EAST YORKSHIRE LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 16 WINTER/SPRING 2007 4. WEDNESDAY EVENING 23 MAY NEWS FROM THE 2007 Venue: St. James’ Church, Warter. SOCIETY Topic: The restored church. This will be followed by a short walk. There will be refreshments. PROGRAMME 2007 Speaker: Dr David Neave Time: 7:15pm As usual, the Society has arranged a full Cost: £3. programme of lectures and excursions for 2007. Please support the events and bring 5. SATURDAY 2 JUNE 2007 along your friends. Please do not hesitate to Venue: Blaydes House, High St, Hull ask for lifts; you will be expected to contribute Topic: The Scots Society of St Andrew (Hull) to petrol. and Scottish migration Speaker: Dr Angela McCarthy PLEASE NOTE: Please make all cheques Time: 2:00pm payable to the East Yorkshire Local History Cost: £4 Society. All cheques and booking slips (which Maximum number 30. are on a separate insert with this newsletter should be sent to the relevant named 6. WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE 2007 individual at the address on the booking form. Venue: Full day coach trip to Northallerton. The town has an interesting market (Weds/ Sats) and very interesting buildings and shops. You 1. SATURDAY 31 MARCH 2007 will have time to yourself, own arrangements at Venue: The Library, King St., Bridlington lunchtime, and an afternoon guided walk with Topic: AGM and illustrated talk, Through the Mrs Jennifer Allison. East Riding in the steps of Queen Henrietta Pick-ups approx. Maria. HULL Ferensway 8:15am Speaker: Mike Sewell WILLERBY SQUARE 8:40am Time: 2:00pm COTTINGHAM GREEN 9:00am Cost: £2 BEVERLEY Norwood 9:20am Cost: £12. 2. FRIDAY EVENING 11 MAY 2007 Venue: Saltmarshe Hall 7. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON 20 Topic: A guided tour of house and garden JUNE 2007 with Mrs Sally Bean. This will include light Venue: Cottingham Green. refreshments. The fee will be divided between Topic: A walk around Cottingham featuring MacMillan Nurses and Marie Curie Nurses. merchant’s houses. Time: 7:15pm Speaker: Pat Elliott Cost: £8 Time: 2:15pm Cost: £1.50 3. SATURDAY 12 MAY 2007 Maximum number 25. Venue: Peter Harrison Room, Minster Schoolroom, Beverley. 8. FRIDAY 13 JULY 2007 Topic: Early life and settlements in the Venue: Reedness Hall and Adlingfleet church Lincolnshire Marshes. Topic: Guided tours of hall and church Speaker: Helen Fenwick of Hull University. Leaders: Pam Martin and Geoff Bell Time: 2:15pm Time: 7:15pm Cost: £2:50. Cost: £4 Maximum number 40. 1 9. SATURDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2007 REVIEW OF EYLHS SUM- Venue: Peter Harrison Room, Minster Schoolroom, Beverley MER EVENTS Topic: The history of the Humber Pilots Speaker: Captain John Simpson Heslington on 14 September Time: 2:15pm Cost: £2.50. 2006 The Heslington meeting was a fascinating com- 10. SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER 2007 bination of a guided tour of the very up to date Venue: WISE (Wilberforce Institute for the Borthwick Institute for Archives and a stroll Study of Slavery and Emancipation), High St, through the past history of the hall and village. I am sure it was enjoyed by all who attended. I Hull found the meeting of particular interest as some- Topic: William Wilberforce and the end of the one who had used the Borthwick Institute in its Slave Trade old accommodation in the centre of York and Speaker: Professor Richardson of Hull also one who had spent a year of my national University service at Heslington Hall when it was an R.A.F. Time: 2:00pm H.Q. in the 1950s. Cost: £4 including light refreshments Maximum number 35. The morning was spent at the Institute, one half of the time studying old documents relating to PARTICIPATION IN EVENTS Heslington and the hall and the other half being impressed with the well planned hi-tech meth- ods of preservation and care of the documents As reported in previous years, it has not been enthusiastically explained by the archivist Chris possible to arrange group insurance for events. Webb. These methods included such things as We therefore strongly recommend that rooms with specially controlled atmospheres members and their friends take out personal and specially designed tables for maps and for accident/loss insurance, or include this in their use by wheelchair users. households policies. We would also stress the need for suitable clothing - in particular, sturdy footware and waterproofs - for outdoor events. PLEASE NOTE There is usually a waiting list for most of the Society’s events. If you book an event and then find you cannot attend, please inform the Secretary. Please do not transfer your booking to a relative or friend without first consulting the Secretary, whose telephone number can be View of the rear garden from the top floor of found at the end of this newsletter. Thank you. Heslington Hall 1952. The afternoon session was an interesting and informative tour of the hall and grounds and of SUBSCRIPTIONS 2007 the village led by Professor Edward Royle who had previously guided us through the Heslington Just to remind you that all subscriptions fall due documents in the morning session. Nearly every for renewal on 1 January 2007. Rates remain public building in the village had connections unchanged at £10.00 for individuals and £12.50 with the Yarburgh family. I personally found the for UK family and all overseas membership. hall much smarter than it was under the old Unless already paid, or arranged by banker’s R.A.F. occupation and was particularly pleased to find that a photograph I had then taken of the order, please mail remittances as soon as topiary behind the hall was now of historic inter- possible to the Membership Secretary at 5 John est, as the original central path leading to the old Gray Court, Main Street, Willerby, E. Yorks., Tudor front entrance of the hall (placed at the far HU10 6XZ side of the garden in the 1850s) has now been obscured by the growth of the yew bushes and 2 a more recent garden wall. On the other hand it from 9:30am to 8:00pm and on Saturdays from did bring home how long ago the photo was 9:00am to 4:0pm. For details call (01482) taken, especially on the day I had seen the 392790 or e-mail futuristic new Borthwick Institute! [email protected]. Brian Nattriss Bridlington Nick Laister is in the process of completing a book about amusement arcades in Bridlington entitled Pennies by the Sea and is seeking RESEARCH IN photographs of Promenade/Esplanade, the lo- PROGRESS/ SOCIETIES` cation of Joyland, around which the book cen- tres Nick@joyland books.com or visit NEWS www.joylandbooks com The home of Amuse- Based in Hull it is not always easy to keep track ment Park books. [The book has now been of events in other parts of the Riding; news that published.] members could contribute on their town or village should be sent to the editor. Cottingham Historic Cottingham Walk: Market, Church and Archaeological Investigations Castle, Cottingham Local History Society, 2006 Project (free leaflet) The AIP, run by Bournemouth University, aims to provide a list of all archaeological fieldwork Hedon that has taken place in the last ten years, Hedon Museum: The Hedon Room – Hedon however they have only reached 2004 at this Museum, behind the Town Hall, St Augustine`s stage. Their website, Gate, Hedon HU12 8EX (10am – 4pm Weds. http://csweb.bournemouth.ac.uk/aip/aipintro.h and Sats. only) - exhibitions tm, covers all of England but searches can be Tel (01482) 890908 for further details limited to the East Riding and any search can be saved as a spreadsheet. The list gives the document title, consultants, report author, map Hull reference, document description and a sum- Local History Unit closure mery of its contents. The AIP team visited the Hull College closed the Local History Unit per- Humber Archaeological Partnership in Decem- manently at the end of July 2006 after an exist- ber and reports for 2005 should be added to ence of twenty two years. Over that period the the web site soon. Unit has encouraged a significant number of people, many of whom had no previous interest Beverley in local history, and given them the confidence to write publications or lead two to three hours Beverley Community Museum is planning an walks. exhibition about Beverley`s hospitals. Anyone with photographs, artefacts or memories to Hull & District Local History Research contribute is invited to contact the museum`s Group is a new local history organisation volunteer co-ordinator, Fiona Jenkinson on Tel. formed to continue the work of students of the (01482) 392783 or visit the museum in the former Local History Unit`s ‘Know Your Place’ Beverley Guildhall, Register Square, Beverley local history workshop classes. Over the Sum- on Fridays from 10am to 4pm. mer and Autumn of 2006 various walks and visits have been held, led by members of the The Treasure House, adjoining Beverley Li- group; these have included Swanland parts 1 brary, opened on 2nd January. Combining the and 2 (Terry Cork); Hessle: Southfield and East Riding of Yorkshire Archive Service and Little Switzerland (Maureen Beck); South Cave Beverley Local Studies Library there is also a (Susan Knowles); Hull`s Fish Trail; East Park, permanent exhibition of East Riding life though Hull; Patrington (Jennifer Grey); Wawne (Kevin the ages as well as temporary exhibitions. The Stephenson); ‘Beverley Doors’ Walks parts 1 Treasure House is open from 9:30am to and 2 (David Sherwood); Pearson Park, Hull 5:00pm on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri- (DB with CJK`s notes); Garden Village (Tony days. On Tuesdays and Thursdays it opens Wing); Cottingham (David Bliss); and Burstwick 3 Revisited (Norman Angell); Blue Plaques Trail THE PROTEST OF ‘THE (led by Janet Duck), and visits to Arctic Corsair trawler and The Guildhall.