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