Barton-Upon-Humber
Barton-Upon-Humber photos (7 available)
Barton-Upon-Humber maps (2 available)
Map of South Humberside
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Barton-Upon-Humber books (4 available)
Grimsby Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Hull Town and City Memories
Hardback
Did You Know? Hull - A Miscellany
Hardback
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Barton-Upon-Humber memories
Read and share memories of Barton-Upon-Humber and South Humberside inspired by Frith photos
My travels with Mom
Travels brought me to my Auntie and Uncle's house above the Beauty Shop looking straight onto the photo. I loved them so much and their daughter, my cousin. I haven't seen them in years...don't know why. But this was always my favorite spot in England. I loved the Chip Shop. I had a good friend named Colin who lived here, he wrote me a beautiful poem that was so sweet.
Contributed by Susie Somerville-Franz
South Humberside memories
My travels with Mom
Travels brought me to my Auntie and Uncle's house above the Beauty Shop looking straight onto the photo. I loved them so much and their daughter, my cousin. I haven't seen them in years...don't know why. But this was always my favorite spot in England. I loved the Chip Shop. I had a good friend named Colin who lived here, he wrote me a beautiful poem that was so sweet.
A memory of Barton-Upon-Humber contributed by Susie Somerville-Franz
Foreshore Houseboats
In the early 1950's walking past the little white cottage that is now The Country Park Inn, towards Ferriby, one could see a selection of little ships (Puffers) pulled up high & dry on the river bank. that were used as houseboats. At weekends, visitors to these little boats could be seen painting them, and charging batteries with wind powered car dynamos.
Behind the cottage was the Earles Cement quarry's, one, now the County Park. was connected by a tunnel that passed beneath the A63 to another quarry (to what in the 1980's became the now closed Humberfield Landfill). there had been a narrowgauge railway line through the tunnel to carry the chalk from the quarry to the works, where it ...read more here
A memory of Hessle contributed by Len Marsden
Cowgate
The view is of Cowgate looking south. The white building in the background is the Green Dragon Inn - once a haunt of Dick Turpin. The beck, mill dam and church are just to the left. Welton once had 3 water mills - the last of which was working into the 1950s
A memory of Welton contributed by Maurice Mann
Extracts From Barton-Upon-Humber & South Humberside books
This photo is slightly later than
the above photograph; there is
not much change to the High
Street, but the cars are now
looking recognisably modern -
note the Morris 1000 saloon
and van in the foreground.
An extract from from"Humberside Pocket Album".
The church of St Peter was made redundant in 1972, and is now protected by English Heritage. Lincolnshire possesses very many Anglo-Saxon church towers, and St Peter’s is one of England’s best. The church could be described as two buildings in one, as part is Anglo-Saxon and the other is 13th-century. This church is a national as well as a Lincolnshire treasure.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Living Memories".
Barton-upon-Humber was once a rival to the port of Kingston upon Hull on the other side of the river Humber, but it is now a much smaller settlement, and the Market Place confirms that most definitely. Two buildings at the far end have been demolished for road widening, and even the White Lion (right), which became a pub in 1558, was taken over in about 1970 and is now an extension to The China Shop. The Barton Corn Exchange (the arched building on the left), built in 1853 and opened in 1854, is still there and in use, and in the far corner is an Italian restaurant. The NatWest bank building, built in 1913, is on the left. The Market Place is now mainly a car park and pathway.
An extract from from"Lincolnshire Living Memories".
Nestling on the south bank of the Humber,
the wide boulevard of Whitecross Street has
changed little. The Volunteer Arms remains
much the same, but the charmingly named
Blue Bell has fallen victim to the era of theme
pubs, and is now known as Cook’s Bar.
An extract from from"Humberside Pocket Album".
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".