EYLHS Newsletter 41 summer / autumn 2019

Newsletter of the East Local History Society Front cover: Everingham Hall

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 newsletters should also be sent to the editor.

Newsletter Edited by Robert Barnard 825 Anlaby Rd, Hull, HU4 6DJ Telephone 01482 506001 e-mail [email protected]

Published by the East Yorkshire Local History Society Secretary Jenny Stanley 15 Southcote Close, South Cave, HU15 2BQ Telephone 01430 422833 e-mail [email protected]

Printed by Kall Kwik, Hull News from the Society

Programme **Sensible shoes and appropriate jacket recommended. can As usual, the Society has arranged a full be a windy location! programme of lectures and excursions Please support the events and bring Saturday 21st September 2019 along your friends. Local History Book Fair Venue: Hull Minster, 10 King Street, Hull PLEASE NOTE: Please make all HU1 2JJ cheques payable to the East Yorkshire 10.00am – 03.30pm Local History Society. All cheques and Free Entry booking slips should be sent to the **Own Transport Programme Co-ordinator. Saturday 19th October 2019 Programme Co-ordinator: Education Room, Treasure House, Pamela J Martin (Tel no 01482 442221; e-mail [email protected]) 2.00pm ‘Lawson Lies Still in the Thames’: The Friday 6th September 2019 Extraordinary Life of Vice-Admiral Sir 1.00pm John Lawson’ Guided Walkabout of Withernsea and Talk and Presentation Tour of Lighthouse Speaker: Gill Blanchard Guide: Godfrey Holmes Gill has recently had a book published 1.00pm. Meet at the Lighthouse (47, detailing the extraordinary career Hull Road, Withernsea. HU19 2DY) – to of an ordinary merchant seaman, visit the Museum and climb the 144 Scarborough born and bred, who steps (optional). There is a café on the navigated his way up the ranks to premises. become a celebrated Vice Admiral. 2.00pm. We commence the tour of He served in the republican army Withernsea, with the acclaimed author and both the republican and royalist and journalist, Godfrey Holmes. He will navies; was rewarded by Cromwell and take us on a walking tour of the town knighted by Charles II for his role in the which will last approx. 1.5 - 2 hrs. restoration of the monarchy. Yet, until Cost: £2 per person (Lighthouse & now, he has been largely ignored by Museum) historians. During the 1640s he twice £2 per person (Walking Tour) went into in exile in Hull and claimed Max. No. 25 people to have played a part in uncovering **Own Transport Sir John Hotham’s ‘betrayal’. He also NB. There is a bus service from Hull to played an important part in the 1648 Withernsea. siege of Scarborough Castle. BOOKING ESSENTIAL

3 Gill is a historical biographer, writer of ordinator. Please do not transfer your local histories, professional genealogist booking to a relative or friend without and house historian based in Norwich. first consulting the Programme Cost: £5 per person C-ordinator, whose telephone number Max No. 40 people can be found at the beginning of this **Own Transport section. Thank you. BOOKING ESSENTIAL HELL’S GATE, Saturday 2nd November 2019 Education Room, Treasure House, Walkington Beverley This article was first published in 2.00pm Walkington Newsletter, February 2018. ‘Southburn Archaeological Museum’ Talk and Presentation East Riding Archaeological Society, Speaker: Bill Coultard ERAS, through its monthly meetings, The Southburn Archaeological newsletter, its ‘big book’ - the ‘East Museum first opened its doors in 2008 Riding Archaeologist’ - training courses at the Southburn site. More recently it and field archaeology (all covered by a has moved to larger premises located £15 membership fee) has, since 1961, between and Nafferton. revealed a wealth of fascinating findings Cost: £3 per person regarding the history and pre-history Max No. 40 people of the East Riding. There is so much to **Own Transport learn and Walkington, in particular, has BOOKING ESSENTIAL so much to reveal. An archaeologist at the Archaeology Partnership Participation in events in Hull once commented to me that As reported in previous years, it has “You only have to put a spade in the not been possible to arrange group ground to discover something, so rich insurance for events. We therefore is the archaeological evidence in your strongly recommend that members parish” - not literally, of course, but the and their friends take out personal point is clear. accident/loss insurance, or include this in their households policies. We Two of the founder members of ERAS would also stress the need for suitable were the late-John Bartlett, esteemed clothing - in particular, sturdy footwear Director of Hull Museums, and Rod and waterproofs - for outdoor events. Mackey, Fellow of the Society of Antiquarians. Rod died in 2016. His life Please note was almost entirely based in Beverley There is usually a waiting list for most and “he knew the like of the Society’s events. If you book an the back of his hands”: Kate Dennett, event and then find you cannot attend, editor ‘ERAS News’, obituary. He had please inform the Programme Co- experience of more than 70 sites and

4 developed an international reputation. The most unexpected and significant Bartlett and Mackey were Joint result of the excavation was the grisly Directors of ERAS’s first major ‘dig’ in discovery of a large number of human 1967-68: the Walkington Wolds Barrow remains: 12 skeletons were casually Excavation. buried, 10 without their skulls which were scattered about the site and some On the western boundary of of which had no jaw bones, suggesting Walkington Parish next to Hunsley the heads had been displayed on poles Road (B1230) on the north side, the - heafod stokkam, ie head stakes of the site had not previously been recorded Anglian period. and now revealed archaeological evidence across several eras. There had When field archaeologists discover such been settlements during the Neolithic a rich amount of material remains from Period, indicated by pottery sherds, many millennia at one site, it can take flint tools and arrow heads. The site many decades to evaluate the finds of also contained evidence of 2 round a small army of interested amateurs by barrows of the Early Bronze Age (c1500 professional archaeologists. Conclusive BC) with associated funerary activity. results regarding the skeletal and skull Also, quantities of Iron Age (c400 BC - remains were not finally determined AD 43) pottery were revealed. until just 10 years ago, using the most A major phase in the history of the advanced radio-carbon dating by Jo site had begun in the 4th Century AD Buckberry (Bradford University) and when the barrows were lived on by a Dawn Hadley (Sheffield). small Romano-British community, as evidenced by large quantities of late The executions occurred over a 200 Romano-British pottery, 730 Roman year period ending in the 10th Century coins, mainly of the later 4th Century AD, ie this is a late-Anglian execution and other 4th Century artefacts. This cemetery: it is the most northerly community may have been associated example yet found. The victims with a Roman temple or shrine on the were all males, 18-45 years of age. site. And the site may at some time There is trauma evidence that some have been a Roman signal station. ‘High executions were not ‘clean’, requiring Walkington’ commands extensive views several attempts at decapitation using and”may have formed part of a system a sword or an axe, though two were connecting intervisible points on the decapitated from the front. The victims Wolds with the military command at were then buried on site, which is York and Malton”: Ben Whitwell. That unconsecrated ground. It is therefore said at 133 metres, it is substantially assumed they were the worst kind below High Hunsley cross-roads at 161 of criminals though we are yet to metres, and a more likely site perhaps; discover what sort of crimes justified this is also believed to be the location such punishment. The roadside pole of the Armada Beacon. displaying a decapitated head was a

5 warning to others of the penalty for Book Reviews heinous crimes. There would be very many, from a wide area, who would see Polly Pattison Keep your chin up the heafod stokkam: the road linked Wotlarx, 2019, 59pp. Apply to Beverley with lots of communities to [email protected] .ISBN 978- the west; it carried significant numbers 0-9554130-7-0; £5. of travellers by foot, horse, oxen and cart and carriage - and the word would This volume is the story of one Hull have got round about this must-see wife’s experiences during the 1939-45 attraction. war based on letters to her husband in North Africa, serving in the 8thArmy. Denied a Christian burial, these The letters were discovered in an criminals, by the beliefs of the time, old suitcase which had been put in were consigned to Purgatory: hence, the attic following the death of Polly Hell’s Gate, the name suggesting, Pattison’s mother, and undiscovered till perhaps, a folk memory from the distant 2015. Ethel and Ken Warrener had only past which was still brought to mind by been married three months when war older residents in the late-1960s when broke out and he was called up. After the ‘dig’ revealed the secrets of the training he spent the rest of the war in Walkington Wold Barrows. the Western Desert.

Sources. Ethel was living with her mother 1. Excavations at Walkington, and unmarried sisters but finding Bulletin No. 1, Hull Museums, 1968. herself pregnant she and many other 2. J E Bartlett and R W Mackey, expectant mums were sent to Gate Excavations on Walkington Wold, 1967- Burton Hall, Gainsborough, a stately 69, East Riding Archaeologist, 1973. home transformed into a maternity 3. Ben Whitwell, Late Roman East home, to be safe from the air-raids Yorkshire, ERAS, 1989. in Hull. Later she and her daughter 4. Rod Mackey, Walkington Wold Pauline (Polly) were evacuated to Executions Re-dated, ERAS News, No. Pudsey in West Yorks but feeling 65, November 2006. lonely, and missing friends and family, 5. Article, Yorkshire Post, returned to her mother’s house to put 31/12/2007. up with nights in the shelter or in the 6. J L Buckberry and D M Hadley, cupboard under the stairs. An Anglo-Saxon Execution Cemetery at Walkington Wold, Yorkshire, Oxford Ken was never granted leave and Ethel Journal of Archaeology, 2007. did not see her husband till the end of the war. They had been three months C Jenkinson. together and six years apart, during which she had the anxiety of many long gaps in correspondence when she

6 did not know whether he was alive or whales teeth, whale jawbone, baleen, dead, the terrors of the bombing, and and walrus tusks. The officer making trials of bringing up an infant. She also the daily entries in the logbook, or the worried about her younger brother individual writing a personal journal Fred who trained on HMS Ganges would, with differing degrees of skill before joining his first shipPembroke at insert drawings and paintings of the the age of only 16. vessel they were aboard, scenes of the whale hunt and exotic coastlines. Arthur G. Credland Arctic whaling predominated in Britain for which the voyages were so much Michael P Dyer O’er the Wide and shorter in duration, a maximum of Tractless Sea –original art of the eight months unless a vessel became Yankee whale hunt Old Dartmouth trapped in the ice. A rare example of an Historical Society/New Bedford illustrated journal is that of Alexander Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Trotter, surgeon of the Scottish whaler Massachusetts, 2017, 365pp, Enterprise in 1856 (published Shetland, illustrated in colour throughout. ISBN 1979). 978-0-99775161-3-5. Detailed images of the individual tools This volume hints at the riches of of the trade and its methodology are the collections in the New Bedford generally lacking, but there often small Museum, which incorporating scale sketches of the array of whaling those of the former Kendall Whaling gear employed in the fishery, and the Museum, Boston, has a remarkably trying out gear for extracting the oil. comprehensive coverage of whaling There are some well realised drawings images and artefacts. Though of course of the whales themselves, and on the bulk of the material concerns the several occasions a profile of a sperm American whale fishery, including an whale is marked with the cutting- outstanding array of scrimshaw work, in pattern for removing the blubber. it has a world-wide reach, including Scenes of the whale boats in pursuit important British items. of the whale are commonplace, with the harpooner wielding a harpoon, a Illustrations from logbooks form the lance, or sometimes a whaling spade bulk of the 327 images most never ready to cut the tendons of the whale seen before and reproduced here flukes. Each kill is then marked with a for the first time, along with others whales tail or small sketch of the whole from prints, paintings and scrimshaw. animal, the type of cetacean, usually a Yankee whalers on their long voyages, sperm whale or a Right Whale, being often a circumnavigation of the globe differentiated. taking 2-4 years, had a lot of time on their hands which was spent on craft Despite the author’s extensive trawl work, frequently incising designs on through the museum holdings only

7 one rather crude image was found which brought a new stimulus to the which depicts anything other than an Christian church and inspired men of iron hand implement. In the logbook all ages and backgrounds to join the of the Mary Frazier (1853-5) the man fraternity. He was canonised by Pope in the bows of a boat is discharging Gregory IX in 1228, but the order had a firearm, aiming a shoulder gun at already reached in 1224, a humpback whale, an episode not spreading north to Lincolnshire and referred to in the text of the log. Yorkshire over the next five or six years. They were the second of the four The last of the sailing whalers sailed major mendicant orders to settle here out of North America in the 1920s during the 13th century, along with and these last years were captured in the Dominicans, Carmelites and Austin the writings of Clifford Ashley, as well Friars. Because of their grey habits they as in his photographs and paintings, a were known as the Greyfriars. sample of which bring this book to a close. Though initially pursuing a life of self denial and devotion to the poor, Dyer has captured a delightful sample they like the monastic orders, and the of whaling folk art, images of the trade Roman Catholic church as a whole, fell depicted by the whalers themselves, victim to materialism and worldliness which hitherto has been largely The last Franciscan ordination was in reproduced from the scrimshaw work 1538, in the diocese of Lincoln, and which is so avidly sought after by they were finally suppressed in 1539, American collectors. One hopes that as part of the Reformation. If there is that this might be the start of a series any popular surviving image of the making available to a wide public friars and their supposed way of life it is many more of the treasures of the New in the figure of Friar Tuck, the fat, jolly, Bedford Museum. associate of the legendary Robin Hood, with his love of good food and copious Arthur G. Credland drink!

Michael J P Robson A Biographical This volume is an important corpus Register of the Franciscans in the with the names of nearly 10,000 friars Custody of York, c.1229-1539 Yorkshire of the Custos of York developed from Archaeological and Historical Society, the painstaking researches of the Right Record Series, vol.CLXV, for 2017, in Reverend John R H Moorman, Bishop association with the Boydell Press, of Ripon. The amount of information 2019; 307pp. ISBN 978-0-993238-39- varies of course, and sometimes only 0. Price £50. the place and date of ordination is known. The sources are discussed St. Francis of Assisi (1181/2-1226) led an in a series of introductory essays, exemplary life of virtue and penitence which include a description of the

8 constitution of the Franciscan order. remarkable survival at Beverley, an There was a single province in England important fragment of a four acre site, divided into a number of Custos, probably representing the dormitory eventually seven. The York Custos and library. There is no mention of this extended from Spalding in the south to in the volume under review, though it Whitby in the north, and included parts surely deserved at least an extended of Nottinghamshire. It was the largest footnote. community with some 57 friars in 1300, followed by Lincoln, then Beverley, Though the specialist nature of this Boston and Doncaster, with 30 or more volume necessitates a substantial price individuals. it is an invaluable resource for students of the Franciscan order in Yorkshire , Of the names recorded some 35 have well produced and printed in a good a direct connection with Beverley, sized type. though of a further dozen men who actually bore the name of Beverley Arthur G. Credland only Thomas Beverley seems to have any clear link, having been ordained Local History there in 1495. Meetings & Events John Butler or Boteler was at Beverley in 1356 when he asked leave of the 20 August 2019 Hull Minster History town authorities to take sand for the Group Mark Keith ‘Musicians of the completion of the friars’ building. He Minster’, Hull Minster 12:30pm also requested a licence to gather fallen timber in the Westwood. There 1 September 2019 Carnegie Heritage were evidently plans for rebuilding Centre, Hull Folk Music Collective, ‘The and maintaining the friary in 1526 by History of Hull Folk Music’, 1:30pm, Henry Aglionbie, ‘guardian’ or leader £2.50 of the Beverley community, under the patronage of Thomas Lord Darcy 10 September 2019 Scarborough and Menell and Kaith (sic; a misrendering District Civic Society, Chris Hall, ‘The S of Meinill, and Knayth a village in D Adshead’s 1938 Proposals for the Lincolnshire). Thomas Darcy 1st Baron Development of Scarborough.’, The of Temple Hirst (Temple Newsam) was Library, Vernon Rd, 2:30pm, £3 executed in 1537 for his part in the Pilgrimage of Grace. His heir George 10 September 2019 Hull History Centre, Darcy was knighted at Flodden and Helen Dampier and Rebecca Gill, ‘War regained royal favour for the family. without Glamour: Emily Hobhouse and the ‘enemy’ civilian, 1899-1919’, The seven friaries in the Custos have 12:30pm left little material trace except for the

9 11 September 2019 Carnegie Heritage 9 October 2019 Carnegie Heritage Centre, Peter Lord, ‘Hull’s Early Local Centre, Geofrey Holmes,, ‘Council Radio’, 10:00am, £2.50 House Development’, £2.50

12 September 2019 Beverley Civic 14 October 2019 Hull Civic Society, Society Dr David Bostwick ‘The Medieval Martin Batstone, ‘William Clowes and Carvings of St Mary’s, Beverley’ 7:30pm, Hull’, Royal Hotel, 7:30pm St Mary’s church hall 17 October 2019 History 17 September 2019 Hull Minster Group, Dr Peter Halkon, ‘Recent research History Group Helen Good, ‘Vicars and on the Western Wolds – incorporating Preachers of Reformation Hull’, Hull Nunburnholme and Kipling House Minster 12:30pm farm’, The Old Court House, 7:30pm, £2

19 September 2019 Pocklington History 17 October 2019 Local History Group, ‘History Group member Short Society Michael Free, ‘All Saints’ Church Talks’, The Old Court House, 7:30pm, £2 windows’, Hessle Town Hall, 7:15pm

19 September 2019 Hessle Local History 7 November 2019 Pocklington History Society Ian Wilkinson, ‘Search for Group, Barrie Barnes, ‘A history of the Stewart Andrews’, Hessle Town Hall, 92nd Hull Brigade, or Hull Pals, 1914 – 7:15pm 1919’, The Old Court House, 7:30pm, £2

21 September 2019 EYLHS Book 8 October 2019 Scarborough and Fair, 10:00am - 3:30pm, Hull Minster, District Civic Society, Peter Craggs, admission free ‘Ghost Signs in Whitby.’, The Library, Vernon Rd, 2:30pm, £3 24 September 2019 Carnegie Heritage Centre, Alan Beadle, ‘Hull Speedway - 12 November 2019 and District The Boulevard Years’, £2.50 Local History Society, Alan & Michele Beadle, ‘One Hull of a Show: White City, 8 October 2019 Scarborough and 1920-38’, Hedon Town Hall, 7:30pm District Civic Society, Mark Vesey, ‘His experiences as a Scarborough Borough 12 November 2019 Hull History Centre, Councillor.’, The Library, Vernon Rd, Lisa Hewson and Andrew Elliott, ‘The 2:30pm, £3 mysteries and secrets of Hull General Cemetery’, 12:30pm 8 October 2019 Hull History Centre, Claire Weatherall, ‘For those in Peril on 14 November 2019 Beverley Civic the Sea: A History of Seafarers Missions’, Society Dr Peter Halkon ‘Landscape 12:30pm Archaeology of the Wolds’ 7:30pm, St Mary’s church hall

10 21 November 2019 Hessle Local History Society AGM and Pat Howlett, ‘Hessle in World War II’, Hessle Town Hall, 7:15pm

16 January 2020 Pocklington History Group, Andrew Sefton, ‘Old Pocklington shops remembered’, The Old Court House, 7:30pm, £2

20 February 2020 Pocklington History Group, ‘History Group members Short Talks, The Old Court House, 7:30pm, £2

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