Carry on up Hall Gate.

Building Number 50 Hall Gate, this fine building was built before 1832. It has a green plaque dedicated to Joseph Lockwood.

Joseph Lockwood, the younger, was born in 1785 and was apprenticed to his father. He built the Betting Rooms, High Street, in 1826 and the new gaol in West Laith Gate in 1829. He was also a sculptor and a number of local churches contain Neo Hellenic memorial tablets by him.

In 1827 the Levitt Hagg quarries were leased to Joseph Lockwood, the younger, Robert Kemp and William Blagden. The Lockwoods were connected with the Levitt Hagg quarries, where stone was obtained for building purposes and lime burning for four gener­ations.

Joseph Lockwood, the younger, lived at 50 Hall Gate in a. house he built for himself.

For a long time, it was known as Lockwood House. but the name disappeared when the property was bought by the York County Bank in 1931. It was later occupied by Staniland's estate agents. but is now the Lockwood Public house, Lockwood died in. 1842, aged 56.