SUTTON & WAWNE MUSEUMinside the Old School, Sutton on Hull, East YorkshireUSEFUL GENERAL HISTORY LINKS ONCE AGAIN, MOST OF THESE LINKS updated 23 Feb 2024 Link Requesters from other countries should carefully note:
  Click the History Links button to ease your eyes, Most of these links are to other sites, SERIOUS HISTORY LINKS Old Books and MSS At risk of viewers thinking we may be trying to guide them away from our own site, we post even more History Links on yet another page to other sites of more general, but even deeper historical interest. Some have connections to the East Riding, and some to the wider UK, and the first ones are to FREE eBooks. I know it sounds improbable, but they are genuinely free to use. Once there, just watch for futher links to not-so-free products or services. Be careful where you 'click, tap, or point'. And do 'Bookmark' us so that you can come back here and find us again. TIPS ON BROKEN OR
OBSOLETE LINKS With the internet as we know it being now some 30
years old, it stands to reason that many original links and
website addresses will have changed over the years, or even no
longer exist. I'm sure you've sometimes clicked a link and
nothing happens, or an annoying page of adverts you didn't want
pops up. It's the same with me, it happens occasionally when I
check this links page that some no longer work. Sometimes, the
address has changed ever so slightly, but often it's disappeared
entirely. If there is a page you used to visit, that no longer
exists, and desperately need to see again, all may not be lost.
It may be a page you wrote, on a site that went down, and you
want to recover the text. There is an excellent archive site,
that continuously trawls the web and archives pages at regular
intervals, say every couple of months or so.
But, before you despair and give up, try this tip : many websites still have the same address, but for one letter, an 'S' ... where the site has gone 'secure' and so adds an 's' to the http, to make it 'https'. So, just add an 's' before the double // .. hit enter, and as often as not, it may well work. THE WAY BACK MACHINE - really does go 'Way Back' and can often retrieve pages we may have thought long lost. It's very good for web historians to track how a particular site has evolved over the years. If you ever had a site of your own, for more than a few months, and the server went down and you lost all your info without any backup, you may well find it is still mostly there. If you have a broken link still saved in your Favorites, then you already have the address or URL. Just copy the link, and paste it into the search box at WAY BACK MACHINE ... the older aerial views of Hull and East Riding towns shown further below is a good example. The pages are all still there, including most of the photographs, as they were when last archived in 2007, but they're just not on the original URL of . . . http://tlfe.org.uk/air/. Paste that address into the WBM and hey presto ... all is not lost. Oh, I nearly forgot to mention, it is free. Yes, free to all comers. Once again, what a resource! And thanks to those who devised and maintain it now. The servers and hard drives must be phenomenal in size. |
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We hope this helps - it truly is an olympic site and archive of hundreds of thousands of names; and that includes BOTH World Wars; ALL 4 services including the Merchant Marine, and Civilians killed in the UK, and ALL the countries of the Empire and Commonwealth. Even if your relative was lost at sea, on a British-flagged ship, he or she will be honoured on this database. Also, if your relative was RN and on an ally's ship, eg, as a DEMS gunner an American cargo ship, they are remembered too. RANDOM ACTS OF GENEALOGICAL KINDNESS . . . I must take an early space to promote this organisation. They are a worthy cause, and need volunteers. So perhaps if someone has helped you along the road with your genealogy, maybe you could return the favour once you are up and running and help someone else out. They are worldwide, and need people everywhere, so if you're a kind person inclined to do someone else a good turn with their research and you know things that could help them out, please do give them a visit and sign up. This was the site, back in 2003, that helped me to contact Bronwen Hughes in Sydney, Australia, when I was originally looking to find the family of the fighter pilot in our graveyard. Not only did Bronwen help, she turned out to be an unknown relative of that pilot! Another internet family history success story. Thank you, Bronwen. CYNDI'S
LIST. . . a huge site of great importance to
genealogists worldwide. Of particular use for British
or Irish families searching for their families in the USA,
but also links and information on many other countries
worldwide. A terrific international resource, has been
serving family historians for over 25 years. The wide
range of subjects they cover that connect with family
history in particular, but also history in general is
nothing short of phenomenal. Reading This Page will inform anyone about
our policy regarding adding links, what type of links we
are interested in, and most firmly what type of link
we have no interest in. Reading it will save them,
and us, an enormous amount of time. SUTTON WAR
MEMORIAL ROLL OF HONOUR ST PETER'S
WAR MEMORIAL THE HISTORY PIN
. . . another site sent to me by a friend. This is a global
community collaborating around history. Where you can submit
and upload historic photos of your family and tell a little
of their story. Prince William of Wales has uploaded a photo
of himself and his grandmother, HM The Queen. At the time of
posting this link, it boasts of over 316,000 materials and
memories, sent by over 52,000 users, and growing daily. Lots
of historic interest up there, so worth a good browse.
THE HULL
BLITZ HULL BLITZ MAPS - maps
plotting the fall of bombs - this links to a new window and
a set of 16 scans of a large streetmap of Hull, dated 1945,
onto which has been entered details of the fall of HE bombs
and mines for the period 1940-44. The many more thousands
of incendiary bombs cannot be shown, there simply were far
to many to count. Each section loads separately in a new
window, and was roughly A4 in size.
THE CIVILIAN WAR DEAD INDEX
of Yorkshire, Northumberland & Durham was started by an ex-Hessle Road man, from his home in Canada, along with a friend who is from the north-east, hence the appearance of those other counties too. There are an amazing number of Hull names on that list, strikingly so. For people NOT from Hull, who ever doubted how bad Hull was hit during WWII, then take a look at this. Additionally, there is also a list where the "Casualties Ordered by Date of Fatal Incident". So you can search and see all those folks killed the same day, in the same raids, or even by street. Just do a page search for your street to see if anyone was killed there. As an example, type "Mulgrave" into the search box. This link is repeated on the Church Links page also. It seemed it appropriate to mention it here also. There is a published extract of just Hull casualties, the 1200 or so of Hull's War Dead. It is available from the East Riding Family History Society , and the HDM also published the full list as a tribute in their commemorative edition on May 7th. WAR RECORDS of DAMAGED HULL HOUSES - a fantastic new resource made available at THE HISTORY CENTRE. They're not online, but available in the search rooms at The History Centre itself. They contain records of all the houses totally destroyed, damage to houses and what repairs were carried out, even damage to council-owned property like First Aid Posts and Police Boxes. Their casualty lists not only the dead, but those hospitalised and those with minor injuries attended to at First Aid Posts. It will grow and grow. HULL AIR RAID WARDEN & FIRE WARDEN RECORDS - also at the HULL HISTORY CENTRE using the same link as the one above - another great new resource following a project that has taken volunteers three and a half years to complete. As with the photo archive above, these lists are not online; you need to go into the History Centre to access them, and remember to take your Reader's Ticket for access to the search room. But this link gives a good idea as to what may be found, and not just ARP records. The helpful receptionists at the desk can enter your relative's name into their computer to tell you if the name you seek is to be found. The wartime record cards will often be related to the company or premises of where the man worked, so you may find out something there that you never knew as well.
NORTH-EAST DIARY 1939 -1945
- by the late Roy Ripley & Brian Pears
- another stupendous site that also documents much of
the heartache that the North-East underwent during those
dark years. RAF casualties and crash landings at
numerous airfields, ships built on the Tyne, all sorts
of incidents, some of which tie in with the civilian
casualties in the list above, make this an incredible
archive for those interested in the Home Front of WW2
and family historians alike. Many references to Hull and
the East Riding area. What with this site, and the four
above, surely enough here to keep a bored person busy
all evening.
MILITARY ARCHIVES AND THE TWO WORLD WARS
LINKS TO SITES OF SPECIFIC INTEREST FOR
RESEARCHERS OF FAMILY HISTORY do note that these links are not posted in any particular order, usually just as I came to them; some of these near the top could be the newest. With the closure of the PEOPLE'S MEMORIAL MUSEUM in the city centre, in their shop down Whitefriargate, we seem to have also lost about 4 great websites run by them. Shame. HULL FISHING HERITAGE CENTRE
... 255 Hessle Rd, in the old bank building on
 the southern corner of
Boulevard, right opposite the Fishermens' Memorial.
A terrific museum, with stunningly detailed large
scale models of trawlers and equipment, as well as
80,000, yes, thousands of photos. Plus vast lists of
fishermen's sea day records. Volunteers within are
knowledgeable former trawlermen who will help you
with the fishing trades aspect of your family
history research. Chaired by Jerry Thompson. They can be emailed on bullnose18@gmail.com Free private parking at rear of the building, access on Boulevard. Facebook. (entrance is almost on the traffic lights, so best to come up from Witty St.) THE HEDON MUSEUM
... situated a little hidden away at the back of SKEALS
. . . "Spurn Kilnsea and Easington Area Local
Studies". There are several of these local Hull
sites IN RED below, that were hosted by the People's
Memorial Shop that was formerly in
Whitefriargate. The website was called HULL
WEBS, as per the logo below, and also hosted HEROES OF
HULL, the civilian PEOPLE'S MEMORIAL itself, as well
as Len Bacon's excellent book on RAF SUTTON. All
of them can still be accessed on 'The WayBack
Machine', hosted in the USA. If you've used
those sites before for info, and now miss being able
to access them, being patient and learning to use the
WBM. is very well worth
while. Trust Me! There's another
link in this next article below. HULLITAGE ... Hull's
HerITAGE of course! For History AND
Heritage. HULL
PEOPLE'S MEMORIAL (It was) another remarkable site, linked strongly to HEROES of HULL above, originally raising funds for the moving city centre memorial to Hull's 1,200 civilian war dead, now in position very near to the Prudential Corner site. The shop in Whitefriargate is a little treasure trove of information and artefacts of both world wars, but with special emphasis on Hull's long-neglected blitz in 1940-43. A story that has long needed telling, to our visitors and the wider nation in general, they tell and show it very well indeed, and all credit to all those involved. When it comes to family history associated with Hull's blitz, researching wardens, emergency workers, records of addresses and bomb damage, they are a very good first place to start, with more information coming in all the time.
HULL &
EAST RIDING AT WAR ...
http://www.hull-peoples-memorial.co.uk/ HULL BLITZ MAPS -
maps plotting the fall of bombs - this links to a new
window and a set of 16 scans of a large streetmap of
Hull, dated 1945, onto which has been entered details
of the fall of HE bombs and mines for the period
1940-44. The many more thousands of incendiary
bombs cannot be shown, there simply were far to many
to count. Each section loads separately in a new
window, and was roughly A4 in size. RAF SUTTON ON
HULL STILL CLOSED AT THE MOMENT - THE BEVERLEY ASSOCIATION - the aeroplane - Dedicated to the men and women who served in the squadrons that operated this iconic and locally built workhorse aircraft built by Blackburns at Brough. A superb site, many photos showing operations, and stories by crews and maintenance units in the UK and abroad. Lovely selection of photographs. EYFHS : EAST YORKSHIRE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY - This excellent society have an extensive archive of Census data, Monumental Inscriptions, and a full programme of events, displays, talks, etc, for the year. Their magazine is "The Banyan Tree", and they have a well-stocked shop of books, lists and maps that can be ordered online. They meet once a month and have 4 meeting venues around the county, in Beverley, Bridlington, Hull and Scarborough, all with full details and map directions on their website. A thriving society that can give you lots of assistance, also with email Help Desks; you're guaranteed to make many new friends too. SUTTON'S HISTORIC & LISTED BUILDINGS - A Fascinating Link to a Hull City Council site that lists much of interest within Sutton village; the old houses, ancient trees, monuments, etc (opens like PDF, but hosted by the City Council). Includes references to this Old School and the Reading Rooms. EYLHS : EAST YORKSHIRE LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY - Focussed on local history in a more general sense, EYLHS are a long established society with as wide a range of history interest as could be wished for. If it's in East Yorkshire and in the past, they're on it. They have a wide range of publications, both their own publications and others, as well as many site visits a year. Their photo gallery is well worth a browse for a variety of views from all over the county. MEAUX ABBEY ... a private link and information - a private page by Chris Coulson detailing recent research into the history of Meaux Abbey near Wawne. Local Sutton and Wawne folk will know that the ancient story of both of their villages is all wrapped up in stories of the monks of Meaux, the founding of their abbey and then their establishment of the church of St Peter in Wawne village (around 1135, so not too far back then) and from which all the area's known history has evolved. Chris posts recent photos of the site and such as remains to be seen. His site also discusses other places in Hull and the East Riding of historical interest that viewers may well find of further interest. SUTTON LEISURE &
SPORTS SUTTON in HOLDERNESS CONSERVATION
SOCIETY EAST HULL HARRIERS SUTTON ON HULL STATION THE COURTYARD - in Sutton
Village -- for Plants, Flowers & Ornaments ... THREE MORE SITES RELATED TO WW II THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
HISTORICAL SOCIETY HOME SWEET HOME FRONT - a comprehensive site documenting life on the Home Front during WW2. Contains a good page on the Women's Land Army, telling how a force of 80,000 women by 1944 were working the land, literally, farming, forestry, every aspect of agriculture. Also contains pages on the WVS, Women's Voluntary Service, and Home Guard, LDV. FORGOTTEN HEROES - The
Wartime Memories Project
SUTTON TRADE NAMES IN 1892 - is a direct link to the GENUKI page that lists all the tradespeople and farmers living in Sutton in 1892 - in Bulmer's famous Gazetteer. A fascinating list. HISTORY OF ALL HULL
CHURCHES 1892 -
again takes us to BULMER'S GAZETTEER, a mine of
information for those seeking a brief history of all
churches in the Hull area, as of around the turn of
the century, 1900. The link takes you to Part
9 : Churches & Chapels and lists
churches long since demolished and those destroyed
by war, including details of St Mark's in the
Groves, St Saviour's and St Peter's, Drypool, all
areas of which were in the original St James' parish
back in antiquity. Yes, Drypool was in Sutton parish
until Stuart times, just before the Restoration of
Charles I. FAMILY HISTORY & GENEALOGY, YORKSHIRE - particularly for those researching Yorkshire families, there is a phenomenal amount of information on this Yorkshire page of the GENUKI WEBSITE ; (it means GENealogyUK&Ireland). The page specific to Sutton is: SUTTON at GENUKI . There's so much it's just mind-blowing, and this web thing has only just got started! You can use this site also as a springboard back to any UK county you want; just follow the links. Another site to keep you up all night ! Your "Other Half" will not thank me for putting you on to all this. WAWNE - a Photo Site - several pages of old photos going back decades, with contributions by villagers; includes a set on Wawne Ferry, as well as some more modern ones in colour. CHURCHES - UK & IRELAND - a lovely site, covering just about all counties as far as I could tell, and on which there's a lovely picture of St Peter's in Wawne. They aim to cover as many churches as they can, but when we remember there are already over 9,000 churches covered on this site, each with a photograph, and an estimated 40,000 or so churches in the whole of the UK, it is a massive task. One area in which Sutton residents may help is to identify the many 'unknown churches' from old photographs and paintings. An intriguing collection, and I know some of you will have the answers - do visit this very worthwhile site. A YORKSHIRE SURNAMES LIST - Established 18th February 2002 by Magdalena Gorrell Guimaraens, this is a huge list of some 24,000 names already being researched. Formerly hosted on Geocities, but now here on GENUKI. You can email them to add your name - it is worth remembering here that, within the GENUKI webpages above, most counties have someone who co-ordinates a "Surnames List" - some county lists are huge, others not so big. Most invite you to submit the name of the person you are looking for, the town/village, and approximate date, and your email/postal address - eg. Brown - Hessle - 1840's-1900 - user@server.co.uk. It's worth a try if you've searched and searched and drawn stumps. UK PARISH LOCATOR
- Please
note the change of URL to access this
delightful programme! It used to be on
http://www.parloc.co.uk/parish-locator.html. This
truly is a stunning little UK-wide programme, and I
do wish I'd discovered it before. BACK ONLINE,
though we still have it to download it onto your own
machine if you call in to get a copy is from us at
the museum. Bring a stick and ask for it, and we'll
copy it onto your stick for you and show you how it
works. It's especially useful for finding parishes,
and their proximity to each other, in counties other
than your own. We mostly know our own counties well,
and Hull and ER folk wouldn't need a locator to find
even lesser known parishes around our own. But what
happens when you find relatives in Cornwall,
Herefordshire or Durham, or you're not even from
Britain and have never been here. Unless you happen
to know other counties very well too, you'll spend
hours seeing unfamiliar parish names in lists before
some of them will start to make sense and you
realise that seemingly unrelated place names are but
a mile or two apart, and often the next village just
up the lane. This programme is free (it is Freeware,
no subs req, doesn't come with popups or bugs ) is
superb, gives a list of parishes within a set
distance of the one you've found, calculates
distances, tells you which compass direction, plus a
map reference that can load a Streetmap showing
where it is. Very useful for anyone abroad with UK
links but haven't the faintest idea of where's where
without actually coming here. And a must if you are
actually planning to visit a lot of parishes. A
brilliant time-saver for visitors. Enjoy. ANCESTRY IRELAND - the Ulster Historical Foundation, a huge genealogical resource, is a long-established, highly reputable research and publishing agency. It offers extensive knowledge on the sources available for tracing Irish and Scots-Irish ancestors. PICTURES OF ENGLAND - a superb site of hundreds if not thousands of photos covering all counties and most towns in England. Even if you're familiar with a particular town or area, you'll still see views that will surprise you. And for those of you who would like to visit England but can't, and wonder what your family heritage town or village looked like - enjoy! BRITISH LISTED BUILDINGS ONLINE - a private database website, being an online database of buildings and structures that are listed as being of special architectural and historic interest. As well as reading the official listing data for each building, you can also view the location on a map, and, where possible, see it in Google Streetview and Bing Birds Eye View. You can also add your own comments, information and photos and view comments and photos submitted by other users of the site. Our Old School is on there, with our full technical details too. You can browse for listed buildings by country, county and parish or locality. A wonderful online resource, and should be better known and supported. GEOGRAPH ORG UK
- This has grown remarkably in the past
couple of years, a site similar to the one above,
but run by the Ordnance Survey - a brilliant
resource of photos of just about every map grid
square in the country! Dozens of photos of all towns
- lots of both Hull and East Yorkshire - there's
even some of Sutton! There are hundreds and hundreds
of modern quality photos of Hull alone, with
stupendous collections by names such as Peter
Church, Andy Beecroft and David Wright. And that's
not to decry the many other contributors that I
haven't named. This is the one we've been waiting
for - it's still free AND there's no advertising. GRAVESTONE PHOTOGRAPH RESOURCE - a fantastic idea, a free resource that is voluntary funded. Run from their home site in Suffolk, the first few dozen graveyards to be indexed are in Norfolk & Suffolk. But the intention is to go Nationwide - dependent upon volunteers with digital cameras and the time and motivation to photograph the headstones in their county's graveyards. Can you help ? It's worth a look. And if you do order a picture, remember the time and petrol you've saved by not having to go yourself, send them a few bob. OULTWOOD - is a Local Government Web Site Index. And not just for the whole of the UK either. Most of Europe, North America and Australasia seem to be covered - EVERY council and local authority, right down to the council tax rates and council minutes ! The point is, within each council area's own website are lots of other links useful to Family Historians - links to local history projects, family history societies, addresses and phone numbers of Records Offices, and a host more. A very useful first-step resource that should be better known, and saves the likes of us hours of searching in Search Engines. Click your county, then your local authority, and in seconds you're looking at resources and further links that you might not be able to get to without having to take a week's holiday. THE TRAINLINE - a
recent addition in 2024, being as we encourage folks
to visit Hull and East Yorkshire from all over the
world, this may help visitors.
These three weblinks below are to the famous
Family History Research site, Ancestry.com. Please be clear, subscriptions to Ancestry.com are NOT FREE, as are most other links on these pages we show you. It is charged for, by credit card only, and neither is it cheap. I pay about £120 per year for my subscription, which is a 'middle rate'; it's not the cheapest, but neither is it the dearest, which is the one that gives overseas shipping and emigration lists I have no need for. I would ALWAYS recommend that genuine family historians should gain as much info as they can from free resources, like FreeBMD, YorkshireBMD, even the IGI run by the Mormon Church. Once you have found as much as you can, and then want to take it further, then a paid subscription may be the next course. Ancestry.com have asked for these links to be included, and I concede because they are Family History, and I use them myself, and like it. I do not use any other subscription site, so I'm in no position to advise or recommend on others. Those that want to use FindMyPast will have to source that for themselves, and that is not free either, though I understand a little cheaper. So I add these links with strong caveats; These links below will offer a little info for free , but not much. Be clear, they are designed to lead you in to offer you a paid-for subscription. LAST NAME RESEARCH TOOL at
ANCESTRY.COM
FAMILY TREE CREATOR at ANCESTRY.COM 1911 UK CENSUS at ANCESTRY.COM (all open in a new window) If you do decide to go for Ancestry.com, please be aware it is an American site, and as is the case with most things re American business, money is key, everything. Americans invented the expression, "There's no such thing as a free lunch." Just remember that, and you won't go far wrong. Know what you are dealing with. I'm still in two minds as to whether I should have included these or not. It's not as if they need advertising here, with all their TV coverage. But if they help you, then good. Be aware that even sending for birth, marriage and death certificates in the UK should not cost you more than £12 ... yes, some sites will do it for you, for about £24 or more. There are a lot of charlatans out there. Profits are there to be made, and the gullible will always pay much more than they need to. 
The Deep, Hull - click for full size. ( photo credit : Joan E Stevens of Leicester ) There's also a small amount
of space here
for more Sutton links ; suggest some, Scouts, Guides, perhaps, local societies, clubs, etc. In the meantime, here's a mixed bag of a few more local links in and around Hull, that may be of interest to a few of you. VIRTUAL TOURIST - the page for YORK - another replacement for what was a superb site. Mostly aimed at tourism abroad, but we found this link just to York. Ah well. If anyone knows other links within this site to other parts of Yorkshire, we'd be pleased to hear about them. THE VILLAGE PANTRY ... another local business closure. Was further along Church St, past The Duke, for a superb little teashop that also did hearty breakfasts, and catering for all small occasions. Our museum had a 'gathering' in there for all our volunteer staff, seated 21 for a slap up tea, and it was superb. It was highly Recommended. GARDEN VILLAGE, HULL - links to a full history, with many old images and modern photos of the legendary Reckitt's Garden Village in East Hull. Shelagh and Walter's site tells the whole story from the original concept of a village for his workers by Sir James Reckitt, through to the post-war years of the Bradford Trust and modern times. A superb site, with more history than you could ever have thought existed. A lovely pic of Reckitt's Village Hall that the Luftwaffe destroyed in 1941 is in there somewhere. BROOKLANDS PHOTOGRAPHIC CLUB - (formerly Reckitt's) - have their meetings on Wednesday evenings at 7-30pm in the Methodist Church Hall in Sutton. The club was re-founded in April 2005, current membership totals about 40. New Members most welcome onto the waiting list. A few preliminary photos of local Hull & East Riding scenes now in their Galleries 1&3. DOVE HOUSE HOSPICE - a truly wonderful place. They're always on the lookout for good volunteers - drivers, admin staff, flower arrangers. Yes, even flower arrangers. Whenever I've been in, the place is always full of flowers. Someone has to arrange them all. Visit their site and see what's what. HULL ROYAL INFIRMARY - aka HRI - AND - CASTLE HILL HOSPITAL - a couple of First Class links to our famous hospitals - the HRI link also links in to Sutton's own adopted hospital, the Princess Royal just along Salthouse Road. So many local people have either been deeply involved in raising monies for various appeals over the years, or had their very lives saved and made worth living, that any page worth its salt has to praise its local medics and nurses. Not to be missed. THE INSTITUTE of ADVANCED
MOTORISTS to gain A
SKILL FOR LIFE - So you think you
know all about driving? It's no accident
that I've posted this link here, straight after
the one to the Royal Infirmary. Being an Advanced
Motorist is about staying alive - arriving safely
- increasing your awareness and doing everything
in your power to keep your family safe, and
staying away from A&E and the Infirmary. But
of course, you know this. But what about
your offspring, and
grandchildren. What's their
driving like? Do they worry you? Maybe one
or two of you may be curious enough to explore
this link and take the first steps to perhaps save
a life - starting with your own younger family
members, perhaps even your own life. Passing the
qualification also lowers their insurance, gets
cheaper breakdown cover and other benefits. If
this is something you've already been thinking
about, there's never been a better time One
thing's for sure ... it's certainly not a waste of
time. Even if you do not pass to get the
certificate, you will have learnt a hell of a
lot. Still worth the money. HULL TRAWLERS - links
to photos. A forum for
members to ask others questions on items of
research, where you can find onward links to
deeper detail. QUAYSIDES - a photo gallery of a lot more ships, most with local Humber connections or interest. Links to ABP, daily sailings and sighting reports of vessels seen on the Humber, etc. Interestingly also includes links and photos to Hull's adopted warships, GALATEA and IRON DUKE. Also links to the World Ship Society.
HUMBER CARS - this old website itself has now closed, but the old pages of this
EXCELLENT LOCAL MUSEUM can be brought to you via
the services of the WAYBACK MACHINE, seen on
earlier links on this page. - This was
a case in point back then of a local authority
either not knowing some of their own history, or
else choosing to ignore it. You'd think Hull City
Council would want to make more of this, but there
we are. It's not generally known in Hull, but the
founder of HUMBER CARS actually lived in the town
for a time, back in Queen Victoria's time. OLD CLASSIC CARS
- Driven by Classics - quoted from their Home
Page : "Vintage, Classic & Antique Cars - Are
YOU an enthusiast or owner of a Classic Car ? If so,
I hope you enjoy perusing this web site aimed at
motorcar fans everywhere! The aim of
oldclassiccar.co.uk is to explain in some detail the
pros and cons of running a vintage or classic car on
a regular basis. What do I look for when buying? How
do I spot the hidden rot? Who does drive old cars
now and why? Why should I consider a classic car?
When is it best for me to buy or sell a classic
motor?" SPURN POINT:
A cyclic coastal landform - another
fascinating site; it explains how Spurn was formed,
is changing, and may not be there much longer ! See
why your grandchildren may not be able to enjoy the
Spurn you knew. There's links to RSPB, nature
watching, and the Humber Coastguard, the RNLI
lifeboat station and crews, and Humber Pilots. Even
a list of dates of Humber Lifeboat callouts, as well
as links to other RNLI information. Lovely. This is
the address of the original site that was linked
here. It still works in the WAY BACK MACHINE listed
above. The "RMS QUEEN
MARY" - never mind the new Queen Mary
2 - that's just an overblown ferry, no style and
all publicity. Does anyone have any interest in
the OLD Cunarder, former Blue Riband holder and
three-funnelled Queen of the Atlantic in her own
right ? HULL DAILY MAIL - the website of this ever-popular regional evening paper. Loads of links to everything of local interest. Even a daily record of all 'Family Announcements', births, marriages and deaths, etc. There's no archive though, so you have to catch the announcements on the actual day of publication in the HDM. STAGECOACH (Hull) CAMERA CLUB - an excellent Camera & Photographic club, with this first-rate site. It's site is maintained by Keith Bilton, who posts up monthly competition entries and winners. There are often local views of Hull and the East Riding to be seen here not found elsewhere. A high standard of photography here, and well worth a visit. Hull FC - no introduction needed for the Official Hull FC site, one of two homes in Hull for Rugby League. The home of Old Faithful - Hull City AFC - the official site for Hull's premier soccer club, the new stadium, memories of Boothferry Park, et al. Lots of football information. HULL FAIR - this page used to be brilliant for Hull Fair devotees, but I've now disabled this link. Because this now serves as a warning to how the internet can be 'stolen from us' by other countries with bad intentions. It now leads to a Chinese gambling site, and just clicking on it as I just did when checking links, means they drop cookies straight into your computer in milliseconds. I was only in there for 3 seconds, but I bet they already know my name and what I have for breakfast. Nothing short of a scandalous scam that a Chinese gambler can register a site in the name of Hull Fair. How can any foreign company steal a name to a British cultural tradition? Only demostrates some of the low life we share this planet with. I suspect there are many others, beware! HULL KINGSTON ROVERS official site - aka The Robins - the second of two homes in Hull to Rugby League, depending on which side of the river you're on. For those in East Hull, this IS the premier site. All the same, for political correctness gone mad on THIS site, best kept apart. And long may the rivalry, friendliness and good-humoured banter continue. THE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU - now have an excellent Website and should be consulted on all manner of legal questions in the first instance. Before you lay out expensive charges for a solicitor, check this site out. You may well get your questions answered here - or at least pointed in the right direction. DISCOVER FINZI or MUSIC-WEB INTERNATIONAL - FINZI - are links to the English composer, Gerald Finzi, born in 1901. A much under-rated Englishman, who sadly died at a tragically early age, just 56 years ago in 1956. If you like Vaughan Williams, Butterworth, etc, you'll like this man's music. He knew, was friends with and was inspired by all their music. One of the midi-music sequences to be found on this website is Finzi's "Eclogue", all that remained of a piano concerto. The concerto has been reconstructed from other pieces he left, and this lovely piece would have been the slow movement. Or try his "Cello Concerto" for 40 minutes of sheer delight - or his "Dies Natalis" (Day of Birth), a baby's-eye view of the new world he's born into, in settings of poems by Thomas Traherne. Unbelievably lovely! English to the core! He was taken from us far too early. Another worthy Finzi site, THE GERALD FINZI TRUST , was run by Hyperion Records, and for a long while, this was the only site with a decent amount of information, record lists, etc. It is now on the same link as the one above. We have Hyperion to thank for being a sort of custodian of Finzi's memory until his recent rise in polularity, for holding the fort as we might say. If you have recently 'got into classical music', and particularly enjoy the English music that celebrates our native language and shores, this is most certainly a country lane to go down. There is so much of his music available as sound samples to be found on the web for free that you can try it first before you spend anything, but I'll guarantee you'll be searching the record stores for the full pieces before much more time has passed. THE INTERNET BANDSMAN'S EVERYTHING WITHIN - or the IBEW - is a wonderful bandsman's resource, bands worldwide, competitions, history of hundreds of brass bands, let alone a photographic archive to die for. The Internet Bandsman's Everything Within is as comprehensive a set of brass band links and related information as it could possibly be. I'm astounded what's in there - if I can find an old 1930's photo of a band my grandad was in, in a small Leicestershire mining village, you can find 'owt ! Brilliant! It's been around since 1996, when it started out as a website for the Harrogate band. Now it's all things to all bandsmen! MORRIS DANCING - is enjoying something of a renaissance in England right now, and rightly so. These are the real roots of our folk and dance culture. See this site for information on how to learn - or simply where to watch. Some like to go for the beer - others enjoy the dancing! This page lists links to many clubs around Britain and the world. FUCHSIAS - a link to advice and tips on growing and caring for fuchsias (not a commercial link to a garden centre or business). This is a suggested site for those already hooked, and those who think they may be tempted to get hooked. Give it a whirl and see what you think. Tips here particularly for urban gardeners, city folk, and for growing fuchsias in small spaces. VINE WEEVILS - if you grow fuchsias, you'll certainly not want vine weevils, described by some as about the baddest of all the bad bugs you could possibly get in a garden. Do you have them? Would you recognise one, or it's grub nestled deep down in the compost? Do you know what you're in for if you advertantly bring some home in an infected pot? Do you know how to get shut of them? If not, read this discourse, and learn. I wish I had read something of this order when I had the chance. Not doing so has cost me a small fortune. A knowledgeable friend on hand on the night we inadvertantly brought some weevils home in a new potted plant would have saved us a small fortune, as well as a lot of heartache. I am an experienced fighter of these little critters now, I do battle with them on almost a daily basis. Take my tip, don't get any! World Directory of Towns and Cities - lists over 2 million places - gives Lat and Long, height above sea level, with further links to weather forecasts, and a mass of other information. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND
for old Maps of England ? GOAD MAPS ... very detailed town maps, made by Charles Goad, of Toronto, of most large English towns. Made for business insurance purposes, late Victorian, turn of the 20th century. Detail includes types of roof materials, dividing walls, showing old mills and factories and potential fire hazards! But for family historians, this can be gold dust. House numbers, outbuildings, and the larger premises, mills, foundries, also a business name of owner at that time. They can also be seen in print in the Hull History Centre BING MAPS for ORDNANCE SURVEY
MAPS ... most folks don't know that good
OS maps can be viewed online for free, and very
detailed ones too, at Bing Maps. Not quite Land
Ranger, the expensive ones in bookshops, but
detailed enough for many purposes. We're talking of
maps of rural areas showing field boundaries,
property and garden boundaries, individual houses,
etc. On first loading, you only see the basic
Bing Maps. But on the right hand side, there's
a pull-down menu of several different types of maps,
one of the OS. On loading, scroll in
(definitely better with a mouse and roller wheel, or
at least a touchpad) and scroll in again, as much as
you need to for the detailed maps to pop up. Hull Blitz
- maps plotting the fall of bombs - this links to a
new window and a set of 16 scans of a large
streetmap of Hull, dated 1945, onto which has been
entered details of all falls of bombs for the period
1940-44. Each section loads separately in a new
window, and was roughly A4 in size. Modern aerial views
of Hull - the actual web page
is now defunct, but can still be viewed as it was
back in 2007 on the most excellent WAY BACK
MACHINE , a massive web archive on which most past
web pages can be found. Here we have a selection
of about a dozen views from around 2,000 feet.
Most of the city can be seen on the various shots.
Also many views of both East Yorkshire and North
Lincolnshire, and the general Humberside area -
and I use that name in the geographical context as
it used to be before the name was defiled in the
1974 so-called reforms. Just as we would still
talk about Thameside, or Severnside - and nothing
to do with politics. *
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OTHER
SUTTONS around THE WORLD
Not that we're in a hurry to drive folks away from our own Sutton, but we thought there may be some interest in exploring some of the very many other places around the world that share our name. Most have other origins, though most also have in common something to do with being 'south of somewhere'. In our case, it was simply being the site of a 'South Farm', or homestead, also called a 'tun' in Scandanavian languages .... Viking? Of course, local folk will know of other complications, like the nearby river, and our remote and anciently bleak area of Holderness. It all plays a part. To explore a few others ....  * * * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * * * Despite the notice at the
head of this page, showing that we do not
add links to medical services or any sort of
commercial advertising, I have added this one on
request. It is specifically aimed at families of
former service personnel who have serious health
issues on leaving their service.
It is also repeated at the bottom of the MILITARY PAGE. This link below is not specifically a HISTORY LINK, but it well may help families of former service personnel suffering with 'serious issues' that only too often aflict them after leaving their service. It provides quick links for help with drug and alcohol addiction rehab services in Yorkshire and near Yorkshire. We can only hope it helps those that need help to find it and to resolve serious issues with their health. Drug & Alcohol Rehab in
Yorkshire and Near Yorkshire
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Museum Page
 LIVE SHIPPING! Does anyone around these parts have any interest in ships ? See what's in Hull. Where it came from. See what's in Valetta's Grand Harbour, or Hong Kong. Even Goole. Click the map, use the wheel to zoom in or out, drag to move around the world. Click a ship, and see a photo of it. There's amazing detail within. [ed: try as I might, I can't get this to zoom in on loading and centre on the Humber, so just drag this map so you centre it over the North Sea and go from there.]
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