Winteringham Local History and Genealogy at winteringham.info

The Winteringham Family of Websites:
This is the history and genealogy site.
Winteringham Parish Council
For up-to-the minute Winteringham news and events - and details of future events
Parish Council Minutes
Winteringham Photo Archive
Recent photographs of the village
Winteringham Film Archive
Don Burton’s World of Nature
Winteringham FC
What the Papers Said About Winteringham
High Resolution Winteringham History Photos
Historic photographs from Winteringham in higher detail
Winteringham Recipes
Winteringham WI

 

Latest Winteringham Update: 9th May 2008

Then and now ...

‘Now’ photo, ©Harry Wells 2004 ‘Then’ lithograph by W Bevan, from a drawing by Rev W Lloyd

There are more ‘Then and Now’ photographs on the ‘Gallery’ page

Fascinating Winteringham Photos
many with mysteries attached!
Click any photo for more information

“Winteringham is indeed now a beautiful place: the trees are in full verdure, the crops are browning the fields and my former walks are become dry underfoot which I have never known them to be before.  The opening vista, from our churchyard, over the Humber, to the hills and receding vales of Yorkshire assumes a thousand new aspects.  I sometimes watch it at evening when the sun is just gilding the summits of the hills, and the lowlands are beginning to take a browner hue.  The showers partially falling in the distance, while all is serene above me, the swelling sail rapidly falling down the river; and not least of all, the villages, woods and villas on the opposite bank, sometimes render this scene quite enchanting to me.”
Henry Kirke White August 1804
More of Henry’s letters, click here

Parish Registers ... Baptisms Kay and Val’s latest transcriptions are for the years 1600 & 1601 more... Can You Help? The latest emails asking for help in tracing roots ... more... ‘A Winteringham Boyhood - Invisible Fish’ The latest reminscences of a Winteringham boyhood in the 1950s and 60s by Flyer Robinson  more... Whatever happened to the “Swell” No-one seemed to know what had happened to this beautiful steam drifter built at Winteringham - until Flyer did some research... more... The Green Brothers by Patricia Green The tragic story of the Silver Street family who lost two brothers in the Great War, and a third brother became a prisoner of war ... more... ‘Lincolnshire Times 1949’ by John Kirk When my aunt gave me my grandfather’s chest, look what was inside! more... Robert Bratton Tina Veall Tina’s photo of Robert Bratton, has now been added to the “Bratton” page with further details more... ‘More Burkill photographs - Dinah Shaw’ by John Bosnell more... ‘David Harrison’s Winteringham memories’ David remembers Jim Sewell, an invitation onto the footplate of an engine at Winteringham Station, and playing cricket in the Croft ... more... Percy Hall Mary Fell Mary remembers Percy Hall and his brother Reginald who was killed during the Second World War. more... Frank Brown information Pamela Jean Sellers, grand daughter of Maud Brown We had no information on Winteringham soldier Frank Brown, a fallen hero of the Great War.  Until Pam Sellers contacted us  ... more... Beautiful Church postcard added A wonderful post card of Winteringham Church featuring 4 villagers .. . more... New! Barton on Humber Genealogy Site Jacqueline Graham Winteringham families may find something relating to their ancestors on this site! more ... ’That Reminds Me! ... 2’ Memories of Old Winteringham stirred by some of Ken’s modern photographs more... 19th Century Poem about the Ferry Boat ... The bells ... the bells ... more... ’NLLR Directors Report for AGM 1920’ The accounts, railways owned and projected etc for the NLLR in 1919, for the AGM of 1920 by kind permission of www.the7820library.org.uk more... ’A letter from Winteringham Station...’ It’s 1909, and Zachariah Yewdall writes to Sam Fay, General Manager of the Great Central...  by kind permission of www.the7820library.org.uk more... ’That Reminds Me!’ Memories of Old Winteringham stirred by some of Ken’s modern photographs more... A 300 year-old mystery Dr Stukely posed us a Winteringham mystery almost 300 years ago ... To what was he referring?  Where in Winteringham was it? more... The Church from the Hill Our latest acquisition of old postcards more... The Spencer family of Winteringham & Winterton Jill Floyd more... Herbert Porkess A photo of this Winteringham gentleman Chris Snowdon more... ’Homes and Haunts of Henry Kirke White’ Scans of the “Winteringham” pages of this book, published in 1908 scans of the pages (not searchable for words) transcriptions of the pages (searchable for words) ’Dining in’ A well-loved building in Winteringham holds fascinating memories ... is one of them your’s? more... Brocklesby enquire after our cricket scorebooks Richard Bedwell on behalf of Brocklesby Cricket Club, would be interested in scorebooks of games between Winteringham and Brocklesby, especially pre-1948. If you know the whereabouts of ANY of the Winteringham scorebooks, please contact us. Brocklesby Park CC site ’Well, Well, Well!’ A well is discovered at Walnut Farm Cottage as the roof is completed... more... Vote!  Vote! Vote! Martyn’s photograph looking across the Humber is on Panasonic’s “My-Place” website, and can be voted for in a national competition.  Now over 100 votes!  You can vote for it by clicking here, & please invite all your friends to do so too! Will this Cartwheel Penny forever hold its Winteringham secret?   more... ’Flyer’s Family Album of days out in Cleethorpes’ left: When the UK’s current shortest seaside pier, was almost a quarter of a mile long! more... Walnut Farm renovation - latest ... more... NOW ... More information on the boot!  Update! more ... Looking for Grasby, or Grassby information Fay Colmer is looking for information about the Grasby, or Grassby family of Winteringham.  Can you help? Contact Us Low Burgage & the Haven 1970 - film See Low Burgage still with Maltkiln, weighbridge Office, railway gates, the Warehouse, ... and the Haven with the remnants of the Railway Wharf ... all from almost 40 years ago! more... Winteringham’s Transported Convicts Marlene Walters Marlene has sent us more details of the unfortunate Winteringham men who were transported to the other side of the world more... Postcard of the Lincolnshire Yeomanry, featuring, and sent by, a Winteringham War Hero 100 years ago Andrew Snowdon & Aidan Harrison more... For details of Elias William Field, click here Winteringham War Hero, from the Ferry Boat Inn Andrew Snowdon & Aidan Harrison Photos of Elias William Field, one of the men commemorated on the Winteringham War Memorial more... Winteringham Cricket Club Photos Andrew Snowdon & Aidan Harrison The Winteringham Cricket Club team in its cup-winning heyday! more... More names added Andrew Snowdon Andrew names this Winteringham Railwayman in the Home Guard photo, provides us with a date and further names for the football team photo, and spots his mother and uncle in the National School photos. High detail postcard added We have a new version of this postcard on the site, showing Winteringham Church from the West. more... Winteringham Railway at War Chris Snowdon What was the role of the railway at Winteringham during the Second World War. Chris reveals all - or almost all! more... Winteringham Stationmaster’s House Flyer Robinson Flyer describes in great detail the stationmaster’s house as he knew it in the 1950s. A wonderful description of every part of the house and gardens! more... Looking for Gunson information Alan Gunson is looking for specific information about the Gunson family of Winteringham.  Can you help? more... Earlsgate Farm Postcard Supplied by Harry Wells Harry provides us with this view of West End in yesteryear more... Final Resting Place of Winteringham Hero We believe this to be the final resting place of Bernard Hunsley from the Winteringham War Memorial. more... Winteringham Railway in Everyday Operation by Ken Jacobs, and Mrs Corney A fantastic photo showing the Winteringham line as it was when passenger trains still ran. more... Lazarus the Rabbit and I - both in a stew! by Chris Snowdon We’re looking for personal memories of the railway at Winteringham.  Do you have memories relating to our railway? more... 1939 affectionately remembered by Kathleen Phillips more... Ogg Family Genealogy... Research by Elaine Harrison (Ogg) on the Ogg framily of Winteringham more... Frow Researchers... Carol Rollin is looking for other researchers into the Frow family of Winteringham, Winterton and Appleby. more... Plaque Commemorating Elias William Field Chris and Andrew Snowdon reveal plaque to Winteringham Great War hero. more... Herbert Porkess, a Winteringham Character affectionately remembered by Chris Snowdon.  Now updated with information from Roger Porkess. more... Latest Updates, in last couple of days: Schooling, Farmers; The Station 2007, more... Winteringham poem “comes home” Poem written by Winteringham’s Ann Barratt to Queen Victoria more... Latest News ... more... Suttons Bonnie looks for Winteringham Sutton information ... more... Mists of War 1917 Winteringham war hero killed after order cancelling attack fails to come through ... more... Meggitt Cottage Thanks to Val Peill and a member of the Ladley family, we now have a photograph of Meggitt Lane Cottage ... more... Dick Turpin His Winteringham connections ... more... Lewis Carroll The missing Winteringham photos from the man who wrote Alice in Wonderland ... more... Fire! Chris Snowdon almost made a fortune helping to put out a fire at Winteringham Haven ... more... Happy Days Are you on Flyer Robinson’s school photo? more... Winteringham in the Twenties Stanley Routh’s account of the village eighty years ago. more... Winteringham Recipe for Sunday Breakfast... Chris Snowdon’s whimsical recipe for a classic Winteringham Sunday breakfast back in the fifites ... including instructions about the ‘divi’ at the Co-op! (Parish Council site) more...

On this date in Winteringham
history

Winteringham
in May Days of Old

1st May 1820s and earlier
Winteringham milkmaids decorated their buckets with leaves for May Day morning.

2nd May 1796
At a meeting at the house of George Bell, the Enclosure Commissioners accepted proposals and contracts for putting stone on the roads of the marsh.

3rd May 1656