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A joint initiative between Harrogate Civic Society and the current owner of the building, Mayor Coun Victoria Oldham performed the ceremony to mark the legacy of Pickersgill Palliser, a major public figure in Victorian Harrogate.

Mr Palliser launching the first ‘List of Visitors to Harrogate Spa’ in 1834 before founding the Harrogate Advertiser in 1836 using his own printing press, the first in the town.

A year later he became the town’s first Post Master.