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1 Table of Contents Agriculture... 3 Antiquities... 4 Army... 5 Art... 6 Associations... 9 Banks & Finance Books Bridges Buildings Canals & Inland Waterways Cemeteries Charities Children Coast Commerce & Trade Communications Courts Crime & Punishment Docks & Harbours Drainage Education Elections & Politics Emigration Entertainments & Amusements Expeditions Fairs Ferries Fires Fishing Folklore & Popular Culture Friendly & Benefit Societies Gardens & Parks Gas History Hospitals Housing Industries Inns Inventions Libraries Lifeboats & Lifesaving Local Government Markets Medicine Mills Museums Natural History Navigation Navy Newspapers Occupations & Trades People Police Population Poverty & Poor Relief Prisons Property & Land Public Health Railways Page 1

2 Table of Contents Religion Roads Shipping Shops Smuggling Sports & Games Statues & Memorials Streets Strikes Temperance Theatres Towns and Villages Trade Unions and Work Transport Wars Water Weather Whaling Women Page 2

3 Agriculture Agriculture Bailiff Death of John Blashill, Patrington farm bailiff to Richard Marshall J.P & 6 Cattle Abattoir Letter on site of Hull abattoir Proposed site for Hull abattoir Public Abattoir scheme Increased prices for Hull meat Dairy Interview with a prize butter maker - Lincs Disease Anthrax At Bridlington At Kirton Lindsey Anthrax case at Huggate Swine fever Outbreak of swine fever at Roos At Enthorpe near Market Weighton At Paull Farm Labourer Countryside Problems - The Farm Labourer today Rural Migration, Little Driffield Farms Holderness and Wold farmers Short account of children on Holderness farms Past and present of Lincs agriculture Scawby - N. Lincs Stud farm Withcall - largest farm in England 5 miles form Louth Fires 2 stack fires at Keyingham Saltagh and Mr Harrison farm Harvest A visit to the Harvest Fields Lincs Harvest progress in East Riding Wheat Yield, Holderness J.R. Boyle find of receipt for Corn Tithe, sketch Poultry Death of Harrison Dixon, Poplar Poultry Farm Nafferton - 70, successful breeder and exhibitor of prize poultry Sheep Report on Mr. E? J. Jordan of Eastbourne House Driffield noted sheep breeder Sheep worrying at Sproatley Smallholdings Back to the land - 3 acres and a cow, proposal to set-up small farms by Thomas Hill Lord Yarborough and requests for allotments Meeting for allotments at Hessle Page 3

4 Antiquities Antiquities Celt Sketch of bronze Celt and bronze medal found at Redbourne Howlett An interesting antiquarian collection - E. Howlett - Kirton Lindsey Hull Ancient Hull relics - John Symons Mammoth tusk Found at Brough Maze Sketch of Maze at Alkborough Patrington Eleanor Lloyd correction of Poulson, Roman altar at Patrington is a 17th century sundial Roman vase Found at Barton - sketch Tumuli Great discovery at Kilham tumuli opened Wilson Death of Edward Shimmels Wilson F.S.A. antiquary Yorkshire Archaeological Society Y.A.S. excursion to Swine Page 4

5 Army Army S. Africa Details of Trooper Travis-Cook in S. Africa Veteran Lincs Veteran ex Farrier Major William Green of S. Ferriby details of career Volunteers Home coming of East Yorks Volunteers New Volunteer Corps at Hessle Two volunteer documents in Hull Museum Yeomanry Bazaar Opened by Earl Roberts Page 5

6 Art Art Art Gallery Meeting Hull Art Gallery scheme Meeting re proposed Art Gallery Nurses home and Art Gallery subscriptions at Hull Art School Plans for new Central Police Station and site for new Art School, 26&27 Albion St Stone laying Hull School of Art Hull Art School opened Headmaster of Art School report Cartoons Near Botanic crossing Charles I. visits Hull On burning fatalities in Hull, children s deaths, a reflection on Hull parents Church going enforced by law Hessle Cottage Homes Sunday drives to Cottingham Hull threatened by new deep-water dock at Immingham Snowden Dunhill cartoon Spring cleaning Great Passage St On discovery of Hull On new Hornsea express (NER) Ping-pong a new craze in Hull. Cats trained to find balls Miss C Coun. Shaw, Public cleaner Of Machell St. Slum On Newington smells Great water question Wife sold by auction - George Gawthorpe of Patrington sold his wife by auction in Hull Market place for 20 guineas to unknown man 4th Feb Wilson liner Novo stranded at Withernsea Of C.H. Wilson as hon. Freeman of Hull Paintings Sale of paintings Dunnington House Rembrandt Letter re Rembrandt in Hull Sketches Antiquities Of bronze Celt and bronze medal found at Redbourne Of Maze at Alkborough Roman vase found at Barton - sketch Bridge Of proposed Whitefriargate Bridge The Bridge is up Looking Forward Sketch of the Humber Tunnel Church Enlarged Baptist chapel at Kirton Lindsey Ladygate - St. Mary s New Baptist church, Boulevard Of Newport Vicarage Of proposed church for New Holland Of proposed Hornsea Church Institute Of proposed new chapel at Burstwick Methodist Of screen in Driffield Church Of Selby Abbey after fire Old vicarage house at Killingholme Crematorium Of Opening of Hull Crematorium Docks Page 6

7 Art Of Hull Fish Dock Sketches, Docks continued Sights of Hull, Alex Dock Ferry Establishment of Humber ferry Old view of New Holland Ferry Housing Curious house at Cowden Of a Hull Slum Of old buildings in Norwood, Beverley Of thatched cottage at Southbourn nr. Driffield Victoria Mansions, Great Passage St., opened, and sketch Hull Sights of Hull 1, series of drawings Library Of borrowers Free Library, Albion St Liner Wilson liner ashore at Killingholme Local life Sketches from local life - a regular feature this year, drawings of local people, etc Market Of Early Morning Market Police station Of Withernsea new police station Portrait Dr. Hughes - Games James Sexton, Labour Candidate for East Hull Court case Sir Tatton Sykes and Lady Sykes, fraud, & sketch of Lady Sykes Local sketches Elias Bones, sexton Of Funeral of Canon Maddock Of Malet Lambert Of new Hull Judge F.W. Raikes Of portrait of Lord Nunburnholme Of Rev. D.K. Moore, in pulpit (St. James) Of Rev. F. Minton, rector of Cottingham - featured in A Crowded Street? Rev. A.B.G. Lillingstone to be new vicar of Holy Trinity and sketch Poverty and Plenty in Hull A Christmas contrast Public Benefit Shoe Shop Large sketch of Public Benefit Shoe Shop corner Coltman St. and Hessle road Public health Of Hull dust cart The heavens breath, Smells wooingly here Railway At Cannon St., Station Market train arriving at Cannon St Of first train at Thealby Station, N. Lindsey Light Railway Sights of Hull - Paragon Station School Of Lee Smith Street Adult School Street Ladygate - St. Mary s Of Flemingate, Beverley Of Lowgate from Salthouse lane corner Of Princes av. on a Sunday night Tithe J.R. Boyle find of receipt for Corn Tithe, sketch Town Hall Opening of Hessle Town Hall and sketch Trawler Page 7

8 Art Leonora at Withernsea Sketches continued Zoological Gardens Of Rome at Hull Zoological Gardens Successes Art successes in Hull Page 8

9 Associations Associations Assistant Teachers Conference - Hull Fish Vessel Owners Association Presentation to Lawrence Spring President of Hull Fish Vessel Owners Association - Fish Dock Harmonic Society Dr. Parry conducting Hull Harmonic Soc Literary Club Hull Lit. Club at Barton Literary Club, visit of Cutliffe Hyne National Union of Women Workers Mrs. Lillington (Holy Trinity) address in Oddfellows Hall to National Union of Women Workers Naturalists Caves of Yorks, Yorks Naturalists lecture by Prof Boyd Dawkins J.F. Robinson lecture on Flora of the East Riding to Hull and East Riding Naturalists Sea Fisheries Association Meeting at Grimsby Yorkshire Archaeological Society Y.A.S. excursion to Swine Y.P.I. Gift of recreation ground for the Y.P.I Page 9

10 Banks & Finance Banks & Finance Hull Savings Bank Frugal Habits of the Working Class of Hull, 158 Penny Banks Page 10

11 Books Books See also ENTERTAINMENTS Barton First volume of Brown s History of Barton published and Thombleson s Fragments Relating to Barton Church Review Lore and Legend of English Church, Rev. G.S. Tyack, pub. Andrews Review of Old Church Life - Wm. Andrews Fowler Review of Dr. J.B. Dykes ed. Rev. J.T. Fowler Northumberland Household Book Review of Northumberland Household Book (Boyle) Person 12 centuries of Jewish persecution, by Gustav Person, local author, review Venables Canon E. Venables and Lincoln Minster review of his book Page 11

12 Bridges Bridges Bridge Sketch, the Bridge is up Humber tunnel Barton and the Humber tunnel Looking Forward Sketch of the Humber Tunnel Kettleby Bridge and liability to repair South Bridge Hull s Inconveniences - South Bridge and the Level Crossings Strickland St. Meeting re Strickland St. bridge , Whitefriargate Bridge renewal & 12 New Whitefriargate Bridge to be completed in 12 months Sketch of proposed Whitefriargate Bridge Page 12

13 Buildings Buildings Alexandra Theatre New Alexandra Theatre opened Art School Hull Art School opened Plans for new Central Police Station and site for new Art School, 26&27 Albion St Stone laying Hull School of Art Beverley Sketch of old buildings in Norwood, Beverley Brunswick Wesleyan Chapel Erection of School Institute for Brunswick Wesleyan Chapel Carnegie library Opening of Carnegie library, Hull City Hall Campaign against City Hall Cottingham New cottages at Cottingham - in Coverdale lane Proposed Town Hall for Cottingham Covered market Opening of new covered market - North Church Side Cowden Sketch curious house at Cowden Hedon Reading Room opened Hessle Cartoon Hessle Cottage Homes Opening of Hessle Town Hall and sketch Hornsea New promenade hotel for Hornsea Hull Building at Hull, list of properties approved in Hull - includes a sawmill for Reckitts Infirmary Prince of Wales invited to lay foundation stones of Infirmary extensions also Victoria statue and new square Killingholme Sketch old vicarage house at Killingholme King s Head Old house in Hull demolished by Corporation - King s Head described as vandalism Kirton Lindsey New Town Hall for Kirton Lindsey Marvell s residence Andrew Marvell s residence demolition Newport Sketch of Newport Vicarage Palace Theatre New Palace Theatre to be opened on Anlaby road in or about August A new Palace Theatre for Hull Police Station Plans for new Central Police Station and site for new Art School, 26&27 Albion St Cost of new Hull Police Station 30,668,10s. 6d Rawcliffe Hall In flames Schools Foundation stone laid Mersey St. School Tenders for erection of a new Grammar School at Bridlington with Master s house Foundation stone laid of Bridlington Grammar School New wing opened Bridlington Grammar School New Beverley Grammar School opened Page 13

14 Buildings New schools being erected at Preston Schools continued Opening of Hymers College Gymnasium Opening of Mersey St. and Estcourt St. Schools and Holland St. school Opening of new Technical College, Park St Southbourn Sketch of thatched cottage at Southbourn nr. Driffield Town Hall New Hull Schemes - Town Hall to be extended Tranby Croft Anlaby and Tranby Croft Victoria Mansions, Great Passage St., opened, and sketch Withernsea Propose new hotel at Withernsea - Cheverton Avenue for Mr Allcock, wine & spirit merchant, Grimsby Sketch of Withernsea new police station Page 14

15 Canals & Inland Waterways Canals & Inland Waterways Brigg to Lincoln Waterway proposed Ouse Work for unemployed, new channel of the Ouse Page 15

16 Cemeteries Cemeteries Barrow Consecration of new cemetery at Barrow Barton Letter complaining of improvements at Barton Cemetery Burial Grounds Hull s Disused Burial Grounds , Peeps round Churchyards local Crematorium Sketch of Opening of Hull Crematorium Crematorium to be established in Hull, foundation stone laid Keyingham 7 skulls dug up in Keyingham Churchyard which is full Mortuary A Mortuary Museum, in Castle St. Mortuary Newland New Burial Ground for Newland Pig cemetery At Beverley in Corporation yard between the Cottage Hospital and the Cattle Market Sexton Local sketches Elias Bones, sexton Spring Bank In Spring Bank Cemeteries Sunshine in the Cemetery (Western) Page 16

17 Charities Charities See also POVERTY & POOR RELIEF Boys Club Inauguration of Hull Boys Club Charterhouse Letter from Master for Library at Hull Charterhouse Hessle Cartoon Hessle Cottage Homes Sheltering home for girls Opening of new sheltering home for girls-peel St Waifs & Strays Institute A Summer Afternoon at Tranby Croft, opened garden for benefit of Waifs & Strays Institute, Clarendon St Page 17

18 Children Children Carnival Children s carnival in the Boulevard Criminals Child criminals in Hull Deaths Parcel found in yard of St. John s vicarage, Newington, contained body of new-born boy Big Death Rate in Hull, that of children high Farms Short account of children on Holderness farms Hull parents Cartoon on burning fatalities in Hull, children s deaths, a reflection on Hull parents Orphan s The Orphan s Friend - Thomas Ferres Public Houses Hull Children and Public Houses Sheltering home for girls Opening of new sheltering home for girls-peel St Waifs & Strays Institute A Summer Afternoon at Tranby Croft, opened garden for benefit of Waifs & Strays Institute, Clarendon St Page 18

19 Coast Coast Bridlington State opening of Sea Defences at Bridlington Cleethorpes Developing Cleethorpes Flamborough Report Flamborough cliffs and caves Grimsby Uproar at Grimsby Pontoon practise Holderness Rev. John Cordeax and disappearing Holderness coast line Hornsea Decision to extend Hornsea sea wall Demolition of Hornsea Pier From Hornsea to Skipsea Inauguration of Hornsea improvements Meeting re removal of gravel from Hornsea beach New promenade hotel for Hornsea Hornsea Promenade ruined + defence Kilnsea Foreshore at Spurn and Kilnsea - no danger of a breach Help for Kilnsea - Will the Government take action, plan of area Table of erosion by Rev. E.M. Cole, Blue Bell Inn, Kilnsea etc Withernsea 8000 to be spent on Withernsea Pier Propose new hotel at Withernsea - Cheverton Avenue for Mr Allcock, wine & spirit merchant, Grimsby Withernsea Promenade - Jubilee memorial Page 19

20 Commerce & Trade Commerce & Trade Building Trade Report on Hull Building Trade Chamber of Trade Meeting Hull Chamber of Trade proposed National Chamber Dumoulin Commerce of Hull banquet for Dumoulin Hull In a review Humber Ports , Humberside Developments in 1901 Shipping Hull Shipping Trade Tea Hull and the Tea Trade Tobacco Trade of Humber ports - How tobacco is smuggled Page 20

21 Communications Communications Post Office Report, Beverley new Post Office Telephones Hull and its Telephones Page 21

22 Courts Courts Judge Sketch of new Hull Judge F.W. Raikes Litigation Curiosities of Litigation - in Lincs Magistrate Death of E.C. Twiss - Stipendary Magistrates J.G.H. Halkett new stipendary magistrate for Hull Page 22

23 Crime & Punishment Crime & Punishment See also COURTS, POLICE, PRISONS Affray Between Dutch peat gravers and 2 labourers at Thorne Assault Case Weighbridge Yard, Cottingham, assault Hull Veterinary in court for assaulting his wife Isabella - David Sowerby Hull Workhouse case, assault on Master Dr. Merson Supt. at Willerby Asylum attacked by a patient Willerby Asylum assault case Bankruptcy Of Alexandria Oil Mills Wincolmlee, Sanderson Newport Tile Makers, Bankrupt Body Parcel found in yard of St. John s vicarage, Newington, contained body of new-born boy Unknown man s body found in Humber without head, legs, arms, unclothed Burglary At Ottirngham, John Frost Grocer Christmas Burglary Coiners Den - 8 Bucking terr, Adelaide St Hull coiners gaoled Criminals Child criminals in Hull Cruelty Case at Brigg shooting cats Drowning In Mill dam Liberated murderess Mary Beacon Halliday for drowning her child at Wansford in Embezzlement Case embezzlement Gainsborough Co-op manager Factory Act Prosecution, New Holland, Messrs Corden and Co Fraud Robertson Southey arrested for fraud Sykes Case Lady Sykes false pretences, fraud Case withdrawn re Lady Sykes Court case Sir Tatton Sykes and Lady Sykes, fraud, & sketch of Lady Sykes Sykes case ended Gambling Betting raid in Wincolmlee Police raid on gambling hell in Esther s Buildings, Osborne St., Simon Levenson, Rosenthall and Greenbaum Public house betting Raid on Hull gamblers - Marine row - Passage St. Mostly Jews Strong feeling roused in Hull re. Betting raid Murder Charles St In Charles St., Raywell St Cottingham Of Cottingham lady - lived in Hallgate Cumberland St. murder Danthorpe At Danthorpe/Burton Pidsea Dock St. murder , , Donnington Farmer blows wifes brains out Page 23

24 Crime & Punishment Lincs farmer sentenced to death for shooting wife Donnington Murder continued Driffield At Driffield - William Hartley Drowning Liberated murderess Mary Beacon Halliday for drowning her child at Wansford in Grimsby , , Hodgson St. murder Jenkins Wallace Jenkins - analytical chemist cut woman s throat, 9 Winifred s Terrace, Stepney lane - exorganist of Hull Church Lisset Scampston murder - Lisset girl by Cottingham man Of Lissett girl by Cottingham man Marvell terr. Campbell St Poisoning Ben Howdle of Cottingham, report on Mrs Carew s voyage home. She was found guilty of poisoning her husband Edward Bell of Spalding hanged at Lincoln for poisoning his wife San Francisco Ex Hull man charged with murder in bush - San Francisco area St. Mark s St Trawler of mate on Hull trawler Queen Alexander Unknown Man s body found in Humber without head, legs, arms, unclothed Woodcock street Woodhouse St In Woodhouse St Murder inquest Nuisance Rowdyism In Cottingham by waggonette visitors from Hull Sunday afternoons Cottingham road and waggonette parties and rowdyism Smells Complaint of stench from fish manure works at Newland Crusade against smells - Newland Poisoning Ben Howdle of Cottingham, report on Mrs Carew s voyage home. She was found guilty of poisoning her husband Edward Bell of Spalding hanged at Lincoln for poisoning his wife Riot Act Read at Grimsby, mob charged, long account of riot & 12 School Board Hull School Bd. prosecutions ingenious excuses given for non-attendance Patrington Petty sessions, Local School bd. prosecutions , Smuggling Trade of Humber ports - How tobacco is smuggled Suicide Of W.D. Keyworth, sculptor Theft Case of sheep stealing at Louth Case two boys stealing the Hull Mail Of bulbs from Hull Workhouse Unwholesome Goods Meat Bad meat case at Hull , Inquiry bad meat in Hull Page 24

25 Crime & Punishment Milk Robert Dixon - Bennignholme fined for selling adulterated milk Washing Hornsea headmaster fined for washing schoolboy Page 25

26 Docks & Harbours Docks & Harbours Alexandra Dock Sights of Hull, Alex Dock Bill Hull Dock Question - of expansion Hull Dock works N.E. Bill Hull Docks Bill, Hull and Barnsley case now closed N.E. Railway decision - dredging clause objected to North Eastern Railway, Hull Dock expansion Fish Dock Sketch of Hull Fish Dock Hull Ald. Massey and Hull docks Description of Hull Docks Incendiarism - Hull dock fires A Fragment of Dock history - Hull in Immingham Cartoon - Hull threatened by new deep-water dock at Immingham Report of Immingham Dock Joint Dock Hull Joint Dock proposals Meeting new Joint Dock New joint dock, Hull and Barnsley Railway North Eastern and Hull and Barnsley agreement on dock development Queen s Dock Big Warehouse Fire on Queen s Dock Page 26

27 Drainage Drainage See also AGRICULTURE, PUBLIC HEALTH Brigg Meeting Brigg U.D.C. re drainage Hessle road Short report Hessle road drainage Keyingham Letter on Keyingham drains from Dr. Coates Meeting Patrington Bd. of Guardians re Keyingham drainage S. Holderness items - Keyingham drainage Marfleet Letter on Marfleet drainage Page 27

28 Education Education Art And Science in Lincs Art School Headmaster of Art School report Hull Art School opened Church Schools Bridlington Wesleyan schools destroyed by fire near Rope Walk Canon Lambert defence of Church Schools Report on Brigg Catholic Schools St. John s schools condemned and closed by Education Authority J. Hughes Games letter on Sunday schools Commercial education In Hull Conference Assistant Teachers Conference - Hull Cottingham Assistant for Cottingham School to be appointed Poor attendance at Cottingham School Cottingham School and attendance figures Unexplained school absences Cottingham Boys School Outbreak of scarlet fever affecting attendance at Cottingham School Drypool Old Boys school reunion Education Bill Long account of Churchmen and the Education Bill Free Church Council meeting on Education Bill Hull Conservatives and Education Bill Estcourt St. Opening of Mersey St. and Estcourt St. Schools and Holland St. school Grammar Schools New Beverley Grammar School opened Tenders for erection of a new Grammar School at Bridlington with Master s house Foundation stone laid of Bridlington Grammar School New wing opened Bridlington Grammar School Rules of Grimsby Grammar School Hessle Undenominational school to close Holland St. Opening of Mersey St. and Estcourt St. Schools and Holland St. school Hornsea Headmaster fined for washing schoolboy Hymers College Opening of Hymers College Gymnasium Lee Smith Street Sketch of Lee Smith Street Adult School Mechanics Institute A Backward Glance, Hull Mechanics Institute Mersey St Foundation stone laid Mersey St. School Opening of Mersey St. and Estcourt St. Schools and Holland St. school Newland avenue Mrs. Lamb, head teacher at Newland av. School dismissed by School Bd Poultry farming School At Brigg Preston New schools being erected at Preston Rural Schools Page 28

29 Education Near Hull Ruskin Hall Students shown round Beverley Minster by J.R. Boyle School Board Hull School Bd. prosecutions ingenious excuses given for non-attendance Hull School Bd., Contest - long account Results Hull School Bd. election Meeting Hull School Bd Meeting Goole School Bd Meeting Withernsea School Bd Patrington Petty sessions, Local School bd. prosecutions , To keep down expenses it was decided that the school at Patrington which has existed in 3 departments shall in future be worked as a single dept. under a headmistress Schoolmasters Assistant Teachers Conference - Hull Meeting North and E.R. Teachers Union Yorkshire Schoolmasters Terms of Service Hull teacher appointments Science Art and Science in Lincs Secondary education Hull City Council and Secondary education Mr. Yoxhill M.P. of the Teachers Union visit to Hull and Beverley, the question of Higher Grade Schools Technical education Report on technical education in Hull Opening of new Technical College, Park St Page 29

30 Elections & Politics Elections & Politics Bribery and Corruption in Hull Parliamentary elections- J.R. Boyle Conservative Club opened at Scunthorpe Election victory at Grimsby Hull Conservatives and Education Bill Fenian Report Old Central Hull Police Station - Fenian Memories in Hull Labour Sketch James Sexton, Labour Candidate for East Hull Liberals Split among Holderness Liberals Municipal Hull Municipal elections , Socialism At Goole Socialist meetings in Hull Page 30

31 Emigration Emigration Africa From Hull to Nigger Land - Hull man, Charles Newcombe, in West Africa Hull man s life in Benin Howe How a Hull man made a fortune, emigrant Thomas Howe Klondyke Hull leave for Klondyke Page 31

32 Entertainments & Amusements Entertainments & Amusements Alhambra Music Hall New Alhambra Music Hall sold Assembly Rooms Elijah at Assembly Rooms Accident to Muriel Wilson at Assembly Rooms Beverley while roller skating Assembly Rooms at Patrington taken as a temporary church for Roman Catholics 70 present for 1st service City Hall Campaign against City Hall Cleethorpes Pier pavilion burnt down Harmonic Society Dr. Parry conducting Hull Harmonic Soc Music Ernest Nicholls - Hull composer - Holy Grail Is Hull Musical? Visit to Hull of Mark Hambourg, pianist Novel Barbara, West-Yorks novel by Keighley Snowden, long review Sunk Island Romance Sequel The Sphinx Like Head new novel by local author - J. Harry Sugden Poet Hedon Poet article Roller skating Accident to Muriel Wilson at Assembly Rooms Beverley while roller skating Serial A three Days Cruise on the River Hull , , , , Dudley Dacre s Treachery - The Phantom Choir of Hornsea Church, serial , , Simple Kitty Harland - C.R. Empson , , , , Will She Prove True a long serial by C.R. Empson. Seems to have a local setting , Stories Brandsburton Two Ghostly Swordsmen - Christmas Tale of Brandsburton Fenland Reaping the Harvest a Fenland story Flamborough Head Outlaws of Flamborough Head, story Holderness Brazzock or Sketches of some Humorous Characters of a Holderness Parish by Rev. William Smith , , , , , Hull A Deed of Darkness A true Story of Hull - R. Peacock A Romance of the River Hull - original local story Good Ship Welcome an authentic Hull Ghost story Hull s Traitor Priest, story by Duse Mohamed Marriage in a mean street - life in Hull Richardson of Wincolmlee, by William Roe The King s Penance - a story of Hull Lincolnshire A Lincolnshire Tale In the time of her tribulation - Lincs tale by R. Peacock Lincolnshire Tales, Mabel Peacock The Murder at the Mill, a Lincs Tale Two Christmases in Lincs - G. Cladecott, story Paying the Price, story by Mabel Peacock Scarborough A Scarborough Pierrette - L. Yorke, short story Page 32

33 Entertainments & Amusements Stories continued Seafaring Tis an ill wind that blows no one good - Hull fisherman s story - J.L. Haycock On the tail end of Doggerbank - J. Lamplough Prize story competition 2nd prize. A Press Gang story set in Hull by Fred Ingham Stories of the North Sea & Sixpence prepaid - short story local setting Tranby Croft County gathering at Tranby Croft Western show N. Lincs, A Penny show performance, Western show Page 33

34 Expeditions Expeditions Antarctic Steam yacht Morning - on Antarctic research Return of the Morning - Exploration Dr. Aikman researches in Gold Coast Marmaduke Letter on Thomas Marmaduke, Hull explorer Page 34

35 Fairs Fairs Bazaar Yeomanry Bazaar opened by Earl Roberts Carnival Children s carnival in the Boulevard Hull Fair An Exciting Hull Fair Day Report on Hull Fair Page 35

36 Ferries Ferries Humber Sketch establishment of Humber ferry Sketch old view of New Holland Ferry Victoria Pier Report on Pontoon on Victoria Pier Page 36

37 Fires Fires Bridlington Wesleyan schools destroyed by fire near Rope Walk Brocklesby Park Serious fire at Brocklesby Park Cleethorpes Pier pavilion burnt down Dock Big Warehouse Fire on Queen s Dock Incendiarism - Hull dock fires Driffield King s Mill Driffield burnt down Gas Works Hull Gas Works on fire Grimsby Steam Trawling Co. fire at Grimsby Hull And incendiary fires Cartoon on burning fatalities in Hull, children s deaths, a reflection on Hull parents Fire in Maxwell St Keyingham 2 stack fires at Keyingham Saltagh and Mr Harrison farm Oil Mill Waterloo Oil Mill on fire again Rawcliffe Hall In flames Selby Abbey Serious fire Sketch of Selby Abbey after fire Tannery Holmes Tannery on fire Tar Works Fire at Major s Tar Works ? Major s Tar Distillery on fire long acc. with sketches of burnt bodies Page 37

38 Fishing Fishing Bridlington Rebellion Bridlington and Flamborough fishermen, dispute with RNLI Engineers Letter on trawlers engineers Explosion On a Hull trawler Fatality Inquest on trawler fatality Fish merchants Walk Hull to Bridlington - Haworth Arms Fish trade Brighter prospects for Hull fish trade Progress of fishing trade in Hull Report on Hull Fish Trade Presentation to C. Hellyer - Hull and the Fish trade Crisis in fishing trade - Grimsby conference Dispute Grimsby Fisherman An Old Hull Fisherman - Recollections of John Scott Grimsby fisherman s career 98 years old Distress on East Coast Filey and Flamborough fishermen Fishing Industry Hull Fishing Industry, Meeting of Merchants and owners long acc Report on Fishing Industry Short details Hull and Grimsby fishing interests German trawlers In the Humber Hardships on Hull trawler Molopo Iceland Hull to Iceland - 15 days on a steam trawler Losses, general Hull trawler ashore at Bempton Hull trawler stranded on Filey Brigg Loss of Hull and Grimsby trawlers feared Trawlers stranded at Withernsea Murder Of mate on Hull trawler Queen Alexander Mutiny On Grimsby trawler Sethon Piracy Report of piracy on Hull trawler, Russian Outrage Russians fire on Hull trawlers, long account , & 7 Inquest 8 Inquiry Russians and Hull trawlers, Outrage aftermath & 12 Case Russian agents in Hull to bribe witnesses in Outrage Photo of North Sea outrage in Western Cemetery Russian Outrage Memorial to be unveiled on August 30th, by Lord Nunburnholme Sea Fisheries Association Meeting at Grimsby Tax River Humber - tax on Fishing and River Craft Vessel builders Trawler trials Tanton - Cook Walton and Gemmel Vessel Owners Cargill Large trade notice, Cargill Steam Trawling Co., Page 38

39 Fishing Report new steam trawling Company (Cargill) Vessel Owners continued Plastow Failure of Grimsby smackowners James Plastow and Edward J. Plastow Spring Presentation to Lawrence Spring President of Hull Fish Vessel Owners Association - Fish Dock Vessels, individual Adeline Hull trawler Adeline wrecked Cecil Bd. of Trade inquiry into loss of smack Cecil, Grimsby Celestial Empire Hull trawler Celestial Empire of Hull ashore at Grimston Garth Ceylon Hull trawler Ceylon sunk Cleopatra Hull trawler Cleopatra lost Cormorant Hull trawler Cormorant seized by Danes Drake Grimsby trawler ashore at Mappleton Drake Ebro Trials Ebro, new Grimsby trawler Elgin Hull trawler Elgin lost Empress Bd. of Inquiry into loss of Hull trawler Empress Euphrates Loss of trawler Euphrates Bd. of Trade inquiry Hull Trawler ashore at Cowden Euphrates European Loss of 2 Hull trawlers Newfoundland and European Germania Grimsby trawlermen run down Germania Hibernus Steam trawler Hibernus sunk in Bridlington harbour Honora Hull trawler Honora ashore off Marske Indian Steam trawler Indian abandoned Grimsby Jameson Grimsby trawler wrecked Jedburgh Loss of Grimsby trawler John Sherburn Trial trip Hull trawler John Sherburn Jupiter Hull trawler Jupiter lost Leonora Sketch trawler Leonora at Withernsea Molopo Hardships on Hull trawler Molopo Newfoundland Loss of 2 Hull trawlers Newfoundland and European Petunia Grimsby trawler ashore at Kilnsea Puritan Board of Trade Inquiry loss of Hull trawler Puritan , &12 Page 39

40 Fishing Queen Alexander Murder of mate on Hull trawler Queen Alexander Vessels, individual continued Rialto Bd. of Trade inquiry into loss of Rialto &12 Royal Two Grimsby trawlers overdue - Victoria & Royal Sethon Mutiny on Grimsby trawler Sethon St. Bernard Hull trawler St. Bernard lost Tanton Trawler trials Tanton - Cook Walton and Gemmel Trinidad Hull trawler Trinidad lost Utopia Grimsby trawler Utopia ashore at Cowden More details Grimsby trawler Utopia ashore Cowden Victoria Two Grimsby trawlers overdue - Victoria & Royal Page 40

41 Folklore & Popular Culture Folklore & Popular Culture Customs English Customs in days of Old - John Symons Dialect Malet Lambert lecture to dialect students Ghost A Preston Ghost Good Ship Welcome an authentic Hull Ghost story Lincolnshire Ghost - Halton Holgate Lincs, discovery of bones Harvest Home A Lincs Harvest Home Hermit An East Riding Hermit, Staple Jack Superstitions British Superstitions, J. Symons Page 41

42 Friendly & Benefit Societies Friendly & Benefit Societies Friendly societies And their origin - John Symons , Hull Oddfellows Visit of Grandmaster Page 42

43 Gardens & Parks Gardens & Parks Brocklesby Park Serious fire at Brocklesby Park Gardener s Recollections Hull Gardener s Recollections 99 years old, Mr Leak of Melwood Crescent Grimsby Baths and a park for Grimsby Recreation grounds Hull and Municipal Recreation grounds Gift of recreation ground for the Y.P.I West Park New recreation ground for Hull - West Park Zoological Gardens Sketch of Rome at Hull Zoological Gardens Page 43

44 Gas Gas Scunthorpe Gas turned on new Gas Works Scunthorpe Page 44

45 History History Barton R. Brown and History of Barton churches First volume of Brown s History of Barton published and Thombleson s Fragments Relating to Barton Barton on Humber - by J.R. Boyle & Letter Barton and its history Letter Barton from J.R. Boyle re Barton Beverley Reminiscences of Old Beverley - C.R. Empson , , , , & Ruskin Hall students shown round Beverley Minster by J.R. Boyle Brazzock Or Sketches of some Humorous Characters of a Holderness Parish by Rev. William Smith , , , , , Charles I. Cartoon Charles I. visits Hull Charters Commemoration of Hull Charter The first Charter Old Bridlington Charters Church history In North Lincs Clerical Reminiscences of East Yorks Cottingham In Bygone times Customs English Customs in days of Old - John Symons De la Pole Travis Cook letter re De la Pole statue in King Edward St Dock history A Fragment of Dock history - Hull in Feast A 17th Century Hull Feast - T.T. Wildridge Fisherman An Old Hull Fisherman - Recollections of John Scott Hessle Manor of Hessle in 17th century, J.R. Boyle , , Highway robbery Bygone Hull Tragedy - Bull Inn, Stepney (highway robbery) Horkstow The Shirleys of Horkstow - J. Symons Hornsea Story of the Press Gang at Hornsea Malet Lambert lecture at Hornsea - Ancient Church and Trade guilds , Hull 60 Years Ago Old Man s memories , Recollections of Hull Looking backward - Hull Bygone Hull , &7 Cartoon on discovery of Hull Heroes in a Bygone Age J. Symons My Recollections of Hull - H.J. Corlyon , , , , , , , , Stray leaves of a Hull Vintner, 18 th century diary edited by W W Wilson , Hull s aspirations in Lincoln Assizes July Page 45

46 History Lister Alice Lister Hull s greatest heroine Mechanics Institute A Backward Glance, Hull Mechanics Institute Northumberland Household Book Review of Northumberland Household Book (Boyle) Parliamentary elections Bribery and Corruption in Hull Parliamentary elections- J.R. Boyle Patrington Eleanor Lloyd correction of Poulson, Roman altar at Patrington is a 17th century sundial Ravensrod An old Humber seaport Shawe Hull in Troubled Times J. Travis-Cook, a John Shawe sermon Shipbuilding History of Humber shipbuilding Shipwreck Horrors of Shipwreck includes details of building of Christ Church Glimpses of the Past, Wreck of Hull Ship Wyton in Skinner Descendants of a Hull Worthy, 1662 William Skinner Theatre Country Theatre in Bygone Days - J.R. Boyle , Thorntons Old East Hull - The Coming of the Thorntons Tickell Report, Tickell Memorial, Ulrome Church Tithe J.R. Boyle find of receipt for Corn Tithe, sketch Tobacco pipe makers Hull tobacco pipe makers of the 17th century Tokens Letter on Hull tokens War time Hull in war time , , Whaling Capt. Barron lecture, Old Whaling Days Wife auction Cartoon wife sold by auction - George Gawthorpe of Patrington sold his wife by auction in Hull Market place for 20 guineas to unknown man 4th Feb Yorkshire Inquisitions Report Yorkshire Inquisitions Y.A.J Page 46

47 Hospitals Hospitals See also MEDICINE, PUBLIC HEALTH Asylum Beverley 56 lunatics in Beverley Union cost of keeping them reduced from 8s 2d to 7s 10d a week Lincolnshire Lady doctors and Lincs Asylum appointments Overcrowding at Lincs Asylum Willerby A visit to Willerby - how the sick of mind are cared for Dr. Merson Supt. at Willerby Asylum attacked by a patient Willerby Asylum assault case Escape and death of John Fisher from Willerby Asylum Short report on management of Willerby Asylum Meeting of Hull Town Council, alleged Asylum scandal Bridlington Meeting proposed hospital for Bridlington Cottingham M.O. suggests isolation hospital for treatment of fever continually recurring in the village Driffield Sir Tatton Sykes elected President of Driffield Cottage Hospital Election of Guardians, Driffield Infirmary expenditure Frodingham Meeting Frodingham Cottage Hospital Nursing Barton My experience as a Hospital Nurse, Edith Coupland, Barton , Brigg And Diamond Jubille Nursing Inst. Fund Brigg Jubilee dinner Nursing Inst Death at Eagleton House of the Chevalier Hewitt in 80th year. This house as bought for the Jubilee Nurses started in the Jubilee Hospital nurses diet Ald. Rollit query Diet given Nurses home and Art Gallery subscriptions at Hull Scunthorpe Proposed Nursing Institute for Scunthorpe to commemorate Queen s reign Royal Infirmary Prince of Wales invited to lay foundation stones of Infirmary extensions also Victoria statue and new square Page 47

48 Housing Housing Artisans Dwellings In Hull Bridlington House Building at Brid Cottingham New cottages at Cottingham - in Coverdale lane Fitzroy street Go ahead for new houses in Hull, Fitzroy street etc Great Passage St. Victoria Mansions, Great Passage St., opened, and sketch Cartoon Spring cleaning Great Passage St Hessle 225 houses built in Hessle in 10 years Cartoon Hessle Cottage Homes Meeting Sculcoates District Council on Hessle house and on Preston water Rents Letter on Earl Carrington s rents Slums Cartoon of Machell St. Slum Clearance in St. Philip s parish Sketch of a Hull Slum Slum tragedy - West St Working Classes Housing of the Working Classes, long account Page 48

49 Industries Industries Brick and Tile Works First kiln of Withernsea Brick and Tile Works opened Newport Tile Makers, Bankrupt Flax industry In Lincs Crowle Jam factory Sale of Jam factory Anlaby road - Wm. Cussons Manufactured stone New Hull industry - Manufactured stone, Christies Patent Stone - Bishop St., Sculcoates lane New industries Report on Hull s new industries Oil Mills Bankruptcy of Alexandria Oil Mills Wincolmlee, Sanderson Waterloo Oil Mill on fire again Sawmills Building at Hull, list of properties approved in Hull - includes a sawmill for Reckitts Tannery Inquest on boy who fell into Holmes tan pit Holmes Tannery on fire Tar Works Fire at Major s Tar Works ? Major s Tar Distillery on fire long account with sketches of burnt bodies Page 49

50 Inns Inns Betting Public house betting Bull Inn Bygone Hull Tragedy - Bull Inn, Stepney (highway robbery) Children Hull Children and Public Houses Haworth Arms Fish merchants walk Hull to Bridlington - Haworth Arms Kilnsea Table of erosion by Rev. E.M. Cole, Blue Bell Inn, Kilnsea etc King s Head Old house in Hull demolished by Corporation - King s Head described as vandalism Ship Hotel Short ref. to Tennyson residence in Hull, Vallance Place, used to visit, Ship Hotel, Lowgate Spread Eagle Letter from landlord of Spread Eagle, Lime Street critical of Vicar of Holy Trinity address on Temperance White Hart Accident at the White Hart, Silver St Page 50

51 Inventions Inventions Watson Old Sheeny Watson - Inventor Page 51

52 Libraries Libraries Albion St. Sketch of borrowers Free Library, Albion St Carnegie library Opening of Carnegie library, Hull Charterhouse Letter from Master for Library at Hull Charterhouse Hedon Reading Room opened Library Grumbles Letter some Library Grumbles Lyceum Library Hull closing Page 52

53 Lifeboats & Lifesaving Lifeboats & Lifesaving Bridlington Loss of Bridlington lifeboat Rebellion Bridlington and Flamborough fishermen, dispute with RNLI Page 53

54 Local Government Local Government Aldermen Massey and Hull docks Monument to late Ald Shaw unveiled at Brigg Death of Ald. J.L. Seaton Death of Ald. Richardson, Drewton Stray Funeral Ald. Richardson Funeral Ald. Toozes, fish trawler owner Bridlington Sketch of first Mayor and Mayoress of Bridlington Brigg Meeting Brigg U.D.C , , , Re drainage Cottingham And decision to divide into wards Proposed Town Hall for Cottingham Urban District Council and night soil carts Councillors Cartoon Coun. Shaw, Public cleaner Letter from Coun. John Brown on naming of new streets controversy Grimsby Meeting Grimsby Town Council, street improvements Hessle Local Government at Hessle Meeting Hessle Parish Council , Opening of Hessle Town Hall and sketch Hessle Public meeting Hornsea Future U.D.C Hull City Council Hull Corporation and Junction St. property Meeting Hull City Council alleged Asylum scandal Petition against Superannuation Pensions - Hull City Council meeting Kirton Lindsey New Town Hall for Kirton Lindsey Local Government Board Cheque for relief in East Riding main roads Local Govt. Bd. Inquiry Mayor Hull and its Needs, choice of Mayor Patrington Holderness Sanitation action by Patrington R.D.C Meeting Patrington R.D.C Quay road crossing Rates Hull rates increase of 7d. in the Sculcoates Meeting Sculcoates District Council on Hessle house and on Preston water On spread of disease South Holderness Parish Council Elections Sunk Island retiring members A. Brown, J. Lakes, R. Lonsdale, George Meadley, Michael Meadley, T. Smith, Robert Meadley and Mrs. F. Harland Town Clerk Edgar Laverack appointed Town Clerk of Hull Possible resignation of Town Clerk of Hull, Hill-Dawe Town Hall New Hull Schemes - Town Hall to be extended Withernsea Page 54

55 Local Government And Urban powers Page 55

56 Markets Markets Abattoir Letter on site of Hull abattoir Proposed site for Hull abattoir Public Abattoir scheme Brigg At Brigg Stattus, fair Cattle Market Pig cemetery at Beverley in Corporation yard between the Cottage Hospital and the Cattle Market City Market Behind the City Market Covered market Opening of new covered market - North Church Side Early Morning Market Sketch of Early Morning Market Page 56