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Prospect House ~ 8 Bull St. ~ Old Vicarage ~ Other Ruiton House
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CDM 2017
One of the oldest dwellings in the area, built around 1750, this large rambling house has had lots of additions in recent times,
it is still a private residence.
Occupied by Mr. William Chrisoston Wood in 1851. [Melville Directory]
This was once the residence of local dignitary William Pike Gibbons, 1854-1946, who was Justice of the Peace and
part of the Gibbons industrial dynasty.
The partnership between Benjamin Gibbons and W P Gibbons of Dibdale, trading in gas retorts and other fire clay goods
and colliery owners was dissolved in 1895.
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Occupied by Mr. William Lees and William Smith, J.P. in 1916. [Kelly's Directory]
It is rumoured that the house contained prisoner cells.
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