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FUTURE OF OUR MUSEUM A prepared statement, for the folks of Sutton village, our Museum friends and supporters, and all others who may be interested can be found by clicking here, or here if viewers need to load a different format, eg, a rtf file to load in any word processor. For newer Sutton residents, this past 20 years, this may help to explain our origins. OUR MUSEUM'S FOUNDATION Wednesday, 13 November, 2024 * * * |
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2nd Lieutenant John (Jack) Harrison, VC MC ; llth Batt EYR Flight Lieutenant Paterson Clarence Hughes, DFC ; RAAF buried in St James' Churchyard : updated: Nov 2024 - new images
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The Old School
in Sutton
... W3W =
tune.amount.orchestra
... Where
History Comes
Alive ! Folks are AMAZED at what we have in here, every Friday ... 10am to 2pm |
WELCOME
TO ALLOUR WEBSITE VISITORS 
Grade II Listed since 2004 click one of the circles on the wall (or here) to see a 1950s Group Photo! ~ Dib Dib! The Old School in Sutton Village The History of Two Villages Truly Comes Alive Here ! in a school that's been here since Queen Victoria's reign in 1859 ! .... in a parish that's been here since Plantagenet King Edward III in 1349 Free Local History Museum & Family History Research Centre within a Grade II listed Victorian Church School in Sutton village there's been a Free Museum inside this Old School in Sutton on Hull for over 20 years now ! Full technical details of our old school, architect, brickwork, windows & doors etc, can be found at "British Listed Buildings", opens in new window HERE! HOW DID OUR LITTLE MUSEUM COME ABOUT? For any NEWER SUTTON & WAWNE RESIDENTS who would like to know more about how this little museum came about, there is a short potted history of our foundation and first 20 years on the Museum Page, just a little way down. |
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oldest former
council school
in Hull still used for educational purposes 
 
A lot of family names & contacts are already in our Guestbook ... Why not add yours too .. ? 
 With our Chatty Café, some think it's the best in Hull ! |
Founded
by the late
Merrill
Rhodes, and
husband Peter,
our free local
Folk Museum
& Family
History Centre
is inside our
Grade II
Listed
Victorian
school of
1859.
Supported by
visitor
donations and
love, and
staffed entirely by Volunteers. 
if you need cheering up, come and see us! CLICK THE ROSES FOR A SURPRISE IMAGE A little intellectual musical fun, by a WW1 soldier missing his sweetheart. One such entry in our Elsie Carrick Autograph Album. Press F11 to view this site Full Screen |
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MAP TO FIND US Dead-end side road is a free car park ! It used to be 'the Pinfold', or 'Pinny', where schoolgirls tied up their ponies! Our area covers the historic parishes of both Sutton and Wawne villages. Sutton parish also included Stoneferry, Wilmington, St Marks & The Groves, all the way down to the north side of Witham, until the 1880s when new churches for those areas were built.  70 of his drawings online  walk down a field of memories |
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WE OFFER HELP
WITH FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH every Friday 10 till 2 not just Sutton & Wawne; ALL areas of the UK ! Donations Always Welcome! |
We're a self-funded private museum. Entry is always free ... but we do depend entirely on donations from visitors and local businesses to stay open. Every penny helps. |
WE FIND CENSUS
RECORDS &
interpretation of Service Records, ships, regiments & squadrons found; both Royal & Merchant Navy; Troopships & Convoys; lost trawlers, etc |
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our website is hosted by Free Virtual Servers Sorry to say, our free GOOGLE WEBSITE has been withdrawn by Google. Not our choice, but it seems pennies will be required in future. Good while it lasted. You can always email us at: admin@suttonandwawnemuseum.org.uk |
We are proud
to be
supported by:
several local schools and the Sutton in Holderness Conservation Society and many individual generous donors. A full list of all our existing Friends and Supporters appears on our Friends Page 
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School Visits
from All
Schools very Welcome; if you can get here, we will entertain you ! We can also host arranged visits by Church Groups, Townswomens' Guilds, Womens' Institutes, Clubs & Societies. Click the railway station sign to see our restored station seat 
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If you need "a Hull cheering up", come and see us! Visit our 'CHATTY CAFÉ' . . . one of Hull's very first! You can call your friends from here .. bring your fern.  For other excellent local places to eat on a Friday, click this link ... A short trial clip of ciné of the  1964 HARVEST FESTIVAL is on the EVENTS page A very warm welcome to all our online visitors, and especially to all those ex-Sutton & Wawne folk who 
may
have long
since left
these 'gentle
climes'for other abodes in the far corners of this globe. 
With special
greetings for
those of you
now settled inAustralia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa or the USA, or anywhere within our Commonwealth and this great world-wide family of English-speaking peoples. For all of you who were born, worshipped or were married here in Sutton or Wawne, or have loved ones resting here - to you all, wherever in the world you live now, an especially warm welcome indeed. We're pleased you have discovered us - do enjoy. For those of you who can't get here to Sutton ; Books/DVD on Sutton .... or .... Books on Wawne We have Disabled Access via a ramp, and Wi-Fi for those who bring their own device. Additionally, we are also part of the  Chatty Café Scheme nationwide; tea/coffee served at table £1.50pp. Click the graphic to find out more about it; Do come and join us if you can. Photos of all 14 CWGC War Graves in St James' churchyard have been on this site since Armistice Day back in 2009, and a full list of Sutton dead in both world wars since before 2000.
Photos
of a further 5
'Family' War
Graves and
Memorials were
added in time for Armistice Day in 2014. A database of the 420+ men on all of our memorial plaques was started in 2014, and completed in time for the 2018 anniversaries; it includes over 240 men who were previously not remembered here within their own parishes and local memorials.
The new plaques can be seen on the War Memorial ~ For those seeking, or interested in 'Military Links', our page comes recommended. We are the holders of a huge photo archive, possibly the largest 'village archive' in the East Riding. The Sutton collection alone comprises some 3,500 images, and the Wawne collection a further 500; well over 4,000 photos of the area and its people. There are many more in smaller individual donated collections too, including those of a famous former headmaster, from the 1960s, and the collections of two former vicars, some from before 1900. Plus a further 2,000 images of gravestones, memorials and plaques. We are one of four other such historic Grade II Listed schools in the Hull area. If you or your kin were ever married or worshipped in Sutton or Wawne, you may enjoy access to our 'online-DVD' - for just £5. It features both historic medieval churches ... CLICK HERE for details. May you all enjoy your visit and brief stay with us. We hope you will call again. And of course, if you have a Family History query we can help with . . . we're here to help once more ! Clicking the buttons further below will start or stop a short peal of Sutton's bells. They were added at Christmas, 2003.
or
the
churchbells
ALL
HORSES !
Once again, we can go down "The Pinny", at the side of the Old School, ie, The Pinfold ST MARK'S in the GROVES
The
Background map
of THE GROVES
(that was
formerly on
this page)
along with a lengthy explanation of the history of that early Sutton parish area, is now on a dedicated page of its own. It can be accessed by clicking . . . The Groves "Eternal Father, strong to save, Whose arm hath bound the restless wave" How many of you have sung this hymn? Most of you, at a guess. Did you know the tune, 'Melita', was composed by a man who was born in Sutton Parish? John Bacchus Dykes was born down Lime Street, The Groves, in 1823, and a part of the enormous Sutton parish at that time. For marriages, baptisms and funerals, he would have to have come to St James' in Sutton, this was his church. Until the 1870s, ours was the largest parish in England; it was massive! There's a link to a former background map right at the bottom of this page.
Another
Question:
"Were there
ever TWO
High Streets
?" ....
an answer is HERE
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The former background map of 1855 Sutton can still be seen here. Another map, dated 1910, loads Full Screen if you wish, and both are in the box below. click me 
... 1855 opens
in fresh blank
window. Use F11 to make Full Screen and if necessary, hide your Taskbar. It's very big, over 3Mb, make take a sec or two ... use your mouse roller, scroll around. |
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O T H E R M A P S some of the larger historical maps previously used on this Home Page This background map will show FULL SCREEN if you press F11 .. or Fn+F11 1853 map THISTLETON extract , clearer and much larger? Open it ! 1892 map of Wawne, clearer and much larger? Open it ! 1855 map, clearer and much larger? Open it ! 1910 map, clearer and much larger? Open it ! 1928 map, clearer and much larger? Open it ! All the other previous maps used on this site, either as backgrounds or for information, can now be found collected together all on one page that opens in a new window ALL THE MAPS For folks into old maps, the National Library of Scotland's website is one that is most certainly well worth exploring  For map freaks, it'll drive you witless ! Trust Me! .... and enjoy ! Another recent valuable addition to the catalogue of FREE map resources is from HISTORIC ENGLAND'S pages of aerial photos and RAF reccé maps. Here's one of RAF SUTTON and the "Evans Fraser Fever Hospital" on Sutton Fields taken by the RAF in 1946. You can see aircraft on the ground! Anchorage points for balloons, and the A/A gunsite on Wawne Rd and the layout for Sutton Rd prefabs. You can access directly HERE . . . . opens in a new window. 
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V. S. A. Volunteer Staff Area a small selection of miscellaneous pics of Volunteer Staff memories are now available to view for those staff with the password to access them Photo Album Archive 3,000+ image archive now complete up to Folder 19 and Wawne folders 1 - 4 Glass Plate folders 1 & 2 Len Suddaby 1953 Coronation Andrew Suddaby - Scouts&Cubs Class Photos Digital Books 1 & 2 both "Digital Books", now complete. Around 200 photos all told. * * * |
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SUTTON in HOLDERNESS In ancient times, the 1300s right up to the Victorian era, Sutton was the largest parish in England, massive, and stretched right down the river to Witham/North Bridge, and over to Holderness Road in the east. So our historic areas of interest are : Sutton-on-Hull, Wawne, the Groves, Stoneferry, Wilmington, RAF Sutton, RAF Balloon Command, Sutton-in-Holderness, St James' Church, St Peter's, Waghen, war memorial, genealogy, family history research, heritage, ancestry, Yorkshire history, old school, and Victorian interests. We are the best free museum in this area. |
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