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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COMMONWEALTH
WAR GRAVES COMMISSION
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 that 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. WORLDWIDE LIBRARY ACCESS DEGREE COURSES Here is a another link to a site specifically of benefit to researchers, and budding historians generally, in the USA. It was sent to me by a home-schooling history teacher who tells me his pupils have been using our Sutton & Wawne Museum pages to further their own genealogical tree researches. It is a link to a site that their home page offers: "From
Ancestry to
Archives:
How Libraries Are Revolutionizing Family Tree Research" LIBRARY SCIENCE DEGREES ONLINE They are a wealth of links for folks looking to source degree courses. As their home page says, libraries are an increasing resource these days in widening genealogical research for archives that have been digitised and so available to the whole wide world. Enjoy! 
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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to the Sutton
& Wawne
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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HISTORY
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