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Christmas in Beverley 1949, 1960, 1981
131) The first Christmas tree in the town was organised by the Rotary Club of Beverley and the Inner Wheel Club in order to raise funds for christmas gifts for the displaced children of Europe. Gifts for the children were also collected. The president of the Rotary Club was Mr C F Deans, and the president of the Inner Wheel Club was Mrs C Cooke
132) missing
133) Saturday Market early days, no lights on the tree Dec 1966. The idea of re-starting the tree on the Market Cross was first taken up by the Round Table but for many years it has been organised by The Beverley Lions Club
134) As time went on, christmas trees proliferated in Beverley and they now appear at Cross Street corner (as here), Butcher Row by 'The Angel' and Wednesday Market 1981
Christmas in Beverley 1985
135) The Market Cross
136) The town band at the Market Cross
137) The butcher in Saturday Market (now the Yorkshire Building Society)
138) Saturday Market 'The King's Head' and the Yorkshire Bank
139) Salvation Army Band at Cross Street corner
140) North Bar Within and Wood Lane corner, Robert Gail's china shop
141) Toll Gavel
142) Carmichael's shop (now opticians)
143) Carmichael's side window in Wood Lane
144) North Bar Within St Mary's Court Arcade
145) Wednesday Market east side
146) Wednesday Market 'The Olde Pork Shop'
Christmas in Beverley 1986
147) Ladygate Father Christmas
148) Ladygate hand bell ringers
149) Ladygate stalls down the side of the 'Playhouse'/Beverley Baths building now Brown's
150) Ladygate christmas stall
151) Ladygate Elizabeth Hall with the ice-cream 'stop-me-and-buy-one' bike
152) Christmas shop window
153) Carol singers by 'The Angel', Butcher Row
Christmas in Beverley 1988
154) Richard Kemp in his shop, Wednesday Market
155) Butcher Row
156) Butcher Row
157) Toll Gavel
158) Toll Gavel - Beverley Road
159) Saturday Market
160) Saturday Market
161) North Bar Within 'Three Kings' in Carmichael's window
162) St Mary's church floodlit |