EYLHS Newsletter 17 Summer 2007

newsletter of the East Local History Society

Newsletter edited by Christopher Ketchell 47 Clumber Street, Hull, HU5 3RH Telephone 01482 346125

published by the East Yorkshire Local History Society Secretary David Smith 114 Telford Street, Hull, HU9 3DY Telephone 01482 706902 e-mail [email protected]

printed by Kall Kwik, Hull Contributions

Based in Hull it is not always easy to keep track of events in other parts of the Riding; news that members could contribute on their town or village should be sent to the editor.

Short articles, illustrated or unillustrated, news on libraries, archives, museums, societies or education, queries other people may be able to answer, etc. for inclusion in future news- letters should also be sent to the editor. News from the Society

As you will have noticed the format Review of EYLHS Events of this newsletter has been altered from A4 to A5. The only reason for the After the AGM on Saturday 31 March change is to reduce postage costs; if it at the Library, King Street, , is not successful we will revert to A4. Mike Sewell gave an illustrated talk en- titled: `Through the East Riding in the steps of Queen Henrietta Maria’. Programme Mike started by putting the topic of his talk into its historical setting with SATURDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2007 a short reminder of the ancestors of Venue: Peter Harrison Room, Minster Charles I and his wife Henrietta Maria, Schoolroom, their marriage and religious problems, Topic: The history of the Pilots and the political situation of the times Speaker: Captain John Simpson and why Henrietta Maria came to Bri- Time: 2:15pm dlington Cost: £2.50. In February 1642, when Civil War looked [Captain Simpson is unavailable; Prof. inevitable Queen Henrietta Maria left Donald Woodward, archivist Trinity for the Netherlands, taking House, will substitute.) her jewels. Over the next year, by sell- ing jewels she raised a large amount WEDNESDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2007 of money which financed several con- Additional guided tour of the Treasure voys of weapons and ammunition and House, Beverley, 2:30pm. Please see a company of professional soldiers to separate insert for details and booking fight for the King. She set sail from Hol- slip. land on 2nd Feb 1643 escorted by Dutch Naval vessels hoping to make for New- SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER 2007 castle but was forced, after several days Venue: WISE (Wilberforce Institute for at sea in a storm, into Bridlington Bay. the Study of Slavery and Emancipa- After remaining at anchor for two days, tion), High St, Hull the ships entered the harbour and the Topic: William Wilberforce and the end Queen took shelter in a house nearby, of the Slave Trade most likely on the corner of the present Speaker: Professor Richardson of Hull Queen Street and Queen’s Square. University Time: 2:00pm During the night four Parliamentarian Cost: £4 including light refreshments ships sailed into the bay and began Maximum number 35. bombarding the harbour and adjoining houses. Mike then related the events of that night as described by the Queen

 in a letter to Charles. She had to take to enjoy the extensive flower gardens, shelter in a ditch which is assumed to kitchen garden and ponds, and for a be the , a stream flowing most interesting talk by Mrs Sally Bean from the Wolds out into Bridlington on the history of the house. She and Harbour. her husband live at the Hall, with views over the countryside from the house, The Parliamentarian ships sailed away and a short walk from the side of the after being threatened by the Dutch River Ouse. We were served light re- Admiral and the arms and ammuni- freshments in a room full of windows, tions were unloaded onto 500 carts. previously used as a billiards room, as Queen Henrietta Maria stayed several we listened to Sally Bean’s talk. days in Bridlington district and Mike showed slides of buildings in the area The house, built in stages during the which she could possibly have seen. nineteenth century, is the third on The main buildings that have survived the site. A brewery and other build- from that time are some of the large ings were demolished when the Beans houses and of course the churches. bought the house, and the stable block is now used for other purposes. The ice The Queen and her entourage, sol- house is an unusual feature - a semi- diers and carts all set off for York across circular windowless protrusion from East Yorkshire, initially following the the rear of the stable block. It was more course of the Gypsey Race and stop- usual for ice houses to be situated away ping at Royalist houses along the way. from the house, partly underground, Mike showed slides of the churches such as at Normanby Hall in Lincoln- in the villages that she would have shire. There is also a game larder in the passed through. It is not known ex- grounds. actly at which houses she stayed over night but it is certain that she stayed Due to the unusually warm spring at North Burton House on 5th March as this year the gardens were in bloom this is documented. with next month’s flowers and Sally was concerned that the many parties She reached York safely on 8th March of gardening enthusiasts which she 1643. welcomes for charity, including the National Gardens Scheme and the Red Judith Bull Cross, might be disappointed.

Saltmarshe Hall, near , Fri- The Hall, some of the original plans for day evening, 11th May 2007 - Over which, dated in the 1840s, were avail- 50 members and guests arrived un- able us to inspect, is built on a square der their own steam at the beauti- plan, with high-ceilinged square rooms ful grounds and house of around a central hallway. A fine canti- Hall on a rainy and overcast evening levered staircase bears ornate balusters

 and a glossy wooden handrail - per- sis, and mentioned that our visit yes- haps using the skills of the many ships’ terday to Saltmarshe Hall was in fact carpenters in the Hull area. In con- to reclaimed land. She was inspired to structing the house earth was banked undertake her PhD on settlement in up to conceal the cellars and to enable the Lincolnshire Marsh partly through the front door, embellished with steps having read a survey of the Marsh pub- and columns, to be at ground level; lished in 2001, and she has spent seven the former kitchens at the rear have years on it, part time. Although a lot of good light on the basement level and work has been done on the geology a courtyard with plants to look out and population patterns of East York- on. The present kitchen on the ground shire, less has been carried out south floor was formerly a gun room. A ferry of the Humber in Lincolnshire. In her crossing used to be by the house and thesis Helen attempts to bring togeth- indeed the house is built on a mound er all kinds of research and records, to avoid possible flooding by the river. including but not limited to geology, Documents and plans of the Hall may paleoenvironmental surveys, aerial be inspected at the East Riding of York- photographs, tithe and enclosure maps shire Archives, The Treasure House, and the Domesday survey. She referred Beverley. to maps of two villages dated 1595, and the Lindsay Survey (30 years after Pam Martin gave a vote of thanks to Domesday Book) provides information Sally Bean and her husband for her on population change and wealth. The comprehensive talk and their hospital- Diocesan Return of 1563 to which she ity during our visit. also referred, detailed the number of households in villages for the Church. Jane Pietrusiak Helen has been concentrating on the Living on the Margin - settlement de- reactions of people to changes in sea velopment in the Lincolnshire Marsh - level over the centuries and how they Illustrated Lecture by Helen Fenwick, interacted with the landscape. The area Department of History, University of covered in her work stretches from Hull, at Peter Harrison Room, Beverley, Grimsby to Wainfleet, south of Skeg- Saturday, 2.15pm, 12th May 2007 ness, up to the Humber estuary, over part of the Lincolnshire Wolds and the Pat Aldabella introduced Helen Fen- Fenlands. Archeological work started wick, who is working towards com- in the area in the 1930s, as it is and has pletion of her PhD on this subject, to been hard to gain access, particularly about 30 members and guests, includ- in very marshy areas. Helen identified ing several new members. three longitudinal zones - high chalk- land, middle marsh never flooded by Helen Fenwick told us that she would the sea, and outmarsh which was flat, present highlights from her PhD the- with no cliff edge and was frequently

 flooded by the sea. Soil and stones from the monuments. What a magnificent melted glaciers have been dropped on change for our second visit. It was well the landscape and makes it bumpy - lit and warm and the interior was invit- many lakes formed in the hollows left ing. (As a bonus there were toilets and behind after the Ice Age 10,000 years a nice modem kitchen). The whole at- ago. mosphere had changed. David began his talk with his obvious delight in the The settlers who lived in this area left results of all the hard work done in re- behind place names - Romans and Vi- cent years to bring about this wonder- kings among others. Near Skegness a ful restoration. In 1989 the church be- very large sea salt industry arose dur- came redundant and as there were no ing Roman times. The roots of the word prospective buyers the building was “salary” mean salt and this was paid as due to be demolished in 1996. Then wages to Roman soldiers. the Yorkshire Wolds Buildings Preser- vation Trust stepped in and bought Climate change is nothing new. The sea the church and churchyard (except for rose and fell many times over the cen- the part which is still used for burials). turies from Neolithic times, and people Their first job was to make the building reacted to this by living in areas made watertight and to protect the windows. available when the sea level dropped, David said that churches are our herit- and retreating as the sea level rose. age and must be preserved as meeting places for the future. In 2003 the Trust Chris Mead gave a comprehensive vote was granted half a million pounds from of thanks, mentioning many of the the lottery fund providing that the points Helen Fenwick had raised in her building is used as a heritage and cul- Powerpoint presentation. tural centre for the Wolds. Other dona- tions increased the money available so Jane Pietrusiak that the builders, Quibells of Hull, could commence major building work and St James’ Church, 23rd May these were completed under budget 2007 as the builders had become so involved in the restoration they had formed an It was a lovely fine evening when a emotional attachment. Warter is an es- group of members gathered in the tate village where most of the land and beautiful church of St James to hear property has been owned by a single Dr David Neave talk about the restored owner but this ownership has passed building and the Warter Priory estate. to different families by inheritance, marriage and purchase. There has been Several years ago we enjoyed a visit a church from the 11th century and to this church with the Society but an Augustinian Priory was founded in we remembered the dark gloomy at- 1132. In the medieval period Warter mosphere as we shivered amongst was a thriving market centre and some-

 what notorious for the `goings on’ at Gardens. Lady was a the village fair including murders! The well known figure who dominated vil- Priory was suppressed by Henry VIII lage life. Their youngest child Gerald and the lands and church were granted Valerian Wilson was found dead in Paris to the Earl of Rutland who applied to aged 23 in 1908 in mysterious circum- rebuild the church in 1586. The estate stances. passed to the Stapleton family then the Penningtons (Muncaster) and the The estate was sold to the Vestey fam- latter built Warter Priory House in the ily in 1929 and when Mr Vestey died in late 17th century. There were many 1968 the estate was bought by Lord additions and alterations up to the Normanby but he did not live at Warter Victorian period. The 4th Lord Muncas- and the house was sadly demolished in ter employed architects to design and 1972. The estate was sold to the present build a new church (1861-63) but little owner Malcom Healey in 1998. if any of the old stone was used where- as the stone from the old priory church David took us for a tour of the out- was used for buildings in the village by side of the building where we saw the the 5th Lord Muncaster. In 1870 he was magnificent roof restoration, the site in Greece and was a member of a party of the Augustinian priory, the site of captured by brigands. He was released the Wilson mausoleum (demolished to arrange a ransom but despite this in 1966) and the elaborate tombs of being paid his fellows were murdered the Nunbumholme family. Part of the and his reputation suffered badly be- churchyard is being left for wildlife but cause he survived. the gravestones are well preserved in particular one stone to the memory In 1878 the estate was sold to the Hull of John Oxtoby a Primitive Methodist ship owner Charles Henry Wilson. He preacher known as `Praying Johnny’ was a Liberal MP for Hull and became who died in 1830 aged 63. We then fol- Lord Nunburnholme but sadly he only lowed David on a short walk to the War had the title for one year when he died Memorial with its unusual carvings on in 1907. The family spent a great deal of the site of the markets to look at the money on fine memorials and stained famous thatched cottages built in the glass for the church. One window in 1930s originally known as the Barracks, particular reflects the Wilsons’ maritime and Manor Farm and Ludhill House history. A beautiful memorial of a lady before walking down a lane to see lying on a pillow is dedicated to Isabel the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel built daughter of the 7th Duke of Roxburgh in 1878 in front of the original 1820 by her devoted husband the Hon Guy chapel on the only half acre of land not Wilson DSO . She died in childbirth in owned by the estate. David pointed 1905 aged 26. The memorials were out various kinds of estate cottages, made by Sir George Frampton, who the school and the site of the abortive also carved Peter Pan in Kensington

 19th century coalmine which the fam- eateries – pubs, cafés and restaurants – ily had hoped would be productive. but it was also market day, so decisions had to be made. Most people ended up Finally we returned to the church in Lewis & Cooper’s wonderful delica- where David’s wife Susan provided us tessen, though the arcades and stalls with very welcome refreshments. A were also appealing. most enjoyable evening. Refreshed, we gathered in the church Pam Walgate and met our excellent guide, Mrs Alli- son, who showed us the highlights of Northallerton, starting with the church, Day trip to Northallerton, 6th June continuing down the road at the site of 2007 the former castle and coming back to the houses along the old North Road With the enthusiasm of a newcomer opposite the church. We then contin- I booked every outing arranged by ued to the Market Hall whose upper the Society this year and thoroughly room the Victorians had turned into enjoyed my first local trips and meet- a spacious public meeting area and ings. But Northallerton? A whole day which housed several interesting tro- in a town that wasn’t high on my list phies and mementoes and gave ex- of must-sees, nor, apparently, of many cellent overviews of the town and its others in the Society, judging by the market. By then enthusiasm was high limited number wanting to go? (counterbalancing the temperature, which was low) and the majority of On the actual day the weather was not the group continued with our guide to propitious and the Beverley contin- the old theatre. So we both heard and gent clutched umbrellas and macs for saw Northallerton’s history in the best warmth as well as insurance. But once of ways, from a knowledgeable and on the coach life definitely brightened, friendly expert. There was just enough especially when a comfort stop at the time after our tour to explore those garden centre at was last tempting corners – Barker’s store, announced. This set the tone of a good Joe Cornish’s photography gallery, the day out: coffee and cakes and other arcade shops (where fine wrought iron consumer delights. cats could be bought …) – before re- turning home, some laden with swag, Pat then issued information about delighted with our day out. Northallerton: history, shopping and maps. We arrived late morning and had For me, the best part of the day was link- some 2½ hours to explore independ- ing an important northern town with ently before meeting our local guide in one of the more interesting books I’ve the church. Now this was lunchtime and read – Frank Morley’s “The Great North Pat’s maps had listed several tempting Road”, which uses the old Great North

 Road as a timeline through British his- of Kingtree House? This house built by tory. Much of what he comments on Samuel Watson in the late 1750s was is demonstrated by Northallerton: use demolished in the 1960s. The list of lost of the road for transport and control, houses is long; Cottingham House, Cot- both military commercial, and for the tingham Hall, Cottingham Grange and spread (and occasionally suppression) Oakdene are a few examples. of ideas. It still has a thriving market, larger church than one would expect Fortunately many are left particularly for a small population, many coaching along Thwaite Street, Thwaite a clear- inns and meeting places and a variety ing in a wood we were informed. Most of interesting buildings and people. All of the houses along Thwaite Street had in all, a fascinating day. been acquired by the Hull University for student housing. Although not a popu- Liz Grove lar act in the village it resulted in their survival. Most of them have recently returned into private hands. Holtby Cottingham 20 June 2007 House, or Bainesse as it was originally called, was the home of the Holtby Around 30 members assembled on family after they moved from . Cottingham Green. With one eye on the Not a popular move with Winifred we weather and the other on our guide, were told. Pat Elliot, we set off to explore Cot- tingham. Pat’s theme for the walk was The tour finished at Thwaite Hall, the Hull merchants and their Cottingham home for many years of members of houses. A copy of the 1892 OS map the Wilson family. Although the house for the area to be explored, thought- was built by the Hull merchant John fully provided by Pat was a great help. Hentig in 1803. The Wilsons also lived Cottingham was seeing many changes at Park House, which illustrates how from the late eighteenth century to the the merchants moved about the vil- middle of the nineteenth. During this lage occupying each others houses. period wealthy Hull businessmen saw The Watson, Sykes, Thornton and Travis Cottingham as an ideal place to live families along with many others partic- and began to build palatial houses in ipated in this housing roundabout. Fol- the village and its outskirts. It soon be- lowing this excellent and informative came apparent to us that, sadly, many tour many members took the opportu- of these handsome Georgian houses nity to explore the gardens of Thwaite have not survived. However, evidence Hall a pleasant end to a superb walk of their existence can be found. Without Pat these signs could have been over- Mike Readhead looked. How many busy shoppers, for example, are aware that the wall bor- dering their car park is all that remains

 Hall and Church back to Goole and along the M62, still 13th July 2007 in pouring rain. Maybe we are mad but we still enjoyed the visit. I looked in Pevsner for Reedness and Adlingfleet, first in Lincolnshire, then Geoff Percival in the East Riding, and finally in the West Riding volume, and there at least I found Adlingfleet. The two villages Obituaries are south of the Ouse and west of the Trent, seemingly isolated especially Dr. Eva Crackles, M.B.E., B.Sc., M.Sc., on a night of teeming rain as this was. Hon.D.Sc., F.L.S. (23 Jan. 1918-14 July However Mr and Mrs Andrews gave our 2007) large group a warm welcome at Reed- I first encountered Eva in the 1960s at ness Hall. After a short introduction to various public meetings but it was not this mid eighteenth century house we until the late 1970s that I really got to were allowed to wander through all know her when we both frequently the rooms, upstairs and downstairs. found ourselves in the vestry of Holy Many maps, plans and photographs Trinity church. We were searching the relevant to the hall and to the village parish registers, she for her ancestors, were on display which were of great in- me for records of our local marine art- terest. After Mr and Mrs Andrews were ists. John and Samuel Crackles were thanked for their hospitality we drove whalebone cutters and brushmakers to Adlingfleet to see the church which Pevsner said was ‘unforget- table’. Geoff Bell gave us a compre- hensive account of the architecture, mainly Early English with details derived from Lincoln and similar to West Witton, and of the sculptures. One was a full length figure of a Mrs Ramsden, originally meant for St Catherine’s College, Cambridge. He then told us details of rectors, vicars and curates of this and other churches and of their respective sti- pends, and as you may imagine, the curates were often paid a pittance while the rectors had a much more comfortable existence away from their parishes. Geoff was thanked for his detailed account, and after looking around the church we drove

10 which was of great interest to me as a It is to Albert Royle that many Hull museum keeper with care of a major residents owe their knowledge of their collection of whaling artefacts. I had town. also begun my career as a biologist and this gave us a further rapport, though Albert, son of a postman, was a creature I must admit my botanical knowledge of the time in which he lived, his youth was rather weak. Shortly afterwards being a time in which financial con- Eva’s time became totally occupied straints made it very difficult for a boy planning and compiling the `Flora of from Albert’s background to proceed the ’ which was to higher education, whatever their published to great acclaim in 1990 , ability. In 1922 Albert entered Craven based on forty years field work and a Street Municipal Secondary School as a unique knowledge of our local plant scholarship pupil to enjoy wide success life. Her contributions to botany, con- both in and outside the classroom. In servation and teaching were honoured 1982 Albert, writing of the year 1930, with the award of a doctorate by Hull stated “Fees at Northern Universities University in 1991 and an M.BE. in 1993. were £110 per year which might be off- Over twenty years after our tête-à-têtes set by applicants winning a Local Edu- in the vestry it was a pleasure to over- cation Award, of which there were 12 in see the publication of Eva’s account of number, worth £60 to £75 a year…The her family history in the first volume Board of Education also would pay £50 of the East Yorkshire Historian , 2000, per annum if the applicant intended to and of her last written piece in volume be a teacher. The local authority were two, ‘The history of the flora of Hull’, the prepared to make loans to students at next year, which looked at the earliest Training Colleges at `a reasonable rate records (Gerard’s mention of scurvy of interest’ actually 5% compound in- grass by the seaside at Hull’ being the terest, repayable over three years - `this first), the arrival of aliens around the is an excellent and generous scheme’ Hull docks and the post-war colonisa- (said the authority).” Albert, as did many tion of bombed sites by both the na- bright pupils of his generation, trained tive flora and alien species. as a teacher.

Eva was a remarkable woman, a fine The early years of Albert’s teaching teacher always ready to share her career were at spent at Mersey Street knowledge and encourage others. It Elementary School, but the Malet was a privilege to know her. Lambert School Magazine, “Magpie” published in June, 1945 records Albert Arthur G. Credland joining the staff of Malet Lambert High School, then a grammar school, in the Albert Royle early 1940’s where he was to teach Albert Royle, local historian and great mathematics, and contribute much teacher, died in July at the age of 97. else to the life of the school, until his

11 retirement as senior teacher in the mid slides taken locally. A great strength of 1970s. It should be commented that Albert’s talks was that he spoke to his Malet Lambert High School was in- slides, which were far more than mere deed Craven Street Municipal Second- ornament, as often occurred with some ary School, the school Albert attended lacking his skill as a speaker. The knowl- as a boy, changed in status and trans- edge being passed on was always de- ferred to the James Reckitt Avenue site livered with great enthusiasm and in 1932. No attempt will be made here lightened by anecdote, for Albert had to describe Albert Royle’s outstanding known the streets of Hull for well over contribution, in all respects, to the life 80 years. His stories, be they Bartlett or of Malet Lambert High School, where Butnick, were always first hand. his name was to become legendry. A colleague, Ivor Maw, writing in 1982, In later years Albert’s activities in the stated “Few men have made such a field of local history were much re- mark on Malet Lambert as Albert Royle” stricted by his own health and family - a view with which no one who knows circumstance. He remained, as always, the school would disagree. a generous and a loyal colleague. There was no finer and informative speaker Albert Royle was one of a number of on matters related to Hull than Albert speakers, trained in matters mathe- Royle. He will be sadly missed. matical and scientific, but well versed in subjects once described under the A.G.Bell. August, 2007 heading “local history”, a term now out of fashion. Over the years prior to his Leslie Powell retirement he began to accumulate Leslie Powell died on the 19 October a slide collection to illustrate his talks 2006 aged 80. He had long been a on Hull, always in great demand. The member of the Society although not 1960s, 70s and 80s were a period of in recent years. His first job was as an much change in the centre of the town industrial chemist for the British Gas and, on retirement, the slide collection Light Company, although he later took grew, of buildings under demolition, of over his father’s credit trade business. new bridges and buildings appearing, When he retired from this he worked at supplemented by many of archaeo- the then County Archives logical digs in which he now had time Office in Beverley, before moving to to participate. He knew more of what the Museum of Army Transport, initial- appeared in local archives than many a ly at and then at Beverley, scholar. Supported by his wife, Marga- for three years, where he established ret, he travelled further afield to pursue their archive department. Leslie was a the history of Hull, the slides brought founder member of the East Yorkshire back from Wingfield, Suffolk or Ewelme, Family History Society and he served as Oxfordshire, and elsewhere, appearing their president for a number of years. I as subject matter in his talks along with first met Leslie in the early 1980s when

12 we were both students on the Regional (Oxford University) questioned ‘Sup- & Local History Certificate at the then port for local history: values, changes Dept. of Adult Education at the Univer- and prospects’ whilst Dr David Dymond sity of Hull and we soon became firm (Cambridge University) reviewed ‘The friends. He completed the degree with changing relationship between tutors a dissertation on Hull’s Oil seed crush- and students in adult education’. A dis- ing industry. He had many interests, cussion was then opened to members particularly collecting antiquarian and of BALH. From 12.15 pm – 1.00 pm the local history books, family history, pho- BALH held its AGM. tography, church architecture and pa- rochial boundaries and Methodism; he After an excellent packed lunch pro- was also a member of the Wesley His- vided by the society the Local History torical Society. He taught local history Awards Presentation took place at 2.00 classes in the East Riding and lectured pm. Introductions were made by Lt-Col on various aspects of local history. He (Retired) Michael Cowan (Awards Sec- was also active for a number of years retary), Dr Evelyn Lord (Reviews Editor) in establishing and supporting a com- and Dr Alan Crosby (editor of The Local munity- centre at Sutton Park School, Historian). The winners were then pre- where his wife had been deputy head sented with their awards by Professor teacher. Leslie is survived by his widow David Hey President of BALH. The 2007 Lilian, son David, daughter Anne and awards were divided into three sec- grandson Jonathan. It was a pleasure tions: first the six Personal Achievement to know Leslie, he was the ‘perfect gen- winners acknowledging their work in tleman’ local history. A brief citation was given of each lady or gentleman by Profes- Christopher Ketchell sor Hey followed by the presentation of a certificate. The second section was the Newsletter Award awarded to Rick- BALH Award presentation mansworth Historical Society for pro- ducing an outstanding newsletter. A The British Association for Local Histo- representative of the newsletter team ry (BALH) held its Local History Day on accepted the certificate from Profes- Saturday 2nd June 2007 at the Friends’ sor Hey. Lastly there were five Research House, Euston Road, . At 11.00 and Publication Awards. The Editor of am Professor Claire Cross Chairman of The Local Historian Dr Alan Crosby gave BALH introduced and welcomed mem- a short citation of each published ar- bers and invited guests. The morning ticle before Professor Hey presented lecture was opened by Professor Cross the prize winner with their certificate. ‘Local history at the crossroads: chal- At the end of the proceedings a group lenges to the provisions of local history photograph was taken of Professor Hey in higher and further education in the with all the prize winners. early 21st century’. Later Dr Kate Tiller

13 The names of the five Research and *Isobel Watson, ‘The first generation Publication winners and the titles of of flats’ (Hackney History vol.11, 2006) their articles. pp.33-46

The presentation was followed by the 2007 Phillimore Lecture given by Pro- fessor Caroline Barron, Professional Research Fellow at Royal Holloway Col- lege, (University of London) ‘Searching for the ‘small people’ of medieval Lon- don’. The Local History Day closed with tea. It was a very enjoyable and inter- esting day.

Susan Parrott

Website Susan Parrott, left centre, and Prof. David Hey, president of BALH, right. The Society has had a working web site, * Susan Parrott, ‘A time of change: land www.eylhs.org.uk, since May although sales in the East Riding of Yorkshire in it is still very much ‘work in progress’. the early twentieth century’ (The East The main pages are extracts from our Yorkshire Historian vol.6, 2005) pp.17- newsletters with some recent items 30. I was pleased to be told an edited of news. However there are two areas edition of this article would be pub- which are completely new, namely a lished in the August edition of The Lo- photograph gallery of the Society’s cal Historian. events and the reproduction of our out of print booklets. The text of the book- * Carrie Howse, ‘Early District Nursing in lets is presented on a normal web page Gloucestershire’ (Gloucestershire History but they are also reproduced in facsim- no. 20, 2006) pp. 2-8 ile as PDF documents. The PDF docu- * Richard Dace, The Jews of Warwick ments are fully searchable either indi- c.1180 – c.1280 (Warwickshire History: vidually or all of them can be searched Journal of the Warwickshire Local His- at the same time using the search box tory Society vol. 13 no. 2, Winter 2005- that is on all the pages of the site; ef- 2006) pp.42-48 fectively the booklets have been in- dexed. It is very unlikely that these * Paul W. Sowan, ‘The Croydon, Merst- booklets will ever be reprinted and the ham and Godstone Iron Railway’ (Local Committee thought that making them History Records: Journal of the Bourne available on the Internet would be the Society vol.45, 2006) pp. 53-71 best way to promote the authors’ work.

14 There are also pages listing events bottling Guinness while a tenant of the from other societies, e.g. Cottingham, Bull Hotel, Beverley Road in the early and Local History Socie- 1900s. As the Bull was a Moors’ & Rob- ties. If those societies wish other mate- son’s house Jack’s tenancy was termi- rial to be added we would be happy to nated as he should have been buying do so; in effect providing a web page their Guinness. Virtually all Guinness for socities or organisations who do used to be bottled from casks locally not have a web site at present. Any and was the mainstay of many beer suggestions for improvements or ad- bottlers. Jack bought the property of ditions would genuinely be welcomed Work Bros. at 221 Beverley Road on and should be sent to Robert Barnard, the corner of Cave Street and traded [email protected] or David as J. Townend, Grocers, Wine, Spirit, Smith, [email protected]. Ale and Stout Merchants. He expand- As the Society is a Registered Char- ed the business by buying the well ity we have found a provider, Memset, known beer bottlers Faloon & Co. in who is hosting the site at no charge to 1911 whose premises were nearby in the Society. Park Lane. Jack’s children entered the business with Jack Jun taking over Fa- loon’s and Charles running Townend’s. Book Reviews Townend’s wine and spirit business gradually became the more profitable John Townend The House That of the two and they took over many Jack Built: 100 Years of The House of local wine and spirit merchants in the Townend Highgate Publications (Bev- 1930s while also buying public hous- erley) Ltd., 2006 pb ISBN 1 902645 46 es. New premises were build at Cave 4 £8.95 Street in 1930 housing both Townend’s and Faloon’s offices but it was not -un John Townend has written an interest- til the 1950s that automatic bottling ing and very refreshing history of the machines were bought from Thomas House of Townend. Frequently compa- Hill [see Hill’s article in EYLHS Historian ny histories are written by accountants, 8]. Jack died in 1949 and Charles took marketing people or professional writ- over Townend’s but without a control- ers and, although there are honourable ling share holding. Charles’ son, John, exceptions, often the result is not as trained as an accountant before be- useful to historians as they could have coming active in the family firm and been. Mr Townend has given us a ‘warts persuaded his father of the necessity and all’ account, which gives some in- of being sole owner. John Townend sight into how and why important de- became Deputy Chairman and Deputy cisions were taken, for good or ill. Managing Director in 1960 after more than 50% of the shares had been pur- The origins of the firm lie in John chased. Townend’s grandfather, Jack Townend,

15 Townend’s were innovators in many as- There is still much to be written on pects of wine and spirit retailing and it Hull’s wine and spirit trade, a neglected is probably for this reason that they are part of licensing history. Hull’s only significant wine and spirit merchant. An example of this innova- Robert Barnard tion is the opening of a self-service wine shop in Carr Lane, Hull when such Paul Gibson The Road. Paul things were only common in the USA. Gibson and Friends of Lonsdale Com- munity Centre, Hull, 2007 ISBN 978 0 The firm moved from Cave Street to 9555569 0 6 h/b £5.00 their expanded Bond in York Street in 1972, which was opened by the head The Anlaby Road is one of the most im- of Möet Hennessy who brought with pressive looking, and researched, local him Napoleon’s hat. Unfortunately the history books to appear in the last few 1970s also saw an attempt to make a years and documents Hull’s main thor- ‘cheap’ advocaat end in the near bank- oughfare westwards. The illustrations rupting of the House of Townend af- are printed in duotone, which lends the ter they lost a court case brought by book a characteristic look somewhere the makers of Warninks Advocaat. In between black and white and the often 1974 Townend bought the Eden Ho- garish sepia. Grants and extensive pre- tel, which was renamed the Willerby press preparation by Paul made the £5 Manor Hotel. The hotel became the cover cost feasible and, understand- company’s main earner, run by John’s ably, sales have been high. daughter Alexandra since the 1990s. The wine and spirit business is currently Instead of a straight chronological ac- under the control of the fourth genera- count of the street’s development Paul tion of the Townend family, John’s son, has opted to echo the layout of late John Charles Townend, although John nineteenth / early twentieth century Townend is still chairman. trade directories with a progression from the south side, east to west fol- John Townend has, of course, also had lowed by the north side, east to west; a successful political career and his the western boundary being the one politics do come through strongly on established in 1929. This approach many pages of the book. Those of us gives a sense of ‘journey’ and allows not of his political persuasion may feel the reader to dip into any section of like hurling the book across the room the book as most pages are complete on occasions but I suspect this is pre- works in themselves. Paul is well known cisely the type of reaction Mr Townend as a collector of images and there are would revel in both in politics and busi- a significant number of photographs ness. in the book that have probably never been published before. The accompa- nying web site, www.anlabyroad.com,

16 will contain additional images not of public houses from 36 to 4 and the published in the book. In the near fu- number of industrial premises from ture the web site will also have a ‘blog’ 91 to zero. The Great Thornton Street where anyone can add their reminis- tower blocks are the result of this plan, cences or comments on the book. which replaced one form of overcrowd- ing with another. In the introduction Paul states that in 1316 Anlaby Road was raised six feet The construction of Road, to make it passable when the area was providing a new road link to Goole, in flooded. Looking out of my Anlaby Road 1927-29 resulted in Anlaby Road ac- window while writing this things have quiring a ‘kink’ at what is still referred not changed much as there is a canoe to as ‘Kenning’s roundabout’ (after the ploughing through three or four feet of garage, now the empty Trade-X). Many water in the street opposite. Repairing taxis and delivery vans disappear up such a flood prone road was -expen Boothferry Road thinking they are still sive and its usability seemed to have on Anlaby Road. Paul includes a fasci- been variable until it was turnpiked nating, to me, photograph showing in 1745. Whereas the road surface im- the construction of Boothferry Road, proved the turnpike bars increasingly which also shows the old Newington became a nuisance as Hull’s popula- Farm buildings. Newington Farm was tion expanded and in 1862 the cost of probably Anlaby Road’s oldest building maintaining roads reverted to the local with parts dating from the seventeenth parishes. With increasing residential century but unfortunately it was de- and industrial development along An- molished, apparently without protest, laby Road public transport became im- c.1960. portant with the first horse drawn tram service introduced in 1877, which went Robert Barnard as far as St. Matthew’s church. The tramways on Anlaby Road were electri- fied in 1899 to coincide with the Royal Thomas Agricultural Show held on Anlaby Road in that year. Mapplebeck

Redevelopment plans following World A Victorian Collector War Two have had a dramatic effect on West Hull and in 1960 a plan was drawn By trade Thomas Mapplebeck was an up by the City Council to reduce the umbrella maker but he is more note- population in the 150 acres between worthy as an antiquarian, collector and Anlaby Road, Hessle Road and Bean illustrator. His collections were eclectic Street from 9,500 to 8,200. The plan  This is an amended version of an ar- also envisaged reducing the number ticle originally produced for a Local History Unit of shops from 240 to 56, the number CD

17 comprising Bewick engravings, china, Displayed in Wilberforce House is a coins, books, autographs and he was framed collection of small coloured also a knowledgeable chrysanthemum drawings of pub signs, which have grower. The autographed letters, his- been attributed to Mapplebeck. The torical documents and engraved por- attribution comes from a short letter, traits were reputed to have been one signed by “A Sign”, in the Eastern Morn- of the most extensive and valuable ing News of 14/6/1928 which states collections in the North of England; that there are some original signs in fortunately they are listed in two auc- Wilberforce House and “displayed in tion catalogues from sales in 1891 and the new room are 175 representations 1893, which are preserved in Hull Local of ‘old inn signs’ carefully copied from Studies Library. the originals. Made by the late Thomas Maplebeck (sic).” Unfortunately Shep- Of more local interest is Mapplebeck’s pard does not mention them in any of passion for extra-illustrating or Grang- the Hull Museum Publications, even erising books. A local book, always a though minor additions to the col- large paper edition, would be deliv- lections are routinely recorded, thus ered to him unbound and he inserted A Sign’s statement is difficult to - cor extra views or portraits then bound roborate. A piece on inn signs in HMP the interleaved copy. If a view or por- No. 111 does not include the drawings trait were not available he would draw neither does the highly detailed Guide a copy and usually shade it in sepia; to Wilberforce House issued in 1927. amongst these are original drawings Although Mapplebeck’s drawings are of buildings in Hull. Grangerised books quite crude the pub signs are even by Mapplebeck include Sheahan’s His- cruder and the captions under them do tory of Hull, The Hull Letters [neither of not look like Mapplebeck’s hand. Some which I have seen but the Sheahan was of the pubs illustrated closed in the bought by Hull Museums and presum- 1820s or ‘30s some did not open before ably lost during WWII], Hull Celebrities the 1850s and the Britannia did not and Brown’s Guide to Hull. Mapplebeck open till 1876. The drawings seem to illustrated the published edition of Hull have been executed at the same time; Celebrities and Tindall Wildridge used therefore they were probably copied, some of his drawings to illustrate his and perhaps added to, from something own works, e.g. The Brotherton Tav- else that has since been lost, if they are ern and Etherington House in Old and accurate representations. There is not New Hull. A note in one of the copies enough evidence so far to suggest that in Hull Local Studies Library says that Mapplebeck did or did not draw the it was bought at the Mapplebeck sale signs. in 1892, unfortunately I have not found any other references to this sale. Although Mapplebeck was not a par- ticularly good draughtsman his draw- ings are valuable and it is interesting

18 to compare details with those of his Thomas Mapplebeck seems to have slightly later contemporary, F S Smith. had an intolerant streak as Wildridge In his copy of Brown’s Illustrated Guide suggests in the Hull Illustrated Journal. to Hull Mapplebeck pasted original, “Time was when Mr Mapplebeck was unsigned, pencil drawings by Smith, a more truculent individual than at which are slightly different to the pub- present; with advancing years he has lished versions. Mapplebeck exhibited laid aside some of those hedgehog-like some of his works and won a third prize points of character which were wont at the 1878 Hull and to bristle up upon District Art and In- the faintest shadow dustrial Exhibition of impertinent ap- for the ‘Mill at Hessle’ proach.” and five watercolour drawings. Thomas Mapple- beck married Jane Thomas Mapple- Megson by 1844 beck was born in and they had three 1819 at 39 Lowgate sons and three to William and Mar- daughters; their tha. William Mapple- eldest son, William, beck was Martha’s died in 1850 aged second husband, 3 years 11 months. her first being John Mapplebeck moved Grant. Grant, an um- to Rochester House, brella maker, moved 220 Boulevard, by to Lowgate in 1791, renting it from the 1882. His son, another William, and Gee family. Thomas Mapplebeck pro- daughter, Ada, both entered the fam- duced a unique drawing of the rear of ily business, Ada as business manager. these premises; F S Smith depicted the Thomas Mapplebeck died 29/10/1892 Lowgate frontage. John Grant died in and probate was granted to Walter and 1811 aged 42 leaving Martha and six John Brown, i.e. A Brown & Sons, his ef- children; their son, also John Grant, be- fects were valued at £1,520 17s 6d. came an umbrella maker in Hull before moving to Liverpool, probably after his The drawings depicted here are from wife’s death in 1827, where he died in Mapplebeck’s copies of Hull Celebrities 1834. Martha continued the umbrella and Brown’s Guide to Hull, which are in business and in 1818 married William Hull City Council Local Studies Library Mapplebeck, who came from Roches- to whom thanks go for permission to ter. William died in 1849 aged 75 and reproduce them. The images were cop- Thomas Mapplebeck then took over ied directly from the books and with- the business. out damaging the spine it was difficult to produce flat pictures.

19 Hull Celebrities was produced in 1876 from the so-called Johnson Manu- scripts discovered by Wm. Gunnell, a chemist in Leonard St. The manu- scripts were allegedly written by Al- derman Thomas Johnson in the sev- enteenth century and his descendants but are obviously forgeries. There was a vigorous debate on their authen- ticity at the time with John Symons the chief defender and J R Boyle the main protagonist; Mapplebeck was a De la Pole House, 80-83 High St. Positioned believer. It is possible John Richardson between Rotenherying Staith, later Blackfriargate wrote the manuscripts in the 1870s. Staithway, and the Dog and Duck. De la Pole house was owned by the Charterhouse, which may Thanks to Michael J Readhead for as- explain the name as it was founded by Michael sistance with the photography. de la Pole. The Brotherton Tavern and a ferryboat landing were behind De la Pole House. Previous names for the Brotherton included the Barton Boat Robert Barnard and probably the Gainsborough Coffee House. Mapplebeck depicts De la Pole House before it was rebuilt in 1882, the wooden figures were preserved in the new building. (All drawings Hull Local Studies Library unless otherwise stated.)

Mapplebeck clearly assumes he is illustrating the Charterhouse, Charterhouse Lane, as it accompanies text in Hull Celebrities relating to the Charterhouse but this is unlikely. John Travis Cook reproduced an illustration of the Charterhouse in 1724 in his History of the Charterhouse (1882) but there is no similarity to Mapplebeck’s drawing. Travis Cook was given the illustration by E S Wilson who had found it in the British Museum in 1866. Perhaps Mapplebeck has copied a now unknown view of a location similar to the Charterhouse or perhaps he made it up and was unaware of E S Wilson’s discoveries. There is an illustration of the Charterhouse gateway in Tickell’s History of Hull (1798). 20 Situated to the south of Stewart’s Yard and north of the Black Boy, High Street, this was thought to depict the remains of the Bishop’s Palace, however, it more likely to be the entrance to stables and a coach house built by the Sykes family whose house was on the opposite side of High Street. Richard Sykes bought the property, formerly a bakery, around 1748, which is the probable date for rebuilding. Mapplebeck shows the coach house to the rear and the front partly plastered over. F S Smith, in a later drawing, shows the front with the plaster removed but the coach house demolished.

An unusual view of the George and Dragon Inn, George Yard, High Street, drawn before George Yard was widened by demolishing the archway to the left (after 1853). High Street is at the back of the viewer parallel with the George and Dragon frontage, north is to the right and south to the left. The George Inn is linked with the Cloth Hall, to the east of the inn but not extending to High Street, in corporation rentals from 1622. The Hull merchants formed the guild of St George, which was dissolved along with other religious fraternities in the 1550s. A new Society of Merchants was formed in 1567 and met in the Cloth Hall and the name of the inn probably came from the original guild. The inn depicted by Mapplebeck is only a fragment of the original inn as by 1598 most of the Cloth Hall had been converted into the George Inn (had it existed earlier?). In 1658 an inventory of the inn’s rooms and contents was drawn up as part of a debt settlement the rooms were, the ordinary, great parlour, 2 little parlours, woolfinder’s chamber, porch chamber, Metcalf’s chamber, green chamber, merchant’s chamber, hall chamber, clothier chamber, Stories chamber, new chamber, two bed chamber, entry parlour, buttery chamber, great bed chamber, three bed chamber, larder, meal chamber, back kitchen, brewhouse, cook kitchen. A deed from 1764 describes the George Inn as “now divided into several tenements”. Another deed of 1789 mentions a “road lately made by Wm Bennison from square in front of George Inn into George Yard”.

21 Corner west side of High St and south side of Salthouse lane. The Anchor Inn at 190 High Street is clearly depicted as is the entrance to Alley to the left. The Salthouse Lane property was occupied by a hairdresser and a marine store dealer in 1882. F S Smith only shows these properties obliquely.

Mapplebeck’s house at 39 Lowgate. A valuable drawing as it is one of the few signed and dated by Mapplebeck. The yard is Catterson’s Entry from Lowgate and the long window on the ground floor of Mapplebeck’s property would have enhanced the low level of light from the courtyard; typically to illuminate workshops. Mapplebeck is probably depicting a jettied gable rather than a jettied building. The gable has some features in common with ‘The Old House’, Market Place, which was mediaeval but Mapplebeck’s house is likely to be sixteenth century. F S Smith shows the front of Mapplebeck’s house with a Georgian façade. The Gee family owned a number of properties in Hull including, intriguingly, the house lived in by Sir John Lister’s widow and children in 1641.

16 Old House, 9½ Dagger Lane. A curious 1½ storey house of 1660s design it has features in common with Wilberforce House and the Old White Hart. Mapplebeck’s drawing is of interest as it shows the property before the Victorian shop front, depicted by F S Smith, had been inserted. Greenwood illustrated the same view in his Picture of Hull, 1835. This was one of many architecturally significant buildings damaged during World War II and demolished although it would have been easy to save them.

22 An important view, probably unique, of Etherington House, 50-51 High Street, before it was altered in 1870. Tindall Wildridge used Mapplebeck’s drawing as an illustration in his Old and New Hull (1884). The frontage had a date stone of 1672 and Wildridge also gives a description of the fine interior. The last Etherington resident was Sir Henry who was mayor of Hull in 1769 and 1785. Henry Etherington had bought the property in 1737 from the Skinner family who had probably owned it since it was built. Oriel House, of the 1960s, now stands on the site.

The Grammar School, South Church Side. Mapplebeck’s drawing shows many of the same features as the more artistically accomplished version by William H Kitching, which dates from the 1860s. The tall chimney depicted by Kitching had been demolished by 1871 and is absent from Mapplebeck’s version. The Grammar School was completed in 1585 partly with money from William Gee whose merchant’s mark is on the ground floor. The school room was on the ground floor, the upper floor was used by the Merchant Adventurers until 1706 when it became the Assembly Rooms. The school moved from here in 1878 and the building was renovated and altered, including the removal of the shop to the right of the entrance, by Smith & Brodrick in the 1880s.

William Jarratt’s House, Lowgate. William Jarratt owned this property in 1805 when he was mayor of Hull and the old Guildhall, Market Place, was demolished. The mayor’s house was used as a temporary meeting place but plans for a new Guildhall fell through and Jarratt’s house was bought by the corporation in 1822. The house was altered and extended but a new building was needed and all the property between Hanover Square and Leadenhall Square was purchased and demolished, including Jarratt’s house, in 1862. The new Town Hall was completed in 1866 to the designs of Cuthbert Brodrick but was demolished in 1912. The present Guildhall, built 1903-1916, occupies the site.

23 Artillery Barracks, Park St. opposite the present Hull College. The 2nd East Yorkshire Artillery Corps was formed in 1860 and moved to the barracks in Park St in 1871. The wooden buildings were originally erected for the 1870 Workingmen’s Art & Industrial Exhibition. The Artillery Corps concreted the walls, slated the roof and decorated the Park Street frontage with shields. Illustrations of this building are rare but there is a description in Brown’s Illustrated Guide to Hull, 1891 and a photograph in Paul Gibson’s Anlaby Road, 2007.

Trippet looking south showing the Gate Inn and part of St Georges Mill. Probably an exact copy by Mapplebeck of an F S Smith drawing, which has been published, but in this version there is an extra workman depicted repairing the cobbled road. F S Smith produced copies of his drawings each slightly different to those in the Wilberforce House collection. The Gate, on the right, is in trade directories from 1803 and closed c.1889. St Georges Mill, on the left, seems to be occupied by Willows, Holt & Willows, seed crushers, in 1882 but Brace (History of Seed Crushing) says they purchased the mill in 1885. Became part of BOCM and the whole block, including Cato and New mills, was shut down in 1942.

A mystery drawing located by Paul Gibson while researching Anlaby Road. It is labelled ‘Peace and Plenty House, Anlaby Road ‘ but does not match in design or footprint any building on the Road. The building on the left has the look of a chapel. (Wilberforce House, Hull City Council, UK)

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26 of Cottingham Road’, Rachel Waters, Hessle Local History Society Newsletter ‘The Archbutt Family of Cottingham’, No.57 January 2007, includes Brief Snip- Mary Archbutt – ‘The Cottingham of pets from HUDC Minutes, James Ernest my Youth’, Derek Sinclair – ‘Document McCoid obituary, Harry Bell obituary, relating to the Manor of Cottingham’, Waddington`s painters & decorators, Ian Wright – ‘Missing Parochial docu- HUDC as landlord ments’ Ian Wright. Hessle Local History Society Newslet- ter No.58 April 2007, includes Hessle Hedon & District Local History Soci- Folly, History in Hessle Today - Station ety House apartments’, Brief Snippets from Hedon History: the joint newsletter of HUDC Minutes, J. Waddington Painter Hedon Museum Society and the Hedon and Decorator, The Weir; Hessle Long & District Local History Society Issue 33 Ago; Harry Bell Part 2; Hessle All Saints` Spring 2007, edited by Martin Craven Church Mothers Union Centenary and Sue Hyde, includes the follow- 1906-2006 pp19-24 ing articles ‘A British Commemorative Hessle Local History Society Newsletter medal with a Hull flavour’ - Jim Mid- No.59 July 2007, includes Brief Snippets dleton; ‘HMS Anson’ - Sheila Gardner; from Council Meetings, Bob Rosner ‘From the Museum archive’ - of Hessle (obituary), Meeting reports, Petty sessions and a Servants Ball at Harry Bell part 3, Hessle Long Ago, and Burton Constable; ‘Zeppelin raids over Hessle Swell (a race horse) For further Holderness in World War I’; Henry Grim- details of Hessle Local History Society ston 1768-1820 of Kensington - Berna events contact Keith Hare Tel (01482) R. Moody. An exhibition about Lambert 645282 House, Hedon is planned for the Mu- seum in association with BP Chemicals Hull Civic Society Hull Civic Society Newsletter January Hessle Local History Society 2007, includes ‘Remembering the chil- Hessle Local History Society Newsletter dren from Spain`s Basque Country No.55 July 2006, includes TB in Hessle – Blue Plaque placed on Sutton Village and Sanatorium, Shipbuilding Care Home’, ‘Castle Street update’, ‘New- in Hessle, History in Hessle Today – H. ington Health Care Centre Good Mark’, Coupland & Son, florists shop closed, ‘the Changing Face of Ferensway’, ‘Quay Brief Snippets from HUDC Minutes’, West’, ‘Planning & buildings’.’WISE ac- Ranks` office in Hessle tivities in High Street Good Mark’ Hessle Local History Society Newsletter Hull Civic Society Newsletter June 2007, No.56 October 2006, includes ‘History includes ‘Making the past work for the in Hessle Today’, ‘Brief Snippets’ (includ- present’ - Phil Haskins, Hull Civic So- ing notes on the municipal piggery), ciety’s Top Ten Environmental Issues Hessle Manor Rolls of the Seventeenth in Hull, John Boyes: a forgotten Hull Century’ explorer part 1 - Amy Osbourne, The Boulevard, Impoundment -

27 Walter Houlton, Burnett House - Good Research in Mark, National Picture Theatre - Tom Robinson, No.57 High Street - Good Progress / Mark, Planning & Buildings - Colin Cooper, Societies` News

‘Amy, Wonderful Amy’. Ann Boulton, in Beverley:- The Journal December 2006 pp26-`7 The Treasure House (about the Humber Keel & Sloop Pres- A workshop Access 2 Archives - ‘Blood ervation Society`s sloop ‘Amy How- Thunder & High Society’ based on the son’) archival collections of the Strickland- Constable family of Hall will ‘Changing Fortunes for Hull`s History’. be held on 5 October 2007 An exhibi- Robert Howard, in Local History Maga- tion ‘Wilberforce Slavery and the East zine No.109 July/August 2006 pp12-15 Riding will be on display in Gallerty two (about the closure of Hull College`s Lo- until 11 August 2007 Tel. 01482 392789 cal History Unit, and its work over the for further details last twenty two years) Beverley Art Gallery ‘Wonderful Welton’. Martin Limon. The An exhibition ‘three-quarters sky: Journal May 2007 pp 10-13 Landscapes of the Region’ Elwell Prize exhibition is the inaugural exhibition ‘Round and About: ’. Martin of landscape paintings of East Riding Limon. The Journal June 2007 pp6-7 of Yorkshire and the Humber region, sponsored by BBC Humber and Bev- ‘Village Visit: ’. Martin Limon. erley Art Gallery is on display at Goole The Journal July 2007 pp8-11 Museum from 6 August to 1 Septem- ber, Yorkshire Heritage Centre, Warter 8 ‘Wise moves to celebrate the work to 29 September and Baysgarth House of Wilberforce’. Sue Mason. The Jour- Museum Barton on Humber 5 to 28 Oc- nal March 2007 pp24/`5 (about Hull’s tober 2007 Wilberforce Institute for the study of Beverley`s Biggest Painting - the Story Slavery and Emancipation) of ‘ a Panic’ exhibition is on display at Beverley Art Gallery until Saturday 3 ‘New look museum reopens to the November 2007 public.’ Sue Mason. The Journal, March 2007 pp26/`7 (about Hull’s Wilberforce Beverley Community Museum (The House museum reopening) Guildhall) - the current exhibition about and the Beckside area opened in June - contact Fiona Jenkinson, volunteer co-ordinator, on Tel (01482) 392783

28 Beverley Minster plans to open a Driffield:- £500,000 visitor centre, which includes Sadly the former “Sugar Mills” in Ander- extending the Parish Hall, in Minster son Street, Driffield was demolished at Yard North, to include the visitor centre the end of 2006. It had been empty and and a café derelict for some years. It was built in 1862 for The Driffield and East Riding Bridlington:- Pure Linseed Cake Co. Ltd., designed Bridlington Railway Station by Joseph Wright (1818-`85), Hull archi- John Richardson of the North Eastern tect. Later it was White`s Sugar Mills, Railway Association, who lives in York, and then latterly partly a social club. is researching the early history of the Was this perhaps the last large-scale in- station and is seeking photographs of dustrial mill in the East Riding? Thank- for example junction signal fully another large industrial building, box, level crossings at Bessingby Road The Maltings in Skerne Road, Driffield, and Station Road, coal drops between of 1873, designed by William Hawe Bridlington south signal box and Sta- (1822-`97), architect of Driffield and tion Road, the original and extended Beverley, was successfully converted train shed by G.T. Andrews and sidings into residential accommodation some for the gas works, the carriage shed few years ago and the turntable on the north side of the line to Scarborough. If you can help East Riding of Yorkshire Council:- please contact John on Tel. (01904) The Rural Roots Project has been award- 628591 [source HDM Flashback Daily ed £50,000 from the Heritage Lottery 7.3.2007] Fund to take East Riding Council`s ar- chives and local history services to the Burton Constable Hall rural communities, as part of the ‘Ar- A new exhibition ‘Work and Play: Life in chives 4 All’ programme, to help peo- the Yorkshire Country House Estate’ has ple find out more about their commu- been organised by the Yorkshire Coun- nity. Further details are available from try House Partnership, a research part- Tel (01482) 392788. nership between the country houses of Yorkshire and York University, featuring Hedon:- displays, trails, talks and educational Hedon Museum: The Hedon Room activities at Burton Constable Hall, – Hedon Museum, behind the Town Brodsworth Hall, near Doncaster and Hall, St Augustine`s Gate, Hedon (10am Harewood House and Temple News- – 4pm Weds. and Sats. only) am, near Leeds. At Burton Constable Tel (01482) 890908 for further details of the trail will feature a guide to other current exhibitions local stately homes at Burton Agnes An exhibition on the history of Lambert and Sledmere [The Journal April 2007 House and the White Family jointly with pp6/7] BP Chemicals Ltd. opened in May 2007

29 Hessle:- Hull:- Hessle Local History Society will hold a The Ferens Art Gallery is to publish a local history exhibition in Hessle Town comprehensive catalogue of its Victo- Hall on 10, 11, 12 October 2007. Hessle rian and Edwardian pictures, many of Local History Society meetings are course, particularly ‘marines’, are local now held on the third Thursday of each month in Hessle Town Hall, 7.15pm The History Centre will go ahead as the £7.7m Heritage Lottery Fund grant Holderness – has been confirmed. Carole Souter, Di- Hidden Holderness have produced a rector of Heritage Lottery Fund, said new free leaflet on farming in Holder- “We are deklighted too give the go ness “Marshland to Farmland”. Copies ahead for this impressive project, and of this, and other Hidden Holderness provide some really good news for the publications, including Holderness people of Hull in the midst of the cur- at War, Lost Villages, Literature, Ship- rent flooding crisis. These wonderful wrecks, Architecture and Lore and Leg- collections will be brought together end, are available from TIC under one roof as a rich and important asset for the city.” The centre will com- bine the collections held by The City Hornsea Museum has received a Herit- Archives, Local Studies Library and the age Lottery Fund grant of £246,000 to University of Hull’s archives. improve display and interpretation of its collection of Hornsea Pottery. The Carnegie Heritage Action Team (CHAT) Museum currently has 2,000 items on has been negotiating with Hull City display and a further 4,000 items in Council to acquire the former Carnegie reserve. The grant will enable Hornsea Library, West Park, Anlaby Road, Hull, Museum Trust to purchase the adjoin- for use as a heritage centre. The group ing premises, No.17 Newbegin, Horn- has now acquired the building on a 25 sea to provide additional space for the year lease at a peppercorn rent, and Hornsea Pottery collection and also would welcome enquiries from groups to provide improved facilities for the and societies who would like to use the Museum`s education programme facilities at Carnegie, Contact Liz Shep- herd, CHAT c/o Friends of Lonsdale, :- Lonsdale Community Centre, Lonsdale Mike Kemp closed his Howden Book- Street, Anlaby Road, Hull email carn- shop in 2006 and has relocated to Lan- [email protected] cashire. Mike had previously had book- website www.anlabyroad.com shops in Cottingham and in Hull. He will now concentrate on selling books Friends of Pickering Park, Hull - a through catalogues and at book fairs. Friends of Pickering Park group has re- Tel. (01695) 559050 or email orders@ cently been formed (Pearson Park and kempbooksellers.co.uk for catalogues East Park already have their Friends`

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