Category Archives: History

Mapping Hedon’s Local History

Posted on May 26, 2012 by | Leave a comment

AS PART OF OUR INVOLVEMENT in the HypARlocal project the Hedon Blog has started to map some of the articles done about the town’s local history.

Eventually, the aim will be to provide a service for those with Smartphones and other mobile devices, where you will be able to scan a particular street with your device’s camera, and an App will bring up local stories and articles associated with that particular place/street/building.

We have started mapping some of the stories and articles that have previously been written by the Blog. The resulting map on Google should be available by clicking the link below – although the results do not always look the same on different browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, etc).

We do want to get the historical information right – and the locations in the right places. If you can help with this, then Ray Duffill at the Hedon Blog would be pleased to hear from you! E-mail him at hedonblog@gmx.com or leave a comment.

Click the link below to take you to the Google Map – and then click on one of the Blue place-markers to see the article associated with that location.

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This is all very experimental – but very exciting!

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Hedon Penny Throwing 2012 – videos

Posted on May 18, 2012 by | Leave a comment

THESE VIDEOS record the Hedon Penny Throwing event that took place last night. We believe that this is the first time that the traditional annual event, led by Hedon’s newly elected Mayor, has ever been filmed in this way to keep for public posterity!

The footage is raw and unedited – but we hope the videos give a flavour of the event. Congratulations to Councillor Jim Lindop on becoming Hedon’s 665th Mayor and to Councillor John Dennis on becoming Deputy Mayor.





In this video the Mayor has to cope when the Council runs out of pennies!!

Hedon Mayor Deputy Mayor 2012
See more Penny Throwing photos on Flickr.

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Mayor Making Ceremony

Posted on May 17, 2012 by | Leave a comment

AS PEOPLE GATHER outside the Hedon Town Hall tonight (Thursday 17th March 2012) to get their first glimpse of the new Mayor and to enjoy the fun of the Hedon Penny Throwing event, most will be unaware of the ages-old Mayor Making ceremony that will be played out behind the scenes.

King Edward III granted a Charter of Incorporation in 1348 which gave Hedon the rights to be a self-governing borough and to elect a Mayor. The Mayor Making ceremony has now become a traditional and formal part of Hedon Town Council’s Annual General Meeting. This is how events are expected to take place this evening:

Following prayers, Councillor Jim Lindop,  will be formally elected by other councillors as the Chairman of Hedon Town Council and by that election will also become Hedon Town Mayor. The new Mayor will then retire to the Town Hall Parlour for his official robing.

Hedon Mayor Chain of Office

Whilst the new Mayor dons his official Mayoral regalia, tributes will be paid to the retiring Mayor Councillor Ann Suggit for her marvellous work in representing the town, acting as its ambassador, raising money and highlighting good causes.

The new Mayor returns to the Council Chamber and will be invested with his Chain of Office by the retiring Mayor. The new Mayor will announce the appointment of his new Mayoress, his wife Sue Lindop in this case, who will be presented with her Chain of Office.

The election of the Deputy Mayor then takes place, and Councillor John Dennis will be invested with the Deputy Mayor’s Chain of Office.

The Town Council will then conduct the business of appointing its essential Committees and set the schedule of meetings for the rest of the year. There will then be an announcement of the date of the Mayor’s Civic Parade and Service.

The 665th Hedon Town Mayor will then leave the Town Hall with the other Civic Leaders and officials to meet the public outside the building – especially the children who will be eagerly waiting to gather the pennies from the Hedon Penny Throwing.

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Appeal for new Church Guide booklet

Posted on April 25, 2012 by | Leave a comment

FUNDRAISERS from St Augustine’s Church attended a Hedon Town Council meeting on the 19th April and presented their case on the need for a new Church Guide book to be published.

Dorothy Winter, the Secretary to the Parochial Church Council (PCC), explained how Hedon’s historic St Augustine’s Church had been seriously neglected during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries which meant that fundraising for restoration and maintenance work now had to be an ongoing feature of church life. The church’s architect has estimated that the next round of necessary work on St Augustine’s will cost around £150,000.

Church Restoration Booklet

One of the key ways that the church communicates with residents, visitors and potential funders is through its Guide Booklets and Restoration Brochures. In particular the Restoration Brochure, which was last published in 2004 (pictured above), explains the historic significance of St Augustine’s and the need to preserve the building for future generations. However, that Brochure is now out of date and in short supply.

The PCC aims to publish a new well illustrated Church Guide book which will contain no names, or contact information to render it out of date. It has approached Hedon Town Council for help with the costs of the publication.

The Hedon Town Council will discuss this appeal at a future meeting.

King of Holderness Yellow Throne

King of Holderness on a Yellow Throne

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Pinterest Poster Posterity!

Posted on March 20, 2012 by | Leave a comment

YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED a new symbol appearing on the Sharing buttons at the bottom of each article on the Hedon Blog: Follow Me on Pinterest Pinterest.

Pinterest is a virtual pin board. It allows people to collect images from across the internet that interest and inspire them. When you see the  Follow Me on Pinterest symbol on a website then you can click it to share an image to your Pinterest account.

“Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and organize their favorite recipes.” Pinterest website

HU12 Online has set up a Pinterest account to collect POSTERS that have been used in the area.

Quite often, lot of effort goes into designing posters – then after the event they are designed to promote, they are taken down – or worse still allowed to fade and discolour on a noticeboard somewhere! But not any more! We will be collecting local posters and saving them for posterity!

We have just started the collection which consists of old and current posters. Posters? Nay! – Works of art!

Visit: Pinterest – Local Posters Archive

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New Hedon Town Mayor announced

Posted on March 3, 2012 by | Leave a comment

COUNCILLOR JIM LINDOP is to be the town’s new Mayor subject to formal nominations, a notice posted at the Town Hall has declared. Councillor Lindop will serve as the 665th Hedon Mayor from May 2012 onwards.

This will be the first time that Jim has been the town’s Mayor after having been a councillor for only a relatively short while.

He was co-opted to Hedon Town Council in July 2010 and then elected in May 2011. He has since served as the Deputy Mayor (pictured here with wife Sue).

Jim has lived in Hedon all his life. He was a firefighter and Training Officer with Humberside Fire and Rescue before retiring in 2007. 

He will be formally installed as Mayor on Thursday 17th May at the Mayor-Making ceremony after which the first task of any newly installed Hedon Mayor will be the traditional Hedon Penny Throwing event.

The Hedon Blog is particularly delighted at Councillor Lindop’s proposed appointment. He has regularly contributed to the discussion and comments on the Blog since it first started in 2009. And since being co-opted as a councillor has regularly provided Blog readers with his personal notes of meetings and announcements from Hedon Town Council (see some of these under Council News). 

Jim has also been a very ‘hands-on’ Councillor – from volunteering to clear snow with the council’s new salt/grit spreading machine during the Big Freeze 2010, to picking up a shovel to help dig out weeds from Horsewell Pond just last week.

The new Deputy Mayor proposed for the year from May 2012 will be Councillor John Dennis.

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Magdalen Lane Histories

Posted on March 1, 2012 by | Leave a comment

FOLLOWING our appeal for information about Ashley Villas and Daisy Villas on Magdalen Lane, Hedon, which were bombed in World War II, then Tom Bond has sent in these two photographs which were taken in the vicinity of the buildings.

The photos are of general historical interest – and of particular family interest to Tom himself. He explains the two photos:

“The two photos were taken about 100 years ago. (One of them was used as a postcard, and was posted to my Grandma’s father at Keyingham, and is date stamped Hedon, July 1912.) At that time, my Grandad, Isaac Bond, and his wife Jane and family were living at Bondgate House. This had been built, I believe, by my Grandad’s brother Billy, who did a lot of building in Hedon.

On the right hand side of one of the pictures can be seen a house which I think is the one bombed. This picture shows a house roof and chimney stacks above the horse’s neck, which doesn’t help with location, and this is why I have sent the second one which gives a better indication, as it shows Bondgate House in the background.

I think that the villas were at the beginning of the lane leading to Bondgate House, on the eastern side, and at right angles to Burstwick Road, probably where there is a garage now. Incidentally, my dad is the boy in the straw boater. He would be 14 at that time. I don’t know who the man is on the left hand side.”

Many thanks to Tom for sharing his photos with us!

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Hedon wartime bombing – can you help with information?

Posted on February 21, 2012 by | 1 Comment

IN JUNE last year James Bagnall asked for further information about the site of a World War II bombing raid on Hedon in May 1941 in which it was thought an entire family was wiped out.

Two properties, Ashley Villas and Daisy Villas on Magdalen Lane, Hedon, were destroyed  in the bombing raid on 8th May 1941 and 11 people were killed – including six members of the Spicer family Mr Ernest Spicer, his wife Vida and four children, John (aged 22), Delma (14), Geoffrey (10) and Edward (6).

This horrific tragedy has taken another macabre turn with the discovery that another member of the Spicer family, son Jack (22), also died during the war two years later on February 6th 1943.

And another mystery has arisen during the Hedon Blog discussion on these tragic events. The photos on this page were taken and sent in by Mr Peter Batty in Scunthorpe: The entire Spicer family are commemorated/buried in the Crosby Cemetery in Scunthorpe?

It is believed that the bombing raid left eleven casualties, the Spicer family of Ashley Villas, and Lucy Lear also of Ashley Villas, and Ellen and Josephine Ellerton and John and Muriel French of Daisy Villas.

We are appealing to readers who might have any further information about the families involved to get in touch. Did the victims all live in Hedon? What is the Spicer family’s link with Scunthorpe? What fate befell Jack Spicer?

And also James Bagnall’s original questions: What type of houses were Daisy Villas and Ashley Villas. What happened around the bombing, clearance and rebuild? Are there any photos of the area before or after the bombing?

(Ongoing research)

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