b'Looking at the more serious diseases, we canwhich seems general all over the village, which list several outbreaks over the years. In 1863 therewas still bad 2 weeks later. Within another 2 weeks is a casual mention of Smallpox being present inScarlet Fever was very bad in the village, with many the village, but no details are given. In Decemberaway. By the end of the year the Managers called 1864 Scarlet Fever is noted as prevalent in thea special meeting to close the school for 2 weeks: neighbourhood, and in April 1866 the Master recordsWe can only hope that the epidemic which is now a great many children and adults are ill in the village,raging in the village will have subsided by that time, but without giving the illness a name. In July 1875and that we shall recommence with a full school. In the Master, Mr Dubois, notes the apparently slightthe event, the school was closed for 5 weeks, during cold that many of the children had 2 weeks since haswhich time 5 children died. A week later he comments developed itself into the whooping cough. SamuelMany parents seem yet afraid to let their children Chapman and Walter Clint are very seriously ill throughventure to school, and it seems that they were right, it. In November 1880, when Harry Bramley wasas subsequently another 2 children died, as well as 8 the Head Master, there was an outbreak of measlesothers who were under school age.AdvertisementsSupplied by Andrew SeftonThis ad for the Bishop Wilton Show appearedThis ad for W. L. Fisher & Son appeared in a at the time of the Festival of Britain in 1951. ItPocklington Town Guide in the 1970s.was in The Corkers Souvenir Rag Mag which was produced for the Corkers Rag & Gala Day in Pocklington on Saturday 7th July 1951.Ringing DayKate PrattN ovember 5th used to be called Ringing Day, andbe remembered that the word Ale was used to mean was traditionally celebrated by joyful ringing offeast or get-together.) By 1823 the amount of beef the church bells. This was ordered by Parliamentbought had gone up to 90 lbs!throughout the land as a day of public thanksgiving atIt must have been a great annual celebration, as the failure of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. in 1811 8 shillings was spent on bread and ale for the It was obviously a big day in Bishop Wilton, evenworkers making their preparations the day before, and though the church only has three bells, and thein 1814 1 lbs of candles were used on Ringing Eve. ringers work was rewarded with a special breakfast.The Account Books only go up to 1825, but Ringing Judging from the Churchwardens Accounts ofDay was still being enthusiastically celebrated until 1809, there must have been a whole team of ringersthen.as 25lbs of beef was bought in at 6 pence per pound, and William Tenneson, then the publican atReference: Churchwardens Account Book, the Fleece, was paid 1/6/6 for making breakfastBorthwick Institute, University of York, PR B/W 24.ready and Ale. (In all fairness to the ringers, it must 330 BULLETIN 17'