EYLHS Newsletter 23 Summer / Autumn 2010

Newsletter of the East Local History Society Front cover: Newland toll bar. See page 7

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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.

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Newsletter Edited by Robert Barnard 825 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]

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Programme and their friends take out personal As usual, the Society has arranged a full accident/loss insurance, or include programme of lectures and excursions this in their households policies. We for 2010. Please support the events would also stress the need for suitable and bring along your friends. Please do clothing - in particular, sturdy footwear not hesitate to ask for lifts; you will be and waterproofs - for outdoor events. expected to contribute to petrol. Please note PLEASE NOTE: Please make all There is usually a waiting list for most cheques payable to the East Yorkshire of the Society’s events. If you book an Local History Society. All cheques event and then find you cannot attend, and booking slips should be sent to please inform the Secretary. Please do the relevant named individual at the not transfer your booking to a relative address on the booking form. or friend without first consulting the Secretary, whose telephone number SATURDAY 21 AUGUST 2010 can be found on the inside of this Venue: Markenfield Hall, near Ripon, newsletter. Thank you. own transport Leader: Pam Martin Time: 2.00pm Review of EYLHS Events Cost:£5.00 Maximum number 60 Far Horizons: From Hull to the Ends of the Earth SUNDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2010 Robb Robinson - 24 April 2010 Venue: Pryme Street, Anlaby Synagogue, own transport Robb delivered a stimulating talk which Topic: The Myth of the Wandering emphasised the global importance Jew: The origin of the Hull Jewish of Hull, both historically and on the Community current world stage. He suggested Speaker: Max Gold that much more prominence should Time: 2.15pm be given to the connection that Hull Cost:£2.00 has with the sea and seafaring, and he Maximum number 40 pointed out that the very existence and success of the town was on account of its location at the confluence of the Participation in events and the . As a deep As reported in previous years, it has water port, the town was developed not been possible to arrange group by Edward I as a `safe haven’ during his insurance for events. We therefore wars with the Scots, and so Kingston- strongly recommend that members upon-Hull had its beginnings.

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JB He further suggested that there are and form the basis of his forthcoming many personalities who deserved publication of the same title. recognition in Hull, apart from the more famous people such as Andrew Marvel, At a time when was the and Amy Johnson. greatest maritime nation in the world; His talk was to bring these people Hull was the third port in the kingdom. to our attention, and was illustrated And so, he affirmed, Hull is not the end with the good and the great who have of the line on a road to nowhere, but called Hull home or who have had a a global phenomenon with its toes in close connection with the port. the trade routes of the world, and with sons that follow them. Many of these stories were revealed and included John Ellerman of the Hull- J Briody based Wilson Line one of the richest men ever to have lived in England, New Earswick and Skelton William De La Pole who arranged loans 8 May 2010 to fund the king and whose son became the first Duke of Suffolk, James Evans Mr Brian Jardine, Development Services who was so taken with Methodism Manager of New Earswick Village Trust that he emigrated to spreading led a group of members around part of the word and who is credited with the garden village of New Earswick on a inventing the Cree Syllabic Language sunny but chilly May morning, after an and so is venerated by the Cree nation, introductory talk in the New Earswick John Dykes who at the age of 10 could Folk Hall, or community centre, on play many instruments and who is the the background of the building of the compose of some 300 Victorian hymns village. New Earswick is a garden village including the maritime themed ‘Eternal located outside York, established at the Father’, Mrs Victor Bruce another beginning of the 20th century by the female aviator who in 1930 conquered Rowntree chocolate company for its the land masses of Europe and Asia in workers, after the company expanded a `Blackburn Bluebird’ aircraft, Captain due to its success in the centre of York. Colbeck with a crew mainly from Hull and district who sailed to the Antarctic The village can be visited by train to as part of the expedition with Scott, York and a bus from the railway station `Gassy’ Jack Deighton who ran The to the Folk Hall. Mr Jardine told us Globe inn in what was later Vancouver, that Joseph Rowntree’s parents came Sir John Hall who emigrated to New from Scarborough to York and in 1834 Zealand eventually becoming Mayor of they bought a business from the Tuke Christchurch. family by auction. The site of this is now at Pizza Hut opposite Marks and These individuals, along with many Spencer in York. Joseph Rowntree was more, were presented in Robb’s talk born in 1836 above the shop and was

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Hartrigg Oaks - the coun- try’s first continuing care retirement home apprenticed to take over the business Much of the village is pedestrianised from his parents. Joseph Rowntree was and recently some roads, particularly a lifelong friend of George Cadbury, a the cul-de-sacs, have been widened fellow Quaker, of Cadbury’s chocolate to allow for car parking. Spacious business in Birmingham where the gardens and many trees are a feature garden village of Bournville was built of the village. On our visit the cherry by the chocolate factory. They helped trees were laden with blossom, both each other out in business life. As the white and pink. Mr Jardine told us that group of members walked around the the earliest existing houses were built village Mr Jardine pointed out that about 1902 near the Folk Hall. However main roads were built in a straight line a rolling programme of demolition but residential side roads were curved and rebuilding has taken place over to achieve a sense of variety and of many years due to subsidence and the closure. Joseph Rowntree himself clay ground which is poor for building approved the architectural drawings on, near the River Foss. The architect for each dwelling and the emphasis Raymond Unwin designed the first was on plenty of sunlight to living houses and in 1919 his partner Barry rooms and bedrooms, even if this Parker became architect to the village, meant locating kitchens at the front. and he built cul de sacs for safe play

5 areas. More recently the Trust, as a Skelton Church charity, has offered part of the housing The church of St Giles is an architectural stock for purchase by part ownership gem, built in one style, Early English schemes, as well as renting housing (lots of nail-head and dog-tooth), and out. It also assists tenants who fall completed around 1247. The building on hard times due to relationship was sponsored by the Treasurer of breakdown or illness. An allotment site York Minster and internally bears is available for village residents, and resemblance to the south transept of there is a fairly new complex for elderly the Minster. Although a small church residents including medical facilities. the pillars are disproportionately large; Pat Aldabella on behalf of EYLHS Pevsner suggests the original design members thanked Mr Jardine for a may have incorporated a crossing that most interesting and comprehensive was quickly abandoned. The quality of talk on the origins and development of the decoration is very high as the same New Earswick garden village. masons who worked at York Minster also left their marks at Skelton. Skelton Jane Pietrusiak is particularly rich in mason’s marks, around 36 masons ‘signed’ their work

Skelton church

One of the many mason’s marks

6 and the marks are incised on over 100 firearms (poaching) made him an ideal pieces of stonework. The same masons candidate for this covert organisation. marks can also be found on most of the substantial churches in the area such as After the war, he was always keen , , Byland, , to attend Reunions of the Auxiliary Kirkham, and Selby. Units, both at Colchester and later at the Parham Museum of the British Externally most of the weathered Resistance Organisation until failing carving was replaced during a health prevented his travelling such restoration of 1814-18 although the long distances. doorway is still quite a spectacular piece. The double bellcote between He actively participated in the research the chancel and nave is original. The and recording of the East Riding church, as is often the case, is situated Auxiliary Unit Organisation. This was on the highest part of the village. stimulated by having been a member of both the East Riding Local History Robert Barnard and Archaeological Societies. He was always the first to descend into my Obituaries newly discovered, secret underground bunker. Charles Arthur Mason 1914-2009 His wartime experiences featured Charlie, as he was better known, served in many television and radio as a member of the South Cave Patrol documentaries, culminating in in the East Riding Auxiliary Units from Channel Four’s The Real Dad’s Army. January 1941 to December 1944. This also applied to national and regional publications. By day, as a civilian aircraft engineer, he was responsible for the maintenance A good friend to many, he and his wry of a flight of 24 aeroplanes at the sense of humour will be greatly missed. nearby Elementary Pilot Flying School(RAF),based at the Brough Charlie leaves a daughter, Jo, and factory of the Blackburn Aircraft two granddaughters, Catherine and Company. Victoria.

By night, he trained in the `black arts’ Alan Williamson of sabotage as a resistance fighter in the most secret civilian army, being Alan Frederick Plater 15 April 1935 - formed to resist any impending Nazi 25 June 2010 invasion. His intimate knowledge of the countryside and the handling of Born in Jarrow, Co Durham he was brought up in Hull and attended

7 Kingston High School where Tom He was president of the Writers Guild, Courtney, a lifelong friend, was a near 1991-1995, and received several contemporary. They, and later John BAFTAs, a CBE in 1995, as well as Alderton, were all influenced by Dr E honorary degrees from Hull, Newcastle ‘Josh’ Large an inspirational English and the Open University. He was a master who directed a number of visiting professor to Hull University memorable school plays. drama department and was invited to officiate at the opening of the Anthony He qualified as an architect at Newcastle Minghella Studio. Alan Plater married University but a radio play, Smoke zone Shirley Johnson in 1958 and they broadcast in 1961 persuaded him to had two sons and a daughter but this become a full time writer. He came to marriage was dissolved and in 1986 he public notice with scripts for Z Cars and tied the knot with Shirley Rubinstein. contributed some 30 episodes to its His death came, aged 75, after a three spin off Softly, Softly. The opening of the year fight with cancer. Hull Arts Centre can largely be credited to him and this of course became the Arthur Credland Spring Street Theatre, later the home of Hull Truck, and indeed John Godber, its creative director, acknowledges Plater’s Far Flung Members help in becoming a professional writer. He collaborated with Alex Glasgow We have a considerable number of in the documentary musical Close members residing in distant corners the coalhouse door which played in of the UK and oversees. It would Newcastle, Hull and at the Fortune be interesting to know what their theatre, London, in 1968. connection to East Yorkshire might be. The following piece is by June Jensen Plater also provided a number of fine of Denmark; if others wish to contribute screenplays, including Lawrence’s The to future issues of the newsletter please virgin and the gypsy and Orwell’s Keep send details to the editor. the Aspidistra flying and adaptations for TV of Trollope’s Barchester Chronicles as I was born in Hull in 1929. On my well as Olivia Manning’s Fortunes of war, mother’s side the family seems to which launched Kenneth Branagh and have lived mainly in Hull, although my Emma Thompson into international grandfather, Harry Wintie, was born in careers on stage and in film. His comic London in 1854 and lived there for a thriller The Beiderbecke Affair and its while with his paternal grandparents. sequels revolved around his passion for His mother, Charlotte, was born in jazz, something he shared with many 1828 in the parish of Holy Trinity and writers of his generation, including her father, Edward Crowhurst, is listed Larkin and Amis. in the 1841 census as being a “pilot”, I can only presume that this means

8 “river pilot”! My grandmother’s mother, met my husband; so although I learned Elizabeth Lister, was born in 1836 and to speak German very well in Austria, lived with her uncle in the old Newland thanks to Reckitt & Colmans, Danish Toll House, from where she eloped in ended up being my new mother 1852 to marry George Dixon. tongue!

On my fathers side, I only have I have lived here in Denmark since information about his mother, Ellen 1958 and although I am still a British Holdstock, who was born in Beverley citizen, I regard Denmark as my home in 1852, where her father William now. My visits to England are few and Holdstock was a coachman. She far between, but I have always been married John Smith Pearson , who interested in history especially that died in 1900, leaving her as a widow of the East Riding therefore I always with ten children! She worked hard look forward to receiving the Society’ all her life. She lived in Leven, in Hull publications. Incidentally I have a copy of and in Ferriby and died 1944/45, so I “The History of Reckitt and Sons Limited” remember her well. by Basil N. Reckitt, which was published in 1951 and given to all employees, etc. As for me, June Pearson, I attended Beverley Road School until 1938, then June Jensen Hall Road School until -1942 and finally the College of Commerce for two years. In 1944 I started at Reckitt & Colmans as George Myers a “junior” and then became a secretary in the Pharmaceutical Department. I (Pugin’s Builder) remained there until my marriage in 1958. George Myers was my great- grandfather. I grew up between the As you can imagine I was very two World Wars knowing nothing of interested to read the article in the him. At that time anything Victorian Newsletter 22 about the Quaker was considered ‘vulgar’. And to have burial ground and the Reckitt family. had a forebear in ‘Trade’, well, it was And the name Coulson was familiar, better not mentioned. It was not until too. I’ve written many departmental the 1980s, that a chance discovery of memos to “Mr. L. Coulson” in my time some family silver, bought in Clapham – Chris Coulson’s father. I, too, received (South London) made me wonder benefits from the firm – as a member which of my ancestors could have of the Territorial Army I was allowed gone shopping in such a place. Three two weeks leave, with pay, to attend sets of great-grandparents, I knew, had the annual camp each year and then lived many miles from London. That in 1956 I was granted a scholarship only left the Myers. I was intrigued. This to spend six months in Austria. Here I led to the research which resulted in

9 my biography Pugin’s Builder, the Life George Myers was born in Hull, in and Work of George Myers, published 1803. In the early 19th century, Hull by Hull University Press, in 1993, at was a prosperous port, which had the time of the Pugin exhibition at benefited hugely from the Industrial the Victoria and Albert Museum, Revolution. Her shipping tonnage was and a second edition published by only exceeded by that of London and Gracewing, this year. As a result of the Liverpool. The wealthy merchants and exhibition, Pugin became fashionable wharfingers lived in the old town High and people became interested in the Street with gardens sloping down to craftsmen who worked for him. the river where they could watch their ships being loaded for trading ventures in the Baltic and the Low Countries. It was in one of these houses that William Wilberforce was born.

George Myers was the son of a whitesmith of the same name. The family lived in the parish of , near the docks. George was not the eldest son. It was Mark his older brother who was to inherit their father’s business. George, at the age of thirteen, or thereabouts, left Hull for Beverley where he was apprenticed to William Comins, the master mason at Beverley Minster. Comins’ daybook still exists in Beverley Public Library and shows that Myers worked at the Minster until April 1829. It was there that he and Pugin first met. The young Without the soubriquet ‘Pugin’s Builder’ Pugin had come to the Minster to draw. this remarkable Yorkshire man would Myers is said to have helped him with have faded from memory. But one of his ‘ladders and scaffolding’. most ardent admirers, Brian Andrews of the Pugin Foundation of Australia says, On completing his apprenticeship, ‘There is a growing realisation of how Myers returned to Hull and set up in the very detail we admire on so many partnership with his friend Richard [Pugin] buildings and furnishings is an Wilson. There was plenty of work for extraordinary tribute to the ability of stonemasons and builders. The friends Myers and his workers to convert the prospered. They built terrace houses crudest of sketches into products that and shops, paved new roads and built fully met the spirit of Pugin’s designs’. public baths for the Council. They

10 built mills and factories and they built by this time was carrying out contracts the Wilberforce Monument, then at all over the country, to live in London. the head of Junction Dock, and they The partnership between Myers and carried out restoration work at Hull’s Richard Wilson was dissolved. Myers Holy Trinity Church. took a house in Southwark, 9 Laurie Terrace, now, number 131 St George’s Road. This newly built row of terrace houses was immediately opposite the site of the largest contract Myers ever undertook for Pugin, the building of St George’s Catholic Cathedral, Southwark with the Clergy House, Convent and school. It was in this church that five of Myers’ nine children were baptised. Myers built three Wilberforce Monument other cathedrals for Pugin, Newcastle, Nottingham and Birmingham, more or less simultaneously, in the 1840s. This would not have been possible without the railways. The canal network provided for the transport of building materials and the toll roads were adequate. Travelling in the mid 19th century was probably not much more hazardous than it is today. The Royal Mail was far more efficient. Myers Holy Trinity wrote letters late at night, when he got In 1837 Myers again met Pugin. Myers home after visiting his various building tendered for the building of St Mary’s sites, they were often dated ‘midnight’. Catholic Church in Derby. Pugin was The letters reached their destination, the architect and was delighted to anywhere in the country, by breakfast meet his Beverley friend once again time the following morning and Myers and immediately promised that in expected and got, an answer the same future, Myers should ‘execute’ all his day. buildings. A promise he kept nearly to the letter. Myers worked not only for Pugin, but also for nearly all the major architects In 1841, Pugin settled in London. The of his day. The Industrial Revolution next year, Myers followed him. By the created a need for a great many new 1840s, the rail network, centring on institutions. Myers played a large part in London, connected the major cities of this building revolution. The Religious Great Britain, so it suited Myers, who Revival and Catholic Emancipation

11 created a need for churches. The 1845 Rothschild’s very grand house at Hyde Shaftesbury Lunacy Act obliged every Park Corner. Myers restored the Tower county in England and Wales to build of London, built a spectacular new roof an asylum for the humane treatment for the Guildhall in the City of London of the mentally ill. Myers built three (bombed in World War II) and carried of these. Colney Hatch, the Middlesex out work at Windsor Castle. County Asylum; Bracebridge, the Lincolnshire County Asylum; and the Essex County Asylum at Brentwood. He built Broadmoor for the criminally insane and modernised Bedlam. Myers built for the modern army. He built the first barracks at Aldershot; the Prince Consort’s Library for officers; the Army Staff College at Camberley; he modernised the army establishment at Mentmore Woolwich and he built hospitals under Florence Nightingale’s direction and he At the beginning of the 19th century sent prefabricated huts, designed by the City of London was a mixture of Brunel, to the Crimea. residential and business properties, but by the 1850s the prosperous city dwellers had moved out to live in suburbs, such as Clapham (Myers too moved to Clapham), and only returned to work in the newly built offices and banks, many of which were built by Myers.

He built offices in the City of London and a hotel in Victoria Street with a lift (described as a moving room). He Aldershot barracks had warehouses in and around Tower He built Mentmore for Baron Mayer Hill. One great monster warehouse de Rothschild and houses for other on Tower Hill was seven stories high. members of that family, including This, like so many of Myers’ buildings, Baron James de Rothschild’s house was bombed in World War II. The out side Paris, and he laid drains for vaulted brick roofs of the cellars with Sir Joseph Bazalgette’s new drainage the iron work and cranes used for the system. There was an unfortunate movement of merchandise are as far as omission, the drains had no grid, so, is known still intact. In the 1950s it was the Thames’ rats had easy highways possible to see traces of candle grease into the grandest houses including the that had dripped from the iron ring

12 candle-holders which circled the pillars at the Medieval Court at the Great supporting the roof of the cellar. Exhibition of 1851 for which he received a medal. On the forecourt at the wharf Over the years Myers returned to there were blacksmiths, glaziers, and Yorkshire to restore St Mary’s, Beverley, apprentices to be trained, as well as he rebuilt St Michael, Cherry Burton a great body of unruly labourers and and built St Leonard’s Scorborough, St packers who were frequently drunk. Mary’s Dalton Holme and a chapel at Poor Myers complained, ‘I could cry, I Ackworth for the Tempest family. He don’t know what to do with the beasts’. enjoyed returning to Yorkshire to work, Here his clerks, usually three in number, though his dealing with the Church under Myers’ supervision, worked out Wardens at St Mary’s, Beverley were the prices for the tenders, the means by not always harmonious. which a continuous flow of work was maintained. Most of Myers work was obtained in this way, except when he worked for Pugin, who true to his word, was known to refuse to undertake work unless Myers was employed as builder. In years to come, when the Rothschilds were building their grandiose houses, they always employed Myers. The clerks arranged for the payment of sometimes thousands of men on the St Mary’s, Bverley many building sites, covering the length and breadth of the country.

There were horses in the stables and a very powerful steam engine of the latest model. Here, on the morning of Thursday 7th February 1850, fire broke out. Fires were common in the 19th century, but according to the Illustrated St Mary’s, Dalton Holme London News, the fire at Ordnance In his workshops at Ordnance Warf, Wharf, ‘exceeded any catastrophe of Lambeth, now the site of Old County the kind with which the Metropolis had Hall, Myers’ craftsmen, his pride and been visited for many years past.’ If the joy, carried out the beautiful carving fire had been on a Sunday, it could have and sculpting that adorned his been even worse, water companies buildings. Furniture, originally made were not obliged to supply their for Pugin’s own house in Ramsgate is customers with water on that day until now in Speaker’s House in the Palace 1870. There was another devastating of Westminster. His work was exhibited fire at Woolwich, which started in the

13 stables, which were built of wood daughters also lived at home. Myers and had been painted with coal tar was not to enjoy his retirement for preservative. The fire was probably long. He suffered a severe stroke the started inadvertently, by the two night next year and died in March 1875 aged watchmen, who slept on the straw. It is 73. The immediate cause of death, possible that they dropped off to sleep according to his death certificate, was while drinking their beer and smoking ‘exhaustion’. their pipes. On that occasion fourteen horses were burnt to death and only Myers gained great satisfaction from one of the night watchmen survived. his work, from the completion of his contracts and the skill of his craftsmen. He was not mercenary. At Beverley he accepted a reduced offer in settlement of his account, because the Church Wardens had always ‘treated him with great kindness’. And it is said that on his deathbed he cancelled the very large debt still owed him by St George’s Cathedral in Southwark. He was comfortably off, but his wealth did not compare with the huge sums accumulated by some of his contemporaries such as Cubitt and Brassy.

The census return for 1871, described George Myers and his two elder sons as Ordnance Wharf contractors and builders and the three At the age of seventy, in 1873, Myers younger as iron manufacturers. The retired. He handed the contracting 1881 census, when Myers had been business over to his two elder sons, dead for only six years, described all David and Joseph who paid him five sons as gentlemen or artists. The £20,000 and guaranteed him an youngest of Myers’ seven surviving annuity of £4,500 secured on the children, Ellen Julia, married her warehouses on Tower Hill. These two cousin, John Jackson the civil engineer. sons were married with large families It was Jackson who was held up to his and lived in large houses in Clapham descendants as the hero of the family. and Ealing (South London). The three It is very satisfactory that Myers has younger, bachelor sons, who lived at at last, come into his own. When he home, managed the River Lee Iron built Arundel Cathedral (architect, JA works (they were to inherit the works Hansom) for the young Duke of Norfolk, on their father’s death). Two unmarried in the early 1870s, the Press described

14 this redoubtable Yorkshireman as ‘The has enabled me to collate a brief Great Builder’. history and description of the firm and its yard. I have also produced a sketch Referencess of the brick kilns. Patricia Spencer-Silver George Myers Pugin’s Builder 2010 History of the firm. Patricia Spencer-Silver Tower Bridge to Babylon, the Life and Work of Sir John East Yorkshire has vast quantities of clay Jackson, Civil Engineer 2005. suitable for brick making. Hull has been associated with brick making from the Patricia Spencer-Silver 15th century. By the mid 19th century many villages had their own brick The Tune Family works and there was a preponderance of yards along both banks of the River of Brickmakers, Humber. In and around for example, it is surprising to find there Hessle and Hull have been at least nine.

Acknowledgements

Last year I sought information about the brick making firm of Charles Tune (Daily Flashback, Hull Daily Mail 16th, 17th July 2008) and would like to thank the twenty or so people who responded with memories and anecdotes. I am particularly grateful to the two members of the Tune family, Mrs Thelma Lister (Charles Tune’s grand-daughter) and the late Mrs Violet Tune (Charles Tune’s daughter in law) Also to possibly the only two remaining employees, Thomas Gould Tune’s was the smallest of four yards (who worked throughout the 1950s) located on Hessle Common, on Second and Peter Frank (the grandson of the Common Lane (later to become works manager, George Frank who Road South), which worked for him in his school holidays after boundary changes in the 1930s in the 1950s ) became part of Hull. It was situated east of the road (on land now occupied Using the information, and consulting by The Schooner public house, and the ordinance surveys, census returns, Torpoint high rise housing block) and deeds, and vertical aerial photographs, spreading all the way to the boundary

15 with the Pickering Road schools. The the Hessle yard was passed to him. He other larger yard on Second Lane was was then 40 years old. At around this that of Johnsons (on land now covered time the development took place to by Tilbury Road ).The other two yards enlarge the facilities too brick kilns, a were situated on what were the fields brick making mill, 10 drying sheds and between Second Lane and First Lane, extension of the clay pit. In 1923 a 40ft Hessle. brick smoke stack was built on which his name was displayed. Charles was The first member of the Tune family a very religious man, deeply involved involved in brick making was Charles with the Anlaby Park Methodist Church Seaton Tune, born into a farming family on Anlaby Common. He lived for many in Newport, East Yorkshire in 1835 and years on Anlaby High Road. He had who became a foreman brick maker by however suffered the terrible tragedy the 1890s at a yard on Hessle Haven. of losing two of his four sons in He acquired his own business by the in the First World War and also his purchase of a very small brickyard with daughter when only in her twenties. 6 acres of land on Second lane which would enable later development He continued as the owner of the yard resulting in the yard and facilities as until his death in 1951 at the age of 8l remembered by the people replying to when the yard passed to a remaining my enquires. In 1899 he also had a pair son Bernard, who was in the baking of houses built on the site, still existing profession in the Harrogate area. Brick today. making continued until final closure in 1959 when compulsory purchase His son, also Charles Tune, born 1870 of the four yards was required by Hull at Newport learnt the trade in various City Council to build the Boothferry yards, and 1910 on death of his father, Road housing estate. Demolition and

16 filling in of the brick ponds has left quality bricks, passed up to the roof no evidence of the former industry, of the kiln and was then drawn down although Tune’s had been the most back through the “green” bricks by easily seen from Anlaby Park Road the pull of the large chimney through South, with its kilns near to the road. underfloor ducting connected to the chimney. It may seem surprising to find that only 5 and at the most 6 men were employed at any one time producing an average of 54,000 bricks a week. However production was seasonal, as bricks could only be made after the last of the winter hard frosts and ending when those of the autumn started. Annual production was in the region of one and a half million bricks and this was with only a small degree of mechanisation, ie a diesel engine powering a clay extrusion machine from which brick lengths were cut by wire. The engine also powered cable- hauled trucks of the narrow gauge railway up the incline from the clay pit. Filling of the trucks was carried out The process of producing the finished by one man by hand. Indeed all other bricks took two weeks for each kiln work was by hand, including all the from the filling of the kiln, heating up, men hand digging the next season’s burning the bricks, allowing cooling clay during the winter months when down and finally emptying the kiln. brick making was suspended. The second kiln was programmed similarly, thus ensuring a continuous The efficient running of the yard was supply of finished bricks. The skill of skillfully controlled from the 1930s to the Manager was most important. His closure in 1959 by the Works Manager monitoring and overseeing the firing , George Frank, who lived in one of process and temperatures at all times the two houses on site with his family. in the kilns ensured the high quality The kilns, built by the Hessle builder, of the finished bricks. If too slow they C Bullock were quite simple, being of were under burnt, weak and could only the down-draught type with an arched be used for rubble. If they were burnt roof, each being hand coal fired in 12 too quickly cracking occurred and fire holes along both sides of each kiln. ruined the bricks. The heat from the fires, which had to be carefully controlled to produce good

17 Tune’s main customers were the The 70th Anniversary of the evacuation well known Hull building firms, eg, of 368,000 souls from the beaches Needlers, Houltons, and Scrutons. Their of Dunkirk was celebrated in May. drivers helped with the emptying and This massive evacuation was made loading their lorries with the finished possible by a 5,000 man rearguard that products. protected the perimeter as German troops advanced toward the Channel, Finally, a rather charming aspect of and a veteran Luftwaffe worked from the yard has emerged. Mr Frank used above; as well as by a Naval and civilian to arrange for local classes of school fleet that carried the men to safety. This children, supervised by their teachers is the story of the East Riding Yeomanry to be given clay to model. The following (ERY) who formed part of the rearguard week they would return to the yard which made the historic evacuation with their sculpting efforts and watch possible, and follows the early chapters them be placed in the kilns, where they of Forrard: The Story of the East Riding were burnt along with the bricks. After Yeomanry by Paul Mace. a further fortnight they returned to see them retrieved, no doubt with varying As part of the Territorial Army, the ERY degrees of success, but with great Regiment was mobilized in Hull at the excitement I imagine. It would be nice Walton Street barracks in September to think some examples may still exist, 1939. Many of the men were leaving as a memento to this long lost local their homes and families for the first industry. time. Their hope that the war was indeed a “phoney war” was reflected I have made sketches of the kilns as they in the mail they sent home. From would have appeared in the period field training at Helmsley in North from the 1920s to closure in 1959. I Yorkshire they hoped for Christmas have also been loaned a photograph of leave, but came under orders to Charles Tune (1870-1951), courtesy of be at Southampton by December his granddaughter Mrs Thelma Lister to 22 where they prepared to join the whom I am very grateful. British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France. Approximately 770 men of the Jeremy Noble September 2009 Regiment embarked in February 1940. From northern France they anticipated home leave in June. But none of The East Riding those hopes to see their loved ones were fulfilled until after unimagined Yeomanry in the sacrifices had come to pass.

Battle of France The ERY found their military assets stationed in northern France west of the well-fortified Maginot Line

18 Fox badge and Forrard motto of the East Riding Yeomanry Courtesy of Q & C Militaria between France and Germany. They thought they were having a lovely war were there to provide reconnaissance until May 10 when news of the German and communications on troop invasion arrived. Maintenance and movements via wireless with their preparation to move began in earnest. Mark VIB light tanks, Bren gun carriers, Before he left, Second Lieutenant and motorbikes for dispatch riders. Ellison stowed the Regiment’s band Their Regiment had joined the 1st instruments in a stable at Irvy where he Armoured Reconnaissance Brigade was able to retrieve them after the war. under Brigadier Charles Norman. Russia had invaded Finland in November, On May 9 German infantry invaded and in April the Germans would take neutral Luxembourg, the Netherlands Denmark and Norway - all three were and Belgium, bypassing the formidable neutral nations. defenses of the Maginot Line and luring the BEF from their prepared defensive The ERY united in villages around Irvy positions to link up with the Belgians la Bataille north of Paris. Members on the Dyle Line. Between May 9 and of the Regiment gave band concerts May 14 the BEF lost half of its military for the locals in appreciation for their strength. By nightfall May 12, seven hospitality and to break up a dull Panzer divisions were halfway across routine. Training continued in a more northern France and 100 miles from challenging terrain. They bathed in Paris. Flights of three Allied planes showers made of petrol cans and even were taking on 30-40 enemy planes. had local female peepers. They visited German infantry was in Brussels and Vimy Ridge and the First World War moving toward Antwerp. cemetery by coach, and then went on to Amiens for a Franco-Brit show. Allied offensive air power was broken Reinforcement officers were being on May 14 while the ERY moved north. posted to the Regiment from the The Regiment’s road party moved into Royal Armoured Corps to help plan the Belgium through a continuous stream movement of the ERY, but the troops of refugees. By May 15, the rail and

19 road parties of all four squadrons were shops and was chased by the guns concentrated at Chereng in Belgium, of a German pilot, but it ‘didn’t spoil east of Lille. That evening the ERY their dinner’. When they got to the took over their billets, organized local front, the fighting was sporadic and defense measures and received an there was little understanding of what order to be ready to move the following was happening. Ellison had become morning to the front northeast of Ath. liaison between the Brigade and Lord Gort’s headquarters. While on his way May 16 to GHQ he was narrowly missed by The ERY moved through a heartrending a pilot machine-gunning down the and continuous flow of refugees, and center of the road, and was passing retreating French and Belgian troops through a small French town when it who were moving west, jamming the was bombed by the Luftwaffe. He said roads and making the maneuver of “The worst part of the BEF’s lot was tanks and defense vehicles difficult. the complete air supremacy of the Germans. We seldom saw any of our Mace wrote “The contrast from peace planes and that did not help morale.” to war was ruthless and young, inexperienced boys soon became May 17 hardened men. The sights were horrific, The ERY left their tearful hosts in the sounds horrible. The plight of the Chereng for Tournai to the rumble of refugees made the war seem very close gunfire in the east. The hundreds of cars and very personal. The misery that was on the road had given way to refugees being inflicted upon the local people, on foot. The westward advance of and indeed upon the Yeomanry also, Panzers toward the coast was cutting sharpened the need to stop the German off the northern Allied forces from attack and if possible defeat them. The communications and supplies from Regiment went to war with only Light the Atlantic ports, as well as from their Tanks and Bren Carriers…with armour forces in the south. Grateful locals effective against little more than small offered bread and chocolate to a lucky arms fire and mounted coaxial machine few. The Regiment was already on guns in the turret, … their guns only half rations. Maintenance was every really useful against personnel and soft man’s hobby and removing parts from vehicles. This underlines the role of an abandoned vehicles was the new armoured reconnaissance regiment: pursuit. to observe and report and to impose delay before retiring; and not therefore May 19 to get involved in serious battle unless The 2nd Panzer Division reached the it was forced on it.” Channel, having advanced 200 miles in ten days. Three officers of the Regiment Corporal Moor went into deserted were sent to a conference for all Allied Ath to pick up food from abandoned commanders, but they were the only

20 ones who showed up. They had hoped covered the withdrawal of the 133rd to learn when the ERY could be pulled Infantry Brigade at Knocke, and the back, and called for reinforcements, 132nd Brigade at Wareghem over the but were refused. By noon, anti-tank River Lys. This is believed to be the first gunners were in place to cover the time in history that carriers and light ERY withdrawal from Tournai. Tom tanks had covered a full retreat. They Carmichael, the Information Officer, regrouped at Courtrai. German artillery was traveling the region to warn shelled all afternoon with intelligence troops about the guns and about the of the area gained from a balloon that proximity of the enemy when he saw floated serenely out of range of the infantry on the road scatter from sharp Yeomanry small arms. bursts of fire. Three British tanks had been fired upon. Trooper Unwin lost his May 23 two best friends in the panic of friendly The ERY withdrew from Courtrai in the fire. early morning hours after covering the withdrawal of the 44th Division. Two troops lost men to German fire. Corporal Moor and his Troop stayed They were moved to cover where they behind to mine road and railway were able to wash in a stream and bridges with hand grenades, and to noticed they were surrounded by cows push rail wagons over the line. After with swollen udders mooing in agony. achieving some noisy destruction, They took advantage of this bounty they looked around to see three girls and relieved the cows of their burdens. dressed in holiday gear coming toward At midmorning the squadrons assisted them. The unconcerned American each other to withdraw along the girls wanted to catch the morning Tournai road. train to Paris and were indignant that their train had suffered interference. May 20 Hopefully they returned safely to The Regiment crossed the Scheldt at their origin before the German army St Antoine and returned to a deserted materialized in force. Later Moor’s Chereng where the entire Regiment troop set up their Boyes anti-tank rifle formed up once again. Roads were between the pillars of the Menin Gate thick with traffic and the going was where they viewed the names of some slow. One of the tanks ran out of gas who died during the First World War. and was refueled by Brigadier Norman. Near sundown a bugler approached At Phalempin, they had two days rest; on a bicycle to sound Last Post and their first sleep in three days and their Reveille as had been his habit since the first bread in a week. end of the Great War.

May 22 May 24 In the early hours they received orders Two Panzer groups were at the to move toward Lille where they southern perimeter of Dunkirk when

21 Hitler ordered a halt to consolidate continued its work. Men moved to a his forces - one of the earliest radio ditch with their turret-manned Vickers messages intercepted by ULTRA. It machine guns and Bren guns on gave the Allies hope to regroup and tripods and opened fire when the next organize an evacuation. As the main planes came over. Moor wrote “There Regiment moved to its new defensive must have been 5,000 rounds a minute position east of Cassel, the Luftwaffe going up; it moved the blighters and gave them plenty of attention. They they didn’t come back.” An opportunity were ordered to mine the rail line for a wash and shave was interrupted by northwest of Hazebrouck. shell and machine-gun fire. The troop dived for the cover of their carriers and May 25 tanks to finish dressing. A rare hot meal At Cassel the Regiment dispersed into was waiting until the cook was blown the cover of woods and farms, dug slip across the road by a shell. The cook was trenches and slept when they could stunned and the meal was ruined. with aircraft constantly overhead. Patrols reported enemy troops and That afternoon a squadron was sent armoured vehicles to the west and to locate German armoured forces south. As it rained that evening they known to be in the region. Due to a knew they were surrounded. mistake in map reading, the squad was spared running straight into the same May 26, Sunday German anti-tank nest that had earlier Operation Dynamo began taking destroyed two ERY carriers. troops off the beaches of Dunkirk. The Citadel at Calais fell that afternoon. The May 27, Monday Regiment got some sleep until the big The Regiment was east of Cassel when guns crept nearer and the Luftwaffe they learned the enemy was moving

22 from the west toward Cassel. Moor rendezvous one truck emptied its gear and his patrol menaced German tanks and went back to pick up anyone left idling in St Sylvestre by creeping close behind, catching up later as the rest of enough to lob grenades into them. the column moved northward. While crossing open ground, Moor’s patrol was mistaken for enemy by C Two ambulances on their way to St Squadron. The patrol’s Lieutenant ran Sylvestre raced past Squadron C, forward to stop the firing and took a but returned minutes later to report bullet through the nose. “You could that German tanks were entering the have put a ring through it!” Moor wrote town. Shells were coming from every in his diary. Moor was ordered to get direction. The squad raced toward to Major Wade for orders. The now Steenvorde where they were shelled alert German tank patrol tried to take and split up to various hiding places. down Moor as he ran through a ditch. Scouts were sent out to locate the rest He waited for the bullet belt change of the Squadron and learned they were and made his dash to the Major. Moor headed for Dunkirk. The remaining was sent back to bring the troop in. troops were just about to follow the Wade said “Off you go, bring them in, others when orders via a dispatch rider and there is a medal in it for you.” The brought an urgent summons to the intrepid Moor is still waiting for his Steenvorde-Cassel road. medal. At midday, Second Lieutenant Troop 4 was ordered to block the Waterhouse was called to see approach road to St Sylvestre. They had something found in the woods. “In just arrived at the carriers and removed a clearing there were about a dozen the camouflage nets to sally forth when French officers seated at a table with an anti-tank shot hit one of the carriers a white cloth on it, plates, knives and and split it open, killing Troop Sergeant forks, being waited on by orderlies. Major Arbon along with another crew They were dressed in their best member and one man was severely uniforms, their boots were polished wounded. and they all had suitcases. They informed me that the war was over and At noon B Squadron was dispatched they were waiting to surrender.” France to woods northeast of Cassel. The lead would not surrender until 26 days later, lorry got stuck in the mud which sent on June 22. the rest of the vehicles around in the open for 400 to 500 yards. The first The Regiment was called to rendezvous lorries were hit or immobilized and on the Cassel road. Smoke bombs the surviving crews left to run along helped to camouflage their movement, the road. The following drivers put but they lost four men and several the pedal to the metal and the rest of carriers. Moor’s carrier lost a track while the column made it through. At the going through a village and they were

23 using a window sill as a tool bench. gunning and harrying the troops with “We were just tightening the track no Allied air cover. They saw a French when the enemy started shelling us. A battery of anti-aircraft guns destroyed shell came right through the window one emplacement after another. Moor taking our tools with it.” They departed remembered his troop being brought at full speed without their tools. On tea by their Sergeant Major. “It tasted the road, they saw a Belgian infantry great!” he said, “Because the main road unit marching toward them. The runs past it (the Mont) and we have Belgian surrender was expected, so the it well covered, the Hun will have to Yorkshire men were not sure if the unit get us off the hill…We are tanks, not was friendly and trained their guns on infantry.” them. The Belgian officer ordered his troops to clear the road and line up At evening, the last squadron was along the side. Corporal Coupland said ordered to load all their weapons and “He stood his men at the salute and, as ammunition into one carrier, drive it up we drove past, he saluted us… crying.” Mont de Recollets, and told “You are to defend these pits and this position to Carmichael of RHQ found a deserted the last man and the last round.” headquarters which the previous occupants had left in a panic; May 28, Tuesday abandoning their portable wireless A continuous perimeter around and food stores. Thus the Regiment Dunkirk was being defended by a ring was provisioned for their next of six British divisions. An order was assignment. The Regiment took given for all the perimeter troops within up defensive positions at Mont de the line to retreat to Dunkirk, leaving Recollets with the Welsh Guards and rearguards outside the perimeter the Fife and Forfar Yeomanrys. The defending key areas such as Cassel. men dug in deeply since these places Hitler’s halt order was lifted and the were being heavily shelled. Dispatch German forces moved forward once rider Trooper Westlake had found two again. The Belgian Army surrendered. boxes of cigars while rummaging on the way. He provided comic relief as The ERY were dug in over ten miles Welsh Guards slogged up Mont de from the collapsing perimeter. The Recollets by passing out the cigars one land in between was in German hands. by one saying “Here you are lads, it’s The Welsh Guards had moved out the Christmas!” previous night, leaving many dead. Slit trenches had been dug for everyone They dug in with the town of Cassel and the trees were bristling with Bren in front of them. There was heavy guns. The troops got breakfast at rain and the troops were soaked RHQ with the rations plundered on through, their slit trenches filling with the way to Cassel. The sun came out water. German planes were machine- and spirits were raised. Trenches were

24 given names like ‘”Savoy”, “Dodos Den”, The rest of the ERY moved into Cassel and the “Orderly Room”. The Medical to form a strong point and were under Officer, Captain John Burns had set up heavy shelling. The ascent to Cassel was a Regimental Aid Post (RAP) called the surrounded by dead, heaped under “Guest House”. Things were quiet for a tarps. It had been raining hard again while. and the town was in ruins with fires burning in many of the houses. Their Two foot patrols were sent out to Commanding Officer and Carmichael reconnoiter the whereabouts of the found the 145th Brigade HQ in a deep enemy. Bonner’s patrol found some cellar in order to get the Regiment’s grizzly sights near a farmhouse and orders which were to take up positions troops who hadn’t eaten in two days. He on the ascent into Cassel. took nine of them into his command. The foot patrols returned with their Squadron B was under constant mortar findings in two retrieved carriers. fire. A clever Troop Sergeant saw that Bonner made sure his new troopers the Germans were using a systematic had a breakfast of bully beef, biscuits “mortar square” approach to their firing and tea. In his diary Bonner said “We and when his position had its turn, he were under shell-fire pretty frequently, told his men to follow him out on the and I would like to set down here that count just before their position was the men (all Territorials) behaved very blown to bits. well indeed.” May 29, Wednesday Good and bad news arrived that It had been a long night from every afternoon. First, the ERY were ordered human sense; noise, smoke, smells and to cover a position at Bergues which was very little food to taste. The Regimental far closer to the evacuation beaches, Diary said “the enemy appeared to be but that order was cancelled an hour surrounding the town of Cassel which later by an order to move into Cassel. continued to be heavily shelled and Squadron A was to hold its position mortared with uncanny accuracy.” The at Mont de Recollets and defend the men were soaked and standing in the main road. The Regiment came under trenches with water up to their ankles. the command of 145th Brigade while Second Lieutenant Dixon found a the rest of the 1st Armoured Division dump of food stuffs and they all gorged moved north to the beaches after themselves. dark. Moor’s Troop moved with them and was told to keep driving even if Two tank and dispatch rider Troops they met the enemy. He met up with were sent out to protect four anti-tank the Welsh Guards while waiting at the guns to be positioned at crossroads harbor pier and was evacuated. north of Cassel. This was intended to give the Regiment a clear road to evacuate to Dunkirk the following

25 day. Two of the anti-tank guns were When the message for reinforcement placed at the crossroads of Le Temple, reached RHQ, another tank group of but were given a hot time by snipers. three was sent out to cover the road Second Lieutenant Wilmot-Smith to Watou north of Winnezeele. They and his troop moved on to the next spotted a German column of tanks. The crossroads at Winnezeele. lead Yeomanry tank ended up stuck in a ditch blocking the other two. They Wilmot-Smith’s troop came upon were fired upon and unable to move. a German column consisting of The men were ordered to dismount, captured British and French vehicles immobilize their tanks and guns, and loaded with British prisoners-of-war. make their way back to Cassel on The troop dispatched the German foot. In the dark they nearly roused a escort and directed the liberated German bivouac, but got away. They prisoners to Cassel. After reaching slept a few hours in an empty hayloft. the Winnezeele crossroads, his troop This was the 8th and last rearguard made a reconnaissance tour meeting action for the East Riding Yeomanry. no opposition until nearly back to Winnezeele where they were fired Meanwhile at Cassel, the ERY had their upon from a German roadblock which “last meal prepared by the British Army” they cleared. The two other anti-tank according to Carmichael. “A great meal, guns were then moved to defend the in which the whole troop joined, and Winnezeele crossroads. gave us heart for any job the night might bring forth.” 145th Brigade Wilmot-Smith had just sent a rider started to pull out in early evening. back to Cassel to report the road and The ERY commenced its withdrawal village clear of enemy, when a German around midnight and was the last to crew setting up an anti-tank gun was leave Cassel. spotted. He ordered his tank to speed up and fire on them before they were May 30, Thursday prepared to fire back, but his tank’s gun The Regiment’s CO knew that wheeled jammed. His tank was hit twice and conveyances would be a hindrance with he ordered everyone to abandon. His so many abandoned vehicles on the driver had been killed by the first shot. roads, and ordered everyone to double He then sent a rider to report the loss up on carriers. All other vehicles were of the tank, the position of the enemy’s disabled and stores other than food anti-tank gun, and to ask for assistance. discarded. Rubble, burning buildings, He went on in his other tank to sneak shelling and mortar blasts made the up on the enemy battery that had descent off Cassel and Recollets slow taken out the first tank, but this tank and nerve wrecking. They traveled on was also hit. Wilmot-Smith was caught the roads cleared by Wilmot-Smith the and forced to surrender. previous day and moved at a walking pace in the darkness.

26 At dawn they reached Winnezeele and them and gave them blankets, which were approaching Droogland when was something of a paradox.” they were met with a nonstop anti- tank barrage supported by German The troop that had spent the night tanks. Two carrier troops went forward in the hay loft was unaware of the to see if they could push through and withdrawal from Cassel and started were destroyed. Dixon’s troop went back in that direction. They flagged a forward to reconnoiter, but became British lorry to hitch a ride, but found it separated from the main column and occupied by Germans. The enemy saw set out across country. Bonner’s carrier an easy target and set up a machine was hit, and he and the crew set out on gun when they spotted the British foot along ditches. They came across a soldiers. Those who were not casualties serviceable abandoned carrier which became prisoners. they adopted and were able to join up with Cockin’s troop near Watou. Dixon, As the day wore on, the remnants of Bonner and Cockin’s troops made a the ERY column came under increasing small column of their own, but lost pressure. Their CO gave the order “Every Bonner’s troop at a divergence of cart man for himself.” Some did make it to tracks. They reached the outskirts of the evacuation beaches. Many good Watou when the two lead tanks were hit men were killed by an unequaled force. by anti-tank fire. The men that survived The CO and most of the officers were the shelling rolled into a ditch where taken prisoner. The Medical Officer had they were taken prisoner by waiting set up his RAP at the Stone Gates on Germans. “What humiliation.” wrote the Droogland road and tended the Dixon. Bonner’s carrier, transporting wounded until overrun by the enemy. more than the usual crew, was hit and With many casualties and many taken they all dismounted to take to the prisoner, the Regiment ceased to be a ditches. After crossing a small stream, fighting force on May 30. they too came into enemy hands. 237 of the approximately 770 men of Mace wrote “Major Wade took all the the East Riding Yeomanry made it back fire himself so the others could escape to England. The rearguard action they on foot. After about two hours they provided did much to keep German walked straight into an ambush and troops occupied and was instrumental were taken prisoner. They were lined in helping the remainder of the BEF to up by the Germans and Trooper Unwin escape through Dunkirk. thought that they were going to be shot. The Germans shot at their feet In Britain, newspapers reported on May to give themselves some cold humor 24 that the nation should ‘prepare for at the expense of the exhausted and the worst’. The Luftwaffe had airfields defeated British soldiers. Then they fed 30 minutes from the English coast and Churchill expected parachute invasion

27 and glider borne troops at any moment. Doherty, Richard; The British Hitler announced that he would only Reconnaissance Corps in World accept capitulation from Britain. A War II (Osprey, 2007). National Day of Prayer for troops in peril Mace Paul; Forrard: The Story of the East was declared for May 26, as Operation Riding Yeomanry (Leo Cooper, 2001). Dynamo began to take troops off the Priestley, J B; All England Listened: beaches of Dunkirk (which fell on June The Wartime Postscripts of J. B. 4). 224,320 British soldiers returned Priestley (Random House, 1967). from the Nazi-occupied continent. US Army Combat Studies Institute; Those tattered soldiers began to Animated Map of World War II make their way home on buses, trains European Theater (power point and any transportation available. On presentation of the Axis occupation June 1 the first news to the public of Europe and North Africa from about the evacuation was broadcast 1938 to 1945), www.fortmissoula. on BBC radio. (Remember, the enemy org/docs/MapofWWII.pps. was listening too.) On June 5, in JB Priestley’s first Postscript broadcast, © Candace Anderson Fish he paralleled Britain’s courage with the story of the holiday steamers that Book Reviews helped to rescue the troops from the Dunkirk beaches and ferry them to Frank Bull Bridlington Pleasure Boats, waiting ships, all under constant fire from paddle steamer to theme boats; from above. American William Shirer 2010, 103pp, illustrated throughout, was in for CBS News and reported £9.95. ISBN 978 1 4457 2541 3. that Berliners were elated at a united Published by the author Europe under German leadership. On There were cargo passenger steamers July 10 the Battle of Britain began with operating along the east coast from the an air attack that lasted 114 days. The 1820s but those intended purely for RAF frustrated an invasion that waited pleasure purposes and working during to cross the Channel until Hitler turned the summer season did not appear till his attention to his Axis partner - the much later. In 1852 a steamer sailed Soviet Union. from Scarborough to Bridlington at the cost of 3s a head. Numbers of visitors Today the East Riding Yeomanry serves increased with the development of as Y Squadron of the Queen’s Own railways and as the century progressed Yeomanry and is based in York. many of the paddle tugs that had been converted for use as steam trawlers Further study: were employed to carry holiday makers. BBC History of World War II, In 1899 the tug Frenchman came up 12 Disc Video Set (2005). from Hull and established itself as a firm favourite. In her first season she made more than a hundred trips out

28 in the bay or to Flamborough. In 1913 in 1935 and Boys Own (at a cost of there were 6d trips to Flamborough £4650)in 1938 were both constructed and for the longer journey to at the Beverley by Cook, Welton and a shilling. At the outbreak of war she Gemmell. At the outbreak of the 1939- was requisitioned for military service 45 war pleasure-boating was banned but by 1919 was back in Bridlington and Boys Own and Yorkshire Belle were again and finally bowed out at the end taken to use as boom defence vessels of the 1927 season after 24 years as a and for coastal patrols. The harbour was pleasure craft. The first screw driven barricaded and flame thrower nozzles steamer was Girls Own in 1922, an open were installed to repel invaders; the boat, 60 feet long, with bench seating north and south piers were ‘mined’ and was followed by the May Morn in so that they could be destroyed to 1923. In 1928 the Frenchman of the hold back an enemy landing. The New United Towing Co was replaced by their Royal Sovereign was sunk by a bomb screw tug Yorkshireman, built at Earles from a Ju 88 in 1940 and the next year shipyard on the Humber. She was Yorkshire Belle was lost with all hands designed as a tug cruiser, specifically for near the Haile Sand Fort at the mouth Bridlington, with a shallow draught so of the Humber. as to be able to negotiate the notorious sandbar outside the harbour, as well Normal service resumed in 1946 and as being able to tow off vessels which even with food and fuel rationing stranded on the Humber’s constantly 12,000 people arrived in the resort on shifting sandbanks. This vessel was the August Bank holiday, during the probably the resort’s all time favourite Saturday alone. Boys Own was back vessel and carried tens of thousands newly refurbished at Beverley and of visitors in her long career. I went Yorkshireman returned the following aboard several times as a youngster year. In 1947 a new Yorkshire Belle in the 1950s and because of her flat joined the flotilla, also built by Cook bottom she tended to be pretty lively Welton and Gemmell. The 1950s were in the cross currents off Flamborough. in retrospect the peak of activity for Its probably the nearest I ever came to the pleasure steamers and until the being seasick! Postcards of this boat activity was banned in 1954 one of the and her predecessors remained on sale attractions was to watch the ‘climmers’ in the local shops till the 1960s. collecting Guillemot eggs on Bempton cliffs, some of the men even abseiling In 1936 there were seven boats taking down to the deck of the ships to make passengers and excursion trains during a sale to the visitors. Yorkshireman Whitsuntide that year brought 33,180 sailed her last season in 1955, twenty holdaymakers; in addition there were seven years after her first arrival. fleets of buses flooding into the town. Local shipyards supplied a number In the 1960s a decline set in with of other vessels, the Royal Jubilee several seasons of unreliable weather

29 and with cheaper air travel and the The author has done an excellent job increasing trend for package holidays of tracing the story of Bridlington’s overseas, as well as the popularity of pleasure boats, their progress and the holiday camp, there were fewer decline mirroring the rise and fall of the visitors and were day trippers or stayed town as a holiday destination. There for a weekend rather than by the week. are numerous illustrations throughout In 1960 there were only three motor the text and the appendixes give us powered vessels (plus the motor boat time lines for the various boats and Britannia), one of these the Boys Own summary descriptions and histories underwent a refit at Hepworths yard at of each craft. The whole is presented Paull on the Humber and was renamed in a well organised and thoroughly Flamborian. During 1972 she was put professional manner. on standby to replace the Humber ferry threatened with being laid up Arthur Credland, 2010 due to an anticipated shortage of coal as a result of a miners strike. Five Brian Graville The death of Captain years later, with the Gravill and his life as an Arctic whaler still under construction Yorkshire Belle Ptera Productions 2010. Paperback, was also a temporary stand-in for the 110pp ISBN 978-0-9866362-0-2. Humber crossing while the Farringford Available from Ptera Productions; was undergoing repairs. from Britain £8.95 plus £4.50, order via [email protected] In 1987 the British Queen as was sold payments handled through PayPal. leaving only the Flamborian and The story of Capt John Gravill who Yorkshire Belle but the so-called ‘puffin died aboard the Hull whaler Diana, 26 cruises’ to see the birds on Bempton December 1866, while marooned in cliff remained as popular as ever. the Arctic. There are several surviving Flamborian was sold in 1998 leaving branches of the Gravill family, many of just the Yorkshire Belle which in 2007 whom over the years have contacted celebrated sixty years cruising. the , some of whom have given important relics and Though now only one of the larger documents of Gravill and the Diana. boats survives there are numbers of The author is a descendant of a cousin cobles and small boats which take of the whaling master’s whose family anglers out for sea-fishing, power boats adopted the variant spelling with the (which made their first appearance terminal ‘e’. so early as 1929) and the most recent innovation is the theme boat and The Gravill’s are particularly associated currently Bridlington has a ‘pirate ship’, with Epworth, Lincs, the home of motorised of course, the three masts the Wesleys, which is were John’s are not functional and another dressed father William was born and took as up as a shark, advertised as ‘Jaws’! wife Ann Webster of Gainsborough.

30 Although John in his adult life gave steamers built for the Dundee fleet. Gainsborough as his birthplace, and His son John Gravill Jnr was mate in indeed it was where he was baptised 1853 and William Barron the following in 1804 at almost two years old and season. John Gravill Jnr was born in where he grew up, he was probably 1831, apprenticed to a Liverpool vessel born in Epworth or at Ouston one of in 1846 and took his first command in the smaller villages nearby. The father 1855 in Peterhead. He was master of was apparently an agricultural labourer the Sarah and Elizabeth in 1856 which but John was apprenticed with the in the next season was wrecked in the Gainsborough oil and seed dealers who ice, he and his crew being rescued by owned several whaleships operating his father in the Diana. The young man out of Hull and by 1827 he was chief himself commanded the Diana 1858- mate of the Harmony. He experienced 60 and after a stint in Scotland took the harsh conditions of the Actic when charge of the Emma, lost at the fishery beset in 1835 and his vessel did not in 1864. His last voyage was in 1881 reach home till December that year. and he died aged 51 the following year. There followed years of decline in the fishery and Gravill went into general The body of his father was brought back trade and in 1840 the 94 ton Thetis to Hull after the Diana was released became his first command, sailing her from the ice by the spring thaw in 1867 to Spain and the Baltic and he also and the streets of Hull were lined with sailed further afield to South Africa. thousands of people to witness the last journey of this veteran of the whaling As the Arctic whaling slowly revived trade. The death of this well respected he took command of the William Ward veteran, aged 64, also marked the which after several successful voyages virtual end of the English whaling in 1849 was stove in the ice and after six trade in the Arctic and two years later days of pumping they were rescued by the Diana, the only Hull vessel in the the Fairy of Dundee and the Hull vessel fishery that year was wrecked on the was abandoned to . As master Lincolnshire coast, homeward bound. of the Abram he was involved in the search for Franklin but found no trace This is very readable account of the of the missing explorer and arrived life of the doyen of the local whaling back in Hull during the great cholera trade in its last years. It is a worthwhile epidemic, which led to over 2000 addition to our library of the Hull fishery, deaths in the town. He commanded based on the journal of Surgeon Smith the Diana in 1857, newly fitted with of the Diana, original documents, and a steam engine, of 40 hp, and later contemporary newspaper reports commanded the steam whaler Chase and pamphlets in the Hull Maritime lost in 1860 in Ponds Bay. From 1862-4 Museum and the city archives. he sailed out of Scotland as master of the Polynia one of the fine purpose built Arthur G. Credland

31 Patricia Spencer-Silver George Myers – the buildings of this great architect of Pugin’s builder Gracewing, 2 Southern the Gothic revival. Avenue, Leominster, Herefordshire HR6 OQF, 2010, 2nd revised edition, Myers like Pugin was a Catholic and illustrated throughout, 297 pp. ISBN after the Catholic Emancipation Act 978 085244 184 8; price £20. of 1829, he played a key part in the This is an expanded revised version construction of the new churches of the work first published by the Hull needed by congregations, boosted by University Press in 1993 and records migration and the industrialisation of the astonishingly productive life of our cities, which could now worship George Myers. Born in Chariot street, openly and freely. In his career he built Hull, in 1803 son of a whitesmith he or restored more than 90 churches was apprenticed to William Comins, (and a synagogue) including those master mason at Beverley Minster. He commissioned for Anglican and non- married in 1829 and entered into a conformist communities. A notable partnership with Richard Wilson as a example of the latter, in his home town building contractor and was involved of Hull, was the Great Thornton street in a number of housing developments chapel, designed in classical style, by in the city but his most prestigious Lockwood and Allom, a contrast with local project was the building of the the Gothic designs of Pugin. Wilberforce monument in 1834. He had learned that building a concrete From 1842 he established himself foundation was not the best method in London and terminated his on the clay substrate and the column partnership with Wilson. At Ordnance was erected on 20ft wooden piles. Wharf on the south Thames side, near Westminster Bridge, he established He first worked with A W N Pugin, in his workshops employing a hundred the construction of St Mary’s catholic or more craftsmen masons, carvers, church, Derby, and the two became blacksmiths etc, a site complete with long term friends and collaborators a steam engine to provide power, . Pugin who was always so busy and including no doubt for the machine he frequently ill, knew he could rely on had patented for cutting stone. Myers to deliver a sound construction with well executed decoration without His work included house interiors, like the need for him to draw a huge Lismore Castle in Ireland, for the Duke number of detailed drawings. Over of Devonshire, and new constructions the years the two worked together on like Mentmore the huge pile built at least 55 contracts and it would be for Baron Mayer de Rothschild. true to say that the quality of Myers Government projects included military designs and the excellent craftsmen hospitals at Netley, on Southampton he employed are essential to success of water, and Woolwich, as well as Aldershot army camp, and the Royal

32 Military Academy, Sandhurst. He was Bindery, located within the Heritage also the principal contractor for the Centre, any week day between 8.30 am Middlesex County Asylum (later Friern and 11.30 am. Barnet Hospital), Bracebridge Asylum, Lincs, as well as Broadmoor Asylum for The second, and final (?) volume in the the criminally insane. Hull Then & Now series is the same high quality as the first with an exceptionally At the age of 70, in 1873, Myers retired high standard of printing, in full colour; and in a state of exhaustion died in it would not have been surprising to January 1875. His sons had continued see this retail at £25 and the £16 cover the business immediately after he price is a bargain. The illustrations, over bowed out but in 1876 the firm Messrs 300 of them, are again mainly from Myers & Son had ceased to exist. Paul Gibson’s collection or Hull History Centre and many are published here This is a story well told and for the first time. demonstrates the huge importance of skilled building contractors in realising The author this time takes us on a sort of the designs of great architects. Sadly circular tour of Hull’s outskirts starting the personal correspondence between in the Avenues and progressing to St Myers and Pugin has not survived John’s Wood, Newland, , except for a few brief notes. The book Lowgate / Market Place and ending concludes with a list of the contracts in Myton. However, perhaps the most that have been identified as being useful part of the book, to those of undertaken by Myers and a list of the us who like reading essays, is the architects, over a hundred, with whom introduction, which although untitled he worked. is a study of J H Hirst, Hull’s first City Architect. As Geoff Bell says in the Arthur G Credland preface, ‘hopefully more might come of this study at a later date’. Paul Gibson Hull Then & Now 2: Another look at Hull’s heritage, As with all of Paul Gibson’s books the Carnegie Heritage Centre Ltd, 2010 captions are intelligently written and £16 plus £4.00 postage to UK, £6.00 contain much that is new. Its impossible for Europe and £10.50 for the rest of to pick favourites from this collection the world. To order your copy either but there are a couple of photographs use Paypal, send an e-mail (www. of the Polo Club in the Avenues, which is carnegiehull.co.uk) or telephone now under the streets off Chanterlands 01482-561216. Books can be collected Avenue but commemorated by Polo from the Heritage Centre on Monday Villas off Perth Street West. There is also afternoons 1.30 until 3.30 and from a nice series illustrating the Gardeners’ 9.30 until 3.30 on Tuesdays and Fridays. Arms, Cottingham Road, showing its They can also be collected from The progression from a market gardener’s

33 house to the modern pub. The Cattle structure dates from 1864. Radio Mast Market in Edward’s Place (now Kingston Field contains the masts for Radio Retail park), which held its last market but previously the field in 1989, has a series of three photos was the base of the East Riding of showing it in its heyday. A nice touch Yorkshire Artillery Volunteers for their on the modern photographs of shops summer camp. High Paull House is is to have the proprietor stand at the mentioned although it was demolished entrance, as they always did on period in the 1960s; originally build for postcards. Benjamin Blaydes it was later occupied by Anthony Bannister. Mr Cross points Hull Then & Now 2 is destined to out that originally the village consisted become as useful a reference book as only of the main street and that the the first, as well as making an ideal gift. houses down back lane and on Paghill The proceeds will go to the upkeep of Estate date from the 1950s. Along the the Carnegie Heritage Centre. road towards are some wooden huts, the remnants of a Second World Robert Barnard War military camp. Among the many other places of interest mentioned Paul Cross Paull Heritage Trail, 2010, on the trail are Hepworth’s Shipyard; Highgate Print Ltd. Available from Pier House and jetty; Humber tavern Paul Cross, 58 Beverley Road, South and sea bathing; Crown Inn and the Cave, HU15 2BB - £2.50 (plus 32p Workhouse; lighthouse and coastguard postage) and from Paull Church (open station and the Thorngumbald Clough Sunday Afternoons 2-4pm) lighthouses. The walk finishes by mentioning Paull Holme tower and This 28 page booklet is produced by Paull Airfield, from where Humber the Parochial Church Council of St Airways operated mainly flights Andrew’s Church and appropriately to London but also to Europe and the circular walk starts there. Along the Scandinavia in the early 1970s. route are ten new marker posts that contain brass rubbings designed by Mr Cross has produced a good the children of Paull School. The trail summary of Paull’s history and the should also be available in local pubs walk could easily last a couple of hours and there are also audio versions for as it covers both the village and the hire. wetlands beside the River Humber. There is also a free leaflet giving an From the church the walk moves on outline of the trail, without the history, to the Cuthbert Brodrick designed available. vicarage and the problems of maintaining it. Paull Fort is next on the Robert Barnard list; there has been a battery at Paull since Henry VIII’s time but the present

34 Gordon Bell and Arthur Credland £9.95. ISBN 978 1 4457 2541 3. Victorian Ships: John Ward’s Marine Published by the author Manual, Blackthorne Press, 2010, Memories of Spurn in the 1880s by ISBN 9781906259143 £14-95 George A Jarratt. Revised edition by Mike Welton, Spurn, Kilnsea and In the 1840s John Ward started to Easington Area Local Studies Group, produce lithographs with the aim of 2010. Available from South Holderness producing a Manual of Marine Painting shops, £5, or £6 by post from Mike ‘expressly executed as a work of Welton, 01964 650265, mikewelton@ information and instruction ... forming lineone.net a Guide to Drawing for the purpose of Painting and the marine Profession Paul Cross Paull Heritage Trail, 2010, generally’. Unfortunately Ward did not Highgate Print Ltd. live to complete this project although two parts were prepared. Hull Maritime Patricia Deans and Margaret Sumner Museum holds the bulk of Ward’s Beverley Through time Amberley surviving lithographs and this book Publishing £14.99 is an attempt to portray the Marine Manual as it might have looked. Ward Patricia Spencer-Silver George Myers produce the lithographs himself and – Pugin’s builder Gracewing, 2010, 2nd most were printed to a high standard revised edition, illustrated throughout, by Monkman of York. 297 pp. ISBN 978 085244 184 8; price £20. There are also chapters on the background to Ward’s inspiration Ronald Berry - Hull’s Spitfire Ace Don and opportunity to become an Chester £8.50 (01482 634136; email eminent artist; his sources of support [email protected]) and influence and his exploration of printmaking; reflections of the Brian Graville The death of Captain personality of Ward and a useful Gravill and his life as an Arctic whaler catalogue of Ward’s lithographs and Ptera Productions 2010. Paperback, associated studies in the Hull Maritime 110pp ISBN 978-0-9866362-0-2. Museum. Early Tudor Yorkshire by John Rushton. Robert Barnard 358 pages. Paperback. Blackthorn Press. Photographs and maps. ISBN 9781906259211 £14-95 New Publications Victorian Ships by Gordon Bell Frank Bull Bridlington Pleasure Boats, and Arthur Credland. 221 pages. from paddle steamer to theme boats; Photographs and line drawings. 2010, 103pp, illustrated throughout,

35 Blackthorn Press. Paperback. ISBN The History Centre houses collections 9781906259143 £14-95 from the former Hull City Archives, Hull Local Studies Library and the The Yorkshire Mary Rose by Stephen archives. It opened Baines. Photographs and drawings. to the public on 25 January 2010 and 175 pages. Blackthorn Press. ISBN further information can be found at 9781906259204 £14-95 www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk. The Tuesday lunchtime talks formerly held in the Central Library have already Regional News transferred to the History Centre, programme details, when available, Based in Hull it is not always easy to from David Smith, David.Smith@hullcc. keep track of events in other parts of gov.uk the Riding; news that members could contribute on their town or village Carnegie Heritage Centre should be sent to the editor. The Carnegie Heritage Action Team was formed in June 2006 with the Beverley sole aim of rescuing the building from Every Friday 10am – 4pm - Beverley further decline, and to preserve the Guildhall Community Museum, unique space as a local history and Register Square, Beverley open free of family history resource centre. charge. Every day – The Treasure House, The centre received an early boost Champney Road, Beverley open - when the East Yorkshire Family History combining East Riding Archives, Society agreed to base their operations Beverley Local Studies Library & ERYC from Carnegie, and they now store Museum displays - ‘The Treasures of the their resources and stock within the East Riding’ exhibition in Gallery One building. They also hold their monthly and a frequently changing temporary meetings at the centre on the third exhibition. Tuesday of most months, when everyone is welcome to attend. Hedon www.eyfhs.org.uk Hedon Museum: The Hedon Room – Hedon Museum, behind the Town Hall, Following the closure of the council St Augustine`s Gate, Hedon (10am – bindery on Chanterlands Avenue, two 4pm Weds. and Sats. only) of the former staff set up a bindery Tel (01482) 890908 for further details of business of their own, and we were current exhibitions pleased to offer them a home within our centre. The Bindery is open five Hull days a week from 8.30 am until 11.30 History Centre am. The Bindery is not open in the afternoons.

36 www.haveitbound.com Resource Centre, the Old School, Church Street, Sutton 10am – 2pm The Carnegie also have a stock of local Sutton Exhibition Room and Resource books for sale on behalf local book Centre open every Friday from 10am dealer Alex Alec-Smith. Alex has been until 2pm. Admission free. Coffee and a long-standing supporter of our biscuits 50p. centre and we are happy to have found her space within the centre for her purpose-built bookcase. Local History www.alexalec-smithbooks.co.uk Meetings & Events Hull & District Local History Research Group 28 July - 8 September 2010 - Hedon The Group meets weekly on Thursdays Museum - Fantasia Miniatures 10am-12noon. Contact the secretary, Margaret Justice, 4 Harbour Way, Hull, Tue 10 August 2010 - Lunchtime Club HU9 1PL 07760 165364, mej4@hotmail. - Winifred Holtby: Writing the East co.uk or the chair, David Sherwood, Riding Between the Wars by Lisa Regan 9 Simson Court, Beverley HU17 9ED - Hull History Centre, 12.30pm mob. 07799 357262 for information of meetings, visits and local history walks. 19 August 2010 - Hessle Local History www.hulllocalhistory.org.uk Society - Bridgemaster (Humber Bridge) The latest edition of Hull & District - Peter Hill - Hessle Town Hall, 7.15pm. Local History Group’s journal The Local is now available from Carnegie History 21 August - 16 October 2010 - Treasure Centre or by contacting HDLHRG@ House, Beverley, Gallery Two - A Life googlemail.com or Tel: 07902008367 of beauty, Books and Bulleys! John E £1.50 (plus 80p p&p). Local articles by Champney an Edwardian Collector and local writers. Benefactor

Skidby Wednesday 1 September 2010 - Every day 10am – 5pm - Skidby Howden Civic Society - From Stable Boy Windmill and Museum of East Riding to Baron - following recent research at Rural Life, Skidby open each day 10am- home and abroad, we commemorate 5pm – admission adults £1.50, children the bicentenary of Howden’s famous 50p, OAPS 80p migrant, Baron Thomas Ward 1810- 1858. Masonic hall, 7.30pm. Sutton Every Friday 10am – 2pm – The Sutton Sunday 5 September 2010 • Carnegie Exhibition Room and Resource Heritage Centre - Madam Clapham Centre - History of Sutton village • with Susan Capes, 1.30pm. £1 is exhibition – Sutton C of E Educational

37 requested towards refreshments and Stadium and the University of Hull’s Art room costs. Collection. 2009 saw the event feature some tours 6 September 2010 - British Association and talks about the city’s heritage. This for Local History - guided visit - has been expanded this year so that Hereford, Cathedral Library and across the 4 days visitors and residents Woolhope Naturalist Field Club. will be able to experience free tours Booking forms and details available around Victoria Dock, the Old Town, from BALH website or BALH(V) PO Box the Marina areas, Sutton Village, plus 6549, Somersal Herbert, Ashbourne, themed talks will cover Hull’s city centre DE6 5WH architecture and even the oddities of the Old Town’s street furniture! You 7 September 2010 - Treasure House, will also be able to see the city from Beverley - Using the internet for Family a different angle with our Guided Bus History - a beginner’s guide - 5.30- Tours of the city leaving Trinity Square 7.30pm, £5, booking essential at regular intervals on Saturday 11th September. 9th September 2010 - We’re privileged this year to have some And District Local History Group - Tour excellent speakers who will be giving of Memorials at All Saints Church us their accumulated knowledge on Pocklington, Pocklington Church at aspects of Hull. Dr David Neave will 7pm be introducing his new edition of Pevsner’s Guide to Hull, Paul Morfitt Thursday 9 - Sunday 12 September talks about Hull’s trams and buses, 2010 - Heritage Open Days - Hull Civic Geoff Lawes will be telling us how Society, organisers of Heritage Open volunteers from Hull went to fight in the Days in Hull, are promising a bigger Spanish Civil War, while ex-seamen Ken and better event than ever this year. Knox and Alan Hopper will be looking Many of the traditionally popular at aspects of Hull’s fishing heritage. Up buildings including St Charles at Sutton, Merrill Rhodes will be giving Borromeo RC Church, Holy Trinity an illuminating talk on pre WWII village Church, Trinity House Chapel, life with the help of previously unseen Charterhouse, will all glass plate images of Sutton. be opening their doors again, plus In short, 2010’s event will be all about we are also able to feature some new putting the city’s heritage in the buildings such as Sutton Methodist spotlight. Church. The range of buildings will also be increased through numerous 11 September - 6 October 2010 - Hedon guided tours, including City Hall, The Museum - Kingston Lapidary Society Guildhall, , Northern Academy of Performing Arts, The KC 11th/12th September 2010 - Pocklington And District Local History

38 Group - Exhibition in the Church for the to near dereliction and its rebirth by heritage weekend. Doug Smelt - Hull History Centre, 12.30pm Tue 14 September 2010 - Lunchtime Club - 6KH, the BBC Hull Relay Station Thursday, 14th October 2010 - by Peter Lord - Hull History Centre, Pocklington And District Local History 12.30pm Group - “Pocklington in World War 2” by Jim and Margaret Ainscough. Jim and 14 September 2010 - Hedon and District Margaret will be giving a talk on the Local History Society - A load of old research leading up to the publication Bollards - Chris Mead. Church Room, of his book on the subject. The Old Magdalen Gate, 7.30pm. Court House, George Street. 7.30pm. Admission £2.00 16 September 2010 - Hessle Local History Society - Walking the Beat - 21 October 2010 - Hessle Local History Gordon Acaster - Hessle Town Hall, Society - Out of the Blue - Martin Craven 7.15pm. - Hessle Town Hall, 7.15pm.

2 October 2010 - Georgian Society for Saturday 23 October 2010 - Local East Yorkshire - coach trip to Kilbrn History Book Fair 10.00am - 4.00pm in Mouseman Visitor Centre and Thorpe the Treasure House, Beverley. (Please Perrow Arboretum - coach £13, note new venue.) admissions £10. Contact Mrs O Hirst, 65 Birklands Drive, Hull, HU8 0LN 6 November 2010 - British Association for Local History - conference - Hull 2 October 2010 - British Association History Centre. For details please see for Local History - guided visit - Whitby inserted booking form. Museum, Library and Archive and Captain Cook Memorial. Booking 9 November 2010 - Hedon and District forms and details available from BALH Local History Society - Heritage Paull - website or BALH(V) PO Box 6549, Paul Cross. Church Room, Magdalen Somersal Herbert, Ashbourne, DE6 Gate, 7.30pm. 5WH Tue 9 November 2010 - Lunchtime Club Sunday 3 October 2010 • Carnegie - Saving a century: How the Victorian Heritage Centre - The Anlaby Park Society helped us love Victorian Estate • with Chris Mead, 1.30pm. £1 architecture by Dr. Ian Dungavell - Hull is requested towards refreshments and History Centre, 12.30pm room costs. Tue 14 December 2010 Lunchtime Club - Tue 12 October 2010 - Lunchtime Club - Hull Civic Society by John Netherwood The Western Synagogue, from creation - Hull History Centre, 12.30pm

39 11 January 2011 - Hedon and District Local History Society - Church room, 7.30 pm - Dr Martin Craven - ‘Down with the Establishment!’

8 February 2011 - Hedon and District Local History Society - Church room , 7.30 pm - Mr Harry Buck - Martinmas hirings

8 March 2011 - Hedon and District Local History Society - 7.30 pm Presidential evening in the Town Hall Hedon - Dr John Markham - A Victorian whodunnit

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