Barton upon Humber Family History

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Ye Olde Barton Market Place

Barton Statute was a hiring fair held in Barton Market Place where potential employers would go to look for suitable employees and vice versa.

Hull and North Lincolnshire Times 13th May 1865
 
  
Hull and North Lincolnshire Times 13th May 1871
 
Traditionally Barton Market was held on a Monday and people from the town and surrounding villages would gather to ply their trades, sell their wares, buy and sell their livestock and generally make merry in the many pubs and alehouses the town had to offer.
 
 
  
 Hull and North Lincolnshire Times 10th June 1871
 
 

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Hull and North Lincolnshire Times 10th June 1871
 

Why not visit Goxhill's very own 'Modern Statute Fair?'
Check out GOXHILL TRADER and see how the Market Place
has leapt forward into the 21st Century.
 
Hull and North Lincolnshire Times 6th May 1871 

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