Old Photographs & Pictures of Eastrington, East Yorkshire

Eastrington: Cobble Lane. The village cemetery is on the left.

Eastrington: Vicar Lane. The old vicarage is on the right behind trees.

Eastrington: High Street. THe old post office run by Arnold Hoggard was on the right.

Eastrington: village green with Black Swan on left and Sycamore House on right.

Eastrington: Laurel Villa. This house faced down where Nanrock Close is today and was the home of the Kay family.

Eastrington: village green with Sycamore or Aneley House and Manor House.

Eastrington: village centre with Black Swan on left.

Eastrington: village centre with part view of the Manor house.

Eastrington: Black Swan with landlord Henry Jackson and wife Mary in the 1900s. Henry previously been a cowkeeper in Sutton on Hull. Their daughter Emma Jackson married John Buttle.

Eastrington: village centre with Cross keys, now the Garage House, visible on right.

Eastrington: church interior in the 1920s, wth oil lamps visible.

Eastrington: Vicar Lane. This was the property of the Barrow family and was last occupied by relative 'Bunny' Lilley. Now the site of Vicar Lane houses.

Eastrington: Dennis Hanson and his staff, pictured in 1993. He is the founder and owner of Eastrington philatelic services.

Eastrington: Filbert Grove. The farm was owned by the Brown family. The farmhouse, now demolished, was last lived in by Laurie Cowburn. The cottage shown here stood on the corner of the road to Belby.

Eastrington: the Holey family outside Fern Villa on the corner of Sandholme Road and Carr Lane.

Eastrington: Nova Scotia farm in the early 1900s.

Eastrington:

Rev George Samuel Dunbar, vicar of Eastrington from 1883 until his death in 1897.

Eastrington:

Percy 'Pop' Fenton, son of Joshua and Emily Fenton, nee Claxton. Born in April 1911, he died at Cliffe near Selby in 1992. Pop was a farm labourer in the Eastrington area. This photo was taken in 1926. He later joined the Royal Regiment Of Artillery and served in India.

Eastrington:

George Lilley outside Rose Cottage, Portington Road. He and his wife Annie had 13 children. George died in 1929, aged 70.
Percy Betts was the next occupant of the off-licence premises, which were owned by Hewitts’ Ales of Grimsby. The off licence did very well selling beer and tobacco during the war to servicemen from the local airfields.

Eastrington: William Legge

William Robert Legge, headmaster from 1881 to 1887. He was 32 when he came to Eastrington with his wife Martha, who was 24. Their first child, Ethelbert, was born in 1882, followed by Clarence and Rosalind. After leaving the village they had three further children including a daughter Mabel, who drowned aged two in Leeming Dam. William Legge died in 1896 at Banbury.

Eastrington: 1950s aerial view of High Street with Bennett Lodge (a white house) centre. Also shows Alma Row and Nanrock area.

Eastrington: Mrs Eliza Ramsey, widow of Amos, and her three daughters outside their house on Howden Road, which was later the home of John and Edna Bradshaw.

Eastrington: Mr William(?) Stead with his decorated shire horse, believed to be pictured at Howden.

Eastrington: the Hull and Barnsley railway station, which was on Portington Road. From a postcard dated 1904.

Eastrington: Queen Street, sometimes known as School Lane, in the early 1900s. On the right the window can be seen of the shop which stood on the corner of Vicar Lane.

Eastrington: Queen Street with Laurel House, where Mr and Mrs Walter Grebby lived, on the left. Notice the garden gate and hedges in the left foreground where the entrance to Willow Garth is today.

Eastrington: Queen Street. School Farm in the distance on the left.

Eastrington: Another view of the Hull and Barnsley railway station, which was on Portington Road.

Eastrington: Amethyst House and Station Road in the 1920s. Notice the little cottage between The Laurels and The Gables. It was last lived in by Mr and Mrs Ted Jewitt.

Eastrington: an early view of Station road with Townend Farm, home of the Hawcroft family, visible behind trees on the left.

Eastrington: an aerial view of South Eastrington station showing station house, cottages and gates

Eastrington: Clifford and Robert Nurse pictured in the yard of the Joiner's Shop, Station Road.

Eastrington: the Old Vicarage before the First World War

Rev William Percy Hains, vicar from 1909-36, stands behind the tennis net and nearer the camera, from left, are his children Noel, Winifred and Cyril. Not on the picture is his third son Norman.

Eastrington: the school house

This postcard of the school house was sent to a friend by Mr James Wilson Milne soon after his arrival in the village as headmaster in 1904. He wrote, "This will give you some idea of our new home. Of course you cannot see the kitchen or the back of the house. Barbara’s bedroom is at the back and from it we can see the Yorkshire Wolds." Barbara was his daughter.

Eastrington: an early view of the centre of the village

The shop on the left was latterly the village stores but is now a private house. It was a grocer’s run by Thomas Holmes in the 1870s. Beyond it was another grocer’s shop, owned for many years by Robert Fielder, who was the leader of the village Methodists.
On the right, the canopy shows where the butcher’s shop was. It was the premises of Edward Hairsine in the nineteenth century.

Eastrington: village centre and Flints' shop

The Flint family moved to Eastrington in 1900. Edmund Flint was from Skidby and his wife Martha was from Sunderland. They had spent the previous ten years in Australia, living at Mount Morgan in Queensland, a gold mining town. Their children Frederick, Elsie and Edmund were born there.
Mr Flint was also a photographer and several of the early colour postcards of the village were taken by him. He died in 1923 .

Eastrington: Pinfold Street

The ivy-covered house was the home of George Smith. It was built around 1879 by Messrs Liversidge of Selby. By 1885 George and Alice Smith were the tenants and the house was known simply as ‘The Farm’. George Smith later bought the property and, after his death in 1938, it passed to his son, John William, known as ‘Billy’. He lived there with his wife Jane [‘Jinny’] nee Ramsey until they moved into their newly-built bungalow across the road on the corner of Pinfold Street and Queen Street. The house was then re-named Lanegarth.
Next door and recently demolished [Dec 2010] was the cottage where Mrs Ducker lived until her death in 1965. She was the former Mary Ellen Lapish and married railwayman Alfred Ducker.

Eastrington: South Eastrington railway station

Thomas Albert Atkinson, here on the extreme right, retired in July 1918, having been stationmaster for 32 years. His sons Robert and Caley served in the Northumberland Fusiliers in the war. Robert sadly lost a leg. Thomas Atkinson and his wife Eliza also had two daughters; Jessie, and Dorothy, who married Harry Fell and lived for many years in Gilberdyke.

Eastrington: William and Mary Ann Kay

‘Billy’ Kay was the youngest son of Thomas Edwin Kay, the miller at Flatfield Mill near Howden. His first job was as a porter on the railway and he then worked at various jobs until 1896, when he took over Nova Scotia farm. In 1898 he married Mary Ann Snarr, the eldest daughter of John Snarr of Howden. The couple farmed at Novia Scotia until about 1917, when they moved into the village and lived in the house which stood next to the Cross Keys public house and west of Nanrock Lane. This large house, known as Laurel Villa, was demolished to make way for a new housing estate in 1990/1.

Eastrington school: infants' class in 1960

Here is the infants’ class of 1960, with their teacher Mrs White.
Back row: Robin Watson, John Benson, Linda Flint, Bernard Robinson, Stephen Clark, Charlie Chapman, Mrs White.
Middle row: Ian Young, Elaine Anson, Peter Wraith, Catherine McDonald, Andrew White, Ann Crossland, Tony Dent.
Front row: Diane Dove, Michael Naylor, Annette Hargroves, Jimmy Wraith, Carole Hopkinson, Ian[?] McDonald, Maureen Wraith, Mary Grande, Doris Crowcroft.

Eastrington school: Mrs Leadill and class in 1960

Back row: Mrs Leadill, Frank Johnson, Eddie Crowcroft, Monty Lowther, Tony Ingram, Colin Wraith
Middle row: Gary Westoby, Stephen Dent, Elizabeth Anson, David Lilley, Linda Anson, Brian Malcolmson, Stephen Clark, Susan Naylor
Front row: Pamela Atkinson, Janet Hopkinson, May Lowther, Dorothy Brown, Norma Robinson, Pauline Wraith, Angela Wiles

Eastrington school: infants' class in 1965

Back: Miss Ann Withell, Graham Westoby, Christopher Johnson, Paul Slowen, Russell Hornblower, Nigel Smith, Andrew Johnson, ?.
Middle: hidden, Robert Benson, Richard Hall, David Rewcastle, Kevin Rewcastle, Peter Watson, Deborah Robinson, Pauline Blacker, Anne Cowburn.
Front: Wendy Lowther, Trudy Dent, Wendy Hall, Pauline Dennis, Louise Strickland, Shirley Flint, Glenice Wraith, Pauline Watson.

Eastrington school: Mrs Leadill's class in the 1950s

Names not known as yet [except for Christine Chapman, centre]. Please contact me for a free high resolution copy if you can provide further names.

Eastrington Wesleyan Methodist chapel in the 1980s

A gathering in the 1980s.
Back left: ?, ?, Bernard Hopkinson, Doreen Wilde, Jane Laverack [part hidden], Jean Hopkinson, Rev J Fisher, Roy Alderson, Betty Brown, Frank Wilde.
Middle: Audrey Shortland, Louie White, Susan Laverack, Mrs Wilburn, Charlie Bell, Muriel Smith, Betty Hoggard.
Front: Gillian Shortland, Jenny Wilson, Gillian Laverack, David Laverack, Gary Laverack.

Eastrington cricket team

Back: Albert Swann, Tucker Exley, Jim Littlefield, Phil Reed, Reg Hoggard, Jack Exley.
Front: Ted Dent, Harry Wiles, Bill Lilley, Bunny Lilley, Arnold Hoggard, George Calvert

Eastrington cricket team at the Ashes, Howden

including Colin Reed, Harry Wiles, Howard Lilley, Don Waterhouse, Bill Lilley, "Bunny' Lilley.

Eight and Forty, Wallingfen

Gladys Holmes on the pillion and her sister Georgena in 1927 outside the family butcher’s shop at Scalby, near Newport. The slaughter house behind the shop was said to have been on the site of the Eight and Forty meeting house. George Holmes, their father, was the son of Thomas and Mary Holmes of Eastrington. Gladys married Samuel Dalton of Gilberdyke. Her brother Jack followed his father as butcher at Scalby until his death in 1987.

Eastrington: Joshua Fenton, born Eastrington, 1872

Joshua's father, Thomas Fenton, owned a steam threshing machine.
Joshua was a pupil teacher at the village school before joining the East Riding police in 1894. He left the force in 1906, and died in Hull in 1935.
Joshua’s eldest sister, Ann Fenton, married William Hodgson, a railway platelayer. William and Ann went on to have a large family, three of whom [Herbert, Gladys and Myrtle] married three of the Lilley family [Nellie, Harry and George].
His sister, Emma, married postman Tom Bruines, while his sister Lucy married widower Robert Clark, a joiner who took as his apprentice his wife’s youngest brother, Robert.
Robert Fenton later married Annie Tee and moved to Drax, where he became caretaker and woodwork teacher at the Read School and where descendants of his 12 children still live.

Eastrington: Carr Lane before development

Eastrington: the chapel, pictured in 1911.

Eastrington: interior view of the present Eastrington chapel. Notice the oil lamps, which were new in 1914.

Eastrington: an aerial view of Sleights Farm near the Royal Oak at Portington. The farm is no longer there.

Eastrington: village netball team in the 1930s.
Back from left: Annie Lilley, Alice Laverack, Peggy Starkey, Rose Pollard, Dolly Storey.
Front: Winnie Lancaster, Amy Smith, Phyllis Dyson, Vera Hoggard.

Eastrington: showing Black Swan with door onto pavement on the left and the Cross keys sign on the right.

Eastrington: an aerial view of the brickyard, showing chimneys, claypit and houses. Now the Eastrington Amenity area.

Eastrington: Ladies' group in the old village hall including Mrs Mary White, Mrs Madge Robinson, Mrs Marjorie Jarvis.

Eastrington: Bob Brooks holding a wasps' nest outside Kirkdene. He was sexton, sweep and eccentric. He lived on Vicar Lane.

Eastrington: Thomas and Jane Poulter and ?their son outside Vine Cottage, Vicar Lane. Mrs Poulter celebrated her 100th birthday in 1932.

Eastrington: This house at Newland, now much changed, was reputedly originally a drawing office on the Howden airship station.