Yorkshire Almanac 2025

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Friday Evening, 16th July.— Sara, Tom, and I rode up Bedale. Wm., Mary [Hutchinson or Barker?], Sara, and I went to Scarborough, and we walked in the Abbey pasture, and to Wykeham; and on Monday, the 26th, we went off with Mary in a post-chaise. We had an interesting ride over the Wolds, though it rained all the way. Single thorn bushes were scattered about on the turf, sheep-sheds here and there, and now and then a little hut. Swelling grounds, and sometimes a single tree or a clump of trees…. We passed through one or two little villages, embosomed in tall trees. After we had parted from Mary, there were gleams of sunshine, but with showers. We saw Beverley in a heavy rain, and yet were much pleased with the beauty of the town. Saw the minster – a pretty, clean building, but injured very much with Grecian architecture. The country between Beverley and Hull very rich, but miserably flat—brick houses, windmills, houses again – dull and endless. Hull a frightful, dirty, brickhousey, tradesmanlike, rich, vulgar place; yet the river – though the shores are so low that they can hardly be seen – looked beautiful with the evening lights upon it, and boats moving about. We walked a long time, and returned to our dull day-room but quiet evening one, to supper.

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1 July 1840: The opening of the Hull and Selby Railway terminates the threat to Hull’s port from Goole, Scarborough and Bridlington

19 October 1775: Mayor Joseph Outram lays the first stone of Hull’s first dock and customs quay, dooming the town’s walls and commencing its great expansion

5 July 1858: The view from the tower of Beverley Minster

17 August 1778: Civil engineers John Smeaton and John Wooler explain how to use the River Hull to flush the dock which has replaced the northwest section of the city walls

30 July 1798: The homeward-bound Greenland whaler Blenheim fights off a Royal Navy press gang in Hull harbour, killing two boarders

26 April 1867: In a requiem to Hull’s whaling industry, the Diana sails into port at the end of its fateful Arctic voyage

1 September 1651: Robinson Kreutznaer sails from Hull, and soon wishes he hadn’t

23 January 1640: Andrew Marvell’s father drowns in the Humber at Hull

11 July 1787: Advertisement for The Commercial and Mathematical Academy, Hull

9 January 1935: Returning from Bear Island, the trawler Edgar Wallace capsizes in the Humber at Hull, killing 15

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A Gaumont newsreel:

British Pathé.

The first inquest report:

An inquest was held at Hessle, near Hull, yesterday on the body of David Martin, 27, the only one recovered after the Hull trawler Edgar Wallace struck a sandbank in the Humber on January 9 and capsized, 15 lives being lost.

William Cameron, one of the three survivors, said that when they reached the Humber they were unable to get into dock because of the state of the tide. After their ship had twice grounded and got free in endeavouring to get up the river she became fast and pulled up nearly athwart of the tide with her bows heading in a north-westerly direction. The skipper was manoeuvring the engines full speed astern to clear the obstruction, and the vessel gave a sudden jump as if it had gone over a hump. There was a crash and the vessel fell over on to its beam ends. The water began to fill the forecastle, and he (Cameron) climbed through a porthole to a skylight which remained above the water, and he reached the high side of the deck. The ship was gradually covered with water and he was just above the water level when he was picked up. The ship was fully equipped with lifeboat, lifebelts, and lifebuoys, but there was no chance of making use of them because the disaster occurred so suddenly and the aft end of the ship was practically submerged immediately. All the crew were on deck before the ship was submerged.

The jury returned a verdict of “Accidental drowning.”
(Times 1935/02/14)

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