Barmston
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Map of North Humberside
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Barmston books (4 available)
Grimsby Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Hull Town and City Memories
Hardback
Did You Know? Hull - A Miscellany
Hardback
- 4 photos on Barmston appear in 4 Frith books - View photos of Barmston
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Barmston memories
Read and share memories of Barmston and North Humberside inspired by Frith photos
Black Bull
I will always remember nights sat outside the Black Bull with my parents and 2 sisters. Although it was August, the weather was chilly. There was a juke box out back on a sort of covered terrace and every time I hear 'Johnny Remember Me' by John Leyton, I am transported back to Barmston. We stayed in a tiny caravan on what is now the huge Barmston Beach Haven site and there was just one tiny shop.We had to walk into the village for certain things and as it rained plenty,the road was covered in huge slugs!! We did have the odd sunny day and have photos of us near those huge conrete blocks that sat on the beach.I remember the ...read more here
Contributed by Sylvia Richardson
Wynton cafe, on the clifftops
I would love to hear from anybody that remembers WYNTON CAFE that was situated on the south cliffs at Barmston. My parents, Terry & Ida McGuire owned & ran the cafe from approx 1966 to 1970. I was just a boy at the time and have very fond memories of Barmston, the hot summers and the cold, isolated snowy winters. I remember standing and watching several bungalows and chalets disappear over the cliffs, my mum would always tell me off for what seemed to me at the time a very exciting adventure. I would go on 'expeditions' alone except for our alsatian 'Zena' and lurcher 'Sheba', and me - equipped with a catapault, a fishing line and a bag of sweets... ...read more here
Contributed by Tony McGuire
North Humberside memories
Black Bull
I will always remember nights sat outside the Black Bull with my parents and 2 sisters. Although it was August, the weather was chilly. There was a juke box out back on a sort of covered terrace and every time I hear 'Johnny Remember Me' by John Leyton, I am transported back to Barmston. We stayed in a tiny caravan on what is now the huge Barmston Beach Haven site and there was just one tiny shop.We had to walk into the village for certain things and as it rained plenty,the road was covered in huge slugs!! We did have the odd sunny day and have photos of us near those huge conrete blocks that sat on the beach.I remember the ...read more here
A memory of Barmston contributed by Sylvia Richardson
Wynton cafe, on the clifftops
I would love to hear from anybody that remembers WYNTON CAFE that was situated on the south cliffs at Barmston. My parents, Terry & Ida McGuire owned & ran the cafe from approx 1966 to 1970. I was just a boy at the time and have very fond memories of Barmston, the hot summers and the cold, isolated snowy winters. I remember standing and watching several bungalows and chalets disappear over the cliffs, my mum would always tell me off for what seemed to me at the time a very exciting adventure. I would go on 'expeditions' alone except for our alsatian 'Zena' and lurcher 'Sheba', and me - equipped with a catapault, a fishing line and a bag of sweets... ...read more here
A memory of Barmston contributed by Tony McGuire
Extracts From Barmston & North Humberside books
There are good views both north and south along the coastline, and on
a clear day one can see for miles in both directions and out to sea. Once
more, coastal erosion is the big problem: it is believed that the sea has
claimed two and a half miles of land since Roman times.
An extract from from"Humberside Pocket Album".
On a fine summer’s day, these bungalows must have looked ideal to the prospective buyer with clean sea air and a beautiful view. Sad to say, Neptune claimed them one by one in the 1970s.
An extract from from"Yorkshire Coastal Memories Photographic Memories".
This, the main part of the village, is built far enough inland to be safe from the ravages of the sea. The Boynton family had a large influence here; they built a fine hall with a moated enclosure, of which some parts still remain.
An extract from from"Yorkshire Coastal Memories Photographic Memories".
Greystone Bridge is ‘the fairest bridge in the two shires it links together’, according to Charles Henderson and Henry Coates in ‘Old Cornish Bridges and Streams’. Today it carries the A384 to Tavistock.
An extract from from"Hull Town and City Memories".
‘Chain Bridge was a great attraction for me and my friends. We always built a hut in the woods — and would like to have slept there, but weren’t allowed to. We cooked anything cookable we could get hold of, pinching potatoes and turnips from fields on the way there, and apples from orchards. We used to build bridges from island to island or spend hours killing vipers which abounded in a limestone tip heap. Daft we were; why we weren’t bitten I don’t know. Occasionally we made 6d by bringing home a basket of blackberries or elderberries for someone. Such was the summer holiday of a working-class boy’. Mr Cecil Cole, talking of his childhood in the early years of the 20th century, quoted in Arthur Bate Venning and Arthur Wills’ book ‘Yesterday’s Town’.
An extract from from"Hull Town and City Memories".