Conference
‘New Research into the History of Yorkshire’
The Royal Hotel, Hull, Saturday November 7th 2009

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9:30 - 10:00
Dr Philippa Hoskin, ‘Using the records of the Medieval Church Courts of York’

10:00 - 11:30
Dr Emma Watson, ‘Clergy, Laity and Ecclesiastical Discipline in Sixteenth Century Yorkshire Parishes’
Dr Simon Sandall, ‘Matrimony, slander and women’s agency in early eighteenth-century Yorkshire
Alexander Lock, Sir Thomas Gascoigne (1745-1810): Catholicism, apostasy and county politics
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Keith E Dredge, The strike the bosses started? Keighley engineers dispute 1914.
Lynne Fox, Women workers in south Yorkshire industry 1900 – 2000
Kevin Stephenson, The development of Hull's post-war housing estates: the politics of indecision

11:30 - 12:00 Coffee

12:00 - 1:00 Plenary Lecture: Professor Richard Hoyle, University of Reading
'Local history at the beginning of the twenty-first century: motives, problems, new possibilities'.

1:00 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00 - 3:30
Dr Helen Frisby, Reclaiming the ‘folk’: death and dying in Yorkshire, c.1840-1914.
Margaret Oliver. The nature and incidence of illegitimacy in East Yorkshire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Kate Taylor  The role and status of women in the diocese of Wakefield 1888-1938
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Dennis O'Keefe Players, Parsons and Patrons: Church and Cricket in Calderdale, 1860-c.1920.
Stephen Etheridge, Working -class brass bands in Yorkshire, 1856 -1914: perceptions of respectability, perceptions of control?
Penelope Harris Joseph Aloysius Hansom: a nomadic Yorkshire architect

3-30 - 4:00 Tea

4:00 - 5:30
Christine Handley A South Yorkshire case study: the tanning industry in Woodhouse, Sheffield
Colin Wilmshurst, Lockton & Levisham heritage group
John S Shaw. Soothill Nether 1840 to 1900, a community undergoing industrialisation
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Alison James, Popular or private rebellion? – the case of Robin of Redesdale
Dr Louise R Wheatley, York mercers – shopkeepers, stock and consumer demand
Dr John S. Lee, Temple Hirst: from the Knights Templar to Lord Thomas Darcy

Abstracts

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Keith E Dredge, PhD student University of Leeds
THE STRIKE THE BOSSES STARTED? KEIGHLEY ENGINEERS DISPUTE 1914.
Keighley’s motto, ‘By Worth’, was an accolade that described the town’s location and the quality of its industrial output, but not the payment of the skilled workers who produced the goods. The Keighley Engineers’ Dispute of 1914, over a demand for a 2/- a week pay increase, took place in the context of a national economic depression. The smaller employers quickly agreed to the pay increase but the five larger employers refused. Whilst the strikers were accused in the local press of causing great poverty amongst working people and wrecking Keighley’s economy and future business prospects, it could also be said that the town’s larger employers, considering it to be more economic to see their works idle at a time of recession, were the ones responsible for the stoppage. The dispute continued into the first months of the war and only came to an end because of the intervention of the town’s Liberal Mayor. An analysis of the strike presents an opportunity to revisit this debate. It provides an insight into the social/political structure of Keighley, and shows that the cause of industrial strife is not one-sided.

Stephen Etheridge, PhD student, School of Music, Humanities and Media University of Huddersfield
WORKING -CLASS BRASS BANDS IN YORKSHIRE, 1856 -1914: PERCEPTIONS OF RESPECTABILITY, PERCEPTIONS OF CONTROL?
In 1857, Manchester held the largest fine-arts exhibition to date. Sir Titus Salt brought 2,500 workers from his mill at Saltaire. Salt created a spectacle as he entered the gallery: striding in front of his band into the exhibition. Salt was using his band as a statement of his status within the North. This paper explores two types of relationships in Yorkshire: the first, between the bands and the industrialists, the next, between the wider communities. Issues of: philanthropy, public image, group behaviour and internal regulation will be the themes used to explore these relationships. The concepts of rational recreation and social control are central to understanding these relationships. Expressed as top down methods, to improve the behaviour of the working classes, they became the tools by which the working-class constructed their cultural identity. The middle-class saw music as a great improver, how did bands take music, and mould it to their own constructs? Was the relationship between the industrialist, or community, and the bands a top down method of control, or, was it a relationship, where each party gained benefits? This paper will examine how top down methods of control helped forge working-class cultural identities within the industrial North.

Dr Helen Frisby, University of Leeds
RECLAIMING THE ‘FOLK’: DEATH AND DYING IN YORKSHIRE, C.1840-1914.
This paper will give an account of folk rituals and beliefs on death and dying in Yorkshire, from approx. 1840 to approx. 1914. Starting with the prediction of death, I will proceed to describe popular rituals around the deathbed and in the days between death and burial, at the funeral service, and, of course, the funeral tea. In this way, I will tell the story of what a typical working class funeral probably looked and felt like during our period. Throughout we may observe a distinctive popular culture, which bore little or no relation to Victorian middle class ideals of social and cultural ‘progress.’ This paper will also explore the origins of ‘folklore’ and the ‘folk’, the subsequent rift between Folklore Studies and History as academic disciplines, and some of the problems thereby caused when using folklore as a historical source. Like any other type of historical source, folklore does indeed have its limitations, but I hope to show that if used mindfully, it nonetheless has great potential to contribute to our understanding of the history of Yorkshire.

Dr Lynne Fox
WOMEN WORKERS IN SOUTH YORKSHIRE INDUSTRY 1900 – 2000
The Industrial Revolution wrought massive changes in South Yorkshire. By 1900 heavy industry dominated its economy and its landscape and shaped a new identity for the region. With a few isolated exceptions, none of the industries that came to characterise South Yorkshire employed women other than in wartime. Nonetheless, South Yorkshire women have always worked in industry, sometimes dominating whole sections of production or even whole industries. This paper will outline the ‘employment map’ for women in South Yorkshire over the last 100 years – the industries that employed women and the jobs that they did. I will consider their conditions of work and touch upon the distorting impact of war-work on female employment profiles. The paper will draw upon case studies from industries such as paper making and food processing that are widespread throughout the region as well as those that are centred more typically in the four areas within South Yorkshire for example workers within the Sheffield Metal Trades (including the independent ‘Little Missuses’, similar to the more famous ‘Little Mesters’); the fireplace makers of Rotherham; the textile-related trades of Barnsley and Nuttall’s ‘Mintoes Maids’ of Doncaster.

Christine Handley BSc, MA Shire Brook Valley Heritage Group and Biodiversity and Landscape History Research Institute.
A SOUTH YORKSHIRE CASE STUDY: THE TANNING INDUSTRY IN WOODHOUSE, SHEFFIELD
The leather and tanning industry was important for the local economy in the Sheffield area, second only to the metalworking trades between the 16th and 18th centuries. The availability of oak bark, abundant water supply and animal hides, all essential for the industry, contributed to its development. Woodhouse a small village in the Handsworth-Woodhouse parish, part of the old West Riding of Yorkshire was one of the industry’s local centres; the last tanyard closed in 1906. The paper will be based on research on the development and decline of the tanyards in Woodhouse in relation to the supply of bark, hides and water. A range of local documentary sources e.g. 18th century estate accounts, 19th century diaries and census returns, 20th century family history and City Council surveyor’s reports are used. The research is set in a wider context through national studies; and links to the economic viability of charcoal manufacture and displacement of oak bark with imported inorganic chemical technology. A version of the paper is a chapter in ‘Shire Brook: the Forgotten Valley’ (2007) although the presentation will include information from the latest research.

Penelope Harris Ph.D. Student, University of Leicester.
JOSEPH ALOYSIUS HANSOM: A NOMADIC YORKSHIRE ARCHITECT
Hansom (1803-1882), was a prestigious architect in Victorian times, often competing with Pugin and other top architects. However, almost by accident, he designed the hansom cab and it is this which misguidedly upholds his reputation in the twenty-first century. Born in York and coming from a long line of builders, Hansom’s superior talents were identified at a young age and he was sent to John Oates in Halifax for formal training. For various reasons his work took him right across the country, but he returned to Yorkshire intermittently throughout his life. This paper sets out to explain the significance of his York upbringing and to identify those works which he carried out in the county. A resume of key events is used to demonstrate how early dramas shaped his future career, in turn leading to a rich and diverse output. Hansom’s dependency upon the Catholic Revival, the Gothic Revival and the fast changing social structure was equally significant. A nomadic existence with no central base proved problematic when researching, but the intensity of investigation has opened doors which might otherwise have remained unopened. Above all it is my aim to re-establish his reputation as an architect and play down the ‘cab’ myth.

Dr Philippa Hoskin Borthwick Institute, University of York
USING THE RECORDS OF THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH COURTS OF YORK
This paper will provide background information to using the papers of the York church courts, and will form an introduction to the two following papers, and will also introducing a new finding aid to the York diocesan ecclesiastical court records which will come on-line in 2010. The ecclesiastical court records of the diocese of York are being recatalogued and described in detail thanks to research funding from the Andrew W Mellon foundation who recognise their significance to a whole range of historical study, and are eager to see their fuller exploitation by the research community. When complete, this on-line resource will enable searches by names of all places mentioned in the individual cause papers for each case, all the participants, whether parties or witnesses, along with a whole range of other data such as type of case The cause paper are offer a wide range of local source material for interests as broad as fishing, turnips, or peacocks, marriage customs, religious ritual or local dialect. In this paper I will showcase a cause paper, and by working through the story the case tells will explain the operation of the courts, the form of the resulting records and their utility for moving forward the regional research agenda.

Alison James, PhD student. Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
POPULAR OR PRIVATE REBELLION? – THE CASE OF ROBIN OF REDESDALE
Yorkshire in the fifteenth century was renowned for its unsettled nature, a county conspicuous for its involvement in warfare and rebellion. But were ordinary men really as enthusiastic as they seem, or were these matters for the ruling elite? Looking specifically at the Robin of Redesdale rebellion of 1469, I aim to ask just how popular was ‘popular’ rebellion in fifteenth century Yorkshire? When the Conyers led resistance to Edward IV they were certainly acting in their own interests, but in choosing to take an alias, and one so connected with ideas of a people’s champion, they deliberately presented their behaviour in the light of a popular cause. Were the Conyers representing the men of their county, or merely attempting to create the impression that they were? What were the effects of such gentry involvement, not only in the conception, but in the ultimate demise of a rebellion? As a brief comparison with some other rebellions of the period demonstrates, the benefits were not all one-sided, and if the gentry gained advantages by claiming popular support, then popular movements could also benefit significantly from gentry leadership.

Dr John S. Lee
TEMPLE HIRST: FROM THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR TO LORD THOMAS DARCY
This paper will examine the landowners and landscape from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries at Temple Hirst, on the northern bank of the River Aire, five miles south of Selby. It attempts to combine techniques from local history and landscape studies, by integrating documentary sources with evidence from field- and place-names, archaeological and architectural studies, and the modern landscape. Temple Hirst was held by the Knights Templar from around 1152 until the Order’s dissolution in 1311, and in the possession of the Darcy family from 1337 until Lord Thomas Darcy’s execution in 1536 for his role in the Pilgrimage of Grace. The Templars established a preceptory and carried out drainage and assarting on their estate. The Darcys built a fortified residence with private chapel and created a park, rabbit warren, and cattle enclosures. The property now known as Temple Manor incorporates the remains of a doorway from the preceptory of the Knights Templar and the fortified brick house of the Darcys. This research will explore how the demands on the landscape changed from the generation of income for an international religious order to an emphasis on prestige and pleasure for an ambitious gentry family

Alexander Lock, PhD student, University of Leeds.
SIR THOMAS GASCOIGNE (1745-1810): CATHOLICISM, APOSTASY AND COUNTY POLITICS
My research examines the life and networks of an eighteenth-century Baronet Sir Thomas Gascoigne (1745-1810). He was descended from what J.C.H. Aveling has described as ‘the most intensely Catholic gentry family of the period…in Yorkshire’, which had a number of important connections with prominent Catholics in both England and the continent. Despite this heritage, however, he apostatised in 1780 to pursue a radical parliamentary career. He became a loyal Rockinghamite Whig M.P. and held strong views on American Independence, parliamentary reform and freedom of association. He was a dedicated member of Christopher Wyvill’s Yorkshire Association and in 1784 was nominated to manage the York County election for the Fitzwilliam interest. This paper will examine the role Gascoigne played in the county’s politics and will seek to use Gascoigne as an example of the tensions between religion and politics in the late eighteenth century. Gascoigne was clearly trusted and relied upon by the Whig grandees, such as Rockingham and Fitzwilliam, however, evidence suggests that the middling and gentry classes of the county remained sceptical of both the sincerity of his conversion and subsequent political abilities. This paper, therefore, will examine the duopoly between religion and politics in the late eighteenth century: it will explain Gascoigne’s apostasy to follow a political career and question how far he was accepted, as a former Catholic, by his peers in politics. It will also examine how his experiences as a Catholic ‘outsider’ in Anglican England helped determine his radical political beliefs.

Dennis O'Keefe Ph.D. student University of Huddersfield
PLAYERS, PARSONS AND PATRONS: CHURCH AND CRICKET IN CALDERDALE, 1860-C.1920.
Around the mid-nineteenth century, cricket underwent a conversion becoming the epitome of fair play and Englishness. Cricket was the flagship of Muscular Christianity in which clergymen from Charles Kingsley, including public school headmasters such as Edward Tring and Edmond Warre, and many Oxbridge ‘Blues’ played prominent parts. However, all was not well within the churches themselves. In Calderdale, in 1851, fewer than half of the population attended a service, with working-class men disproportionately absent. Church historian Simon Green found that between 1890 and 1910 this had become a ‘local obsession’ with social activities employed to engage them. During these years approximately 100 church cricket clubs appeared, half of those ever created, alongside three church and Sunday school leagues. In an area largely at the mercy of the declining textile industry, working men in order to play cricket needed financial support and a ground. Churches and their wealthier adherents were often in a position to provide these. With the emergence of industrial disputes and class-based politics, however, this apparently symbiotic relationship could be strained. And there was always the possibility that cricket clubs could, as Tony Mason put it, ‘take forms of which the church or chapel was unlikely to approve’.

Margaret Oliver. M.Phil. student, University of Hull,
THE NATURE AND INCIDENCE OF ILLEGITIMACY IN EAST YORKSHIRE IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES.
This research will not only examine the incidence of illegitimacy in the East Riding of Yorkshire but will also look at the persons concerned, the impact on, and the effect of, illegitimacy on individuals as well as considering how parishes dealt with the increasing problem of single mothers and their children. Among others it will consider questions such as mortality, marriage, the poor law, the evidence for what Peter Laslett describes as ‘bastardy-prone’ societies, and the urban /rural divide. Behind any parish register entry of an illegitimate baptism there could be many different sets of circumstances and relationships. The underlying causes of illegitimacy are not necessarily clear-cut and the four reasons suggested by Richard Adair (exploitation, promiscuity, thwarted marriage and unrecognised marriage) will also be examined. Studies of illegitimacy are inclined, understandably so, to concentrate on mothers and children. This research will also include a section on fathers in order to gain a better understanding of the nature of illegitimate relationships and will incorporate some family reconstitution work, attempting to assess the broader effect of illegitimacy on those concerned. Using a variety of sources illegitimacy in East Yorkshire will be considered against a background of national trends and events.

Dr Simon Sandall Borthwick Institute, University of York
MATRIMONY, SLANDER AND WOMEN’S AGENCY IN EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY YORKSHIRE
Examining the changing role of the London consistory courts during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Laura Gowing notes a sharp increase in both the number of defamation cases relating to sexual slander, and the number of female litigants involved in these proceedings. Whilst Gowing acknowledges that canon law afforded women greater legal agency than did common law, the former jurisdiction dealing with many aspects of feminine experience, she identifies increasing opportunities for the exercise of such legal access in early seventeenth century London. In his study of the York church courts for the same period, James Sharpe has found that a far higher proportion of defamation causes were non-sexual in nature and mostly sued by men. It is in this context that my paper considers the extent to which legal process in the ecclesiastical courts of York offered a space for the exercise of women’s agency in Yorkshire, a century after ‘progressive’ innovations in the church courts of St Paul’s at the turn of the seventeenth century. It will argue that the nature of access to dispute resolution during this period can show in relief the gender ideologies which informed the day to day experience of life within these local communities.

John S Shaw. Ph.D. student, University of Leeds
“SOOTHILL NETHER 1840 TO 1900, A COMMUNITY UNDERGOING INDUSTRIALISATION”
 The paper will outline current research into the demographic changes that occurred in the rapidly expanding communities that constituted the area of Soothill Nether, to the East of Dewsbury, during the Victorian Era.
 This unique longitudinal study covering the census’ from 1841 to 1901, has involved the creation of a database of over 40,000 individuals, which combines the Census Enumerators Returns, Tithe Returns, Parish and Nonconformist Registers. Interrogation of the database is providing data that illustrates the rapid changes that took place in the composition of the population, occupational structure, family structure, relationships, housing and population movement. Some initial comparisons have been undertaken with regional and national statistics. The paper will illustrate current results of database interrogation. It will also include an explanation  of how the juxtaposition of national and local history, genealogy, in the form of reconstitution, population studies and photographic materials are being combined to create a portrait of the community during the rapid industrialisation of the blanket, heavy woollen, shoddy and mungo trades, alongside the advent of large scale commercial coal mining.

Kevin Stephenson BA University of Hull.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF HULL'S POST-WAR HOUSING ESTATES: THE POLITICS OF INDECISION?'
 Hull’s post-war housing predominantly consisted of peripheral housing estates developed by the local authority. Guiding the policy from 1945 until 1969 were a small group of Labour councillors whose abilities to deal effectively with the projects have been questioned.  Like other large cities Labour in Hull was preoccupied with a major slum clearance policy and housing excess population in debated agricultural land under Conservative control. Much time at meetings between Labour and Conservatives over plans to develop the huge Bransholme estate in the mid-1950s was taken up in disputes which appear to reflect the ‘two nations’ class basis of politics. Labour is shown to have been incapable of reaching conclusions quickly given the increasing urgency of rehousing needs. As a direct result of indecision from 1945 onwards housing estates built in the 1960s suffered from poor planning and hurried development. I hope to examine whether indecision was the major factor in creating poor housing provision and whether class antagonism lay at the roots of the problems which Bransholme and Orchard Park subsequently suffered from. I also hope to ask some questions as to why historians have largely avoided researching very recent history.
 
Coral M P (known as Kate) Taylor  MA Oxon, FSA President of Wakefield Historical Society
THE ROLE AND STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE DIOCESE OF WAKEFIELD 1888-1938
Although women communicants far outnumbered men in every parish, they were not permitted to vote for the lay representatives on the Diocesan Conference, let alone, until 1920, to become members of Conference themselves. Yet their role as District Visitors - and there were numbers of these - was an important one. Nuns and Church Army Sisters had pastoral roles in some parishes.  Women ran the essential fund-raising bazaars. But their most valued activity lay in running homes, or shelters, for vulnerable girls and women and, later, for those sentenced by the courts to spells in Approved Schools. The first female appointed to an official diocesan position was as an organizer for moral welfare.

Dr Emma Watson Borthwick Institute, University of York
CLERGY, LAITY AND ECCLESIASTICAL DISCIPLINE IN SIXTEENTH CENTURY YORKSHIRE PARISHES
This paper will explore personal and communal relationships between clergy and laity in sixteenth century Yorkshire parishes as found in the ecclesiastical courts. It will concentrate on cases in the York courts on religious discipline during a time of turmoil and upheaval at all levels of English society, and will take into account the wide range of religious beliefs of the time. Previous historiography has suggested that cases against priests were indicative of anticlericalism both pre- and post-Reformation. However I will argue that these cases often had much more complex origins and effects.  The paper will also explore the ways in which both clergy and laity actively used the ecclesiastical courts for their own purposes as well as for the greater good of their parish community, and the influences that these courts had over parish societies. Parishioners and clergy seem also to have been both aware of and actively engaged with the aims and objectives of the government and ecclesiastical hierarchies. This suggests that the York material has much to add to current debates.

Dr Louise R Wheatley    
YORK MERCERS – SHOPKEEPERS, STOCK AND CONSUMER DEMAND
The value of personal possessions and household furnishings is apparent from their use for medieval taxation assessments and also in repayment of debts and as legacies.  Amongst personal possessions we find mercery, the collective term for imported textiles, clothing accessories and dressmaking equipment – and this would be the stock in trade of a mercer.  A number of York sources shed light on networks of retail distribution, consumer demand and standards of living.  This paper examines primarily  probate inventories and wills of the York Diocese dating from 1395 to 1500 which record a fascinating array: linen textiles used for sheets, tablecloths and towels in both secular and religious households; garments and soft furnishings fashioned from cotton, fustian and silk; crisp linen kerchiefs, velvet caps and brimmed hats; woven silk girdles, silver belts, purses, eating knives and rosaries.  Church and chapel inventories list textiles used in ecclesiastical settings with vestments a special category of mercery comprising garments of linen, fustian and silk - embellished with embroidered panels using coloured silk, gold and silver threads - girthed and trimmed with narrow borders also fashioned from silk and metallic threads - and accompanied by special collars, caps, hats, gloves and slippers.

Colin Wilmshurst, Lockton & Levisham Heritage Group http://www.locktonlevisham.co.uk/
LOCKTON & LEVISHAM HERITAGE GROUP
The Group uses group-based research, feeding into a community project of a Local History Archive, based in Levisham, involving linkage of places, visible remains (archaeology, buildings, artefacts, etc.) and documents.
The work has taken place over several years – continues to take place on a weekly basis – and recent research has involved work with a Community Archaeologist (Kevin Cale), funded by a Lottery Grant: Between the two villages, in a valley, sits a church – its location is a mystery, and this has involved much research, resulting in the publication of a small booklet. In addition, the Group has undertaken metal detecting, archiving, recording memories of local people, looking at house histories. One recent research has involved the link between an actual site and research through documents; this has led to further research and interesting discoveries. The various projects, apart from throwing light on the history of the locality, has been a way of bringing people together, not sitting passively, but being actively engaged in the research process. In the past few years, the Group has provided resources for those who already have an interest in the area, as well as from further afield, including school groups.

Accommodation

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The conference hotel is the Royal Hotel, called until recently the Quality Royal Hotel but always known locally as the Station Hotel. It is offering a conference rate of £35 a night for a single room with a similar reduction for a double. This price will include breakfast and a parking space.
www.hotels-hull.co.uk/
Phone: 01482 325087 and say that you want the conference rate.

There is also the nearby Holiday Inn Express 0871 423 4876
 

Travel

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The Conference Hotel (which this week is being called the Royal Hotel, but is known in the city as the Station Hotel) has an has an entrance on to the joint Hull Train and Bus stations, which is nowdays rather confusingly called Paragon interchange or Hull Interchange.
There is also an excellent Park and Ride service from the M62/A63.
Parking is neither easy nor cheap in the city center.

Car

The easiest way to the Royal Hotel is from the A63, a continuation of the M62.
Turn off following the signs Beverley,York and A1079 and for the Railway Station.
At the next junction follow the A1079 signs not the Railway Station sign and very shortly you will see the hotel on your left.
There is a drop off area in front of the hotel and some, very limited, parking.
Those who do manage to secure one of the hotel spaces will need to pay for it (probably £2) at the hotel reception.
Otherwise continue past the hotel (on Ferensway) past the station, the Holiday Inn Express , then the Hull TruckTheatre and then take the second turning left, Portland Place.
This leads back into the multistory parking for the St Stephens Shopping Centre which is next door to the station.
It will cost £10 to park at St Stephens for the duration of the conference.
If you are uncertain, ask people. Everybody in Hull knows St Stephens and the Station Hotel.

Park and Ride

This is signposted from the A63. It is the exit after you pass under the Humber Bridge.
Parking is free and there is a £2.10 return bus fare.
Link to Park and Ride web site.
There used to be a bus stop opposite the Hotel but it is now no longer in use.
Probably the best stop is Carr Lane (opposite Primark) with a short walk back to the hotel.
The map on the Park and Ride web site shows Hull Station, and the Royal hotel is just next door, on the Carr Lane side.

Train or Bus

Trains, Busses and coaches all come into the Paragon Interchange (known as Paragon Station).
The Royal Hotel has an entrance in the station opposite the way onto and from the railway platforms.



Stalls

University of Hull, History Department
Wakefield Historical Publications
Shire Brook Valley Heritage Group
Lockton & Levisham Heritage Group
East Yorkshire Local History Society
Hull History Centre (Hull City Archives)
Holderness Museums “Time on my Hands”
The Historical Association
Barnsley Museum & Heritage service
Highgate Publications
VCH - Victoria County History
Yorkshire Film Archive
U3A - University of the Third Age
Action4archives
Family & Community Historical Research Society
Borthwick Institute For Archives
Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Group
Hebden Bridge Local History Society
Huddersfield Local History Society
Hull Civic Society
Blackthorn Press
East Riding Archives & Local Studies Service

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