b'the Reverend Fawcett.people who all wanted me to be fed and looked after. We used to cycle everywherewe couldnt getFrom Skirpenbeck I used to go back on to the main anywhere unless we cycledand we used to cycleroad, call at Todds Garage (though its gone nowI into Pocklington on a Saturday night. There wascan still see those 2 men there and their mother), the cinema there and behind it was the Oak Houseand there was an isolated house on its own where I where the dances were held. There was the airfieldcalled in, where in later years my Uncle Codge (Albert at Pocklington and I think there were bombers, soSleightholme) and Auntie Connie lived. Further along you had a lot of airmen there, so it was very popular,and on the left-hand side there were some more very crowded, and there was a very good band everyhouses where I would drop milk in, and opposite Saturday night. In fact after the war when I came backthere was a gate, and there was a family there who and got married, my husband was a fisherman andhad about 8 children and they used to walk up from he was friendly with another fisherman and once wethis cottage, and I used to have to leave all this milk were talking about the war, and he was on that airfieldbecause they had free milk, I can remember that. And at the same time that I was there; maybe we mightwe used to finish at Stamford Bridge. I used to deliver have met, and that would have been a different endmilk to the Plastics Factory, and call in at the Co-to my story! He was up there on the airfield and I wasoperative and buy myself a cake. And then we used on a farm. I enjoyed Pocklington and cycling back andto come back through Full Sutton and Fangfoss, and forth, and we didnt think anything of it at all. back to East Farm. And when we came back it all had When I mastered the milk van that I drove, andto be unloaded and then in the afternoon my uncle I dont think it was very long before I did, we usedand I used to be washing all the bottles by hand. And to start about half past eight and drive up to Bishopafter the evening milking Bowman and I would fill all Wilton, because we used to supply the schools. Ithe bottles to go out on the round the next day. It cant really remember that I called at any individualworked very well and we all worked very well together cottages in Bishop Wilton, but I certainly went upand really had a lot of fun although the work was hard. to the school. Then I went down Garrowby Lane,Ill never forget the time I spent up there in down to the bottom of Garrowby Hill, and I droppedYorkshireI have very happy memories of all the some milk off there, at the farm where these otherpeople that I met. I cant remember a lot of their two Land Girls lived. From there I went to Bugthorpenames now, Norah Foster I remember, and of course I because we delivered milk there to the school, andam now in my eighties so sadly a lot of them will have then on to Skirpenbeck. By the time I had been doingbeen gone a long time, but it was a happy period of this for a few weeks, I got to know quite a few of themy life and I hope that this will have been of some local people in all of these places and every so ofteninterest to somebody.I would go in to have a cup of tea from these kind The Paper TrailKate PrattT he following outline of a sequence of documents(approx one eighth of an acre) in the occupation of held at Beverley Treasure House illustrates toThomas Sanderson. Some of the names are already perfection why research is so addictive, and onlyfamiliarThomas Williamson farmed at Cliff Farm, occasionally so rewarding. From a name or a singleand Cautley Farm on Braygate stands memorial to piece of information the desire to fit it into contextthe Cautley familybut this line of inquiry is following leads on and onand sometimes a full pictureThomas Sanderson, the tenant of the cottage with the emerges. Usually the jumbled pieces of the jigsaw docarpenters shop. My question beingwhere is the not fit so neatly into place creating a whole picture,cottage?but remain just as fragments, waiting their chance toIn 1804, on August 7th, the Rev Cautley sells the be called up at some point in the future. cottage, the carpenters shop and garth of 20 perches The first document 1is dated October 1799,for 100. Obviously Thomas Sanderson cannot afford and is a land transfer from Thomas Williamson ofto buy it outright, so he goes in with James Powell of Bishop Wilton, yeoman, to the Reverend WilliamPocklington, gent. The following day, these two jointly Cautley of Huggate, concerning 3 pieces of propertytake out a mortgage for 100 from John Hotham in Bishop Wiltona cottage in the occupation ofof Bishop Wilton for the property, with the further Ann Richardson, a close of more than 3 acres in theinformation that the cottage is intended to be taken occupation of Grant Robinson, and a cottage with adown and rebuilt.carpenters shop and a garth containing 20 perchesThe next piece of information is the Will of Thomas 1Reference: DDPY 54/113, Messrs Powell & Young, SolicitorsBULLETIN 19 377'