Hutton Cranswick
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Hutton Cranswick 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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Postcard
The cyclist in this picture is my father John G Heward. He would have been 35 at the time and we lived in Brook Street.
A memory of Driffield contributed by Kath Heward
My childhood memories of Beeford
Beeford holds many fond memories for me. My grandparents Charlie and Mary Walker took over the corner shop in around 1963. They then turned it into 'Ye Olde Wrought Iron Shoppe' which my grandfather ran until his late seventies. We spent most weekends there and as I grew up I visited often and had many a good night in the Yorkshire Rose which was then the Black Swan. I loved to walk up the lane through the church yard to the playing field where there was a metal frame to swing on, and I also remember at the top of the field was a great big log we used to play on, I don't suppose that is there any more. They ...read more here
A memory of Beeford contributed by lizzie smith
Beck Side
My father lived at 7 Beck Side North as a child having moved there from Hull. The gardens were long and contained fruit trees. His father was a keen gardener. The neighbours kept cows and sold milk! My father fell in the beck aged 3 but managed to get out.
A memory of Beverley contributed by Brenda Reeve
The Lock
I was looking through the photes of Beverley, the man in the picture of the Lock, in the flat cap and shirt sleeves must be Mr Block. He used to come round to my house when I was a boy selling mushrooms that he collected on Figham.
A memory of Beverley contributed by Tony Foster
Extracts From Hutton Cranswick & East Yorkshire books
This is something of a misnomer, as in reality there
is no such village. The fact is that there are two
villages, Hutton and Cranswick, which are less
than a mile apart. Hutton is the smaller, and stands
on a slight hill. This is reflected in its Norse name
- ‘Hoot’ - hill and ‘tun’ - an enclosure.
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".
‘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".
This Victorian structure replaced the old bridge. The metal central span was later rebuilt using stone, and until the building of the by-pass in 1974 it carried the heavy traffic of the A30. Today it carries only local traffic, such as visitors to Launceston Rugby Club, whose ground is nearby.
An extract from from"Hull Town and City Memories".
This beautiful old bridge still stands next to the ford, and although often called a packhorse bridge, it was probably built to allow the priors to travel between St Stephens and St Thomas; hence its more correct name of Prior’s Bridge.
An extract from from"Hull Town and City Memories".