Destination Old Town Bridlington

20 HIGH STREET, BRIDLINGTON

Properties on the High Street were renumbered at the start of the 1900s. This property was previously No 42.

In 1911, Jane Davison, age 76, a widow, born in Hutton Cranswick lived here in 6 rooms, with her grandson Fred Carr, a cowman on a farm, Ethel, his wife of less than a year, and their newborn son Wilfred. They had a visitor staying, Mary Bonnett, a widow age 65.  Jane's late husband John Nicholson Davison had been a local councillor, and had worked as a farm labourer, lime burner, and later as a farmer.