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Bishopthorpe Road between Scarcroft Road and Caroline Street, since demolished for car park.
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About us
We’re a group of people with wide-ranging interests in the local history of our neighbourhood. We meet at Clements Hall, near Scarcroft School in York. All are welcome to join us.
Contact us via Clements Hall on 01904 466086 or email enquiries@clementshall.org.uk
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Our WW1 project
- Our First World War Project
- The contribution of women in the First World War
- Conscience and the call to arms in WW1
- The impact of the first Zeppelin attack on our locality
- How did the churches influence attitudes to the War in our area?
- The experiences of WW1 soldiers, sailors and airmen
- The Impact of the War on Scarcroft School
- Food shortages in the First World War
- The Role of Uniformed Youth Organisations on the Home Front in our Area
- Rowntree Park: our legacy from the First World War
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Useful online resources
*Trade directories
*Historic mapping for North Yorkshire *York Explore Archives and Local History Photo acknowledgements: Hugh Murray, Philip Leeman.
Photo Gallery
Barstows Hospital, Caroline St
Albemarle Road
Co-op on corner of Nunnery Lane
The Slip Inn
Ebor St
The Cygnet
Scarcroft School
Bishopthorpe Road
Millfield Rd Peace Celebrations 1919
Website Pages
- A brave bright devotion to duty: Bertha (Betty) Gavin Stevenson, driver for YMCA
- A tailor, a soldier and a sailor on Scarcroft Road
- About our First World War project
- Area covered by our research
- Bishopthorpe Road shops
- Charles Wilfred Coghlan
- Conscience and the call to arms in WW1
- Edmund, Alfred and Laurence Parsons Cooper
- Events Programme
- Every man is wanted
- Exploring the impact of the May 1916 Zeppelin attack
- First World War Centennial plans for our area
- First World War dead from our area
- Food shortages in the First World War
- Frederick Wickenden
- George Broadley
- Harold Deighton
- Herbert (Henry) Toes
- How did the churches influence attitudes to the War in our area?
- John Noble Mercer
- Lady volunteers at Southlands Church in the First World War
- Leonard Heaton
- Maria Button – a story of poverty
- Nunthorpe Hall: The Story of an Auxiliary Hospital in World War One
- Our First World War Project
- Our First World War themes
- Our shopping history
- Pawnbrokers: the poor man’s banker
- Pextons
- Rowntree Park: our legacy from the First World War
- Scarcroft Road area shops
- Sister Mary Nelson Heasley: a nurse from Belfast
- South Bank corner shops
- Supporting WW1 soldiers and sailors at York
- The contribution of women in the First World War
- The development of allotments during the First World War
- The Dodsworth sisters
- The experiences of WW1 soldiers, sailors and airmen
- The impact of the first Zeppelin attack on our locality
- The Impact of the War on Scarcroft School
- The Role of Uniformed Youth Organisations on the Home Front in our Area
- Thomas Jones
- Time flies in Scarcroft Road
- Upper Price Street
- William Midgley
- William Varley (1887 – 1965)
- William Walker
- Winning the Children
- Women at War: ‘A Munition Dirge’
- The Non-Combatant Corps in the First World War
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- November 2013
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- July 2013
- June 2013
Clements Hall Local History Group 
