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News from the Society News from the Society Programme Max no. 25 (Fully booked this year but possibility As usual, the Society has arranged a full of another visit next year) programme of lectures and excursions for 2012. Please support the events Saturday 3rd October 2015 and bring along your friends. Please do Mark Kirby Hall (adjacent to the St not hesitate to ask for lifts; you will be Mary’s Parish Churchyard on the south expected to contribute to petrol. side of the church and accessible via Arlington Avenue, Hallgate or through PLEASE NOTE: Please make all the churchyard from Hallgate at the cheques payable to the East Yorkshire west end of the church) Local History Society. All cheques and 2.15pm booking slips should be sent to the ‘Mark Kirby and His Legacy: 300 years Programme Co-ordinator. of the Mark Kirby Trust’. Presentation by Elaine Moll Programme Co-ordinator: Cost £5.50 per person (includes tea/ Pamela J Martin (Tel no 01482 442221; coffee)**Own transport e-mail [email protected]) Saturday 17th October 2015 Thursday 3rd September2015 Peter Harrison Room, Beverley Minster, Aldby Park is situated in the village of Minster Yard North, HU17 ODP Buttercrambe near Stamford Bridge. Study Day The present house was built in 1726 ‘Archaeological Studies in and around and is the family home of the Mr & Mrs East Yorkshire’ George Winn-Darley. The Darley family 10am – 4.30pm approx.10.00am – has occupied this listed Georgian house 10.05am Welcome from the time it was built to date, with 10.05am – 11.15am the exception of the Second World War Rodney Mackey years when it was requisitioned by ‘Archaeological Evidence for the the Army and in the subsequent years Changing Setting of Beverley Minster’ when it was being restored (1961). 11.15am – 11.35am The former Tudor house was replaced Coffee Break by the current residence and the site 11.35am – 12.45pm has early links with a Saxon Palace and Dr Peter Halkon with early Christianity….. ‘The Parisi – Britons and Romans in Mr & Mrs Winn-Darley will provide a Eastern Yorkshire’ guided tour of the house followed by 12.45pm – 13.45pm tea. Lunch Break 2:00pm 13.45pm – 14.55pm Cost: £7 Ed Dennison 1 ‘Not all Archaeology is below ground If you pay by standing order and have - Recent Building Recording in East not yet amended it for the new rates Yorkshire’ please do so. 14.55pm – 15.15pm Coffee Break Review of EYLHS Events 15.15pm – 16.25pm Dr Dave Evans Visit to Kirkbymoorside and Ryedale ‘Wealth and Poverty in Hull from c 1300 Folk Museum (Hutton-Le-Hole) to c 1700: an archaeological view of Friday 19th June lifestyles’ 16.25pm – 16.30pm My car ‘exploded’ a few days before this Closing RemarksCost £25 per person trip so I was glad to take advantage (includes buffet lunch and morning of the ‘ask for a lift’ scheme the EYLHS and afternoon refreshments) has in place. This was a great help as Max. No. 40 otherwise myself and my guest would have been unable to go on what Participation in events proved an excellent day out. As reported in previous years, it has not been possible to arrange group Picked up by our cheerful car drivers, insurance for events. We therefore we set off from Beverley on a grey and strongly recommend that members unpromising day. Time soon passed and their friends take out personal with interesting conversation, and we accident/loss insurance, or include arrived just in time for the start of the this in their households policies. We guided walking tour of Kirkbymoorside. would also stress the need for suitable In grey but nevertheless (just!) fine clothing - in particular, sturdy footwear weather we spent about two hours and waterproofs - for outdoor events. walking around this market town, so rich in history. Our guide had lived in Please note Kirkbymoorside since the 1970s and There is usually a waiting list for most was familiar with all its nooks and of the Society’s events. If you book an crannies. He was so knowledgeable event and then find you cannot attend, and confident that, when I asked him please inform the Secretary. Please do how often he had led this tour, I was not transfer your booking to a relative surprised to hear that this was his first or friend without first consulting the time! One would never have guessed Secretary, whose telephone number that. Quite rightly, given the level can be found on the inside of this of interest shown by the group, he newsletter. Thank you. overran the allocated time. Subscriptions The tour had given us the opportunity Rates are £15 for individual membership to look out for good places for lunch. and £20 family / institutions / overseas. Six of us turned the corner at the end 2 of the walk to eat at a small cafe run A charming walk through the 150 acres by mother and daughter who were of grounds, alongside the lake with indefatigable in cooking and service. considerable numbers of waterfowl, We all ordered hot food – showing how takes one to the ruins of a once grand chilly and inhospitable the weather country house. Portions of the abbey was; hard to imagine that in a couple acquired by the Earl of Shrewsbury of weeks we would be enjoying a heat after the 16th century Dissolution of wave. Comfortable full after (variously) the monasteries were demolished and soup, beef sandwich, all-day breakfast the remainder turned into a handsome and apple and blackberry crumble, residence. This was further enlarged we made the short car journey to the and developed in the 18th century but Ryedale Folk Museum. after occupation by the armed forces in the war and the family’s decision to This was a new venue to me. I make their primary base in Yorkshire expected rooms full of objects – such it was put up for sale by Baron Savile. as ploughs and tools used in the rural Bought by Nottinghamshire County North Yorkshire landscape. In fact the Council in 1952 the north and west experience was very different as this is wings were demolished leaving only an open air museum in which buildings the mere shell of the main house, have been recreated, to recapture the sitting on its mediaeval foundations. ‘feel’ of living in an agrarian landscape. There is a vaulted cellarium and the Houses (for rich and poor), barns, a former monastic dorter was turned blacksmith’s forge, a chemist’s shop, a into the kitchens. general store – even a photographer’s studio - could all be found. The The pumping station an austerely improving weather meant we could handsome brick building was built stroll in a relaxed way between these 1881-1884 by Nottingham Corporation attractions and even enjoy some Water Department to drive the flow sunshine. of drinking water into the expanding city. Decommissioned in 1969 a So, this was another engrossing EYLHS conservation trust was established excursion – with the usual thanks to five years later which has brought the Pam for her careful planning and to our beam engines into working order and hosts and guides for their enthusiasm demonstrated in steam several times and preparedness to share their a year. The frames of the two Watt knowledge. rotative beam engines, made by James Watt & Co of Soho, Birmingham, are Roger Lewis supported by square section columns with a fret work of cast iron decorated Visit to Rufford Abbey and Papplewick with birds and fish. The windows are Pumping Station, Nottinghamshire; filled with stained glass depicting a Wednesday 15 July 2015 variety of flowering plants, and ones 3 nostrils are filled with the authentic for the first time. The following is our smell of lubricating oil. The whole shared history with these English building is lovingly cared for by a band Knowltons up to the 1630s when the of enthusiasts who have also overseen Knowlton family tree extended some the erection on the site of a colliery of its branches to America. winding engine and a triple expansion steam engine. The Knowlton name is believed to date from the time of William the Conqueror. Arthur G Credland A man who lived on a knoll was given his spurs and put in charge of a ton or hundred men who could be called The Knowltons of to arms - hence, the name Knowlton. There is a manor village called Eighteenth Century Knowlton east of Canterbury where the name became known. Thomas Londesborough Knowlton of Londesborough liked to speak of an ancestor who protected a The Knowlton’s of Londesborough are castle in Kent for an earl of Warwick, ancient cousins of my mother, Marjorie likely before or during the Wars of the Knowlton Anderson (1928-2014). They Roses when castles were still in vogue captured my imagination in 1995 when as defensive establishments. This Mom and I visited Londesborough ancestor wore his rank at all times by Conjectural sketch of Burlington House at Londesborough by Temple Moore, circa 1900 (East Riding Ar- chives Service, Beverley). 4 being in court regalia no matter what occupied him. His constant state of preparedness may indicate that one of his duties was to convey messages to the monarch. The name shows up in public records on the path between Canterbury and London during the early sixteenth century. Around 1634 Captain William Knowlton waved goodbye to his British cousins and sailed to America. He left England without recording a promise of loyalty to Charles I, which means he and his passengers left the country illegally. Part of the “self-conceited brethren” described in the King James Bible, the Captain may have had a dream common to the time to start a spiritually ideal life his own academic development and with his friends and family in the New navigate successfully in a world of World, a Puritan belief that an ideal emerging scientific specialties.
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