

John Robert (Jack) Slater born 1881

John Robert Slater and Miriam Smith wedding 1908

Miriam Slater with first child Dorothy 1911

Sisters Dorothy (1911-1966) and Cynthia (1918-2011) Slater at Allerston 1931

Ladies Cricket Team, early 1900s, in the field opposite the Institute (now the village hall)

Jack Barker, Ernest Hewison, Long?, Tommy Lamb, Jackie Lickiss, Isaac Fox CK

Mabel Young, Mark Thompson (umpire), ?Thornton, Cynthia Slater, Mary Constable (née Kay), front - Nancy Storr, Alice Hall, Sheila Kay, Alice Hunton, and two Thornton girls.

Back - Isaac Bowman, Harold Batty, Billie Hugill, Don Hutchinson, Billy Idell, Bert Cowl, Nolan Hunton, Reg Thornton, Tommy Deighton. Front - Francis Thornton, Tom Tebb and ?

Husthwaite United Association Football Club, winners Galtres League 1930-1 outside Husthwaite Institute. Back - Harry Pinder, Don Hutchinson, Tommy/Ernest ? Deighton, Bob Storr, Eric Batty, Matt Buckle... Front - Ted Hall (scorer), Bill Bosomworth, ? Thornton, Charlie Dowson, Gaythorne Drinkhill (captain), Bert Cowls, Stan Slater, Arthur Hunton, Mr Scott (The Manor) CK

Home Guard, WWII (Husthwaite, Carlton Husthwaite and Thormanby). CK Back - F. Marwood, ? Rudd, Bob Deighton, Johnie Butler, Bill Marwood, Bill Hutchinson, George Barton, Herbert Reynolds. Next row - Billie Idell, Jim Mytum, Bill Lowther, ?, ? George Mason, Stan Duffield, Stan Marwood, Claude Taylor, ? Syd Wright. Next row - Nolan Hunton, Stan Slater, Colin Galloway, ? Lumsden, ?Marsden, Edgar Fox, G. Ellison, Peter Wentworth, Claude Wentworth, ? Sherwood. Front - Harold Pipes, Fred Richmond, Don Hutchinson, Tommy Bradwell, Herbert Retchless, ?, Garbutt (Thormanby), Tommy Barnitt

Sisters Dorothy (1911-1966) and Cynthia (1918-2011) Slater during a hectic week at Allerston 1931

c 1910

Street showing the Black Lion Inn  c1910

c1910

Mary Slater (nee Pratt) at the gate c1908

c1910

Joiner from about 1870 - 1917

Back yard at Oak Lea shows the time when they brought in the local steam traction engine (which was used to operate threshing machines) to drive the saw for log cutting.  Back right is John K. Slater, centre back is William Thomas Slater (with moustache) and front left Owen Kendrew Slater, the latter two were the youngest of three sons all of whom learned the trade under their father.

1910

On lhs Charlotte Evelyn, b c1893, daughter of John K. Slater

c1910

1849-1926

Tinted photograph by Anthony Marsingall c mid 1880s.

A group of munitions workers from Barnbow Ordnance Works, Leeds.  Elsie May Slater is front left.

Owen Kendrew Slater in his army uniform while serving in the Royal Engineers.