Forge House, Main Road, with John Markham, Blacksmith, his wife Elizabeth nee Green and their children on the occasion of the marriage of their second daughter, Mary, to Alfred Welford, the Manager of Howden Gas Works
John Markham, Blacksmith, with his dog 'Tiny' around the early 1920's. The Markham family were related by marriage to the Hatfield family, Tailors of Bubwith, anothet leading Primitive Methodist family. John's daughter, Louisa, married George Ernest Hatfield, who was well known for hand-stitching garments while sitting on a table by his front room window while George's widowed mother, Anne, married the widowed John Markham so a Hatfield Mother and Son married a Markham Father and Daughter.
Map of Bubwith in 1900
Bubwith Toll Bridge (undated)
Bubwith Church (undated)
Bubwith Church from the air
Bubwith Church North View
Bubwith Church South View
Bubwith Cricket Team 1912 (Back middle J.Brownbridge. Back Right J.Maltby)
Bubwith Rugby Football Team (Northern Union) 1890 to 1900
Bubwith United (J.Palmer Rear 2nd from Right)
Bubwith United (Jack Palmer Rear 2nd from left) (George Whittaker Rear 3rd from left)
Bubwith Main Street old-&-new
Edgar & Susannah LAMBS Shop
John Markham is standing at the door of his forge at the side of Forge House. House and Forge are still there, as is the heavy, key-shaped door-knocker made by John. John married in Bubwith Church in 1873 although he was a staunch Primitive Methodist and was later a Trustee of Bubwith Primitive Methodist Chapel.
Bubwith Main Street, undated, but note the telegraph poles, and the absence of TV antennas (1950s?). I visited my mum last night in a Stamford Bridge Nursing home, and chatted with Nora Bowes who was raised in Bubwith and has written a book on it. I asked her when phones arrived in Bubwith and she said her parents were one of the first people in the village to have a phone installed in 1948, and she remembers the public phone being installed in 1950, as she used to use it to phone her prospective husband just prior to their marriage in that year. Andy Sefton Pocklington
Map of Bubwith 1837 (Land owned by Benjamin HALLEY - Mill Farm)
The Maltby Estate, Bubwith
The New Houses, Bubwith
The Village from Breighton Road, Bubwith
Centre of Bubwith, 1955
Manor House, 1955, Bubwith
Bubwith Main Street, 2007
