Frith photos prompt happy memories of our personal history, so enjoy this trip down memory lane with our old photos, historic maps, local history books, and memories of Hessle. Refresh & enjoy your personal memories, or find some that family & friends will love as gifts.

It's free to browse our vintage and retro photographs of Hessle, but if some spark good memories they are available to buy in a wide range of products, including framed prints, canvas prints and personalised photo gifts including tea towels, mugs, jigsaws, tableware, cushion covers, customised calendars. Don't miss other visitors' Memories and maybe connect with those who have shared their memories - you may even know the names, or learn more about the locality.

Old Maps of Hessle

Historic Maps of Hessle and the local area.

Sheet Maps of Hessle

Historic Folded Sheet Maps of Hessle and the local area, matching current OS Landranger Sheet Maps.

The sweet shop down Prestongate was the place where my mum bought a quarter of sweets before we went to the Plaza cinema. A quarter of sweets is only four ounces . They were weighed out on scales, tipped in a triangular paper bag and the lid put back on the glass sweet jar. Rows of jars lined the shelves. Would it be liquorice or mint humbugs or midget gems or toffee? When sweets came off ration in the fifties, long after ...see more
They were happy years of playing in the street with pals (not many cars then), playing down the foreshore and in the many parks nearby. Itlings Lane was a fun place to go bramble picking, scrumping, making hideouts and rope swings over the ditch (covered over now). Another place to go to was little Switzerland - woodland, open fields and a chalk quarry. It was a young ...see more

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