EYLHS Newsletter 30 Winter / spring 2014 Newsletter of the East Yorkshire Local History Society Front cover: a postcard of an F S Smith sketch, Chariot St, Hull. This is one of a number of drawings Smith altered at a later date as some firms depicted weren’t there when Smith dated it. Contributions Based in Hull it is not always easy to keep track of events in other parts of the Riding; news that members could contribute on their town or village should be sent to the editor. Short articles, illustrated or unillustrated, news on libraries, archives, museums, societies or education, queries other people may be able to answer, etc. for inclusion in future newsletters should also be sent to the editor. Newsletter Edited by Robert Barnard 825 Anlaby Rd, Hull, HU4 6DJ Telephone 01482 506001 e-mail [email protected] Published by the East Yorkshire Local History Society Secretary Jenny Stanley 15 Southcote Close, South Cave, HU15 2BQ Telephone 01430 422833 e-mail [email protected] Printed by Kall Kwik, Hull News from the Society Programme 2.30pm Visit to Goddards - former home of As usual, the Society has arranged a full Noel Goddard Terry, of the famous programme of lectures and excursions chocolate-making firm. for 2014. Please support the events Includes guided tour. Café facilities and and bring along your friends. Please do garden. not hesitate to ask for lifts; you will be 27, Tadcaster Rd, York YO24 1GG expected to contribute to petrol. Telephone 01904 702021 NB Parking is very limited with only PLEASE NOTE: Please make all a small number of ‘disabled parks’ cheques payable to the East Yorkshire available at Goddards. There are Local History Society. All cheques and regular bus services to the house from booking slips should be sent to the the town – numbers 4, 12, 13 and the Programme Co-ordinator. Coastliner (from opposite the Railway station, just round the corner from the Programme Co-ordinator: Bar Convent). Get off at the Marriot Pamela J Martin (Tel no 01482 442221; Hotel, walk on same side of road away e-mail [email protected]) from town about 70 metres – Goddards is on the left opposite the Texaco Filling Saturday 22nd March, 2014 Station. Beverley Arms Hotel Cost: National Trust Members £2 AGM 2.00pm Non-Members £7 Speaker: Dr George Sheeran ‘Elite Max no. 15 people residences: the development of the Yorkshire coast 1800 – 1860’ Thursday 1st May 2014 10.30am Friday 25th April 2014 Visit to Ganton Hall – the former home A Day in York of the Legard Family. 10.00am for 10.30am Mrs Venetia Wrigley will provide a Visit to the Bar Convent guided tour of the house followed by Includes guided tour and commences refreshments and access to the garden, with coffee/tea at 10.00am water garden and walled garden. 17 Blossom Street, There will also be the possibility of a York, North Yorkshire YO24 1AQ guided tour of Ganton Parish Church Telephone 01904 643238 afterwards by Geoff Bell. Cost: £5.30 Cost: £6 per person Max no. 30 people Meet at the house NB There are excellent café facilities for Strictly no photography, please lunch at the Convent. Max no. 30 people 3 Saturday 24th May 2014 be forwarded to you as soon as they Howden Minster become available. 1.30pm – 3.00pm Talk and Guided Tour by Professor Saturday 19th July 2014 David Crouch Visit to Howsham Mill ‘Life and Death in Medieval Howden 2.00pm Minster’ Howsham Mill, York, North Yorkshire, £3.00 per person YO60 7PA Meet in the Minster Includes a guided tour, refreshments Professor Crouch is director of the and the opportunity to look at the Howden Victoria County History gardens volume project, which is currently This 18th century watermill was being researched and written. designed by John Carr of York as a garden folly in the Gothic style and Saturday 31st May 2014 built by the owners of Howsham Hall. ‘Landmarks and Beacons – North Bank Cost £3.50 per person Churches vital to medieval and early Directions modern navigation of the Humber’. Howsham Mill is located 9 miles north- Study Day east of York, 3 miles from the A64. Guide: - Richard Clarke Exit the A64 signposted to Barton-Le- 10.15am – meet at Patrington, St Willows (opposite direction to Castle Patrick’s Parish Church Howard) and follow the road signs Proceed to Ottringham (St Wilfrid’s towards Howsham. On the approach Parish Church), Paull (St Andrew’s to Howsham village, the road crosses a Parish Church), Marfleet (St Giles’ Parish large stone bridge at the River Derwent. Church) and Hessle (All Saint’s Parish Parking is available for publicised Church). events, and is situated by the bridge, Lunch (one hour) at the Humber opposite the gates to Howsham Tavern, Paull if wished. Hall. Continue on foot: The footpath The day will end approx. 4.00pm leads you under the bridge along the Cost £3.50 per person riverside path to the mill island. Own cars Thursday 21st August 2014 June Kilnwick Percy Hall Visit to two East Riding Churches to Guided tour conducted by Peter examine restoration work undertaken Redwood by a Master Mason and his company 2.00pm based in the Wolds. Grade 2 listed building, built in This event is still under negotiation. 1790, set within 42 acres of grounds Please supply your contact details including woodland walks, parkland on the form if you are interested and lake and cafe. The house has been (preferably e-mail) and details will the Madhyamaka Kadampa Meditation 4 Centre – a Buddhist meditation and 2.15pm retreat centre for over 25 years. ‘Recent Archaeological work and finds Cost £3.00 per person in the East Riding’ Max no. 30 people An illustrated presentation by David Evans Saturday 6th September 2014 Cost: £3.00 per person Bridlington Central Library, King Street, Max no. 50 people Bridlington, YO15 2DE 1.30pm – 3.00pm Saturday 27th September 2014 ‘Belgian Refugees in the Region during Beverley Minster – Peter Harrison Room the First World War’ 10.00am Speaker: Oliver Baxter Study Day – ‘Beverley Minster - Cost: £3.50 per person Sculptures, Screens and Masons Marks’ Speaker and guide – John Phillips Thursday 18th September Includes morning coffee, two morning Beverley Arms Hotel, North Bar Within, talks, lunch, and afternoon guided tour. Beverley Finish about 4.00pm 6.00pm Cost £21 per person Speaker: Professor Fiona Stafford Max 40 people will give a presentation on ‘Mary Wollstonecraft’ Participation in events Professor Fiona Stafford, Somerville As reported in previous years, it has College, University of Oxford. A lecture not been possible to arrange group on Mary Wollstonecraft, educated in insurance for events. We therefore Beverley and author of a significant strongly recommend that members feminist text, A Vindication of the and their friends take out personal Rights of Women (1792). accident/loss insurance, or include Drinks and light refreshments will be this in their households policies. We available at the event. would also stress the need for suitable (free parking at the rear of the hotel). clothing - in particular, sturdy footwear Admission free, booking essential. and waterproofs - for outdoor events. Tickets from the Tourist Information Centre, 32 Butcher Row, Beverley, HU17 Please note 0AB. Tel: 01482 391672 There is usually a waiting list for most Sponsored by the University of Hull of the Society’s events. If you book an (English Department) and the East event and then find you cannot attend, Yorkshire Local History Society, as part please inform the Programme Co- of Beverley’s Georgian Festival 13-21 ordinator. Please do not transfer your September 2014. booking to a relative or friend without first consulting the Programme Saturday 20th September 2014 C-ordinator, whose telephone number Treasure House, Beverley 5 can be found at the beginning of this As well as looking at the churches; section. Thank you. several documentary sources were available. Of interest were Navigational Subscriptions Charts, of various dates, clearly Subscriptions are now due, the rates showing features visible from the river. are £15 for individual membership and Other documents emanating from the £20 family / institutions / overseas. Brethren of Trinity House, Hull asked (for example) for trees to be felled that If you pay by standing order and have were restricting the use of the “sea- not yet amended it for the new rates marks”, or asking for relevant parts of please do so. the west tower to be white-washed. If you have an email address it would We were provided with details for each be useful if we could contact you for church, both for aspects of this study changes to events, etc. Please send and also for features of architectural either to Pat Aldabella (by phone: interest. Most had an ancient 01482 671009) or Jenny Stanley (by foundation, and were worthy of an email: [email protected]). internal inspection. Most of the churches were built up on Review of EYLHS Events the 10m contour, and some of the west towers had been further heightened to Landmarks and Beacons: Churches of give increased visibility. the Humber and their role as aids to navigation Churches were used for navigational 1 June 2013 purposes well into the nineteenth century, and were only superseded Our study day, ably led by Richard when local lighthouses had been Clarke, entailed visiting six churches constructed. in North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. The day was enjoyable and rewarding, and with a possible future exploration The churches visited were at Goxhill, of similar features on the North Bank of North Killingholme, Immingham, the Humber. Barton, South Ferriby and Winteringham.