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Wedding Invitation to William & Annie Ward (Wigman Hall Tenants)  of Constance Lady Wenlock to Colin Forbes Adam at St Martins in the Field, Trafalgar Square, London

Wedding Invitation to William & Annie Ward (Wigman Hall Tenants) of Constance Lady Wenlock to Colin Forbes Adam at St Martins in the Field, Trafalgar Square, London

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Wedding of Francis (John) Rockliff & Betty Gowthorpe St Helens Church Escrick – 6th March 1948

Wedding of Francis (John) Rockliff & Betty Gowthorpe St Helens Church Escrick – 6th March 1948

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L to RMary Robinson – Betty’s friend, Mount Pleasant Farm, WheldrakeFrank Lewis Dawson – John’s cousinPeter Ward Gowthorpe – Betty’s brotherJohn Rockliff – GroomBetty Gowthorpe – BrideFreda Mary Brown – daughter of...
Wedding of Francis (John) Rockliff & Betty Gowthorpe St Helens Church Escrick – 6th March 1948

Wedding of Francis (John) Rockliff & Betty Gowthorpe St Helens Church Escrick – 6th March 1948

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L to RHarold Maskill Rockliff – John’s fatherMary Robinson – Betty’s friend, Mount Pleasant Farm, WheldrakeFrank Lewis Dawson – John’s cousinLilian Catherine Rockliff (nee Henley) – John’s motherPeter Ward Gowthorpe...
Wedding of Francis (John) Rockliff & Betty Gowthorpe St Helens Church Escrick – 6th March 1948

Wedding of Francis (John) Rockliff & Betty Gowthorpe St Helens Church Escrick – 6th March 1948

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Wignam Hall Farm c1900

Wignam Hall Farm c1900

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L to RPercy Hardy – worked for the Ward family???Joe Ward This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Image source – Betty Rockliff (nee Gowthorpe) Archive ref – 2019.32.6     Back...
Wigman Hall Farmhouse and the Ward Family c1900

Wigman Hall Farmhouse and the Ward Family c1900

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L to RJoe Ward – eldest sonFred or Tommy Ward – sonWilliam Ward – fatherAnnie Ward – motherNellie Ward – only daughterPercy Hardy – worked for the Ward family This work is licensed under a Creative Commons...
William Ward in Uniform and Medals – East Yorkshire Imperial Yeomanry

William Ward in Uniform and Medals – East Yorkshire Imperial Yeomanry

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William Ward in Uniform – East Yorkshire Imperial Yeomanry

William Ward in Uniform – East Yorkshire Imperial Yeomanry

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A merry Christmas from John Ward – 1945

A merry Christmas from John Ward – 1945

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Article featuring the Handsworth Sword Dancers of South Yorkshire carol singing & sword dancing at Christmas time
Article featuring John Atkinson of Escrick on the breeding & training of sheepdogs. Yorkshire Post 22 Jan 2022
Article featuring the proposed Heronby housing development off the A19 between York & selby
Article featuring the proposed Heronby housing development off the A19 between York & selby
Article featuring the proposed Heronby housing development off the A19 between York & selby
Aerial photograph of Moreby Hall as a De Havilland Moth Biplane flies overhead during a break in the recent stormy weather. Picture by Charlotte Graham
Press article featuring Angus Gowthorpe of Approach Farm, Escrick and his ecological methods of arable farming
Queen Victoria £5 silver coin dated 1892
Queen Victoria £5 gold coin dated 1887

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