Wawne Village, links to church, Village Hall, Parish Council, and history   St James Churchyard - a full list of graves and memorials   MAPS & GUIDES . . press F11 to toggle Full Screen    THE HOME PAGE ...    War Memorials   dozens of links to military history, both local, national and military, including both World Wars, all armed services, and more ...   General Links, many local to Hull and the East Riding ; includes many Family History links, with an emphasis on links to the Armed Forces and their associations.

WE ARE A FAMILY HISTORY & RESEARCH CENTRE ~ inside our local Folk History Museum, founded by Merrill & Peter Rhodes 20 years ago ~ The Old School in Church Street ~ Sutton on Hull ~ HU7 4TL .. our historic area covers the former St James parish area, so also Stoneferry, Wilmington, St Marks & The Groves. Perhaps we should have called it 'The Merrill Museum'; that would have been very appropriate

Through the gate, up the path, and in the blue door, for help with searching your family history
the old school clock! We open at 10am on Fridays, till 2pm 		our veteran volunteer staff hoping to soon welcome everyone once again .. click to enlarge this image, a drawing by the late Ken Cooke depicting the school as it appeared in the late 1950s
FAMILY HISTORY & FREE HERITAGE CENTRE down to the endOur 160 yr old Victorian School . . . still doing it for education down to the end
inside this former St James' Church of England School
built in 1859 and now Grade II listed    : : :   25 Church Street ~ Sutton on Hull
it's springtime time!it's springtime time!
EVENTS & NEW ITEMS 
now have a page all of their own
the Main Museum page, for notices of events at the Old School, new items, school and family visits, etc.

HU7 4TL
on Google Maps, you'll easily find us
Disabled access via a deployable ramp, all assistance given
also find us on :
W3W ... tune.amount.orchestra
map takes you to our front door!
I kid you not; try it.
Free   Exhibition   &   Folk Museum

where the history of these two historic villages come Alive!
Opening Times :
Every Friday . . 10 am - 2 pm
 

we can deploy a ramp for access - do ask for assistancewe can deploy a ramp for access - do ask for assistance
Admission to Our Folk Museum
IS FREE !
we are totally self-funded and welcome your donations, however small
We have a FRIENDS PAGE where donations are gratefully received
~ a £5 donation buys the access codes and password to our online-DVD ~

tea/coffee/soft drink can be served,
in our Chatty Cafe
suggested donation £1.50 for our funds

y o u r   l o c a l    c e n t r e    f o r    f a m i l y    h i s t o r y
Research your Family History here yourself ~ or ask us for assistance ~
free wi-fi  ... we can help you start your family tree!
On a PC/laptop, pressing (Fn+)F11 will give you a Full Screen :

our FACEBOOK page
view our 'pin' on
view what we've pinned on Historypin
we're also now on
We are also on HULL & EAST RIDING MUMBLER an excellent site for parents 		view our pages on
We also have a presence on GOOGLE +, with a map and full directions if required
we can deploy a ramp for access - do ask for assistance we can deploy a ramp for access - do ask for assistance Come and see us !
Go through that open door in the School; you can see it on
the photo above, just at the back of the church office.

We help folks start their Family History; we help Local Historians; we can scan your Family Photos
to digitally restore/repair as required and email them to you, to then share them with relatives;
we offer help with reading and interpreting your Soldiers', Sailors' or Airmen's service records,
and several other areas of help too.
THE HOME PAGE ... Wawne Village, links to church, Village Hall, Parish Council, and history   St James Churchyard - a full list of graves and memorials Message the Volunteers at the volunteers at the Sutton & Wawne Museum via our Facebook Page War Memorials books, DVD, pamphlets, etc, to do with local history or interest. General Links, many local to Hull and the East Riding ; includes many Family History links, with an emphasis on links to the Armed Forces and their associations.
a page of dozens of local pen & ink drawings by Sutton artist, Ken Cooke    A SITE MAP . . if you're lost    to the Pinfold, where local girls from the farms used to tie up their ponies whilst in school

This page was so long, we've split it into TWO.
If you've already been there, but lost it, you can get back to it
C L I C K   H E R E   F O R   P A G E  2
lots of maps at the end!


Our Archives Maps Links DVD/CD EVENTS School Visits Memories

KHCT Leyland Atlantean, double doors, on a 32A to Wawne Buses 12 and 33 pass our gate
Services changed on 2 Dec 2023 - Check timetables for revised times
The Old School is right
opposite the top of Highfield,
on the larger bus route map.
Additionally, there is a new map here showing the relative positions of The Old School, the Church Office,
the Church Hall, War Memorial,
St James' Church and
free car parking
VISTORS REQUIRING LUNCHES & REFRESHMENTS
Many visitors come a considerable way to visit us on a Friday to research their Sutton and Wawne history, and often spend a whole day doing so. For those that do, you should know there are some excellent local eateries should you want to stop for a lunch. You don't have to bring packup and sit in a churchyard!
You'll perhaps have seen we do a little tea-café ourselves, a "ChattyCafé", for teas, coffees, soft drinks, with biscuits and occasionally, cakes. We don't do lunches, though you are welcome get a cuppa and sit at a table with your own packup.
For full lunches, or even a good dinner, we can recommend two public houses and an excellent local cafe, and there is also a good Fish n' Chip Shop,  all within a 3 minute walk. Follow these links, from the furthest away, at 5 minutes:   

TOP of PAGE BOTTOM of PAGE Message the Volunteers at the volunteers at the Sutton & Wawne Museum via our Facebook Page
the museum directly ONLY for Family History and Sutton/Wawne Heritage enquiries
Become a Volunteer ~
and have your name
on your own ID badge !
Our Volunteers Badge

Museum  Volunteer  Staff Area

OUR VOLUNTEER MUSEUM STAFF
We give sincere thanks to all our volunteers;
There could be no museum without them.

Some of our volunteers are 'Founders', those who along
with Merrill & Peter, started this humble little enterprise
over twenty years ago.  We are always open to extra help,
so please do ask if you would also like to be involved too.

We thank all our volunteer staff, past and present.
Our Museum and Research Centre could not open
without them. We welcome 'husband & wife' volunteers,
where maybe one of them is the regular volunteer,
and the other helps on special occasions.
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a lovely view .. click to see


An old view from
the church tower
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Let's go for a walk down 'The Pinny'


More Blasts
From The Past ..

Stoneferry
Home Guard WWII

War Memorial
evening of 4 Aug 2014


Most pics are
'expandable'
. . . then try F11

Stoneferry Grn, c.1909

A FEW GREAT-GRANDADS & GRANDMAS HERE,
OF PERHAPS YOUR OWN GRANDPARENTS.
Stoneferry Home Guard Unit - 1942
Stoneferry Home Guard Unit - 1942
we scan pics like this in the Old School on Fridays, and return the originals to you immediately. Then we email you a digital copy of your scan. All to raise funds to keep the lights on. Note the number of guys here sporting visible WW1 service decorations, ribbons, etc.


The 1930 SUTTON PAGEANT
Mr Jim Wright, with his 'dressed' horse, and guests for the day, outside his premises in Leads Road.
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Talking of Horses .....
do you recall leaving your pony in
"The Pinny" ... ?

Did you  ride your pony to school in the old days?  Did you tie it up down "The Pinny", with a basket of hay and a trough of water until home time. Memories of days of great fun and joy.
Do you still have any photos of your
horse or pony from those days?
Would you share them with us?

It's not much, but maybe it would promote some nice memories of days gone by when you could go 'down The Pinny' and be around horses.
Most folks in the village today would not know where it was, or what it was.

to the Pinfold, where local girls from the farms used to tie up their ponies whilst in school
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Sutton on Hull railway bridge, as bad as it got before conservation
Sutton on Hull
railway bridge,
before conservation

Our model of
Meaux Abbey


Church St Sutton c.1909
WAWNE  SCHOOL
opened 1910 to replace older school in Meaux Rd.

WAWNE
CHURCHYARD
2016

SUTTON STATION
COPYRIGHTED CONTENT : some useful information, and a polite request
All of our pics, even postcards, have been enhanced in some way; either for contrast, sharpness,
staining, creases and damage removed, sepia or colour toning, etc, to improve viewing.
Old postcards, other folks' pics from donkey's years ago, we have them all through here at various times.
True, they are still copyright to their original owner, if it happens folks know who that is after all these years.
We would hope any 'old owners', seeing their pic tickled up a bit for contrast, to remove tears and creases, would applaud our efforts to make their photo a bit more like the day they first printed it - and look good for the screen.
We have several copyrighted donated sets of pics we have been specific permission to use.

We mark all our own improved photos so that we always know who owns it. If you have an original postcard, image, that is yours to use as and where you wish. But it you'd like to use/copy our improved image for your own site, you are very welcome. We'd respectively ask that you would then please leave our own S&W notice intact. If you want to use one for commercial advantage, we can't stop you, but would hope you would make an appropriate donation to our humble little museum. If you have other photos you think would be of interest to us, we'd love to hear from you.



THIS BOX CONTAINS LONGER TERM ITEMS
not changed all that often

The Drawing Collection of the late Ken Cooke ::
update 3/9/23 : now known to be 116 in total !

The more I sorted through them, the more I realised what a prolific artist he was.  Ken had been a professional signwriter, which very well explains his superb sense of perspection.  Getting the line, or perspective, of buildings right is one thing, but drawing difficult shapes like windmills of various designs is a hard ask to get them looking so good. With Ken's, the mind never even questions whether the overall shape is right, they are just ... well, so right.  As a poor one-time artist myself, my only question is 'how?'

We will set up a page on this website to display a selection as we go. For the time being, this is a list of the completed scans.  Now all 116 done! ~  so far as I know. 
If anyone would like to see Ken's collection, they're here every Friday, usual opening hours - though we do have three extra Saturdays coming up in September, the 2nd, 9th and 16th as well as the Fridays.  An updated list of villages/places (OTHER than Sutton and Wawne) scanned so far:

Aldborough Mill ~ Bainton ~ Beverley Bar ~ Beverley Beck ~ Beverley Westwood ~ Brough ~ Burton Pidsea ~ CastleHill ~ Caves ~ Cowden ~ Coxwold ~ Danthorpe-Sheep Dipping ~
Driffield Riverhead ~ Drypool ~ Easington Ellerker ~ Elloughton ~ Hedon Station ~ Hornsea ~ Howden ~ Lastingham ~ Lockington ~ Mappleton ~ Nafferton Newbalds ~ Paul ~ Preston ~ Ryehill-Burstwick Sta ~ Skeffling ~ Skidby Mill ~ Southolme Farm ~ Spurn Lighthouse ~ Stephensons Mill-Tickton ~ Stoneferry ~ Westella ~ Welton ~ Welwick ~ Withernsea

Just for now, here's a couple to test folks' powers of recognition. Where are these two?  Ken, and his sister Sylvia first got involved here as volunteers to Merrill's first exhibitions and open days, back an East Yorkshire scenearound the year 2000.  But he had been drawing for years before that, and whilst our huge collection of Sutton village drawings may give the impression he was solely a Sutton artist, the collection shows he ventured far and wide all over East Yorkshire. They were Sutton people, his parents had the garage and taxi business on Leads Road at Springfield Cottage.

an East Yorkshire scene There are as many scenes of selected East Yorkshire villages as there are of Sutton village itself. Just click either of these images to view one larger in this same window, and 'Back' when done. Even here, they are only a fraction of their real size. I've resisted the temptation to put a copyright sign right across this artwork, so we trust folks will respect that and realise that future sales of this prints are solely to benefit the upkeep of this museum, a lasting wish that we know Ken approved of.  He was always fascinated by what I had started doing with the website in the early days, and how I 'messed around' with photos.  I'm sure he would have been fairly amused that he's now been 'digitised'.

Fri Sept 4th :
We can now report that the grand total of all Ken's drawings (so far as we know) is 116.  A separate page of Ken's drawings has been constructed, and the first four dozen to be scanned are shown.  They're all about a quarter of their real size, and look okay on a small screen but would need a full-sized scan to make them fit for framing, as per the ones on display in our tearoom.  We doubt anyone has the whole collection, but for those interested in East Yorkshire history, and Ken's art, we have them all scanned here.

For those of you who recall Ken's artwork, and would like a good browse ...  They're HERE.
And here's another scene some older residents may well recall from donkeys years ago ...
It see1950 scene in Suttonms incredible now, but up until the early 1970s, streetside garages were allowed to have over-the-head gantry petrol and diesel pumps.  Folks walked underneath them while the garage attendant pumped gas!  There was one still in action in 1973 on Hessle Rd when I first came to Hull.  We never thought anything of it at the time.  Perfectly normal, what else would they do?  And folks smoked a lot more back then as well, guys walking by and smoking their heads off.  This one in Sutton was Bernard Holmes' garage on College Street.

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I think most of the men and women on parade here are identifiable if only to their own kith and kin.  There's some grandad's and grandmas on here, so if your parents or grandparents were in the RAF at that time and you know they served at Sutton, it's worth 'a click' to have a closer look.  Of course, if anyone else has any 'internal photos' of times and life on the RAF camp here, in any decades before or since, we'd love to see them.

One RAF photo we already hold, from several years ago, is of the WRAF band RAF BAND, SUTTON ON HULL marching into the camp through the main gate on West Carr Lane. For folks that don't recall the RAF camp, and puzzle where this is, this would now be looking out of the entrance road into Bransholme Centre. The police station would be on the right, and West Carr Lane is now Barnstaple Rd.  In the distance is the back of Wold View Farm, on Leads Rd nearly opposite Tweendykes.

I've altered the background map for this page so you can see the relative positions of the camp to Wawne Rd, where the start of Sutton village is bottom right and the RAF married quarters on Sutton Gardens are to the left. The old army camp is also shown, and I believe the date of this map may well be in between when the old balloon site was dibanded, and just before RAF Sutton was brought back into being as an RAF School of Fire Training. Old scrap aircraft were brought here on low-loaders, (Queen Marys), re-assembled for fire training purposes.  Several other small units also came here for training purposes, which may well explain the 1949 date on the photos. You can click to enlarge it full screen here, and use F11 to make your screen as big as possible, ie, no toolbars.

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IT WAS A MAJOR CHANGE FOR US THIS SUMMER!
We opened on some Selected Summer Saturdays in 2024 ...
and very successful they've been too.
Hopefully we can do the same again in 2025.

We're also going to open the two weekend Saturdays of
HERITAGE WEEKEND
Sept 7th & Sept 14th
The other good news is we now have access to the 1921 Census,
via a new account to Find My Past'. 
At last, we can help visitors with access via our private accounts
to both main Genealogy sources.

AND YET MORE GOOD NEWS
is about the School Re-Union for former pupils and staff
Saturday, October 5th, at 1pm in the Old School.
Contact us if you would like to attend.
  
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THE CROWN INN ~ HOLDERNESS RD
Not quite our area, true, being Summergangs and Southcoates ... but close.
Two new photos from our HullWebs Glass Plate Slide Collection
have been added to the bottom of that page. 
Both featuring bus trips to the Sledmere Monument from
The Crown Inn on Holderness Rd, c.1950s.
A lot of parents, grandads and grandmas on these, surely someone will drop lucky and pick out a pic for their family history archive they've never seen before.  If they do, please let us know.  We'd love to know who they are as well! Clicking either of these thumbnails will take you to the HullWebs page where you can see enlargements of these and others.

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MORE SUTTON INSPIRED ART
Over the years, our museum has inherited, and been donated, several examples of paintings and artwork featuring our lovely village by local artists. Many of them featured our historic Church Street, or High Street "back in the day". A good early such example were the many pen & ink drawings by the late Ken Cooke, a set of which we had printed as postcards and sold for the benefit of our musuem funds.

Yet again, we are the beneficiary of a talented local artist, also a naval veteran no less, as well as a long-time served Hull City fireman. Phil Burnett painted this evocative scene last year, and has now kindly donated the copyright of it to the musuem. He has left it to us to decide what exactly to do with it, but for now we display it here for folks to enjoy and reminisce. Click to enlarge in a new window, and pressing F11 for full screen makes it view even better.
Sutton-in-Holderness 1905 -- P Burnett
We did a test print on semi-glossy A4, where it prints at just nearly 50% of it's original size and the result did rather please us. It pleased Philip too, he was delighted. We think he captures an atmosphere here that is, shall we say, nothing less than 'period romantic', and would perhaps easily accompany a piece of music such as 'On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring," or "Sweet Nightingale". Then there are all the charming pieces by that relatively unknown English composer, Gerald Finzi.  I can hear his 'Elegy', or 'Eclogue', and "Fall of the Leaf" when looking down this ancient street.  Or what about Handel's glorious "Did You Not Hear My Lady" - that was she that went down the garden singing, silencing all the songbirds, setting the alleys ringing . . . with her glory of golden hair. Just lovely.  Maybe that's her in that first cottage doorway. Some will remember. 
Anyway, whatever your memories - or musical tastes - enjoy!
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  Talking of music, are you in need of some serious relaxation, if only for a few minutes. Are you as fed up as I am of today's news, world events, never ending reports of disasters, wars and the constant climate threats that we're all about to be done to a crisp or drowned in our beds.  Then perhaps you need this, a piece of music I've just mentioned above with regard to Philip's painting of the village. Back to a time of peace and hope, for the piece I offer below was written by an Englishman born about then, the turn of the last century before the world went totally mad. But his 'Eclogue' was only completed towards the end of his life, and not published until the year after he died, in 1956.  Not a lot of folks have heard of Gerald Finzi. English to the core.

When not writing music, he grew apples!  He had a large apple orchard on the Hampshire downs, where he practised his hobby, cultivating and saving hundreds of old varieties, many now long lost to posterity. I can well imagine that Mrs Finzi could do a mean apple crumble in her time. Such a shame so much was lost.
 
Here it is, 'ECLOGUE' ~ ten minutes of perfect peace.  It builds quietly, to a central climax, before dying away. Don't forget to breathe at the end . . . . and turn on your speaker?
It opens in new window so you can carry on browsing our pages as you listen.

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ROLLING BACK THE YEARS !
The past few weeks have seen some of the best weeks so far this year for visits to our museum. Several visitors, including past pupils, have made specific and lengthy trips to Hull just to see us.  A visitor in May of 2023 was Rosemary Steer, neé Rodgers, who once lived at Rosemary Steer, nee Rogers 'Holmfield' on Wawne Rd. Rosemary is seen here, obviously delighted at how the old place has weathered over the years. Finding her own and her siblings names in our old registers was a particular pleasure, as well as finding so many of Eric Johnson's photos (her headmaster at the time) that have been preserved, scanned and documented. It may be worth noting here, if anyone has not yet seen them, a small selection of his colour slides can be seen in Gallery 3 on our Photos Page; click link button at the bottom of this page.

Indeed, she brought us this one, unknown to us and not seen before, a photo Mr Johnson gave her himself because she is the little girl on the right of the boy featured counting on his fingers. counting-fingers Mr Johnson took hundreds of such photos for the nationally published "Dominos Reading Scheme" books, several copies of which we have in our collections. Rosemary tells us that, had she lived closer to Hull - and not south Norfolk - she would willingly become a volunteer herself! Which is, in itself, a great tribute to all our volunteers who work so hard, many of whom were actually engaged in cataloging the very collections that she has come so far to research. An author herself, she is currently writing another book about education, dealing with the history of elementary education in England. This will follow on to her first book, Children in Care, 1834-1929, a copy of which she has kindly left with us to add to our own collection. During her weekend stay in Sutton, we hope she finds even more memories before her lengthy drive back to Norfolk.

Visitors in previous weeks included Ray and Kath Noble, both formerly of Sutton but now living in Wigan. They came especially to bring some family photos of interest to all of us, which Olive Noblewere duly scanned, and restored to full image quality, two of which are here.  First, one of Ray's mum, Olive Noble, along with his brother Ken, on the old 'rocking-swing' on the Barbara Robson playing field. Some may have bad memories of these common playground 'treats' of the time; bruised chins and noses being the main ones, plus the occasional clean knockout. Not also the see-saw further behind. Keen observers and old Sutton residents may also recognise the hut in the background, now roughly where Barbara Robson Way now runs, has a strong association with 'bat & ball', we're told. Party at The Lawn - 1950s

A further photo was this one, taken at a party in "The Lawn" sometime in the late 1950s, of well over a 100 local folks. Could this have been in the days when this now restored house was a club?  It's a massive photo, and most faces are very clear and recognisable. There's well over 30 children alone, and many visitors to this site may well recognise family members, maybe even themselves!  The full-size version can be examined on-screen at the museum on Fridays.

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THE WAYBACK MACHINE
Here's a useful link that could be considered a sort of insurance.  Have you ever gone back to an old bookmarked website, and found it's no longer there, cannot be loaded?  So you accept that you've lost it, gone forever?  Not so!  It appears that some of our visitors have found and have been experimenting with the fabulous WAYBACK MACHINE with some success.  It literally is an internet archive, capturing and storing web pages going back 20 years or more, 'way back' as it says. It's almost like time travel !  All our earliest web pages are still there to be found, as are quite a few links to history pages that we thought long lost too.  Our past pages are not the point here, what could be more meaningful to some of you is to be able to find information you once had access to and regret losing. It may well still be there, on the WAYBACK MACHINE. I wish I could get a machine like this for my old bones!

The latest example of use to us is the site containing the full contents of the late Len Bacon's book on RAF Sutton.  I wouldn't expect it to work for commercial shopping or trade sites, as the sites are 'sterile' when archived, so you can't buy from them, contact or email the former owners, etc. You won't find old C&A, COMET, or NEXT catalogues here. But for history sites and pages in your old Bookmarks, such as old university research pages, family websites owned by people long since deceased, it's all still there to be found again, including photos in most cases. They were saved for posterity, history if you like to think of it that way, and it's all FREE to use!  Load the WBM here in a new window ... and copy and paste this address .. http://www.17balloons.co.uk .. into the search bar . . .  Choose a year from the search bar list, and a date in the calendar, and you never know your luck.  That's a good one to practice on, after that you can find something you thought was long lost.
ANOTHER SORT OF 'WAY BACK' MACHINE?
Just in need of a laugh, a bit of cheering up?  This does it for me.
We have several in our collection, though none of them like this!
We don't think any of ours did any singing.  Do you get it ...
We're reliably informed this was the original Masked Singer

WHAT3WORDS    you should all get to know what yours are .... !!
I find it somewhat amusing, and appropriate, given our museum founder Merrill Rhodes' musical tastes, the "What3Words" map link we have here at the museum.  This is to help emergency services find our front door quickly if we had an emergency. Our three words are "tune.amount.orchestra".  Merrill could have chosen them herself!  Try it, load the What3Words website, copy and paste those words as they are, lowercase and complete with full stops, and see where it takes you. I think they'll get to us okay, if need be. Then you can, and should, find the What3Words for your own house. It's as important now as teaching your children what dialling 999 means.  Did you know, if you were really ill, and could barely speak, and just said your three words into the phone, help would be with you in short order?  No, I don't recommend you try it just yet .... just get to know what they are. It's a bit like insurance or an AA subscription ... you never know when you'll need it.

But, if it proves tricky, here is a direct link. Those three words are a specific map reference on a map of the whole of the British Isles to only one actual place that is just three metres square.  tune.amount.orchestra ... click to see where it is. Your own house will also have three words, no need for numbers, postcodes, lengthy descriptions, your three words will lead to your front gate, front door, or even your bathroom if you wish. But front door is best.
If you're not good with computers and maps, ask us in the museum for your 'three words', make a note of them, and tell your family.  A numbered house on a well-known street is easy to find, but is yours easy? Are you down a hard-to-find close, a remote avenue tucked so well away postmen and parcel deliveries have trouble finding you?  If so, in an emergency, an ambulance may have the same trouble. Your unique What3Words could save valuable minutes, seconds even, for urgent help finding your front door.  Ask us ... we can help.



OLD PHOTOS ... ... but not of Sutton nor Wawne
Given the wider interest in the old photos of Hull and the East Riding appearing on local Facebook pages, it could be that some of our visitors may have an interest in browsing a couple of separate pages that we have set up here on this website.  This is something maybe you could help with in identifying where these places are, and sometimes the individuals pictured within.  For instance, we have a good number of a theatre company, the casts of a dramatic society or 'Players'. They could be in Hull, but I suspect not, given that very little else in this huge old 1950s archive is specifically Hull.  I think they are 'county'.
One page is called 'HullWebs', for that was the original source of them to us, donated by the owner of the HullWebs website, connected to the now closed Peoples' Memorial Shop in town, now closed.
At some point in the near future, we'll combine the two. The photos are all from the same source, and all roughly of the same age, ie, late 1940s to maybe the early 1960s.

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GLASSPLATES from HULLWEBS
old photos ... we've had this page a long time, but not updated

PHOTO GALLERY 6 ...
more old photos; this is a new page.

And if you like old scenes of Hull and memories of many years ago, you'll probably like Ian Wolstencroft's DVD, made last year in 2022 and sold to benefit both Dove House Hospice and the Fishing Heritage Centre in The Boulevard.   Scroll down a bit more ... ....
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Some Good News re the old RAF SUTTON '17 BALLOON SITE'   ...  15 Feb 2023
The excellent web pages of Len Bacon's book on RAF Sutton ceased when the Peoples' Memorial Shop sadly closed. It was their 'HullWebs' site that formerly hosted Len's book.    Incredibly, I had not realised until now that all those pages were logged and saved some years ago on "THE WAY BACK MACHINE".  You can read the whole lot, 23 pages, diagrams, lists, photos, 'in memorium' lists, all of it, on this incredible internet archive facility.  The WBM did disappear once, for a while, so make the most of it whilst it's available. 

To find out how to access it, go to our MILITARY LINKS page, scroll down to the link for RAF SUTTON, and follow the new instructions.  A bit convoluted, but hey-ho, to get that back when all was thought lost, it's nothing short of magic. 
If your cut-copy-paste skills are up to scratch, you'll have no bother. You do know what I mean, don't you? .... Ctrl+X .. Ctrl+C ..  Ctrl+V .. Go for it, Enjoy!
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A CHARITY DVD about HULL to benefit DOVE HOUSE new HULL DVD -- profits to Dove House
This new DVD documents the changes to our city
during this past 60 years or so. We now have 4 copies available
inside the Museum on Fridays.
Priced £10 each, with 50% to DOVE HOUSE HOSPICE
It was created by Ian Wolstencroft at his own expense to specifically
support Dove House, for whom he works as a charity collector. It has been made
in co-operation with Hull Civic Society, and every copy sold makes £5 for Dove House.

'MEMORIES OF HULL' Your webmaster's memories on first coming to Hull from the Midlands 50 years ago.
'A TALE OF TWO CITIES' Comparisons with his home town, and discovering some surprising things and features in common,
and an appeal for native 'Hullensians' to not run it down so much.  There are worse places.
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ALWAYS BUSY ON FRIDAYS !
It is good to report that we have been quite busy of late.  Lots of visitors, including some who brought us items for display, and a wonderful collection of old family photos from the Smith family, formerly of Wold View Farm.  Folks will recall that until recently, the old farmhouse was still part of Cherub Nursery on the corner of Midmere Ave. 
We can see just a little corner of the old house here, with a group of older members of the Smith family.

The lass on the rear of the horse is Kerrie, daughter of the family back then, and she called in to see us along with her mum, Jannette, and dad Terry, both now retired. She used to help her mum with milk deliveries. Many older residents will recall Jannette bringing them Wold View milk bottles with the cardboard tops, all delivered in the old vans of the day.  Some may even remember the pony and traps! The photo was in the fields along Wawne Rd, near Westfield Farm, which also had connections to the family.  Just remembered, the horse was 'Pi-Bol' ... it was a piebald, apparently.  Lovely!
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THE PINFOLD ... did you go down "The Pinny?"
Some folks, those that love horses (most of you, maybe), will perhaps want to visit our new 'Pinfold' page. It was set up on 6 Nov to contain old photos just of horses, when it was realised how many we had acquired over the years. This first selection are all pre-1920, from our very oldest albums.  But we do have a lot more, yet to be explored and processed, from later years. There is also an explanation of the coincidence of your webmanager's 'occupational surname', and a village pinfold (and why it is appropriate that he be in charge of this one!)
Click HERE to go down 'The Pinny'. If a family pet, a horse or a pony, escaped it was impounded, or 'pinned' into this secure enclosure. Then it cost a substantial fine to get it out.  Now, there's an idea . . . just for a laugh, nothing serious - before the phones start.
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HOW OUR OLD SCHOOL CAME INTO BEING

This old school has been here so long that folks often ask us how it came about in the first place.  It was all part of government reforms in the 1850s to reform education throughout England & Wales, when new acts of parliament were passed to allow the setting up of new schools in order to improve general education.  The act provided that, if a local parish could acquire or purchase a piece of land, a Church of England school could be built where the government paid half in a grant, and the church the other half, and the church would also provide the teaching staff. 

To take advantage of this in Sutton, a local family, the Broadley's who owned a great deal of land all over East Yorkshire, donated the little parcel of land that our old school now sits on.  It was done specifically by a bequest from Sophia Broadley, in 1855, and some 9 years before she died in 1864.  

This document was discovered in our own archives,
a transcript of this famous bequest !

Document Dated 1855:

I, Sophia Broadley, spinster, of Welton House in the East Riding in the County of York, under the authority of an act passed in the fifth year of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled An Act for the conveyance of sites for schools,

"Do hereby convey to the Minister and Churchwardens of the Parish of Sutton to permit the said premises and buildings used for a school for the Education of children and adults of the labouring, manufacturing and other poorer classes in the said parish and for no other purpose."

And so dear folks, that is how our 'Old School' came about, eventually built and opened in 1859, on Broadley land, with a £300 grant from the government towards the building of it; roughly £30,000 in today's money, but the school building itself wholly owned by St James' Church, and so it ever has been ever since.
And that was 168 years ago this year!

The lovely old Welton House, Sophia Broadley's own home, that was once on the north side of the A63 is sadly no more, having been demolished in the 1960s.
The old hall site is now ... a school !
Forsooth, it is strange how things turn out.

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WERE THERE EVER TWO HIGH STREETS IN HULL ?
The short answer is, yes, for a time. Folks familiar with old maps of Sutton will know that what we now know as Church Street in Sutton was formerly High Street. And of course, for centuries, there was also a High Street in Hull. Not too much of a problem, until around the 1927 mark, when the city boundary was enlarged and Sutton village officially came within the City of Hull. That then caused a problem for the Post Office, having two High Streets inside one administrative area. So one of them had to go, and the easiest thing to do to resolve that anomaly was to rename Sutton's to something else.  What could be more appropriate than Church Street?

AMAZING WHAT TECH CAN DO

Class 1958 - with Mrs Johnson .. CLICK TO ENLARGE
CLASS of 1958
One of several class photos new to us, from former pupil, and later a teacher himself at Ald Cogan, Tony Prosser.
As you can see, the photo was rather well-worn, as we might say, as are many class photos after 50yrs.
This took about an hour or so with a digital pen.
Not perfect, not by any means, but I rather think Mr Johnson, who took this image of his wife's class of boys, would have been rather pleased with the result.
HISTORIC ENGLAND
AERIAL PHOTOS  ... for free!

I wonder if this will catch someone's eye.

The link below is to this 1942
aerial RAF recce photo.
RAF 1942 recce photo - click link below to see full photo
We see the village, the gunsite, and just
a tip of RAF Sutton at the bottom.
Sharp eyes will spot inflated balloons,
and even anti-glider landing obstacles.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW
in new window . . .
... this one of Sept 1946 shows aircraft!
and this of Aug 1931 shows Stoneferry
Magic or what!!
if impressed . . . .
you can get me a cup of coffee on Fridays!

(they've had problems with some aerial images at the site recently; seems to be fixed now : worth trying again)

WHAT 3 WORDS
Do you know what your own home's 'What 3 Words' are?  The 3 words that could be your lifesaver in a serious  emergency?  Just three little words, if you already know them, shouted into a phone will bring the emergency services to your front door pronto .. real quick! The Museum's 3 words are 'tune.amount.orchestra.'
Every address in the country has them, more accurate than a postcode.
As us in the museum to help you to find yours ... and teach your kids. Seriously.

There's more details below, with a link on how to find yours.
Or Ask us to Help.

UPDATED CHURCHYARD LISTS

The Churchyard Lists for both churches, at Sutton and at Wawne, have had a 'new' update. No extra graves, the lists are exactly the same, but a new format has been added, in that a new list for both shows all the graves in date order, by year.  The link is on the existing lists.

For the past few years, both lists have been first shown by surname alphabetically, and then also in numerical order, according to their numbered listing in the Monumental Inscription booklets, listing every grave and what could be read on the headstone the last time it was readable in the 1970s.
The new lists just show the earliest graves, from the mid-1700s, to modern times, so roughly up to the new millenium, c.2000-2010.

  TWO SUTTON VIEWS
Here's another view most of you would not have seen from this angle, but I'd bet many of you former school-aerialview-1970s pupils will see many things to recognise in this cracking quality photo. I've scanned it good quality and left it big enough to fill the screen.  Click to open in a new browser window, and see it enlarged. It will show full screen if you know how; pressing F11 helps, or sometimes Fn+F11, depends on your keyboard setup. See what you can pick out, what features take you back years and years .... something tells me this was a school day, and this was in the morning before break time.

One feature, almost unnoticeable, is a real joy, being Eric Johnson's greenhouse. Former headmaster Mr Johnson was keen on gardening, and just as keen on introducing children to this valuable hobby. So the pupils had a thriving little garden at the back of the school. This is the only known image we have of it. Many thanks to Pam (neé Suddaby) and Rob for bringing this in for us. A lovely quality pic.  Update: though we do have some short clips from John Riley's cine film of the boys helping to build and assemble it.  Hope to show some of that soon in a 'presentation.' Castle Hill Lane

Another quality photo from Pam here on the left that may bring back distant memories for Sutton folk. In a way, although a mile or two distant from the village itself, this scene almost epitomises what Sutton felt like back then, rural, a bit out of the way, peaceful and with definite overtones of the old world of England long ago.  Castle Hill Road was a very popular venue for a Sunday afternoon walk, and many boys and girls will remember playing amongst those trees on the old mound, just near Castle Hill Farm, now sadly no more. 

Several local farms of fond memory have long since ceased to exist. Old Sutton folk that revisit often ask us exactly where it was, as they are confused by the newer Noddle Hill Way cutting right across it, actually not far from where this drain bridge was and behind the camera. If you can find it on your map, and take a straight line across Noddle Hill, the old lane cuts right through where Biggin Hill  School is now, and would exit onto Wawne Road roughly opposite Barnstaple Road today.

Victory Charter WWII Another of Pam's precious keepsakes that she has donated to our museum is this Victory Charter, signed by the King, a copy of which was given to every schoolchild in Hull - maybe nationwide too, I don't know.  Click the image to enlarge and read.  The reverse side has a sort of 'war diary' of notable wartime events, of defeats and victories and is a sort of memory jogger to children who grew up during those times. 

The bottom of the other side of the page leaves a space for families to enter details of their own particular family's contribution to the war, intended to be marked to honour those who served on the Home Front as firemen, air raid wardens, Civil Defence volunteers, and of course, any who served in the military, in whatever capacity.  Pam didn't fill this in, but we know that her father Len Suddaby served in the RAF as a photo recconnaisance interpreter. He was one of many in the large teams of 'back-room boys' making sense of the valuable intelligence gathered by those brave pilots who flew very high in unarmed Spitfires and Hurricanes over enemy territory to gather those very highly detailed photos. These are what enabled such detailed plans to be made for the eventual invasions in Italy, and later, on the Normandy coast of France on D-Day.  Click HERE to read the back and see how much of that history you know .. and spot those events left out.

Some More Vague Sutton Memories

Let's start with a memory of an old Sutton farm, Woldview Farm on Leads Rd. This is the corner Midmere Avenue and was taken around 30 years ago, when it was still very like building that we see here in this 1960s view.
WoldViewFarm, c.1990The memory is prompted by recent visits by ex-Sutton residents to the museum and pouring over our huge photo collections, and also some of the scanned pen & ink drawings by the late Ken Cook.  There are several featuring scenes on Leads Rd, including the old garage once owned by Ken's parents who lived at Springfield Cottage.  Quite a lot of local young folk, now in their late teens and early twenties, will remember this house as being their 'Cherub Nursery' up until quite recently in memory terms, only some five years ago or so, albeit with a huge extension on the side nearest this corner.  Time moves on, scenes change, and memories are made to be filed away in the back of our minds, only to be brought back to life by an unexpected image such as this. There are many more on these pages ... explore, enjoy!

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THE ADVENT OF STEAM ... for those with an interest in steam engines and such ...
Talking of farming, of years ago, brings me to this fascinating discovery. An entry in a massive newspaper sheet for a paper called "The Pilot", dated 12 June, 1837, just eight days before Queen Victoria's accession to the throne. This little extract details a fascinating farming experiment; see what you think. For I think they started something big here. Print quality was quite poor, so tidied up a fair a bit to make it all more readable.
It's saved as a photo, jpg, and loads MUCH bigger if you click it ... 

NOTES:  Horwich is over on the Lancashire Moors, roughly between Wigan and Bolton. Red Moss is now a noted nature reserve. This agricultural-industrial history is well known to the "LANCASHIRE PAST"  website, which details a lot more, includes a drawing sketch of this phenomenal machine.Take a look ....
click to load in a new window.
I have a feeling this experiment led to major changes in farming that very quickly even affected our area.  The common census entry, "ploughman", would soon become more and more rare. 


A fine bit of English journalism for it's time, that explains it very clearly, without undue drama, so it is almost visual in the imagination -- I couldn't have put it better myself.  Having said that, do click the link above to view it ... amazing!

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FROM THE TOWER
Another set of memories here, for those who were lucky enough to get up there and see these views. Looks like there may have been a late fall of snow, and it's springtime. These might have been taken on St George's Day.
getting a flag raising ready view east, towards Salthouse Rd Lowgate-Church St corner view south, over Chamberlain St and towards the city, seen in distance view to west, over old cottages, school and railway station. towards Wawne Rd The very observant will note that, in the view of the school, the playground is still fully concreted, and we can just see the tip of Mr Johnson's greenhouse peeping out in from the other side of the dividing fence behind the new vicarage, in front of the white hut, the senior pupil's classroom by that time. Memories!!

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KEN COOKE'S DRAWINGS

Progress on archiving the late Ken Cooke's pen and ink drawing collection is now complete. We have now scanned and catalogued 107 in total, unless anyone knows of any more.  A good 60 or so are of other villages out and about around East Yorkshire.

A lady met me at the gate as I unlocked a week or so ago. Beverley had come all the way from Australia tracing her family history.  She had a good list of graves to search for, by the name of 'Ashton', in both Sutton and at Wawne, and several other villages round and about.  But, sad to say, we could not find one single record or grave photo.  All we could say was that, for graves of the era she was searching for, 1700s-early 1800s, they would be fairly close to the church itself.  But, if there had been headstones, they had gone by the time the Monumental Inscription booklet was compiled and published in the early 1970s, so no photo or record of any headstone either as that archive is the Bernard Sharpe Collection, which he started in 2008.  So apart from a cup of coffee and our best wishes for the rest of her holiday, it was a fruitless search.  Her info was from reliable sources, Ancestry, FindMyPast and FamilySearch, which also gave her baptisms back to the 1700s, so we know her folks are in there.  Just no stone left to see, and no record either, other than what is in the old record books now held at The Treasure House in Beverley.  A great shame.  It's not often that happens, drawing a total blank.

Former pupil John Wall brought us photos of his late parents' shop.  Many will remember the former WALL'S store near "The Wall's grocery store, Church StShip Inn".  He also brought us some photos of horses and ponies they used Wall's grocery store, Mr Mrs Wall to own, soon to be posted on "The Pinfold" page.  John went to Cavendish Rd School, and remembers many of his contemporaries that were friends that came to this school.  I'm guessing many pupils here bought their crisps and sweets in his mum and dad's shop.

Just for fun, click the first vase of flowers on the Home Page for a musical puzzle. The puzzle was a charming love message, from a soldier based in Sutton in WW1, Cpl Barlow of the RGA, to his longed-for sweetheart.  Men were romantic, and charming, and real gentlemen in those days.  Most old pupils will get it, though I doubt many today will. I'm not 'musical', can't play a note, but I got it. Always remember 'the scales'. 

Another visitor was former pupil here Alex Watson. Whom we now know was the donor of a small collection of school class photos from the late 1950s to 1963, taken by Eric Johnson.  I only posted one of them on this site last night, taken from a part of Merrill's photo collection, but unamed.  I had no idea where they had come from; now we know they were Alex's, left to us by him anonymously one day on a CD he had prepared.  It's quite a little set. Go to the Home Page, find the graphic of the school, and click one of the white circles on the school wall.  Old girls will remember playing ball to those circles, and the boys cricket at the painted white stumps below.



GOOD NEWS
FOR LOCAL FAMILY HISTORY
RESEARCHERS

In addition to the Museum on Fridays,
there is another weekly
FAMILY HISTORY session at the
CLUBHOUSE in GARDEN VILLAGE
Tuesday afternoons, 1:30pm - 3.30pm,
for those who want to make a start,
but not sure how to go on, etc.

Open to everyone, not just locally to East Hull.
We can show you how to access a lot of
online info for FREE to start with.
A friendly group where we all help each other!
Access to Ancestry, all census records up to
1911, BMD, old maps, and much more.
Sessions are £3.50 , with tuition and lots of
help, and tea/coffee with a couple of biscuits.
For folks who are very new to the internet,
we can  even show you how to 'Google!'
Open to everyone, not just locally to East Hull.
We can show you how to access a lot of
online info for FREE to start with.

A friendly group where we all help each other!
Access to Ancestry, all census records up to
1911, BMD, old maps, and much more.
Sessions are £3.50 , with tuition and lots of
help, and tea/coffee with a couple of biscuits.
For folks who are very new to the internet,
we can  even show you how to 'Google!'


Your own laptop/tablet is welcome, or at
least notepaper and some names to search for.
If not a laptop, bring a memory stick,
phone card, to enable you to take
digital info away with you.
There is wi-fi, a big, warm room with large
tables to layout your work,
and lots of FREE parking.
We can also give you GRAMPS, a FREE app
to organise and contain your FH records,
all your charts, history, etc.

We don't do dancing,
but we can teach you how to 'Google'.
Ring Carol, on 708104, for more details.

We also can give more info on the quality free
Family History programme mentioned on this site -
GRAMPS is HERE ... !



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Who remembers Meccano! Dads and lads,
and long-suffering mums and sisters! We wonder if there would be any interest in a
"Dads and lads" Meccano session.
Bring your lad, and show him how you aspired to be an engineer!
We now have within our Old School a
C H A T T Y   C A F E
where we welcome visitors to take a break, meet friends,
or meet other visitors and make friends!
please note: tea/coffee/soft drinks can be served again as before;
suggested donation to help our Museum funds, £1.50

       

The displays are now back together, and much to see.
The new head teacher is Mr Capengown, from Waybackwhen.
He has replaced Mr Thwacker, who was far too lenient with unruly pupils.
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HERE'S A RARE TREAT
FOR OLD PUPILS OF THE EARLY 60s

The 24 photos from the 'Eric Johnson Collection', shown in Gallery 3
on the 'PHOTOS' page, are very reduced in size, not even full screen
or enlargeable to any real extent.  We have 62 of them in the full set.
Here are two you can download and enlarge a good deal more,
or even print a far better copy than those previously offered.

Most photos on websites are reduced in size and quality, both to reduce
the total file size of a website where this matters regarding cost,
and to facilitate quicker loading even into older browsers with slower connections.
I chose these two because they show so many pupils in one go, and one has a bewitching view over the back of the old fields to Swine, where we understand
so many of you had snowball fights and went sledging.
As well as the photo number, these also have the letter 'fs' for 'full-size'
so they can be loaded into the same pics folder as the reduced ones.
They are over 5Mb each, and on very poor internet connections,
may take a few more secs or so to load fully.  Patience will be rewarded.

When you click these and load them, they will more than fill the screen.
Download them for your own collection, and print as you wish.
These photos show a time of real joy, and even 60 years later,
clearly tell us what a happy school this was.



A SPECIAL VOLUNTEER
Barbara aged 94
BARBARA ...... As well as opening for the first time in 18 months after lockdown, those 2021 Heritage Weeks were rather special in some other ways too.  Our oldest volunteer, Barbara, saw another milestone earlier, another birthday. Yet she was with us for the FULL TWO DAYS of our opening, helping in the kitchen, keeping us supplied with tea and coffee. For a lady who went to 'Open Air School' because of TB as a girl, and wasn't expected to make old bones, at 95, she is a magnificent inspiration.  Barbara served in the ATS during World War II, and for many, many years was a volunteer on the books and tea trollies at Kingston General Hospital.

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WE HAVE THREE PHOTOS TO HELP YOU LOCATE
our Australian pilot's grave

It occurs that much more 'green growth' of the trees and vegetation now obscures the clear view of the church we had when I first took pics of Pat's grave nearly 20 years ago.  In the first pic, enlarge it, and the shop next to 'The Ship' can just be seen. Whereas the church is now almost well hidden by the big sycamores, the roof of the nave is just seen just over Pat's headstone, and a hint of the red brick tower behind the thick branches of a cherry tree.
The entrance gate from the car park is at the far end of that long wall.
The view across to the Church Hall should fix it. We hope this helps visitors.

Merrill Rhodes
  The late Merrill Rhodes,
founder of this museum,
Seen here in her element, in the attire of a
Victorian teacher a few years ago in the early days
of the "Sutton Resources & Exhibition Centre"
in full flow giving one of her many inspirational
fund-raising local history lectures and presentations.
Merrill will be fondly remembered by many thousands of former Hull pupils. For many years, she was a teacher of both English and Music, before retiring to be a church liaison officer for the Church of England, visiting several dozen of their schools around the wider Hull area on a monthly basis. 
She used the very room that is now 'her museum' as a base, an office, and started to collect local artefacts and family history stories.  From around 1998, the collection grew and grew and with the help of good friends and willing volunteers, very quickly became the basis of the museum we have now, with a heavy focus on family history research in the Sutton and Wawne areas.

Her music interests included being a member of Hull and East Yorkshire choirs and societies, and she sang in many productions locally. Merrill will be particularly remembered for her close association with the present St James C of E school on Dorchester Rd, and hosted many classroom visits of younger pupils to show them their school's former building.

A shy lady, and somewhat reluctant to be in the limelight, she was in her element presenting a lantern slide show on Sutton and Wawne's history, or hosting many other class visits of other schools in the district.  She leaves us a wonderful legacy, and will be most fondly remembered by many people, young and old. Not least by her many friends and volunteers of St James' Church and the museum she founded.  A legacy that we will do our utmost to give justice to as we rebuild her museum room after it's recent major refurbishment.  A museum, or exhibition, or folk history collection, whatever else it is or whatever one may call it, we will make sure it is -- above all else -- educational.

Those visitors and supporters who recall the early days of Merrill's venture, and who have since moved away or lost touch, living abroad, etc, will be saddened to know that Merrill died after a very long illness on 19th October, 2021.  Her death was more poignant for her friends and all at the museum volunteers in that this happened during the covid-19 restrictions that were in force at that time, and after the worst restrictions that limited any visiting during the latter days of her illness.  Though not as strict as earlier restrictions had been, nonetheless, Peter and the family were still not able to celebrate Merrill's life in the way that they would all have wished.

Even so, Merrill's lovely funeral was very well attended, and held in St James' Church in Sutton,
on November 12th, and there followed a simple gathering for family and friends
within the Old School.
We still miss her.
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We can now assist in accessing all the forms required for Veterans
and their families to send for their loved ones' Military Records.
These are downloadable from the Veterans' Agency
HM Armed Forces Veterans Badge on the Government Website, (click the badge to go there!)
but we also can print them if required for our visitors,
and give advice on what to do next.
Spouses are entitled to their husband's
full service record for free;
children and other relatives pay  £30.

It is best that Next of Kin send for records to ensure
'full disclosure', as other relatives may find that
certain personal records are not released.

It is usually medical and disciplinary records that are held back,
but children of veterans are 'next-of-kin' and get those released as of right.

A link to the website to obtain a Veteran's Badge is further below.
The Long Museum Page has now been divided in two ::
ON THE NEXT MUSEUM PAGE SECTION :
we have links to details of .. .. ..


THE RESOURCES YOU CAN VIEW
WHEN YOU VISIT THE MUSEUM
OUR PHOTO COLLECTIONS
19 numbered albums
2 of Glass Plate prints
5 of Wawne
RECORDS
of the big houses, farms, and the families that lived in them 		SCHOOL
REGISTERS !!
1876 ~ 1973
We have full-page scans of the
1932 - 1973 book . . .
and a great deal more:
Historic and Listed Buildings within Sutton village
online eBooks to BLASHILL, POULSON and HUTTON HISTORICAL DIRECTORIES for ENGLAND & WALES

Friends of The Old School ... we need you !! An up-to-date list of our Friends is now on this page MAPS & GUIDES . . press F11 to toggle Full Screen Museum & Exhibition on Fridays in the Old School Rooms, a marvellous display of life in Sutton and Wawne in times past ..muchmore to see when you visit .. Incredible list of resources. Use also withFAMILY HISTORY button below ... Upcoming Events, commemorations or celebrations
Wawne Village, links to church, Village Hall and history Local Photos & Images of Sutton & Wawne dozens of links to military history, both local, national and military, including both World Wars, all armed services, and more ...
Direct Link to the EAST YORKSHIRE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY ... opens in new window .. and HIGHLY recommended OUR PUBLICATIONS ... see what we have to sell on DVD-ROM, DVD for TV, or books about Sutton & Wawne Brooklands Photographic Society, Sutton
St James & St Peter's - brief history of both churches Message the Volunteers at the volunteers at the Sutton & Wawne Museum via our Facebook Page
St James Churchyard - a full list of graves and memorials
a page of dozens of local pen & ink drawings by Sutton artist, Ken Cooke   A SITE MAP . . if you're lost   to the Pinfold, where local girls from the farms used to tie up their ponies whilst in school
Do visit our Guestbook; now over 160 entries from all over the world.

TOP of PAGE THE HOME PAGE ... TOP of PAGE

Lest We Forget
Sutton War Memorial .. photos of each war grave now added, Nov 2009 visit the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website Wawne War Memorial
RAF Sutton on Hull page

A link to the 3 CofE churches in Sutton, Bransholme & Wawne parishes


other places called Sutton, around the world

E N D   O F   T H I S   P A G E


Enjoy the more Old Maps on the next one ...


Wawne, c1893

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T H E   E N D

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but not quite ....this GOOGLE info re-aligned from the top of the page .....


GOOGLE and our website
It is with much sadness, and a great amount of 'miff',
that we have to announce the closure of our previously free Google Website,
the one you used to be able to see when you click on our Old School on Google Maps.
For those who have never seen it, this link takes you, for now .....
GOOGLE US.

From March 1st, the website we have there will no longer show, but just the main profile of your main website manager, that's me!  
I created and maintain it under my own name.
Then, from June 10th, it will not show you anything at all,
just a bland notice saying it has all closed.

Really thrilling news.  Yes, very miffed indeed.  We will of course, still have this main website, the one we pay for privately, and incidentally, is paid for by your generous donations.  On the Google site as it shows now, there is of course a link that takes you directly to this site, but that ultimately will be withdrawn. 

Perhaps we should not be complaining. After all, the Google site has always been free, the only input required was the extra amount of learning this tired old brain needed to master in order to make sense and best use of it, to place photos, announcements, etc.  It hasn't cost us a penny, so far, offered by the goodness and largesse of one of the world's largest and richest technology companies.

But I strongly sense here that there will be soon a requirement, a 'request', for us to shell out some of our funds to keep our placement on Google Maps too.  Like with most tech companies today, here now comes the rub off, just as many of you are finding currently with internet companies and their marvellously 'cheap' subscription deals to undermine KC. Like fish, we are all on very sharp hooks.

So, if any of you run a small business, and trade is enhanced by your placement on Google Maps, beware .... times are a'changing.  No doubt the tech companies will make a fortune building you a new site to replace your Google one.  But not here, they shouldn't even ask us. I have enough trouble remembering all the tricks to maintain this one you're reading now.  But, for the most part, you'll have no choice but agree and pay up.  Government calls all this 'trade' and 'economics' .. I suspect most of us have another old English word for it - I'm still allowed to use English, I think - .... Corruption.
And if you don't subscribe to keep your place on their maps,
your business will surely suffer. 
Oh, you can be well assured, they'll make very sure of that.  

Just like with the Post Office and our own Government,
you can't fight them.
You will not win!  Never.

10 January 2024