South Yorkshire Times, November 17th 1933
Golden Wedding Party
Santa Claus has already come to the old people of Jump. He has been and gone with a definite promise that at Christmas there will be something good—nothing less than a big Christmas party, be a grand tea. a concert, all the old joys of the village revived. Perhaps the veterans of Jump will also be allowed to hang their stockings up. At Christmas Mr. William Allott, the old village schoolmaster, and Mrs. Allott, celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. They live at Scarborough now but whenever there is anything exciting going off at Jump tug, they find their way back to the village. of They cannot forget old faces and the old scenes. If they meet a “Jumpite” at Scarbro’ they always want to know what is going on., they read every line of the South Yorkshire Times.
So when they began to talk of the plans for the happy event to come, their thoughts immediately flew to Jump, and hanging up the harps of their memories in the midst of the willows of Scarborough they thought, how could they sing the songs of Zion in a strange land! It was, unthinkable, they must do something for Jump. The upshot was that they wrote to the Jump Old People’s Treat Committee and. promised to give the old folks a jolly Christmas party. They did not mention the younger folk because they are able to look after themselves and provide their own enjoyment. They wanted to meet once again, and joke and chat with the old friends who have come through the years with them. Would the Old Folk’s Committee like them to give a party, would they make all the local arrangements, could they arrange for a feed. would it be possible to get all the old people there? The answer to all these questions was a prompt and joyful affirmative. So now it’s all fixed up. Every soul in Jump, lucky enough to be old enough, is looking forward to an old-time jollification. Wasn’t it a nice thought? Mr. and Mrs. Allott have a double treat to look forward to. First they will celebrate among their new friends at Scarborough, then they will come over Jump for the bigger celebration. Mr. Allott, who was 78 yesterday, was born at Thorpe Healey. His father, James Allott, was a pit-sinking contractor in charge of sinking at Lundhill. That is how they came to live at Jump. Mr. A. E. Allott, of “The Sycamores,” Hemingfield is Mr. William Allott’s brother. He has a sister in Jump (Mrs. Brown), another in Mexborough (Mrs. Hunt), another in Scarborough (Mrs. Baker), and a fourth in Wallasey (Mrs. Addy). He started his teaching career at the old Church school at Jump and finished at the council school in Roebuck Hill in 1920, having been headmaster there nearly forty years.
Mr. Allott was formerly a member of Wombwell Urban Council and took a prominent part in the work of St. George’s, Jump, where he was a church warden and Mrs. Allott to use the phrase of one of her daughters “was in everything.”
Mrs. Allot has one brother and two sisters and all live in Scarborough. She also was a teacher and did not change her name on marriage as she was Allott from birth. The couple were married at Wentworth on December 27th 1833 and have three boys and three girls. In their retirement they have excellent health and are very happy. Mr. Allott has won renown at bowls, being runner up in the Scarborough Hospital Competition and is now thinking of taking up golf.