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Important Winteringham Anniversaries

Here’s some of the important anniversaries coming up in the next few years ....

100th Anniversary
1st December 2010
Opening of the railway between Winteringham and
Whitton in 1910.

100th Anniversary
22nd June 2011
Lighting of a beacon on Beacon Hill, to celebrate the Coronation earlier in the day, in 1911.

250th Anniversary
8th August 2011
John Wesley preached at Winterton. We know of no information that he came to Winteringham, so this would be his nearest sermon, 1761.

100th Anniversary
1st December 2011
The village pump was officially opened at Town End, to celebrate the coronation of King George V in 1911.

100th Anniversary
2012
“A Guide & Handbook to Winteringham and District”
by CE Trimmer & DL Andrew, dedicated to Edmund Cordeaux

1,000th Anniversary
12th November 2012
The village was attacked by Vikings in 1012.

800th Anniversary
15th June 2015
Magna Carta was signed, by Winteringham’s Robert Marmion the Younger, among others in 1215.

700th Anniversary
26th September 2017
Edward II granted a charter for a market and fair to be held at Winteringham, in 1317.

 

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Latest Winteringham Update: 3rd September 2010

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On this date in Winteringham
history

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

Winteringham
in September Days of Old

September
Up the river ... and back down again!

2nd September 1859
Diary entry from Thomas Harris of Alkborough re: wedding of Miss Erskine and Mr Fowler "who has been divorced, his wife having run off with a Duke's son"

3rd September 1683
The Probate inventory of Gervis Wilkinson itemised £12-17s-0d that was owed to him by residents of Winteringham, with other valuable assets being "fower kine" (£8-10-0) and "corne and hay" (£8-0-0).

4th September 1809
Death of Mary Grainger, wife of Lorenzo

4th September 1863
Lewis Carroll travelled to Winteringham from Whitby

4th September 1939
"Due to the outbreak of War, this school will receive a number of Evacuees, as this is a 'Reception Area'. Sixty of these children were expected yesterday but they have not yet arrived. Acting on instructions the children were sent home again and told to await further instructions before returning to school. I and remainder of staff are remaining at school to receive the evacuees and their teachers, and to assist in their billeting with the village people."

5th September 1823
New Chapel in Low Burgage payment to Mr Heaton for building a wall - £2-17s-2d;

5th September 1922
Humber Conservancy Board gave notice that they intended to move the beacon on the west end of Read's Island 140 feet north of its current position the following day (weather permitting)

5th September 1952
Floods on Ferriby Road (photos on this site)

6th September 1823
New Chapel in Low Burgage payment to Mr Galland for boat freight: one shilling, for 14 yards of jack chaine for hanging the lamp: 7 shillings, and for sundry items £20-13s-4d

7th September 1823
New Chapel in Low Burgage opened

7th September 1863
Lewis Carroll (of Alice in Wonderland fame) took photographs of Mr Mitchell and Thomas Read in Winteringham.

8th September 1863
Between this date and the 11th September, Lewis Carroll of Alice in Wonderland fame, took photographs of Louisa Read, Schoolchildren, Winteringham Rectory, and Winteringham Church.

11th September 1863
Lewis Carroll left Winteringham at 8:30 and reached Whitby by 5:30pm having also visited Beverley to look round the Minster

11th September 2005
Eight people airlifted off boat grounded on sandbank at Winteringham

12th September 2009
The Tour of Britain came to Winteringham - the cyclists travelling along Mere Road before turning south onto Ermine Street.

13th September 1944
"County Architect called to inspect school premises with view to erecting School Canteen."

14th September 1869
Roger Portington Goodworth (23) a surgeon from Winterton, married Mary Elizabeth Scarbrough (20).

16th September 1905
Evelyn Hall's postcard of the Church area was sent to Nurse H Newsham at Birkdale Farm School, Birkdale (see copy on this site)

17th September 1860
Thomas Trafford, a draper from Preston, Lancashire, married Martha Judge, daughter of Charles Judge the village miller

18th September 1066
A fleet of 300 boats of Harald Hardrada aided by Tostig and their Scottish allies sailed past Winteringham on way to battle, and defeat, at Stamford bridge 7 days later; however, this event probably was the root cause of Harold losing to William the Conqueror, changing the course of English history forever!

18th September 1795
Enclosure notice in Stamford Mercury

20th September 1884
The SS Killarney sank in the Whitton Channel

21st September 1845
Mr Reynolds (carpenter) account to Manor Farm: Man 2 days repairing and hanging gates 7/-

21st September 1864
The harvest festival was held on Wednesday [21-9-1864] when the usual rejoicings and rural sports took place. Everything in the shape of refreshments were abundant.  A band of music paraded the streets. There was also a lecture in the evening.

22nd September 1865
The annual meeting of the British and Foreign Bible Society's Association has been recently held in the Wesleyan Chapel. T. Tombleson, Esq., of Barton, presided, and gave an excellent speech.  The Revs. J. Tyas and J. Wetherill, of Winterton, and the Rev. J. Spencer (the deputation of the Parent Society), most ably advocated the claims of the great Society. The meeting throughout was one of great interest. More than £7 was collected, being a considerable advance upon the preceding year.  The proceedings terminated with a very cordial and unanimous vote of thanks to the respected chairman and speakers.

23rd September 1313
Winteringham's John Marmion summoned to Parliament

23rd September 1562
Katherine Pearsie had the dubious distinction of becoming the first entrant for a burial in Winteringham's Parish Registers

24th September 1978
Winteringham's new chapel opened in Low Burgage, replacing the very large chapel and schoolroom in West End.

26th September 1066
The Viking survivors of the Battle of Stamford Bridge were allowed to leave on condition that they promised never to invade England again. They required only 24 ships (300 had sailed past Winteringham just 8 days earlier on their way to battle) to return home, and probably passed Winteringham on this day.

26th September 1317
King Edward II granted charter to John Marmion for a fair and market.  The market was to be held each Wednesday, and the fair on the "vigil" (eve), feast and morrow of Mary Magdalen (27th to 29th July) each year.

26th September 1946
"HMI called to consider the question of a dining hall."

28th September 1689
Anthony Westoby's probate inventory included feather beds, a gun, chests, and hangings in the house, as well as 4 mares, 2 colts, 12 cattle, pigs, 9 sheep, poultry, ploughs, harrows, a waggon and tumbrils

29th September 1723
The Rector of Winteringham, Nicholas Sye, was buried this day.

30th September 1808
Notice in Stamford Mercury: Sale of farm under tenancy of William Tomlinson & Matthew Beacock, including a dwelling house, farmstead, and outbuildings, with 160 acres;
 

“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

On Ebay now Church Interior Postcard Ebay number: 370426542048 Please note: the card illustrated on the left is my version of the same card, NOT a copy of the one on Ebay. 1891 Census Facts and Figures more ... A Soldier’s Tale, Part 2 Valerie Mercer more ... 1933 Directory added more ... WI Entertain Village Children Kath Burkill/Christine Hammond more ... Temperance Hall, Methodist Fundraisers Kath Burkill/Christine Hammond more ... Rose Queen 1960 Kath Burkill/Christine Hammond more ... A new seat outside Almshouses Kath Burkill/Christine Hammond more ... A Summer Fete Kath Burkill/Christine Hammond more ... National School about 1928 Val Peill more ... John Foster, Shoemaker & Poet Sandra Clayton more ... Cub Scouts and the new tent Val Peill more ... Winteringham Cricket Club - the Croft John Kirkby more ... Winteringham Cricket Club - the Teams John Kirkby more ... Winteringham Cricket Club - the Dinners John Kirkby more ... 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Poster advertising the opening of the NLLR to Winteringham and West Halton from research by Flyer Robinson more ... Winteringham man who fought in Boer War Chris Butler more ... 1970s WI Floats for Winterton Show Sarah Delisle more ... The Haven Chris Snowdon more ... Spring House Chris Snowdon more ... Railway Extension Plans Sandra Clayton, scanned by Ken Jacobs In 1905 plans were made to extend the NLLR to Burton Stather to the west and to Barton to the east.  Thanks to Sandra and Ken we can now see these detailed plans of railways that were never built. Plan 1 Plan 2 Plan 3 Low Burgage Kay Ashberry, scanned by Ken Jacobs more ... Almshouses, circa 1900 Sandra Clayton more ... In Marsh Lane Sandra Clayton more ... Winteringham Choir 1950s Sandra Clayton & Val Peill more ... The most infamous Victorian Villain was arrested by A Winteringham National Hero! The amazing story of PC Edward Robinson, and the villain Charles Peace. Click here British Library:Old Folk Songs, sung by Winteringham’s Maurice Ogg, with some learned from other Winteringham people. Click here A song called “Air for Maurice Ogg” can be heard on YouTube here. Winteringham Harvest Home 1862 poster Sandra Clayton & Val Peill more ... Winteringham National School Announcement Sandra Clayton more ... Manor Farm Childhood - Latest Story... “One summer school day” Katharine Willis more ... The Winteringham Rodeo by Vera Jollands, supplied by Val Peill more ... Winteringham featured in the Lincolnshire Times 1961 Sandra Clayton more ... Z G Yewdall, a man who made his mark on Winteringham! Charles Parker more ... Manor Farm sale catalogue 1958 Katharine Willis more ... The Farm Sale when the Horses were named! Sandra Clayton more ... Manor Farm photographs Katharine Willis more ... Manor Farm Dairy Cattle Katharine Willis more ... Winteringham School Group, 1950s Katharine Willis more ... The Brown Family Beverley Lucas more ... 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Also the main road is shown as Ermine Street to Winterton, then Winteringham Road to Mere Crossroads! more ... Potato clamping Alf Simons prepares a potato clamp - one of the latest newspaper cuttings, which also include the Bay Horse and the village pump, supplied by Mary Fell more ... When horses ruled the farm ... Mary Fell’s father-in-law poses with a pair of horses as he ploughs a field in 1933 more ... High Burgage Chris Snowdon more ... Cliff Road in the 1950s Julie Armstrong more ... Church Postcard Chris Snowdon more ... Maurice Bell’s Croix de Guerre Val Peill and Sandra Clayton more ... Winteringham Sports and Fair, July 1907 All the details of the events from a poster of the time! Val Peill and Sandra Clayton more ... Who is this guest at the Bay Horse in 1851? ... and why do we owe him a debt of gratitude from then? Linda Griffiths explains all ... Handwriting from the 19th century Mary Fell has sent us some handwriting by Charles William Burkill, from 1860, and from Mary Jane Robinson from 1871. more ... “The Pong Shop” Ken Jacobs Ken has recorded Winteringham’s iconic Pong Shop for posterity more ... “New” postcard of West End Les Burkill provides us with a wonderful winter view of West End.  Kindly scanned by Ken Jacobs more ... Three “New” postcards of High Burgage Les Burkill provides us with wonderful views of the Ferry Boat Inn, the Primitive Chapel and Edwin Bray’s shop in old postcards of High Burgage. Kindly scanned by Ken Jacobs more ... Rose/Waddingham Family Research Sue Kerrawn is looking for people who may be researching the Rose - Waddingham families of Winteringham more ... Ralph Harrison - the man who handled £1½ million a month Our “latest” newspaper cutting! more ... What has a postcard of Sir Thomas Lipton to do with Winteringham? Strangely ... possibly the best weekend ever in the village! more ... Low Burgage Postcard Looking north from Gate End more ... Ferry Lane Barn Ken was invited to record all aspects of the barn in Ferry Road shortly before demolition ... more ... Demolition Pictures National School Interior The inside of the National School, when it was used as a village events venue more ... West End Boys Kindly supplied by Marjorie Bratton and scanned by Ken Jacobs more ... Football Team 1946 Kindly supplied by Val Peill and scanned by Ken Jacobs more ... School Groups from 1955 & 1960, Sports Day 1974 Two more School Group photos added, courtesy of David Hatton, named by Val Peill, and scanned by Ken Jacobs 1955 School Group 1960 School Group 1974 Sports Day Latest Old Photos and Post Cards! More photos and postcards from Marjorie Bratton, scanned by Ken Jacobs The Co-op Butcher’s van in High Burgage The Haven HMS Vanity - Winteringham’s Warship HMS Vanity was adopted by Winteringham in Warship Week 1941. 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Have you any that we could have on the site?  You’d make Vicky’s day! ‘A Winteringham Boyhood’ 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... 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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... 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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. 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