Old Photographs & Old Pictures of East Yorkshire Villages

Asselby schoolchildren in 1928

Asselby railway

Asselby with old chapel on right

Asselby main street with entrance to Eel Hall farm on right

Barmby church

Booth ferry c.1901

Boothferry bridge, opened 1929

Booth farm

Booth ferry

Booth ferry and car

Booth - ferry houses

Booth ferry - with bears on the slipway

Howden flax mill [at Booth] - women workers inside

Howden flax mill [at Booth] - women workers outside

Booth - Mayphil cafe

Blacktoft church, early view of interior

Bubwith: Barclays bank close up

Bubwith, viewed from river Derwent

Bubwith, showing Barclays bank

Bubwith: old picture of village centre

Ellerton village near Bubwith

Bubwith church - early view

Bubwith cottage - Main Street

Gilberdyke: Clementhorpe Hall, home of the Seaman family

Gilberdyke/ Staddlethorpe: George Dalton of Woodfield House cutting a hay stack

Gilberdyke: 'new' Rose and Crown, run by Ben Webster and family

Gilberdyke: Clementhorpe Road

Gilberdyke: Carlton cottages and old school

Gilberdyke/ Eastrington: the first Rose and Crown

Gilberdyke railway station, originally called Staddlethorpe

Gilberdyke: old Post Office on Main Road

Gilberdyke: the Bell Harrison family, millers

Gilberdyke: aerial view of White Horse

Gilberdyke: bus trip with Jack Holt

Gilberdyke: Wards' hotel

Howdendyke ferry

Howdendyke ferry from Hook

Elm Tree house on the road between Howden and Howdendyke. Pictured here is the funeral procession of Philip Saltmarshe in March 1912

Kilpin Home Guard

Back (left to right): Les Backhouse, George Wainman, Wilf Blyth, Jack Bayston
Front: Ernest Leighton, Alf Wainman, Anson Habblett, Herbert Smith
Possibly at Kilpin Hall Farm, where they met

Knedlington old hall. built 17th century by a member of the Arlush family

Knedlington Manor- now demolished

Knedlington drinking fountain. Erected in memory of Thomas Sinclair Clarke

Knedlington House - line drawing from prospectus of Knedlington House academy

Knedlington Manor - built for Thomas Clarke 1840-41

Another view of Front Street, Laxton: viewed from road from Yokefleet, showing house on left which is no longer there.

Laxton: this view is looking towardswhat today is called Jubilee Avenue. The picture dates from Edwardian times.

Laxton: this is the impressive Laxton Coronation Band, consisting of three drums, a melodeon and a triangle.

Laxton: Station Road with the former Saltmarshe Estate's agent's house facing and cottages, now gone, on the right.

Saltmarshe station

The station is actually at Laxton but was named Saltmarshe in honour of the Saltmarshe family through whose estate the railway line ran

Pictured here probably in the 1970s

Rev Edward Whitmore Simpson.
Vicar of Laxton 1868-1910.
He lived at Metham Hall and a curate lived in Laxton Vicarage

Rev Charles Churton Potts.

Vicar of Laxton 1911-1918

Rev William Sherwin

Vicar of Laxton 1919-32

Rev Herbert Coster

Vicar of Laxton 1938-1947

Rev William Heaton Elmhirst and his family

He was curate at Laxton 1892-1904. He had a large family of 8 sons and a daughter. Two sons were killed in World War One, his son Thomas became an Air Vice Marshal and his son Leonard Knight Elmhirst, born at Laxton in 1893, founded the Utopian Dartington Community with his wife Dorothy.

Laxton school 1956

Back from left: Robert Kirk, Dennis Brown, David Martin, Mrs Doreen Wilde [ nee White], Mervyn Brown, Dennis Dilcock, Rodney Thompson, Robert Hudson.
Front: Janet Anson, Sheila leighton, Sylvia Anson, Patricia Barker, Sylvia Brown, Barbara Hudson, Susan Martin

Laxton school 1955

The children are not really standing in rows but the following children are pictured:

Extreme back John Palmby, Mary Kirk, David Foster, Geoff Hart, Arthur Walduck,
Next row: David Palmby, Robin Sweeting, Robert Sweeting, Harold Clark
Next 'row': David Martin, Len Sweeting, John Williamson.
Next row: Don Brignall, Arthur Duffin, Roger Brown, Margaret Kirk, Annette Brignall, Eileen Austin.

Next row: Mr Joe Womersley, Len Jackson, Ian Barker, John Foster,
Gloria Kendal, Rita Sweeting, Jim Sweeting, Geoff Hart, Miss Doreen White [with John Foster's rabbit],

Next row: Delia Shaw, Diane Kendal, Mervyn Brown, Patricia Barker, ? Grande, Sylvia Brown, Sheila Leighton, Susan Martin, Pamela Broadbent,
Front row: Robert Kirk, Alan Sweeting, Sylvia Anson, Barbara Hudson, Janet Anson, Barry Hart, Dennis Dilcock, Geoffrey Lazenby.

Laxton school 1928

Back row: Douglas Brown, Harry Hardwick, Jack Scruton, Harry Dilcock, Fred Hobson, Wilf Campbell, Jack Hutchinson, Albert Sweeting, Jack Backhouse.
Third row: Dorothy Brown, Rose Anson, Muriel Dilcock, Molly Allerton, Sybil Riley, Mary Hardwick, May Lindley, Florence Dilcock, Elsie Brown, Lily Lindley, Margaret Sweeting, Maud Baron, Maud Walduck.

Second row: George Brignall, Ernest Hobson, Robet Anson, Roy Brown, Phylis Brignall, Effie Hobson, Miriam Tolan, Mildred Walker, Gwen Oakley, Joan Hardwick, Vida Taylor, Vera Barker, Alfred Sweeting, Robert Taylor, Eric Walker, Eric Brown.

Front: Stuart Brown, ? Samways, Harry Brown, Gordon Nicholson, Sydney Freeman, Brinsley Pool, Sydney Hobson, James Brown, Arthur Lazenby, Ernest Sweeting, Alfred Sweeting, Percy Lakin, Harry Lindley, Claude Brignall, Arthur Oakley, Derek Leach.

Newport bridge and Turk's Head on the left. 1950s

Newport canal and keels. Bridge in background

Newport: Canalside east, with Turk's Head in distance

Newport: Darlings' mill, Canalside west and bridge

Newport: Canalside west

Newport: Williamsons' brickyard in the distance

Newport canal looking north

Newport canal looking at Canalside east

Newport bridge. Turk's Head chimneys visible

Newport: original bridge

Newport: second bridge. Also visible is Crown and Anchor

Newport: Turk's Head, with Joseph Kitching, landlord

Newport: girl with hoop, old post office in background

Newport: shop and PO, later rebuilt as Co-op. Pictured before 1900

Newport PO with Dorcas Brown, nee Brittain, postmistress, outside

Newport shop and post office

Newport: Co-op shop on left

Newport: main street looking east towards North Cave

Newport: Ocean Terrace on right

Newport: Clark's shop and garage on right

Newport looking west - Oddfellows building on left

Newport looking west, PM chapel spire in distance

Newport Canalside east houses

Newport cottages near mill on Canalside west

Newport: Cleveland Cottage

Newport: The Grange. Dr Collins in trap

Newport: Featherstone Haigh and family

Newport: Daybreak Villa

Newport: Primitive Methodist chapel and the village hall or 'Rec'.

Newport: Walmsley Primitive Methodist chapel - early view

Newport vicarage

Newport: St Stephen's church

Newport brickworks. Man making drainpipe

Newport: railway station on Hull and Barnsley line - later renamed Wallingfen

Newport: South Carr farm, Stony Lane

North Cave: Nordham

North Cave church

North Cave war memorial

North Cave invoice (William Saunders)

Milestone showing distance to Howden and to North Cave

Portington Hall and old cottage

Sandhall: maids at play

Sandhall: the hall

Sandhall: Maypole dancing

Skelton WI about 1947 at Sandhall

Back row from left: unknown, Mrs Newman, Mrs Clayton, Mrs Backhouse, Mrs Watson
3rd row: Mrs Barlow, Mrs Tate, Miss Robinson, Miss Wainman, ?, ?.
2nd row: Mrs Keeble, Mrs Smith, Mrs Scholfield, Miss Parker, Joan Coggle.
Front row: Mrs Akney, Cath Clayton, Brenda Akney, ?, Joan Leighton.

Saltmarshe: SS Aire aground on the river bank in 1958 after colliding with the German collier Helene B. Schupp

Saltmarshe. A salmon caught in the Ouse. Mrs Fox and Betty Pittaway with fish and net

Saltmarshe Hall from an old postcard.

Saltmarshe old hall, which was replaced around 1825 by a new one

Saltmarshe.

Mary Thompson and her mother Maud, nee Potter at Sowby's farm. Percival Chatterton Thompson and his new bride arrived about 1910. Mary was born in 1914. Her father served as a captain andwon the Military Cross in the war.

Wressle Castle

Wressle railway station

Yokefleet Hall

Yokefleet village