Jubbergate Huckster

Huckster was a name given to showy street peddler who often used persuasive means to effect a sale. All Hucksters will now be prefixed by a local street name which appear on the 1852 map of York which wraps the Ghost.

There is a small street in York which today connects Newgate Market and the Shambles with Parliament Street. This lane is called Jubbergate, and though well-travelled by visitors to York it receives little notice amid the masses of shoppers and sightseers that walk along it.

Although the buildings standing along Jubbergate now are of much later construction, 13th century deeds for properties along this lane are still archived at York Minster Library, The Merchant Adventurers Hall and York City Archives. The earliest of these deeds, dating to around 1249, use the street’s prior name, Bretgate.

Huckster Ghosts are characterised by the dynamic and varied markings of slashes and spray.