Filey Archive - Exploring Filey's Past
Exploring Filey's Past
The Social History of Filey
From Stage Coach to Scarborough and District
John Paul Jones
The Fashion of Filey
Pierrots
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Filey
North Yorkshire
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Parish Clerk, Francis Fox.

POST & MONEY ORDER OFFICE, Post Office Savings Bank, Government Annuity & Insurance & Postal Telegraph Office, King street.-William Storey, postmaster. Letters arrive from all parts at 6.45 a.m.; dispatched at 6.29 p.m. Box closes at 6 p.m. From 1st July to 1st November there is an extra dispatch & an extra arrival to & from all parts, viz.-dispatch, 8.30 a.m.; arrival, 5.5 p.m. Money orders granted & paid from 9 to 6; on Saturdays, 9 to 8

INSURANCE AGENTS:—

London Assurance, W. Clarkson
Yorkshire Fire & Life, D. Philliskirk, Nash street
Local Board, Robert Cammish, chairman; Richard White, clerk
Coast Guard Station, Clifftop, J. Sandford, officer

PUBLIC OFFICERS :—

Licensed Dealer in Stamps, Samuel Towse, Mitford street.
Registrar for Births § Deaths for Filey District, James Clarkson
Secretary to the Lifeboat, William Hanks

SCHOOLS :—

National,- Shakelton, master
Infant, Miss Ellen Mosey, mistress
Infant, Miss Sarah E. Lund, mistress
Wesleyan, Joseph Edwards, master
Railway Station, Charles Milner, station master

CONVEYANC: — Omnibus to & from Foord's & the Crescent hotels to meet every train

CARRIERS TO:—

BRIDLINGTON - George Ethell, Monday & Thursday
SCARBOROUGH - George Ethell, Wednesday & Saturday

The arrival of the 20th Century brought further changes fuelled by a rising standard of living and increased provision of public transport (electric tramcars in the industrial towns of the West Riding) which brought an increasing number of less well off visitors to the town.