New release: GOOLE, A PICTORIAL HISTORY, VOL. 4 by Susan Butler.
Now available from local shops and to order online.

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Gilberdyke, a village story

By the Gilberdyke Local History Group, edited by Susan Butler

Paperback, 96 pages, ISBN 0 9515498 0 4. Published 1989.

Cover illustration: Clementhorpe Hall by Graham Butler, from a painting by James Deighton

Gilberdyke is about 20 miles from Hull and has grown in the last 30 years from a small agricultural settlement into a commuter village with several housing estates.

This book was written by a WEA class which met in 1986/7 and covered such topics as Gilberdyke mills, population and occupations in 1851, roads, rivers and railways, schools, local Methodists, Sandholme brickworks, the Staddlethorpe flax mill, Wade's pole yard, the Gracie Fields connection and the village in wartime.

The book proved very popular and sold out within three years.

Gilberdyke, a village remembered

By the Gilberdyke Local History Group, edited by Susan Butler

Paperback, 58 pages, ISBN 0 9515498 1 2. Published 1992.

Cover illustration: Clementhorpe Road looking north, with Mrs Snowden's shop on the left

This book is the companion volume to Gilberdyke, a village story, and again was written by the Gilberdyke WEA group. It incorporates many memories and photographs which were stimulated by people reading the first volume and concentrates mainly on shops and pubs.

Topics include the Cross Keys, the Throup family of butchers, Ward's Hotel, the memorial hall, Gilberdyke feast, Doctor MacKenzie, Claytons' shop, the Railway Hotel, the White Horse and the Rose and Crown.

A few copies are available at £5.00 each, plus £2.50 p&p. Please contact me for the postal address.