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Whitby Photographic Memories
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Guisborough Photographic Memories
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Rural Councillor Mrs Ellen Tait
Can anyone help with dating an article from the "Sunday Dispatch" re Mrs Ellen Tait. She was a rural councillor and lived in a council house in Edlington. She was a remarkable lady and I would appreciate help with my research.
A memory of Edlington contributed by Hilary Sowerby
EARL OF STRAFFORD OPENS 1984
It's nearly 25 years since the Earl of Strafford hotel opened in Hooton Roberts. I wrote an M.A. dissertation on Thomas Wentworth, the First Earl of Strafford after whom the pub is named, so I was naturally very interested.
I was shown around the building and was amazed to see runnels in the basement floor which were for the blood from beasts slaughtered on the premises in the old days. I also heard about Anne Kent who is supposed to haunt the place after an unhappy love affair long ago. I was so intrigued, I wrote a pamphlet about the hotel.
I often go jogging through Hooton Roberts and I have developed a real affection for ...read more here
A memory of Hooton Roberts contributed by john tarttelin
Conisborough Castle
I lived in Rawmish, and as a special treat my dad's mate Tony Williams got his mate the caretaker to let me have my own personal look roun't castle. My dad used to work at the pit offices in Denaby. When I used to go and see my dad in't olidays I'd go train spotting to the station and then ride home making sure I went via the castle.
A memory of Sprotbrough contributed by steve wright
Cricket on the green
I was brought up in Tennyson Avenue off Sprotborough Road and at weekends in the Summer would cycle 20 or so miles all around south Yorkshire. If on the way to Conisbrough, Barnbrough or the River Don we would pass the Ivanhoe Hotel which, to a 14 year old in 1950 looked to be a very grand place indeed. If a cricket match was taking place on the large field at the back of the hotel we would often abandon our planned bike ride and watch the game. I believe that some very famous YCC players appeared in Yorkshire League matches at this ground.
The Hotel was the original venue for the meetings of the ...read more here
A memory of Sprotbrough contributed by Terence George Flinders
Extracts From Conisbrough & South Yorkshire books
This view no longer exists. When the Sheffield & South Yorkshire Canal was modernised in the early 1980s, several locks were re-sited and enlarged, and this was one of them. Note the English heritage-run Conisborough Castle in the background.
An extract from from"Canals and Waterways".
The castle is set on a knoll overlooking the River Don. Built out of the local creamy-white limestone, the keep is 90 ft high and has six semi-hexagonal buttresses, which rise above it to form mini-turrets. When Sir Walter Scott visited Conisbrough, he was so impressed with the tiny chapel set into one of the buttresses that he included it in his novel ‘Ivanhoe’.
An extract from from"Nottinghamshire Photographic Memories".
Conisbrough is derived from Cyningsburgh, Anglo-Saxon for the king’s fortified settlement; it features in Sir Walter Scott’s novel ‘Ivanhoe’ as the home of Athelstan, the last of the Saxon royal line. Work on replacing the original wooden castle with one of masonry is thought to have been started by Hamelin Plantaganet, half-brother of Henry II.
An extract from from"Sheffield and South Yorkshire Photographic Memories".
Built out of the local creamy-white limestone, the keep is 90 ft high and has six semi-hexagonal buttresses which rise above it to form mini-turrets. By the mid 16th century the castle was semi-derelict: a long stretch of curtain wall had collapsed and at least one floor of the keep had fallen in. The fortress was in such poor condition that it was never garrisoned during the Civil War.
An extract from from"Sheffield and South Yorkshire Photographic Memories".
This great fortress was built by Hamelin Plantagenet, half-brother of Henry II. The round keep is thought to be the first of its type to be built in England; it was designed to be difficult to mine and resistant to attack with a battering ram. The keep is supported by six wedge-shaped buttresses which rise higher than the keep to form turrets. Though the buttresses served no useful purpose in propping up the keep, they did fulfil certain functions. One contained two cisterns for water drawn from a well beneath the keep; another housed an oven; yet another contained an oratory, and another a pigeon loft.
An extract from from"English Castles".