Beverley Civic Society NEWSLETTER SPECIAL No 2 EASTER 2020

From the Executive Committee to all members and friends

Here is our Special No 2 newsletter, with the answers to Special No 1. We are getting good reviews of our efforts, and hope they will, for some, help the long days until freedom dawns. We also hope that if you explore on line for some answers, you will find other things to divert you. Do send the Specials around to anyone you want, we claim no copyright. All feedback welcome.

Keep specially safe and well, as the tsunami seems to be approaching now. People will talk about these months for centuries to come, and how the world changed in 2020.

1. in literature (Barbara English) a. Who failed to become a Beverley MP in 1868, and what book did he write about the election? b. Who (formerly living in Beverley) wrote Lady Audley’s Secret and what was her novel set in Beverley called? c. Who wrote ‘I stayed for dinner (melon, steak, & raspberry & apple tart, with a glass of burgundy) and cycled back.’ d. Which great historian wrote of an event “Inderauuda”? e. Who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and where did she live?

2. Beverley Streets – name them from 3. What are these typefaces? the clues (Colin Bradshaw) (answers can be found on your a. Chickens might live here computer's font ribbon) b. A top Hotel a. Beverley b. Beverley c. Do pigs live here on high ground? c. Beverley d. Not a man’s road d. Beverley e. Start all over again e. Beverley

4. British/English Queens called Anne (Barbara English) a. How many sovereigns were called Anne? b. How many king’s wives were called Anne 1066-2020? c. Who was Anne of the Thousand Days? d. Which Anne was called the Flemish Mare? e. Who is 13th in succession to the throne?

5. Listed buildings (Google The National Heritage List for , Beverley) a. Where is there a listed Victorian letter box? b. Whose arms are on the Market Cross? c. How many listed lamp posts are there?: makers names and dates d. How many Grade I listed buildings are there in Beverley? e. Where is there a sedan chair house in Newbegin?

6. Who were these people after whom these streets are named? a. Admiral Walker b. Tindall Lane c. Waltham Lane d. Thurstan Road e. Norfolk Street

7. The Name is Bond, James Bond! (Helen Watson) a. Name the place where the much fabled dragon prowls in Dr No b. Name the actor who played Q c. Name the film that Timothy Dalton first appeared as Bond d. In which film did the characters Natalya Simonova appear? e. Name the singer who sang the title song in For ‘Your Eyes Only’

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To hear them sing or at least make a noise, Google https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and- wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/ And click on the bird’s name. PP1 Where is this filled-in well? To PP2 What was this building before it was taken over by Thompsons which building did it once belong? Dairies? What remnant still remains?

PP3 Where are these buildings and what where they? PP4 What is this tall iron thing by Cherry Tree crossing?

PP5 What are these black and white iron posts PP6 Where was this and what did they make? the remains of? Beverley Civic Society Newsletter Special No 1

April 2020 Quiz Answers

1 Beverley Anagrams (Chris Harrod) c. Guildhall a. Minster d. Saturday Market b. Sow Hill e. Old Waste

2 Who said this to whom in which play a. Duke Orsino, to his court, in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. b. Faust about Helen of Troy, to Mephistopheles and Old Man, in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, (should have been ‘was’ this the face… etc. Apologies, should have looked it up). c. Macbeth, to himself and Seyton, in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. d. King Henry V, to his soldiers, in Shakespeare’s Henry V. e. Lady Bracknell, to Jack Worthing, in Wilde’s Importance of Being Earnest.

3 Beverley Place Names a. Annie Reed, the mother of the chairman of the property company that developed the site. b. Slutwell Lane had a well, part of the town ditch, with bad water. Only sluts used it. c. Robert Wylie’s house was demolished to make the road. Wylie’s Racket or Wylie’s Lane. d. Londoners Street; also Alta Via [Latin for High Street]. e. Shoemarket Lane (1423), Shoemaker Lane (1585),George Inn Passage (1737), Leeming Lane (early 19th cent.), Suggitt’s Lane (1868), Johnson’s Lane (19th cent.), Wheatsheaf Lane (1853), Beaver Passage (early 21st cent).

4 Beverley Dates a. 7 May 721 b. 1086, from Domesday Book. Translated: ‘In the time of King Edward it was worth £24 to the archbishop’ – refers to his part of Beverley, the other part being the Minster’s. c. Sunday 29 April 1520 d. 1539 Blackfriars (Dominicans) and Greyfriars (Franciscans). Surviving Friary was Blackfriars. e. July 1642 5 Songs and Artists: name the songs and the artists a. Song - ‘Sisters’ sung by the Beverley Sisters b. Song – ‘Promise Me’ sung by Beverley Craven c. Song – ‘The Ballad of Jed Clampett sung by The Beverley Hilbillies d. Song – ‘ Gold’ sung by Beverley Knight e. Song – ‘ We are one’ by Frankie Beverly

6 Medicine and Science a. 20 b. Willow c. Ethanol or alcohol d. Upper arm e. Four faces

7 Two Churches one Town a. August 1349. Tricky, see the list of priests at St Mary’s. Three priests died 20 Aug.- 20 Sept. 1349, showing the Black Death had come. Answer is on line in 2 places, but v. hard to find. b. From the east; medieval Christians were buried facing east to be ready for resurrection. c. St John the Evangelist. One of 76 St Johns. Beverley has John of Beverley and St John Fisher, unusual for a small town to have two saints, one died here, one was born here. d. 10 March 1530. Until 1752 the year in England began 25 March, so for us the font is 1531. e. The Danes were part of the army of William of Orange, on their way to fight in Ireland.

8 More Beverley Anagrams a. Westwood b. North Bar Without c. Kings Head d. Treasure House e. White Horse ANSWERS TO PICTURE QUESTIONS

1. The Percies, earls of Northumberland, Leconfield castle. Around 1512 they had about 163 servants. The diagonal line is part of the ‘pale’ that enclosed the earl’s coursing park. 2. Fishwick’s Mill near Westwood Road. In 1861 the townspeople burnt down the mill and buildings, as they said it was an encroachment on the common land (their land). 3. The Rose & Crown then called Crown & Anchor. A pond below it now gone. Wylie’s Road not yet built. The Coronation Garden just beginning. A passage on the east side of the Bar only. To the west of the North Bar terrace gardens, market gardens. The old lane to the north of St Mary’s church was closed in the late 20th cent. I am sure you can find more. 4. Fred Elwell, ‘Hall Garth’, site of the archbishop’s manor, later a court house and then the Admiral Duncan Inn. 5. The Guildhall, royal arms, the small white horse lower right says Hanoverian, the curator is more precise and says George III. 6. This now lost map of 1668 shows the village of Eske before it was deserted, , Hull Bridge and Arram. Photograph of the original is in the British Library. 7. William Middleton, Beverley’s great 18th cent. architect/builder. In Pevsner and Neave’s volume of Buildings of England, 15 of his surviving Beverley buildings are described. The Guildhall, Beverley Arms and 2 Highgate are fine examples. Portrait in the Guildhall. 8. A badge from the Pilgrimage of Grace, now at Arundel Castle. The Pilgrims did wear badges with these devices, but this seems too elaborate to give out to an army? 9. Mary Dawson Holmes, the painter, who married Fred Elwell after Holmes’ death. 10. Sir John Hotham in front of the Beverley Gate at Hull. 11. King Athelstan giving a book to St Cuthbert. c.935, the earliest known portrait of an English king. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library. 12. Made in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, c.1560, called Lord Burleigh’s chart, it shows where enemy ships could land. A ‘defence’ map against a feared future Spanish Armada.

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