As BBC TV features the Dinnington Colliery Brass Band in its “A Band for Britain” series, the Beverley Festival brings one of the best known and best loved brass bands in the UK, the Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band, to perform in the historic and architecturally stunning, Beverley Minster. The band, who are celebrating 126 years of proud history, have performed twice before at the festival, and always guarantee a…
Local singer-songwriters, the Ragamuffins, will be holding an evening of music and memories at the Queens Head (Wednesday Market Place, Beverley) on Thursday 25th March at 8:00pm (arrive for 7:30pm to get a seat). Last year the songsters produced two albums of home-spun ditties, which described events, places and people from Beverley’s past. Now the Ragamuffins plan to write a book that puts these tales down and paper and want…
Bishop Burton College played their first home game as their newly formed Basketball team beating visitors East Riding College. The game which ended 30-17 was the second time the Bishop Burton side had played losing their first game to leagues strongest side Hull College. Coach Peter Walker said after the game; “Overall we played well though we need to improve on our shooting, it was really good to win our…
From Friday, 12 February, a free digital film and sound archive with access to footage which brings the region’s past to life will open to all. People using the award-winning new archive will be able to see the region after the blitz, local industry, life in the towns and villages of the East Riding and even the wreckage of the Howden R38 Airship crash in 1921. Sound archives including interviews…
A new exhibition opens this week at the Beverley Guildhall, entitled ‘1960s Beverley.’ As the title suggests, this exhibition looks at how the town was influenced by the 1960s in terms of aspects such as planning changes, fashion, music and new innovations. Fiona Jenkinson, Curator of the Beverley Guildhall, said: “We decided to take a different approach to Beverley’s history this time, but this has been a difficult exhibition to…
Beverley United manager Danny Williams is still unhappy with the tackling his players were subjected too in yesterdays clash with bitter rivals Newland Rangers. Speaking after the game he told HU17.net; “Obviously I am bitterly disappointed not to win as showed we are a far more accomplished club than Newland Rangers. Look at the history – what have they won? The last kick of the game should have been a…
To emphasise the rich history of Beverley, the Beverley Medieval Guilds & Crafts Town Trail is designed to reveal glimpes of the town’s varied past. Focusing on the medieval guilds that were the foundations of Beverley’s wealth, a series of public artworks have been installed to emphasise how crucial the skilled craftsmen of the town were. By following any of the four walks that comprise the trail, the sheer breadth of…
FOLLOWING early incarnations on the Westwood, and Mill Lane, Beverley Town Cricket Club moved to Norwood after cricket captain Mr J A Dunkerley bought five acres land. Work progressed quickly and soon Beverley Town bowling club followed their cricketing counterparts and in 1909 the ground was oficially opened by local MP Stanley Wilson. The club thrived in the early part of the century, with the addition of new pavilions (including…
A crook and chain for pulling down burning houses were mentioned in 1541-2 and 1556-7. Buckets and fire hooks were ordered to be bought in 1666 and 1674, on the latter occasion 24 buckets and four hooks, half to be provided by the corporation and kept in the Beverley Minster and town hall and half to be provided by the church wardens of St. Mary’s Church Beverley and kept there….
The changing vision of a young Beverlonian Born and bred in Beverley, I’m what is known as a Beverlonian. As a bored, disillusioned & angst ridden teenager, I frequently found myself thinking ’there must be more to life than just existing in a small town in East Yorkshire‘…a somewhat dreary place I felt, that seemed to suffer with a habitual case of nothingness and a constant attack of bad weather….
Beverley Renaissance Partnership invited representatives from organisations within the town to an initial meeting on Tuesday 24th November 2009 at County Hall in Beverley. Organisations included Beverley Town Council, Beverley and District Chamber of Trade, Visit Hull and East Yorkshire, Beverley Minster, St Mary’s Church and Beverley Market Traders Association. The purpose of this group is to be action driven and to develop some of the recommendations outlined within the Draft Beverley…
The medieval market town of Beverley has been chosen by British Cycling to host the Blue Riband event of UK town centre racing in 2010. The town will make cycling history by hosting the National Elite Circuit Race Championships for the third consecutive year. The championship will see 70 top racers tackle a town centre circuit on the evening of Friday, 16 July and is the highlight of a three-day…
Beverley based hypnotist proves ‘Virtual Gastric Band’ is successful Trance Actions hypnotist, Sheila Granger has successfully completed a group trial to test the effects of a ‘Virtual Gastric Band’. The astounding results showed a 99% positive result. A group comprising of twenty-one people of varying ages, lifestyles and weights shared one common factor – a history of diet plans and a struggle to maintain a satisfactory weight and size. The…
The latest exhibition at the Beverley Treasure House, is a touring exhibition entitled ‘A History of Photography,’ which has been organised by the Julia Margaret Cameron Trust, with costume and accessories from the East Riding Museums Service. Dr Brian Hinton, curator of the Julia Margaret Cameron Trust, said: “The photographs on display provide two concurrent chronologies – the progress of Western civilisation over the last 150 years, and matching developments…
As resident DJ at the Regal nightclub in the 80’s, twenty years on I now would like to preserve all the memories from this building. With you’re help we can bring back this great Beverley building and so many happy memories. Ask you’re parents, grand parents, dig out the photographs from the loft, The Regal needs you. The Regal Cinema, Café Restaurant & Ballroom built & opened 1935. A fine…
Storming Performances at Beverley Literature Festival The wild weather in Beverley on Saturday was matched by some equally energetic performances over the first weekend of the Beverley Literature Festival as writer after writer took their audiences by storm in what has been some of the most exciting days in the festival’s eight year history. Iain Banks riffed on his new novel with the energy of a man possessed by genius. …
Popular local history events are being planned by East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s archive and local studies service, based at the Beverley Treasure House in Champney Road, Beverley. The annual Local History Book Fair will be held on Saturday, 17 October, at Beverley Minster while an autumn programme of local history lectures and garden tours will start on Monday, 19 October. Chairman of East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Councillor Christopher…
A new exhibition entitled “When I Was Six” is now on display in the Treasure House in Beverley. The exhibition, which presents a history of primary education in the East Riding, was compiled by volunteers of the East Riding Rural Life Project at Skidby Windmill. Fiona Jenkinson, the project co-ordinator, said: “This is the third in a series of Treasure House exhibitions compiled by the team of volunteers, who also…