Captain Cook School Room Great Ayton North Yorkshire
Within Great Ayton there are several reminders of Jame Cook's early life in the village. The Schoolroom Museum is housed in part of the former charity school where the young James was educated. The Schoolroom is housed in a building erected in 1785 as a schoolhouse and poorhouse on the site of, and using materials from, the original charity school built in 1704 by local landownder Michael Postgate. The Museum, which was started in 1928, houses exhibits relating to Cook and the eighteenth century village in which he lived. The commemorative plaque on the outside of the museum is also the work of Nicholas Dimbleby and was unveiled on the same day as the sculpture.
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