A “Jack the Ripper” investigator, visited Preston and Hedon yesterday to research the case of an unsolved murder of an 18 year old girl in 1891…
A “Jack the Ripper” investigator, visited Preston and Hedon yesterday to research the case of an unsolved murder of an 18 year old girl in 1891…
HISTORY PIN is a website that aims to show how places have changed through photographs and stories…
AN EXPLOSION WOKE RESIDENTS in the early hours of 22nd August 1917. Windows rattled, rafters creaked and the ground shook. Hedon was the victim of an air raid by a Zeppelin!
The East Riding has the greatest proportion of “high risk” scheduled monuments in England…
This ancient medieval cross is believed to have been originally erected in 1399…
Saltend experienced the first ever daylight bombing raid to take place in the country during World War Two.
…a room almost entirely of church stones complete with gargoyles and other pieces of church masonry. Some of these may have come from stones displaced…
BEFORE 1860, HEDON WAS RULED by twelve Aldermen who had been elected for life. The Aldermen controlled everything in the town including the rights to run and profit…