Folk Hall, New Earswick

The community building at the heart of the New Earswick model village, built in 1907, with the establishment of a Village Council. The building was enlarged in 1935 to Barry Parker’s design.

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Village History

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- Adult School Movement
- Aero
- After Eight
- Alcohol, Rowntree and
- Allotments Movement
- Antoinette (Tonie) Rowntree
- Arnold Stephenson Rowntree (1872-1951)
- Arthur Rowntree
B
- Barmoor
- Beatrice Webb and Seebohm Rowntree
- Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree 1871-1954
- Beverley House, Shipton Road
- Black Horse Passage
- Black Magic
- Boer War, York and
- Bootham School
- Brand, the importance of
- Bruno Lasker
C
- Cadbury/Fry, Rowntree and
- Charles Booth (1840-1916)
- Chartist Movement in York
- Claude Gaget
- Cliff Villa
- Clifton Estate
- Clifton Lodge and Rawcliffe Holt
- Cober Hill, Scarborough
- Cocoa Works Brass Band
- Cocoa Works Magazine
- Company Management, Enlightened
- Confectionery industry in York, history of
- Conscientious objectors, York and
D
- Dairy Box
- Dunollie Rest House, Scarborough
E
- Economy in the mid 1800s, York’s
- Elect Cocoa, Rowntree’s
- Electric Cinema, Fossgate
- Europe, Rowntrees and
F
- Fabian Society in York
- Family tree
- First World War, Rowntrees and workers
- First World War, York and
- Folk Hall, New Earswick
- Fossgate
- Francis (Frank) Henry Rowntree (1868-1918)
- Fred Rowntree (1860-1927)
- Friedensthal, Germany
- Friends Provident Institution
- Friends’ Ambulance Unit
- Friends’ Meeting House, Friargate, York
- Fruit Pastilles and Gums
- Fry
G
- Garden House, The (Clifton)
- George Cadbury
- George Fox
- George Harris
- George Hudson
- Germany, Rowntrees and
H
- Hannah Rowntree
- Haverford (later called Haverford Youth Hotel, now YHA York)
- Haxby Road Factory
- Henry Isaac Rowntree (1838-1883)
- Homestead Park
- Homestead, Residence, today main office of Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Howard Doncaster Rowntree
- Hungate
I
- Ireland, the Great Famine
- Irish immigration in York
J
- Jean Rowntree
- John Bowes Morrell
- John Bright
- John Ford
- John Stephenson Rowntree (1834-1907)
- John Wilhelm Rowntree
- John Woolman
- Joseph Rowntree (1836-1925)
- Joseph Rowntree (Senior) (1801-1859)
- Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust
- Joseph Rowntree Memorial Library, Haxby Road
- Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust
- Joseph Rowntree Social Service Trust Ltd
- Joseph Rowntree Theatre
- Joseph Rowntree trusts – which is which?
- Joseph Rowntree Village Trust
- Joseph Rowntree’s 1904 Memorandum
- Joseph Stephenson Rowntree (1834-1907)
- Joseph Terry
- Joshua Rowntree
- Julia Seebohm Rowntree
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- Kenneth Rowntree
- KitKat
L
- Lady Peckett’s Yard
- Lawrence Rowntree
- Leetham’s Flour Mill
- Leisure pursuits
- Library, Museum Street (today York Explore)
- Lloyd George, David, and Seebohm Rowntree
M
- Mary Tuke
- May Kendall
- Memorandum, Founder’s
- Michael Rowntree (1919 – 2007)
- Mount School, The
- Mr York of York, animated advert
N
- Nestlé, York
- New Earswick
- New Earswick Primary School
O
- Oscar Rowntree (1879-1947)
- Ouse Lea, Shipton Road
P
- Pavement, 28, Rowntree grocery business
- Peter Rowntree
- Philanthropy, Joseph Rowntree and
- Politics in York
- Poverty in York
- Poverty Line
- Public Health in York
- Pubs in York in the 19th century
Q
- Quaker Burial Ground, Cromwell Road, Bishophill
- Quakerism (The Society of Friends) in York
- Quakers in the 18th–19th century
- Quakers, the Rowntrees’ relation towards the national Society of Friends
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- Richard Rowntree (1921-1997)
- Rowntree Company Chairmen after Joseph Rowntree
- Rowntree Mackintosh Ltd.
- Rowntree Park
- Rowntree Society, The
- Rowntree Wharf
- Rowntree’s Private Railway
S
- Samuel Tuke
- Sarah (née Stephenson) Rowntree
- Scarborough, the Rowntrees of
- Seebohm – origins of the name
- Seebohm Rowntree
- Smarties
- Society of Friends
- Soup Kitchen
- Statistics, Rowntrees’ use of
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- Tanner’s Moat
- Temperance Movement
- The Retreat
- Theodore Hotham Rowntree
- Thomas Craven
- Top (Penn) House
- Trebitsch-Lincoln, and the Rowntree connection
- Tuke family
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- University of York
- USA, Rowntrees and
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- William Stickney Rowntree
- William Tuke
- Winston Churchill, on Seebohm Rowntree’s work
- Women, at Rowntrees
- World War 1, Rowntrees and
- World War 2, Rowntrees and
Y
- Yearsley Swimming Baths

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