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Liz Cook Ken Cooke Sylvia Cooke Barbara Cross Barbara Hays Audrey Hickey June Irvine Barbara Lazenby Bernard Lazenby |
We have 18 attendants here to help visitors at various times. We give thanks to them all here.  click for a larger image in this Window of some of our Team of Attendants here to help you. Also, we welcome to the Team our latest attendant, Ann Rogers. |
Jill Lawson Audrey Moore Sylvia Popple Ann Pullen Peter Rhodes Ann Rogers Tom Steele Jean Sutherland Alan Thurloe |
See many items illustrating the day to day lifeof Sutton & Wawne folk going back over 100 years.There's more details of what there is to see, archives, records, school registers, hundreds of photos, etc, on the FAMILY HISTORY page.
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A big show of hands was given to both presenters, and Merrill also paid tribute to the mini-legion of Attendants and Helpers who always do us proud in preparing and serving the Interval Tea, which as always, was superb.SOME RECENT EVENTS
and photos contributed by viewers and ex-residents
We have here a magnificent family photo of the Williams family outside |
It was Robert Edward Williams' great-grandson who visited the Resource Centre in November, one result of which is this historic photo posted here. Dated at 1919, it's good to know that the uniformed members of the family did at least survive the carnage of the previous five years. Also named Robert Edward Williams, this great-grandson of Sutton now lives in South Africa. He visited numerous family members, and it's heartening to know of his deep interest in family history and his enjoyment of the Resource Centre. We send him and his family our very best wishes. |
2007 Welwick Heritage Weekend
at Moat Farm
Welwick
13 - 14 October
a report by Merrill Rhodes
The sunny weather attracted hundreds of visitors keen to get a taste of 'the good old days'. The 'young 'uns' looked on in amazement as helpers laboured on the old threshing machine, and watched as the grain was separated from the chaff.
Bernard himself headed the hardy lot over there by the fire, where they heated the hoops and skillfully hammered them over the cartwheels. A wood turner demonstrated his craft. There was machinery, old transport vehicles, a splendid gypsy caravan, steam engines, not to mention farming implements, etc.
Bernard's link with Sutton? His great-uncle was Thomas Blashill, writer and architect, who wrote the definitive history of Sutton-in-Holderness published in 1896.
Thomas Blashill's brother, who was Bernard's grandfather, farmed in Sutton, at Soffham and Noddle Hill Farms. He was President of the Sutton Reading Room, and a notable resident. It was his son, Walter, that moved to Welwick.
The photos show the ancient art of 'sweating' a new metal tyre onto a cart wheel. The metal tyre is heated over a furnace, and expands. Then it is dropped directly onto the wooden wheel. Copious amounts of cold water contracts the metal almost immediately, thus shrinking the tyre to an extremely tight fit, which also has the effect of compacting all the joints of the spokes and thus making the wheel very durable.
This would traditionally have been done on farms, in villages, around the community, by a wheelwright. From which we get the surname Wheeler, just one of the many dozens of surnames that originate in the humble trades and professions of rural England that are now celebrated every year in events such as these all over the country.
Another surname, whose 'trade' was demonstrated here, was Turner, a man skilled in turning the wood on a lathe to make the spokes that went into the wheel.
Other surnames that come immediately to mind could be Trinder, another name for a wheel maker, Carter, who made the actual cart, Hooper who made hoops for barrels but could just as easily make the metal tyres, though more often made by the village Wright, or Blacksmith. Naylor was the tradename of a man who would make some of the nails used, though there would have been few of those, most of the joints being of wooden pegs, again perhaps made by the Turner. And lastly, perhaps all the original timber, harvested from local woodland and coppices, would have been cut and prepared by a Sawyer.
[ photos : Peter Rhodes ]
We've had a request for photos and historical information from J. Barry Waterland, formerly of Sutton parish and pupil of Cavendish Road School, who now lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, in the USA.
This is what Barry says ...
I am in dire need of any information, and particularly photographs of both the church, station, and the immediate area, as I am working from memory, and as much information as I am able to find long distance. The station and the church are the most important aspects of the model.
Your Web site has been a great help to me so far; and I would greatly appreciate any help you, or your congregation, could provide. Please let me know if you think this is at all possible. If anyone has any old photographs of particularly the station, I would gladly refund the postage in both directions, if they were not able to scan them in and e-mail them.
I look forward to hearing from you, and thank you in advance for any help you are able to provide."
Rob .. your Webman
Terry King recently sent me a clipping he'd saved from the Daily Mail, an article by a staff writer editing reader's memories. At a guess, it dates from some time in the 1970's or 1980's, and I would imagine a lot of folks mentioned in this lady's memories are no longer with us. The subject lady herself, Barbara Rowntree, eventually became Barbara McGough, and after travelling and working all over the globe in a career editing various magazines, she emigrated to Adelaide in South Australia. She had seen an aerial view of modern Sutton, and it had prompted her to write to the HDM with her own memories of the places she could still locate on the photo. I thought the whole article worth seeing, and so have reproduced it here in its entirety ... Enjoy !
How deep childhood impressions go ! My recent memory is a very fallible sign, I think, not only of old age, but of the increasing complexities of life; but my early recollections are still startlingly vivid.
So it is with my opposite number in Adelaide, South Australia, Mrs B L McGough, formerly Beryl Rowntree and now professionally known as “Barbara Page”, the 'Miss Humber', it would seem, of their evening newspaper, 'The News'.
Mrs McGough, who is also doing a lot of freelance work for mainstream magazines and radio, was born in Sutton, and she was extremely interested in one of our serial photographs of that area which someone sent he during the summer.
“Seeing the photograph has brought back a flood of memories,” she writes. “The place hasn't altered greatly in its layout; I can recognise every stick and stone.
“I can see the house where I was born, 2, Rutland Terrace, with my grandparents' house next door. Mr and Mrs W Goodin, they're buried in the churchyard there, with the names of my two brothers inscribed on their gravestone, Cadet Kenneth W Rowntree, aged 16, lost at sea, and Pilot-Officer H Raymond Rowntree, aged 21, lost on operations, both in 1941.
Mrs McGough remembers the names of many people who lived in her street.; The Pinkneys, The Danbys, the Hakeneys, the Simpsons, the Pitchers, the Grays, the Hodgsons.
“Church Street was the hub of our universe. I remember the Carricks at the corner of Stoneferry Lane, the station where I watched troops going off in World War I, the church school, the church where we played many hours happily among the graves, the Methodist Chapel where I went three times every Sunday.
“I ran my mother's messages there, shopping at Wheelhouse's, spending my Saturday pennies at Rene Rodmell's sweetshop, buying a reel of cotton at Miss Heron's, the drapers (and I can still hear the tinkle of the bell on the shop door as you opened it).
“We gazed at the mugs and jugs and bowls in Miss Moody's and stopped to look at the pots and pans in Fletcher's.
“Every day I walked the long stretch to the Council School up on the hill four times a day. I can even remember my first teacher there, Miss Richardson, beating time to 'All Things Bright And Beautiful', apparently her favourite hymn.
“I can still pinpoint Holmes the butchers, and Hickeys further along. Sutton House has come out fine; I remember picnics and garden parties there and the annual Horse Show.
“Winnie Leake lived in a house on the estate, and learnt music with my teacher, Bertha Rodmell. The Sewells lived just there, opposite Potterill Lane, and their neices, Marjorie and Mary Cross – I went to their double wedding in the Methodist Chapel in 1938 or 1939, and watched them given away by their aunts, Lydia and Hetty.”
Mrs McGough adds that one of her schoolteachers, Clarice Annison, is still living in Church Mount. An uncle, Mr Harry Goodin, is still living in Sutton, and until recently another uncle lived in Lime Tree Avenue.
She draws a vivid picture of life in pre-war Sutton, when the church bells rang … and later, one would meet the bellringers, a solid and portly group, in best suits and boots, watch chains and waistcoats.
“Having rung the bells, they never felt obliged to attend the formal services and took their regular Sunday morning stroll always in the same direction. I know this well, because my Uncle Tom was one of the bellringers.
“We had the 'gentry' then … the Smiths, the Robsons, the Waterhouses, the Bladons, and the differences were sharply defined. But somehow we never felt deprived or inferior. We all knew our places.
“The doctor had a special place too, and everybody in the village knew Dr Gillespie and looked up to him in a way. And then he took on a raw, young partner, Dr Bruce. I well remember the curiosity about the new, pink-cheeked Scot, who, my grandmother said, was 'too young' and she much preferred old Dr Shaw who visited the village every so often …”
Since leaving Sutton at the age of 20, Mrs McGough seems to have had many adventures. In 1943, she went to Dublin with her Irish husband, and fron 1947 to 1955 was editor of the Irish magazine, 'Woman's Life', later incorporated into 'Women's Realm.'
From 1956 to 1965 she was Woman Editor of the Dublin Evening Herald, when she left to travel the world, ending in South America in 1970, from where she went to London to become Travel Editor for 'She.'
Mrs McGough later went to Australia to live with her daughter, hence her semi-retirement doing freelancing work on the Adelaide newspaper. That was several years ago, and she would be well into her 80's now if she's still alive. I'm sure her memories are shared by many other folks too, and do illustrate what a close-knit community Sutton was in those days.
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING REALLY USEFUL!
Being as this did used to be a school, perhaps this spot may be an appropriate place for a really useful link. To some schoolwork!
from left to right:
This time, we have an extra Barbara .. so three Barbaras and a husband, Bernard .... and Alan.
There are several other volunteer staff as well, and husbands help the lasses when extra hands are required, moving displays or helping with the catering when we have a special show on, like the popular Lantern Slide Shows, or the Victorian Afternoon that we had last year.
... and this Soccer Team, c. 1952
Terry King, a former Sutton resident who settled in Germany after a career in the army, sent this old photo dating from the early part of the last century. Taken about 1914 or just before the First World War, Terrry's mother, born 1906 and aged about 6 here, is on the second row from the front, second in from the left. And another sister is at the other end of the row. Their maiden name was Catterick. Old images such as this are so full of atmosphere. Look at those lads standing proudly with their arms manfully folded. Many would have fathers soon to be lost in the First War, and whom themeselves in turn would go on to have, and lose, sons that would know the terrors of fighting in the Second. And the girls, of course, as wives and mothers, by and large kept house and home together while they were away . . as did Terry's mum shown here. She later knew the trauma of the blitz, and of having her son evacuated to the Lake District and not knowing how it would all end. Can anyone recall the name of the mistress ?
TWO SIGNS OF THE CORPORATION . .
A familiar site in Sutton in the 1950's, before Bransholme was started, when the 32 service terminated in Church Street. Behind this AEC Regent III, note the Corporation Telephones phonebox which used to be just at the end of the church wall, right opposite College Street.
. . . AND WAITING TO TAKE THE TRAIN TO THE SEASIDE.
This picture, also from Terry, is a heavily enhanced copy of an old newspaper clipping, hence the poor quality and "woven paper" effect. But enough of the atmosphere remains here of this foggy day on the Hornsea line, and of two young girls awaiting the train to the seaside, to make it worth showing. Note the signal box, where the playground is now, and the points for the coal siding. It's almost certainly someone's copyright . . probably the HDM's . . please forgive me in the interests of nostalgia. You can click this picture for a slightly larger, if not improved, image.
We must add our own thanks
Another Hull site that is well worth a visit
Google Earth – Explore, Search and Discover
I like to think that there is so much on this website to keep anyone occupied
Bernard and Mary Blashill, of Moat Farm, Welwick, hosted the annual Heritage Weekend on their farm fields during the weekend of 13 and 14 October.
The car boot sales were going well, in aid of various charities. Last year more than £5,000 was raised, and the Blashills, villagers and friends work so hard to run this event every year. Astonishing amounts of food are consumed - more than 1000 bacon butties, scones and cakes.
Bernard himself, looking here in the picture of health as he welcomed Merrill to the Heritage Weekend, is 80 this week, and we wish him a happy birthday, and many more to come.
Terry King, now living in Osnabruck, is wondering if any of his old mates
from Hull Grammar School are still around. Here's the class of 1948.
And a fearsome bunch they looked too .. any you may recognise ?.
Terry is back row, 4th from the left.
An Appeal for some Historical Information
"I am working on a diorama of Sutton which will include a scratch built model of St. James, together with a scale model of the railway station as it appeared in the mid 1950's, and several other local features, including the old Tweendykes Road level crossing. It is planned to exhibit the model at the City of Greensboro Children's Museum upon it's completion.
Some Pre-War Sutton Memories
Inside the Old School, this free Exhibition has hundreds of visitors annually
to see items and photos representing life in Sutton years ago . . .
including many archives, school registers, etc.
PRESS YOUR "BACK" KEY to come back to this page.
Merrill Rhodes, caught on camera,
assisted by her husband, Peter.
If you used to attend Sutton School,
then do note the restored clock on the wall behind Merrill.
That should give you the shudders . .
No, not Merrill, the CLOCK !!
DANCE MAT TYPING
Try the BBC SCHOOLS website for a host of activities, both for serious learning and for fun. So, boys and girls, just because you're off school unwell, it doesn't mean that the brain has to stay idle! One of the most useful as well as fun items on the BBC site is a free typing tutor, to learn to touch-type. Use all your fingers! And you'll be able to do all your emails in half the time, or email twice as many friends in the same time .... or is it in half the time ... no, that's maths, isn't it. No, not my forte either. But please don't email me with your complaints if you don't care for working when you're off school .. it would take me much too long to reply. I can only use two fingers! And they're slow.
Sutton Resource Centre attendants,
Jayne Turton, Elizabeth Barnes and Merrill Rhodes
(holding a 1930s electric kettle which had just been
donated by Brenda and Bill Turner!)
The occasion for dressing up "in costume" was
the 2004 St George's Day weekend.
Click them for a fuller, Panoramic View !
LAST YEAR'S 2006 CIVIC WEEKEND
Some of the Exhibition Centre crew on the Civic Weekend in September 2006
the Centre had over 60 visitors in total, a steady stream of folk over all 4 days
click for a larger image .. press Return to come back to this page
Alan; Merrill; Barbara and Barbara.
They're standing by the centre table which is absolutely packed with exhibits donated by former Sutton residents, and others, over the years. Old money in the form of silver thre'penny bits, farthings, and the good old ten bob note, to ration cards and picture post cards, song cards, and a great deal of other memoribilia of the years, all make for little space on that table for tea!
Ex-Sutton choirboy, Terry King, who now lives with his wife, Leni, in Osnabrück, showing 1941 copies of the Osnabrück Daily News that he brought for the Exhibition Room. The dates are those immediately after the Luftwaffe's bombing of Hull in March and April of 1941, and one in July, naming Hull by name. So one thing strikes immediately .. no-one was fooled by the BBC reference to "A North-East Coast Town" .. least of all the German High Command or the Luftwaffe. They knew exactly where they'd been. The accounts are very perfunctory and matter-of-fact .. perhaps some would describe as clinical. Space forbids the full reproduction here of the newspaper pages themselves, and in the old German script of the time, they're devilishly hard to read. But for anyone who wants to try their skill, they'll be available to view in the Centre. Terry & Leni have kindly provided some basic translation on a separate page. Click on any of the images to view.
Terry is standing in front of the displays and cases containing various Sutton residents' wartime decorations, paybooks, plus items issued to Fire Wardens, etc.
The Free Exhibition is open in the Old School every week on Fridays
from 10 am to 2 pm . . .
tea, coffee, biscuits can be served ..
50p per person per cup.
Not bad for a drink, a biccy, and a natter!
SOME PICS OF SUTTON MEMORIES
What about the folks in this modern photo ...?
Any memories of this band when they played
Sutton Church Hall ... around 1959-60 ...
Happier and Carefree Days
John Kemp in the USA (on photo, front row ) sent this photo via his friend (and our previous correspondant, Terry King in Germany). Amazing how these memories travel the world through cyberspace to arrive back here. It's a photo of Sutton AFC Amatuer League, Div 4, 1951/52 Season, when they won the League in that year They're all Sutton Lads, and Terry's own father is on the right.
Names are : Back Row left to right .. Tom Jones, J Buxton, Mr Rust, Les Buxton, Frank Atkin, Colin Duncan, Ian Singleton, Harold King.
Middle Row ; Alan Rooke, Johhny Read, Geof Hall, Eric Harrison, Alan Constable.
Front Row ; Alan Jones, John Kemp
A FAR OFF IMAGE OF THE OLD SCHOOL AND PROUD DAYS
two more of Terry King's pictures
I love the story I heard recently of the family that lived just about opposite the War Memorial, in the days before the trees grew so large. When getting ready for work in a morning, the gent of the family could look right out over to Swine, and see the smoke of his train as it left Swine station. He then had plenty of time to finish his coffee, don his hat and coat, and walk the few hundred yards to the station. Except on the very first morning of diesel operation. There was no smoke . . . so he missed it. New technology ..? Bah !!
Terry also recently sent this .. his grandparents Diamond Wedding, taken in the British Legion Hall in 1965. His Grandad Catterick features on some archive cine-film on the Sutton video, probably taken not so long after this. Featured from L - R : his great aunt, sister Susan, mother, grandparents, Aunt May, Terry himself, and an uncle.
This photo is from a glass plate in the Rev Colman Collection.
Mr Rodmell, the Station Master, here sporting a fine Edwardian beard,
is seen with two of his staff, an unknown lad, centre, and Mr White.
Some more likely Hull lads here, though some may be from Sutton.
I wonder if anyone recognises any
of these fine young reprobates . .
Click the picture for a closer look.
Are they Hull Sea Scouts, Sea Rangers . . ?
Previous offences will be taken into consideration !!
Did you serve in HM Armed Forces?
The Ministry of Defence are offering this badge
to men and women who served in HM Armed Forces,
up to and including 31st Dec 1959.
Included groups are :
Merchant Navy Seamen involved in military action,
Polish Forces under UK command,
the Cyprus Regiment, and The Home Guard.
Please note: this criteria does not include Veterans who served in the
Armed Forces of other Countries and who served alongside HM Armed Forces.
For example; Canadian Navy, or Royal Australian Air Force.
It is regrettable that the badge cannot be issued posthumously.
The badge is a survivors' badge, which is to be worn on civilian attire.
The only exception to this is War Widows and Widowers who are
getting a War Widows/Widowers Pension.
The deceased must have served before 31 December 1959.
Application Forms are available
in the Exhibition & Resource Centre,
or can be obtained from :
The Veterans Agency, Thornton-Cleveleys,
Norcross, BLACKPOOL, FY5 3WP
email : help@veteransagency.gsi.gov.uk
The Veterans Agency Website
tel : 0800 169 2277 (UK only) .. or .. +44 1253 866043 (Overseas)
THE BOOK IS OUT !!
SUTTON, BRANSHOLME AND WAWNE
Church and People - a Celebration
by Merrill Rhodes
published 10 April 2006 by Highgate Publications of Beverley
available locally from the Church Office, The Post Office,
and in the Sutton Exhibition and Resouces Centre
inside the Old School on Friday lunchtimes (10am - 2pm)
now at £12.00 per copy.
50p from each sale goes towards the church floor funds.
Please ring 01482 876370 for postage details
if requiring Mail Order
This is the long-awaited reprint, with updates,
of the excellent 1999 publication by Merrill
that originally celebrated the 650th anniversary of
the founding of Sutton Church.
The print run has been 500 copies;
many advance orders were taken,
and sales are expected to be 'keen'.
Ring and order, or collect, your copy now
to avoid disappointment.
For anyone interested in local history, has an interest
in the historic families of Sutton & Wawne,
or who has recently moved into the area
this book is highly recommended.
Your webmaster has read it from cover to cover,
and enjoyed it immensely.
HULL'S OWN AIR FORCE STATION
by Leonard C Bacon
in softback, A4 size.
Copies are now available to buy
From Mrs Judith Bangs of the EYFHS at:
5 Curlew Close
Molescroft
BEVERLEY
East Yorkshire
HU17 7QN
or at the Balloon Barrage Reunion Club website.
that Len completed this history before his
untimely death on 23 Aug 2007.
The Basque Children
. . . a short programme of silent film
new DVDs
about the Basque Children who stayed in Sutton
during and after the Spanish Civil War
is now also available on DVD.
The programme contains many good scenes of pre-war Sutton.
Copies may be purchased in the Resource Centre
and they are £8 each
In addition, there is also a DVD available
of the Blue Plaque unveiling and the following get-together
in the Old School.
Also on sale at the Exhibition Centre at £8 each.
The VIDEO of Sutton
a 50-minute programme about the history of the village,
and last available on VHS two or three years ago,
has now been re-issued on DVD.
Copies are available from
Sutton Post Office in Church Street.
A Sad Announcement
Further to the above, it is with great sadness that I
have to report the death of my good friend and film-maker
who made the Sutton video, Mr Robin Walters, and who owned
The Dovedale Studio in the Louis Pearlman Centre.
Aged not quite 60, Rob passed away after a massive
heart attack on Saturday, 3rd February, 2008.
There are more details on the
Dovedale Media home page,
which also includes a link to the village of Broughton where Rob is
now buried in the village cemetery, and contains many photos
of the beautiful and ancient church of St Mary's.
See the FAMILY HISTORY page
for some useful links and general help
if you are just starting out on your quest.
for general city history and Family History Links,
as well as a tremendous amount of info on WW2
and the Hull Blitz is
Click logo to pay them a visit.
IF YOU'RE A HISTORY FAN .... you may like this ....
the information changes every day.
And if you like your history with a
more of a British slant to it .. try
HISTORY TODAY MAGAZINE
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You also have the option to select your own date input!
Here's a link to an historical Short Story,
set in Sutton in the time of old King Henry ...
Or click this link below to learn about the Apparition in the Bell-Loft ..
and play the Curate's game ...
Short Story
for at least 2 whole days ... but if not, and the World is your Oyster,
maybe you'd like to explore this new mapping facility from Google ..
Google Earth.
Want to know more about a specific location?
Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps
and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.
Fly from space to your neighbourhood. Type in an address and zoom right in.
Search for schools, parks, restaurants, and hotels. Get driving directions.
Tilt and rotate the view to see 3D terrain and buildings.
Save and share your searches and favorites. Even add your own annotations.
[ please note: Google Earth is a broadband, 3D application
that not all computers can run. ]
Download it at this safe Google site .. I've put the site address below also,
so you can check it out as well as click on it .. best to be safe these days.
download GoogleEARTH here
... ... http://pack.google.com/product_info.html?earth .. .. ..
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St James', from the churchyard: taken 9 Sept 2006
looking south west.
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Use this page also in conjunction with the
Family History information and links page
for more information as to what is in the Centre,
and other links on the World Wide Web.
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