RESEARCH IN PROGRESS/ SOCIETIES` NEWS

 

Beverley

The Treasure House
A workshop Access 2 Archives - 'Blood Thunder & High Society' based on the archival collections of the Strickland-Constable family of Wassand Hall will be held on 5 October 2007 An exhibition 'Wilberforce Slavery and the East Riding will be on display in Gallerty two until 11 August 2007 Tel. 01482 392789 for further details

Beverley Art Gallery
An exhibition 'three-quarters sky: Landscapes of the Region' Elwell Prize exhibition is the inaugural exhibition of landscape paintings of East Riding of Yorkshire and the Humber region, sponsored by BBC Humber and Beverley Art Gallery is on display at Goole Museum from 6 August to 1 September, Yorkshire Heritage Centre, Warter 8 to 29 September and Baysgarth House Museum Barton on Humber 5 to 28 October 2007
Beverley`s Biggest Painting - the Story of ' a Panic' exhibition is on display at Beverley Art Gallery until Saturday 3 November 2007

Beverley Community Museum (The Guildhall) - the current exhibition about Beverley Beck and the Beckside area opened in June - contact Fiona Jenkinson, volunteer co-ordinator, on Tel (01482) 392783

Beverley Minster plans to open a £500,000 visitor centre, which includes extending the Parish Hall, in Minster Yard North, to include the visitor centre and a café

Bridlington

Bridlington Railway Station - John Richardson of the North Eastern Railway Association, who lives in York, is researching the early history of the station and is seeking photographs of for example Bessingby junction signal box, level crossings at Bessingby Road and Station Road, coal drops between Bridlington south signal box and Station Road, the original and extended train shed by G.T. Andrews and sidings for the gas works, the carriage shed and the turntable on the north side of the line to Scarborough. If you can help please contact John on Tel. (01904) 628591 [source HDM Flashback Daily 7.3.2007]

Butron Constable Hall

A new exhibition 'Work and Play: Life in the Yorkshire Country House Estate' has been organised by the Yorkshire Country House Partnership, a research partnership between the country houses of Yorkshire and York University, featuring displays, trails, talks and educational activities at Burton Constable Hall, Brodsworth Hall, near Doncaster and Harewood House and Temple Newsam, near Leeds. At Burton Constable the trail will feature a guide to other local stately homes at Burton Agnes and Sledmere [The Journal April 2007 pp6/7]

Driffield

Sadly the former “Sugar Mills” in Anderson Street, Driffield was demolished at the end of 2006. It had been empty and derelict for some years. It was built in 1862 for The Driffield and East Riding Pure Linseed Cake Co. Ltd., designed by Joseph Wright (1818-`85), Hull architect.  Later it was White`s Sugar Mills, and then latterly partly a social club. Was this perhaps the last large-scale industrial mill in the East Riding? Thankfully another large industrial building, The Maltings in Skerne Road, Driffield, of 1873, designed by William Hawe (1822-`97), architect of Driffield and Beverley, was successfully converted into residential accommodation some few years ago

East Yorkshire

The Rural Roots Project, which has been funded through a £50,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund as part of the national Archives $ All programme, aims to take East Riding Council's archives and local history services to the rural communities. Anyone who lives in a rural area and would like to know more details should call Sue on (01482) 392788.

Hedon

Hedon Museum: The Hedon Room – Hedon Museum, behind the Town Hall, St Augustine`s Gate, Hedon HU12 8EX (10am – 4pm Weds. and Sats. only) - exhibitions
Tel (01482) 890908 for further details

Hessle

Hessle Local History Society will hold a local history exhibition in Hessle Town Hall on 10, 11, 12 October 2007. Hessle Local History Society meetings are now held on the third Thursday of each month in Hessle Town Hall, 7.15pm

Holderness

Hidden Holderness have produced a new free leaflet on farming in Holderness "Marshland to Farmland". Copies of this, and other Hidden Holderness publications, including Holderness at War, Lost Villages, Literature, Shipwrecks, Architecture and Lore and Legend, are available from Withernsea TIC

Hornsea

Hornsea Museum has received a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £246,000 to improve display and interpretation of its collection of Hornsea Pottery. The Museum currently has 2,000 items on display and a further 4,000 items in reserve. The grant will enable Hornsea Museum Trust to purchase the adjoining premises, No.17 Newbegin, Hornsea to provide additional space for the Hornsea Pottery collection and also to provide improved facilities for the Museum`s education programme

Howden

Mike Kemp closed his Howden Bookshop in 2006 and has relocated to Lancashire. Mike had previously had bookshops in Cottingham and in Hull. He will now concentrate on selling books through catalogues and at book fairs. Tel. (01695) 559050 or email orders@kempbooksellers.co.uk for catalogues

Hull

The Ferens Art Gallery is to publish a comprehensive catalogue of its Victorian and Edwardian pictures, many of course, particularly ‘marines’, are local

The History Centre will go ahead as the £7.7m Heritage Lottery Fund grant has been confirmed. Carole Souter, Director of Heritage Lottery Fund, said “We are deklighted too give the go ahead for this impressive project, and provide some really good news for the people of Hull in the midst of the current flooding crisis. These wonderful collections will be brought together under one roof as a rich and important asset for the city.” The centre will combine the collections held by The City Archives, Local Studies Library and the University of Hull’s archives.

Having assessed all the work needed for the move to the History Centre we have now set a date for closing. The Hull City Archives last day of opening will be 18th December 2008 and Local Studies last day will be Christmas Eve 2008. The Lunch Club will continue throughout 2009 and we may make some of our stock (e.g. microfilms and daily newspapers available eslewhere in the Central Library) though this is not certain. We are planning a series of events in December for public and staff to say goodbye to the Local Studies Library here at the Central Library, which will inlcude behind the scenes tours, further details to follow; people can ring me on 01482 616829 or email
me at david.smith@hulcc.gov.uk There is a website for the History Centre, www.historycentrehull.org.uk

INTRODUCTION TO ARCHIVES

Would you like to know more about the records held at the City Archives?

If so join us for taster sessions which will introduce you to the records we hold and how to access them

The sessions will be held once a month on Monday mornings and will be restricted to 6 people so booking is essential

Sessions to be held from 10.00a.m. to 11.30 a.m. at The City Archives, Lowgate

For more information or to make a booking for sessions on any of the following dates please contact Hull City Archives on 01482 615102

15th  September 2008	13th October 2008
10th  November 2008	15th  December 2008

 

Carnegie Heritage Action Team (CHAT) has been negotiating with Hull City Council to acquire the former Carnegie Library, West Park, Anlaby Road, Hull, for use as a heritage centre. The group has now acquired the building on a 25 year lease at a peppercorn rent, and would welcome enquiries from groups and societies who would like to use the facilities at Carnegie, Contact Liz Shepherd, CHAT c/o Friends of Lonsdale, Lonsdale Community Centre, Lonsdale Street, Anlaby Road, Hull  email carnegiehull@hotmail.co.uk
 website www.carnegiehull.co.uk/

Friends of Pickering Park, Hull - a Friends of Pickering Park group has recently been formed (Pearson Park and East Park already have their Friends` groups - doesn`t anyone like West Park?!)

Hull & District Local History Research Group…
Members of H&DLHRG have been working on a History of Sculcoates for the ‘Scullybank’ project for Hull DOC (publication due in July 2007). The Group meets weekly on Thursdays 10am-12noon. Contact the secretary, Terry Cork, 8 Dale Road, Swanland, North Ferriby Tel. (01482) 63688 or the chair, David Sherwood, 9 Simson Court, Beverley HU17 9ED mob. 07799357262 for information of meetings, visits and local history walks. Recent events have included visits to Hull`s Guildhall; Northumberland Avenue Almshouses, Hull; Charterhouse, Hull; Easington; 'Syntan' barge Beverley Beck, Victoria Dock, Hull; Humber Archaeology Partnership, Hull; The Treasure House, Beverley; Wawne led by Kevin Stephenson, visits to St Charles RC Church Hull, and St Mary`s Church, Beverley, trips on the River Hull on 'Syntan' and a talk on William Wilberforce by Rev. Philip Arthur at the Police Boys Club, Garden Village, Hull; a Norwood, Beverley walk led by David Sherwood, Newland walk led by Janet Duck and a visit to Hornsea Museum and various Sculcoates area walks

Newland School for Girls, Hull is celebrating its centenary in 2007 and plans to produce a centenary book and DVD of memories. If you can help with reminiscences please contact Ian Medlam, Newland School for Girls, Cottingham Road, Hull 

Wilberforce House, Hull`s oldest museum opened in 1906, reopened in March 2007 after a £1.6m revamp of the displays relating to Wilberforce and the slave trade

arc (Architecture Resource Centre) Blanket Row, Hull has published two new arc walk maps - for High Street, and Whitefriargate, created by artist Nicola Streeten. Copies are available free from arc, Tourist Information Centre and Streetlife Museum, High Street, Hull

Two publishers, Blackthorn Press of Pickering and Phillimore of Chichester, are seeking potential authors for proposed new Histories of Hull… (imagine having to follow in the footsteps of the VCH [1969] and “Gillett & MacMahon” [1980/1889]!)

Local History class - The Workers ` Educational Association Yorkshire and Humber Region is seeking a tutor for a local history class in Hull from the Autumn term. If you can help please contact Lauren Farmer, organiser for NE Lincolnshire & Hull, Mitchell Community Centre, Goodrich Close, Fountain Road, Hull HU2 0BG Tel (01482) 610833  email lfarmer@wea.org.uk

The Top 100 Hull ‘bloggers’ website provides a chart of the most popular web logs – online-diaries that exist in the city – see website http:/hullbloggers.gotop100.com

Victoria Dock. The Winding house project has had their application for funding from the National Heritage Lottery Fund rejected for a £750,00 restoration project to turn the former winding engine house in South Bridge Road, Victoria Dock into a community heritage centre and café

Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE)
An academic team headed by Gary Craig has produced a study of forms of slavery including forced labour, sexual slavery and child trafficking and child labour. WISE has published the study in conjunction with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Anti-Slavery International - a copy can be downloaded at www.jrf.org.uk

Londesborough

The 17th C gatehouse to Londesborough Hall, designed by Robert Hooke, has been added  to the 2007 Buildings at Risk Register by English Heritage. See www.english-heritage.org.uk/bar

North Dalton

North Dalton - the North Dalton Reminiscence Project was launched at the Beverley & East Riding Folk Festival in June 2007, by Ray Williams. Funded by Leader + and the PRS Foundation the oral history project will result in a CD of the stories of older folk of the village dating back nearly 90 years 

Pocklington

Burnby Hall Gardens and Stewarts Museum, has received a Lottery Grant to restore the gardens and museum displays

The Pocklington History Group has a website, http://www.pocklingtonhistory.com/

Sewerby Hall

A new exhibition ‘Chatelaines and Servants’ looking at the history of ladies and maids of Sewerby Hall, opened on 31 March 2007. For further information contact Debbie Hardy, heritage volunteer co-ordinator Tel (01262) 677874
The Clock Tower Tea Rooms at Sewerby Hall and Gardens have been officially opened following an extensive refurbishment

Skidby

Skidby Windmill is now open daily. A new miller has been appointed and volunteers are sought to catalogue the collections and research exhibitions for the East Riding Rural Life Project. Contact Alison Brice, volunteer co-ordinator Tel (01482) 848405

South Cave

Dorothy Desforges of South Cave is researching the history of Hull`s social club scene. She would like to interview anyone with memories of the clubs – to contact her write to 5 Ferry Road, South Cave HU15 2LG

Wassand

from 25 May 2007 - 'Blood Thunder & High Society' exhibition featuring the archival collections of the Strickland-Constables of Wassand Hall at Wassand Hall, Seaton, near Hornsea - open August 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 24, 25, 26, 27

Yorkshire

My Yorkshire, a new website celebrating all that's best in God's Own County. The numerous features of My Yorkshire include:

* a free daily online Yorkshire crossword

* links to many excellent Yorkshire sites

* potted biographies of many eminent Yorkshire people

* numerous maps and photographs

It does contain a useful page devoted to local history groups  http://my-yorkshire.co.uk/organisations/local-history.html