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Preston Murder investigation – 120 years on!

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

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…

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History Pin

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

HISTORY PIN is a website that aims to show how places have changed through photographs and stories…

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Terror from the sky! Zeppelin Raid!

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

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!

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Ancient Paull Monument “at risk”

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

The East Riding has the greatest proportion of “high risk” scheduled monuments in England…

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Hedon’s Mysterious Kilnsea Cross

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

This ancient medieval cross is believed to have been originally erected in 1399…

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Saltend – site of first daylight air raid in World War two!

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Saltend experienced the first ever daylight bombing raid to take place in the country during World War Two.

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Lambert House – Hedon History

Monday, July 5th, 2010

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…

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Hedon Museum celebrates 150th anniversary of fight for social justice

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

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…

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