Quite a horrific puzzle this weekend “The Black Death” – and I also suspect it’s a difficult one because of the dark and grey theme. It took me 3 minutes and 30 seconds to complete.
This was taken from yesterday’s Blog post about the Hedon History Guided Walk which suggested that Hedon’s population was decimated by bubonic plague in the 12th and 13th century.
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The Black Death
Local historian and publisher Dr John Markham will lead a guided tour of Hedon on Tuesday May 5th 2009. The event starts at 7:15pm and walkers should meet at Market Hill by St. Augustine’s Church. Booking is essential at the East Riding Council’s Archives and Local Studies Service on telephone (01482) 392790.
The two issues mentioned in the title of the work are touched upon briefly below:
Medieval Port: Hedon was noted in the 12th and early 13th centuries for its prosperous port which was listed as the 11th largest in England at the time. The ‘Black Death’ is thought by some historians to have decimated Hedon’s population and its ability to sustain the port.
Rotten Borough: Hedon was called a “rotten borough” due to the unsavoury practice of the town’s early MPs (Members of Parliament) bribing people to vote for them. When the existing parliamentary system was reformed in 1832 the practice was stamped out – and in the process the town lost both of its MPs.
Source: Holderness Gazette.
Other related information: Hedon Blog History Archive.
Fort Paull is a family orientated millitary museum situated in Battery Road near the village of Paull. The site is on our list of ‘must see’ attractions that are near to Hedon.
A Fort was first built at Paull in 1542. The present structure was erected in 1864 as one in a string of north east coast defensive gun batteries built to repel any invasion attempt by Napoleonic French forces.
The fort served as a millitary training base between the wars and was not formally ‘de-commissioned’ as a millitary base until 1960.
Re-enactment of battles
Today Fort Paull occupies a 10 acre site and boasts enough attractions to keep a family occupied all day with underground tunnels, millitary exhibits, waxworks and re-enactments of battles and wartime events. The next arms, weapons and battle displays are scheduled for the May bank holiday on 3rd and 4th May 2009.
Another star feature exhibited at the site since 2005 is a giant Transport Aircraft (the only surviving Blackburn Beverley). Visitors can explore inside the 99 ft 5 in (30.3 m) long aircraft.
As mentioned earlier Fort Paull is a target visitor destination for the Duff’s – so The Hedon Blog would love to hear from any reader who has already visited the site and would like to leave a comment below on what to expect.
There is now a national Policing Pledge in place. It’s a new set of promises from the police on the service they should provide and every force has committed to keeping those promises.
To honour the pledge, police forces promise to listen to your concerns, act on these concerns, and then keep you informed of the progress they’ve made. Each neighbourhood will have locally agreed priorities, as agreed by the community. A copy of the policing pledge (a public document) is available here as a Scribd iPaper publication: Policing Pledge.
A useful page on the Humberside Police website is the News for the local area which reports on crime issues in this part of the South West Holderness Ward.
It is reassuring to know that issues raised by the public are being acted upon and reported on in this way. Perhaps this online reporting is something that ought to be developed as a key public feature of the Humberside force’s website and promoted more widely?
Today (22nd April 2009) the page carried the following update from two weeks ago, but older crime-fighting issues are revealed if you scroll down the page on that actual website (click the highlighted link above).
Update 06 April 2009
The South West Holderness Policing Team have been working hard on a number of community issues.
The thefts of property from unattended motor vehicles continue to be of concern in our ward area.
The Westlands Estate has suffered a large increase in calls for service in relation to anti-social behaviour.
Numerous reports of illegal parking around Hedon Town Centre
Our message to the community would be:
In relation to vehicle crime:
Do Not Leave Valuables In Your Car
Keep Your Vehicle Secure By Use Of Security Devices
Always Remove Your In-Car Electronic Equipment
The team would ask members of the public to report any suspicious incidents.
In relation to anti social behaviour:
We have received a number of complaints relating to anti-social behaviour mainly by our younger residents. We are working with the East Riding Council anti-social behaviour officer and housing officers with a view to targeting offenders. The Policing team are paying attention to areas identified with high calls for service from the public.
We would ask parents to advise their children about anti social behaviour and to ask themselves,” what are my children up to”
In relation to illegal parking:
The neighbourhood team are working with East Riding of Yorkshire Council Highways to ease this problem however a zero tolerance policy is in place as numerous warning have been issued and the problem continues to be raised by the community.
Posted in Hedon
Tagged Crime, crime prevention, Hedon, Humberside Police, Policing Pledge, Scribd, South West Holderness
ERY LINk Website
ERY LINk (East Riding of Yorkshire Local Involvement Network) is a fairly new government funded body that aims to bring together local residents and organisations who share a desire to improve local health and social care services.
Organisers hope that the new body will give local people a stronger voice in influencing the delivery of public funded and independent health services.
Representatives can exercise new legal powers to examine public health services provided by the National Health Service Trusts and the East Riding Council. Medical practices, dentists and opticians providing public funded services can also be scrtutinised.
By pro-actively generating feedback from users of the services in question, then it is hoped that services can be better designed and planned. The aim is to make a noticeable and ongoing improvement in services.
The ERY LINk has been guaranteed the automony and legal ‘teeth’ to make a difference, so might be able to raise the level of discussion on the controversial issues of the day.
Have a look at the group’s website at http://erylink.org.uk/ and please do join and get involved if you care about improving and preserving local health and social care services!
Posted in East Yorkshire UK, Hedon
Tagged East Riding of Yorkshire Local Involvement Network, ERY LINk, health, NHS, NHS Choices, NHS Trust, social care
The Digital Britain Summit took place last Friday 17 April 2009 at the British Library. This conference was designed to discuss the emerging ‘digital revolution’ and to ensure that Britain is at the front of technological innovation. A key aim is to secure universal broadband access for all.
As the Digital Britain Forum blog reveals, the one day event could be followed online in a variety of ways i.e. Twitter updates, streaming video and photos on Flickr.
But how many people actually did follow the day’s proceedings? I suspect, for a significant majority of the population, the discussion has gone completely over their heads with ‘Twitter’ and ‘Flickr’ being largely unknown, because – whether you have a broadband connection or not – digital exclusion is currently the norm!
Unfortunately, I was doing much more mundane things on Friday and so missed the news about the event. I will search through the material, however, because I have been a long-time supporter of bringing the benefits of digital technology to ‘ordinary’ Joe and Joesephine public – not just as beneficiaries but as participants in the digital revolution.
However, one question that I feel has remained unanswered in all the geek-world hype, particularly in regard to super-fast broadband access for all: Who will pay for it?
South Korea is often cited by those who extol the virtues of super fast broadband – apparently they have brought 100mb speeds to most of the population (whether they want it or not – equal opportunity to benefit is guaranteed) – however, that nation benefited from Government intervention to make that happen. Unfortunately there is no sign from Friday’s conference that the ‘credit crunched’ UK Government is going to embark upon such massive national public investment.
So who will lead Britain into the ‘super’ digital age? BT (British Telecom)? Virgin Media? More to the point – which of these giants is willing to invest in the infrastructure to make it happen?
We also have a microsm of national events locally with the addition of ‘local player’ Kingston Communications (Karoo Broadband).
As I stated earlier… a key question remains unanswered: Who will pay to bring new fibre-to-the-home super-fast broadband whether on a national level, or here locally in the East Riding?
Perhaps the solution is bigger than the individual different commercial and political interests. We need to come to a community consensus about such things!? And perhaps this is the case locally too!?
Local consensus and partnership to achieve the common good? Hmm… sounds pretty radical to me!!
Posted in Debate, ICT, UK/International
Tagged Digital Britain, Digital Britain Summit, Digital Inclusion, Flickr, South Korea, Super fast broadband, Twitter
OK…I agree it is a dramatic headline for a rather mundane event!
But I had cause to visit Drapers Lane corner on Friday night (17th April 2009) and can confirm that the broken streetlight reported to the East Riding Council via FixMyStreet has indeed being fixed! Hurrah!
See earlier blog post on Fixing My Hedon Streetlight.
Many thanks to FixMyStreet and the East Riding Council’s lamplighters service!
Hedon residents have another opportunity to help save lives by donating their blood. The National Blood Service is holding its next ‘Give Blood’ session on:
Thursday 23rd April 2009, 2:15pm – 4:00pm and 5:00pm – 7:30pm
HEDON SCOUT HALL
SHERIFF HIGHWAY
HEDON
HULL
HU12 8HA
For more local opportunities to donate blood you can enter your post code at the National Blood Service Website at www.blood.co.uk.
For further information on other ways of helping with the National Blood Service i.e. rather than giving blood, then see Being a volunteer.
Posted in Hedon
Tagged Give Blood, Hedon, Hedon Scout Hall, National Blood Service, volunteering
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