Originally deposited as a VHS video cassette.
Timing. Action on film:
(00:15) Old photographs of Saturday Market and the Market Cross.
(00:22) Other views of the Market Cross. One shows a chimney near St Mary's Church. This was Johnson's Ladygate Brewery.
(00:25) The Market with Jepson's meat stall in the foreground.
(01:33) Various [Edwardian] views of Saturday Market.
(01:52) Photographs of buses parked on the market, and charabancs from earlier times.
(02:32) Very early views of Saturday Market, c1870s, with wagons and stalls.
(02:41) Views of Saturday Market with many covered wagons and later views with motor cars.
(03:38) Early 1920s picture of a house on the corner of Ladygate.
(03:51) Haversnack Café and Morris's and Tiplady's shops.
(04:23) A very old photograph of where Mills and Sowerbys [the Push, now the Grapes] was.
(04:31) The original Corn Exchange, which pre-dates the new one built in 1886.
(04:47) Martin Westerby's tallow chandlers shop. This was burnt down in a fire at one point.
(04:56) The pub on the corner of Dyer Lane.
(05:10) Views of Saturday Market looking towards Toll Gavel.
(05:31) Clowes shop, where the TSB Bank now stands.
(05:40) Richard Care, a bakers and confectioners, who also had a shop in Eastgate.
(05:50) Maynard's and Zerny's shops.
(05:59) Some early photographs of the market Cross and some from the 1930s.
(06:31) Some views into Ladygate.
(06:54) The Globe Inn which was demolished to make way for Sowhill Road.
(07:18) An elephant from a travelling circus stands outside the Globe Inn.
(07:27) Dyer Lane in the 1940s, when there were terraced houses on both sides.
(07:50) Some modern film of Toll Gavel.
(07:55) Old photographs of the Holderness Hotel.
(08:09) Film of the Hotel's site on Toll Gavel in 1994.
(08:43) A shop with snakes wrapped around metal pillars on either side of the door. It was originally an apothecary.
(08:54) Toll Gavel United Church, before the lobby was built at the front.
(09:17) The houses to the left of the Church were known as Scarr's cottages.
(09:58) More old photographs, including one of the Holderness Hunt at the top of Toll Gavel.
(10:43) R Appleby, a tailor and clothier, on the site of the present Thornton's shop.
(11:05) Scarr's Cottages.
(11:22) Road works at the junction of Toll Gavel and Cross Street.
(11:37) Toll Gavel before it was closed to traffic.
(11:53) Rows of small shops on what later became the Woolworth's site. The [Holderness] Hunt is coming down the street.
(12:13) Looking down Butchers Row from Toll Gavel. We can see John Pape's monumental mason's shop and Stead and Simpson on the corner.
(12:53) Modern film of the same sites.
(13:04) Old photographs of Uriah Butters' clothier's shop, and some views of Toll Gavel.
(13:27) Modern film of Anne Routh's House and of Walkergate.
(14:21) Old photographs of the 1912 floods in Walkergate and Butcher Row
(15:27) Over some modern film, Reg discusses the Golden Ball Brewery which was just off Walkergate. We look at some houses there, and at the Grosvenor Club and the site of Spencer Street School.
(16:50) Looking down to Theatre House in Walkergate and to the Sunday School at the back of the Chapel.
(18:17) Old photographs of the earlier chapel on Walkergate, with the Golden Ball Brewery in the background and houses which stood in Spencer Street, where the car park is now.
(19:40) Modern film of Tymperon House, Malt Shovel Cottage which was once an inn, and Swaby's Yard.
(20:34) Walkergate House, once the home of William Crosskill.
(21:25) Old photographs of Walkergate House.
(21:49) A photograph of the Malt Shovel Inn when it was a public house.
(22:23) Some modern film of Tymperon House which was built in the 1700s as an almshouse. To the right are [Davidson's] Cottages and Dog and Duck Lane.
(23:53) Some modern film of Walkergate School.
(24:03) Photographs of 'old' Walkergate. Reg remembers Mrs [Hodden's] shop and a tailor's shop which once stood there.
(24:56) Globe Yard, with some old buildings which have now been demolished.
(25:38) Modern film of Sow Hill Road which stands on the site of Globe Yard.
(25:51) Newbegin in 1995. We look at some 18th century houses and cottages.
(27:19) Newbegin House.
(27:54) The other Newbegin House (There are two.) This one was owned by the Warton family.
(28:25) A [watercolour] of some old cottages which once stood in Newbegin.
(28:44) An old photograph of Wright's shop at the corner of Westwood Road and Newbegin.
(28:50) Modern film of this location.
(29:12) Looking up Westwood Road towards the Woolpack Inn.
(29:31) Newbegin Bar House, built in 1744.
(29:42) A drawing of Newbegin Bar, which once stood near Newbegin House. The Bar was demolished in 1790.
(30:09) The Woolpack Inn.
(30:47) The Inn sign, painted by Kenneth Elwell, Fred Elwell's nephew.
(30:58) A [postcard] of Westwood Road on the right-hand side was Westwood Hall.
(31:06) An old photograph of a gatehouse on the Westwood.
(31:09) Modern film of the plaque in remembrance of Robert Walker, esquire.
(32:05) Almshouses on the Woodlands.
(32:22) The entrance to what was once the poor house. Until recently this building was Westwood Hospital.
(34:08) A new Meeting House was built in Quaker Lane in 1961.
(34:37) Wood Lane from the Woodlands.
(35:20) An old photograph of the same location.
(35:41) A drawing of the Wood Lane Theatre.
(35:56) Old photograph of local builder Mr [Calvert] of Wood Lane, with his family.
(36:07) Modern film of Wood Lane looking into North Bar Within, and then looking back to Wood Lane.
(36:36) North Bar Within with Barclays Bank and the Beaver Pub, which was once called the Wheatsheaf.
(37:14) An old photograph of the Beverley Bank which was on the site of Barclays.
(37:06) Looking back towards Saturday Market, to an area which Reg calls 'Kemp's Corner'. Some old photographs of the site after a fire.
(37:41) Modern film looking down North Bar Within. Reg describes some of the buildings and their predecessors.
(39:11) The Beverley Arms Hotel was originally called the Bluebell Inn in the 1700s, and was altered by William Middleton, and re-named the Beverley Arms.
(39:39) Further down North Bar Within is a building which used to be the Tiger Inn, a famous coaching inn.
(40:00) A drawing of how the Tiger Inn originally appeared. It was built in 1730 and closed in 1847.
(40:45) Next to this is a building which still looks like a medieval house. It later became Armstrong's Garage.
(41:11) Tiger Lane, where the coaches for the Tiger Inn turned in, and on the other side, the back of what was once Armstrong's garage, which started on this site in 1909. The building was originally three cottages.
(42:14) A photograph of the building c1970, when it was still in use as a garage.
(42:24) 1860s photograph of North Bar. The King's Arms Hotel is on the right.
(42:45) An early photograph showing two houses to the right of the North Bar.
(43:01) A third photograph shows the Kings Arms Hotel and Livery Stables.
(43:21) The next photographs shows the shops on the Kings Arms Site.
(43:38) A drawing of North Bar Within looking towards to Saturday Market. We can see the Original Kings Arms Hotel which was built about 1808, and also the original St Mary's Manor.
(44:06) A drawing of the cottages on the corner of Tiger Lane, and modern film of the same location.
(44:23) North Bar, built in the early 1400s. The terraced houses leading up to the Bar were built by William Middleton.
(46:35) Bar House on the left was once the home of Fred Elwell.
(47:44) St Mary's Manor, rebuilt by Henry Ellison in 1808.
(50:05) We meet Miss [Jennifer Rowley] who will show us around St Mary's Church.
(50:11) Miss Rowley tells us the history of the church from 1120, when the original church was built. The tower over the nave collapsed in 1520, and was re-built in 1524.
(51:08) The Minstrels' Pillar, with statues of minstrels
(53:08) The church organ.
(53:41) A 19th century alabaster pulpit.
(53:59) St Michael's Chapel, built between 1325 and 1350.
(55:30) The 'rabbit' statue which may have inspired Lewis Carroll's white rabbit in 'Alice in Wonderland'.
(56:27) The Crypt, which has been used for meetings and the Sunday School. The floor level in the crypt is high because of the water table. This makes the ceiling very low, and many mason's marks are visible.
(58:53) There are 28 misericords at St Mary's, which date from the 1500s. The elephant carving on one of them is surprisingly accurate for the period.
(1:00:33) The ceiling was painted with all the Kings of England in the reign of Henry IV. In 1938 they removed one of the two mythical Kings and replace it with one of King George IV.
(1:02:07) Ornate chairs used by clergy assisting in the service.
(1:02:26) A memorial screen for Canon Tardrew.
(1:02:55) To the right is the door to the Priest's Room, which is above St Michael's chapel.
(1:03:17) In the Priest's Room we look at various items stored there: a ceiling panel which was taken down, part of a 1662 chiming clock, the town stocks, a frame for carrying coffins, a 1680 'maiden's garland' and the 'Wayfarers' Lantern'.
(1:09:21) St Catherine's Chapel.
(1:10:23) The South Transept. We look at a model of the church, and a display of plans which shows how St Mary's Church developed over the centuries.
(1:12:12) The Warton Tomb.
(1:12:21) A list of vicars dating from 1269.
(1:13:09) A display about the new Church Hall.
(1:13:41) Miss Rowley tell us about the collapse of the tower in 1520.
(1:14:34) A carved wooden war memorial door made by Robert Thompson.
(1:15:55) The exterior of St Mary's Church.
(1:18:52) Hengate.
(1:19:12) A plaque on the wall of St Mary's to commemorate two Danish soldiers who died in 1689.
(1:19:45) Looking down from Ladygate.
(1:20:17) The gates to T. Leak and Son, the Crown Brush Works, est. 1878. These were being refurbished as flats when this film was made.
(1:21:17) The Remembrance Gardens in Hengate. These are on the site of a house which belonged to Major Clive Wilson. It burnt down in December 1912, and he donated the site to Beverley for the War Memorial.
(1:22:12) Looking down Hengate towards Arden's Vaults and the White Horse Inn.
(1:23:33) An old photograph of Hengate in 1912.
(1:23:55) Another photograph, of when the Wilson house burnt down in 1912.
(1:24:25) More old pictures of Hengate.
(1:24:38) The Regal Cinema, which opened in 1935 and closed in 1968.
(1:24:57) Norwood House, built by J. Lockwood.
(1:26:18) St Mary's School on Norwood. Built in 1875.
(1:26:53) Church House on the opposite side of the road, was built in the 1700s.
(1:28:26) The extensions to Norwood House c1908, and some views of the back of the building.
(1:30:18) Across the road is a Georgian-fronted shop and what was at the time of filming the Valiant Soldier Inn.
(1:30:52) The Regal Cinema on the Corner of Norwood.
(1:31:25) Some old photographs: the old Assembly Rooms, built by Middleton in the 1700s, the Valiant Soldier Inn, various photographs of Norwood, a Beverley Laundry Van outside Norwood School, a garage which stood on the site of the present supermarket, the Durham Ox Pub, a row of houses on the site of the present council flats and an old picture of Norwood in the snow.
(1:33:31) Beverley cattle market. A fruit and vegetable auction and a cattle auction.
(1:41:24) The Drovers Arms, and a look down Dale Road.
(1:42:09) Mill Lane, with Beverley Swimming Pool which is on the site of William Crosskill's iron works.
(1:42:31) Crosskill House, a modern government building.
(1:42:55) A drawing of Crosskill's first works which were built in 1827, one of the 1842 works, and a plan of the 1847 works, which were built alongside the new railway line.
(1:44:08) Wilbert Lane, with the former Baptist Chapel on the corner.
(1:44:50) Old photographs of the Cottage Hospital which once stood on the opposite side of the road.
(1:45:30) Some photographs of the Salvation Army Citadel, which was opposite the Wilbert Court flats.
(1:45:53) Modern film of Trinity Lane and Railway Terrace which was built in 1847. Also of Bakers Garage and George Street.
(1:47:21) The Moulder's Arms and Wilbert Court Flats.
(1;48:27) The Fire Station on New Walkergate which replaced one on Albert Terrace.
(1:49:14) Old photographs: the old Manor Road, North Bar Without with a castellated top and a garden in front of North Bar House.
(1:50:40) North Bar Without in the 1930s and some other photographs including Wylies House, which burnt down.
(1:51:59) The construction of Wylies Road, a view through the Bar, New Walk and the Rose and Crown public house.
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