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Pocklington District Heritage Trust wishes to create a Museum to showcase the long history of the area dating from Neolithic times. #NewMuseum4Pock https://pocklingtondistrictheritagetrust.org
Burnby Hall lease is signed!
Pocklington Town Council has announced the official lease signing for Burnby Hall.β βThe new facility includes a large main hall available for public hire, along with office spaces and meeting rooms for community and civic use. A long-awaited town museum is now closer.
The Pocela Panel comes home!
The rare early medieval gold panel found near Pocklington has finally returned home after it was delivered to Pocklington District Heritage Trust trustee, Alex Harvey. A crowd funding appeal raised Β£4,000 in just two weeks. www.gofundme.com/f/save-a-poc...
On Fri 28 March, Pocklington Heritage Trust is unveiling a new, stunning replica of the Pocklington Shield alongside its 2,500 year-old original. #IronAge #chariot #DiggingForBritain #AliceRoberts
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Captain George Jefferson Scott, killed 25/12/1915.
Captain George Jefferson Scott, killed 25/12/1915.
Captain George Jefferson Scott, killed 25/12/1915.
Captain George Jefferson Scott, killed 25/12/1915.
Remembering today Market Weighton man and manager at Barclays Bank, Pocklington (East Yorkshire): Captain George Jefferson Scott, killed 25/12/1915. @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social
#FWWhist #History #1GM #FWW #Grande-Guerre
This is 102 Squadron Halifax RG482 βKβ which crashed into the Red House on Yapham Road, Pocklington on 30 July 1945. From the IBCC Archive
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Pocklington District Heritage Trust have launched a crowdfunding appeal to save this Anglo Saxon artefact being exported and never seen again. We can bring it home to show our schoolchildren and residents our local heritage in a local museum. www.gofundme.com/f/save-a-poc...
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Photograph of handwritten will with the following text: This is my last Will I insist on it still So sheer on & wellcome and eβen laugh yr Fill I Wm Hickington Poet of Pocklington Do give & bequeathe As free as I breathe To Thee Mary Faram The Queen of my Haram My Cash & my Cattle With every Chattle To have & to hold Come Heat or come Cold Sans Hindrance or Strife Thoβ thou art not my Wife As Witness my Hand Just here as I stand This twelfth of July In the year Seventy Wm Hickington
One for the Pocklington people! (cc. @pdht.bsky.social) Did you know that in 1772 a will was proven in the York probate courts written in the form of a poem? It was the will of one William Hickington, Poet of Pocklington and he left his cash and cattle to to Mary F/Taram, the 'Queen of my Haram'.
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Today is the feast day of Saint Andrew the patron saint of fishermen, Scotland and Russia. The church of St Andrew, Middleton near Pickering dates to the Anglo-Saxon period, and still contains a good amount of Saxon architecture and early sculpture work.
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A ROMAN BRONZE IMAGO CLIPEATA OF THE EMPEROR CLAUDIUS. Found at Stamford Bridge and sold at Christieβs in New York.
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Anglo Saxon / Viking bone fragment practice piece found near Pocklington #Museum4Pock #viking #anglian pocklingtondistrictheritagetrust.org
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We forget the reason why settlements on the edge of the Wolds like Pocklington have 10,000 years of occupation. When ice sheets melted following the Ice Age, the sea levels rose. York was under water as part of lake Humber and Pocklington & Market Weighton were on the lake edge.
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Why Pocklington needs a new museum and heritage centre by Peter Halkon youtu.be/RPTshqyBcvU via @YouTube
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