| Description | Originally deposited as a VHS video cassette.
Timing: Action on film
(00:32) A look at the exterior of the Rose and Crown at North Bar Within, and at St Johns Catholic church.
(00:59) The first Roman Catholic church in Beverley was established in 1846. A basket weaver's workshop. The present church was built in 1896.
(01:36) Looking at the presbytery next door and at Aragon House.
(01:45) Father Scott the parish priest, stood outside the 1846 church building.
(02:15) Father Scott explains how they knocked down the school at the front of the building, and built a new church at the side.
(02:58) Inside the 1846 church building. It was used as a school when it ceased to be a church.
(04:00) The foundation stone of the 1897 church.
(04:05) The interior of the present church. Father Scott says that it was opened during Christmas 1898.
(04:32) Father Scott points out some recent changes to the interior of the present church.
(07:08) All the original decoration was removed about 25 years ago.
(07:32) The church organ was only six or seven years old.
(08:19) A close-up of the organ which was built by Kenneth Tickell of Northampton.
(08:34) Back out into New Walk, looking towards Oak House with Pinewood further down.
(08:43) A close-up of the chimney stack and carving of Oak House, which was built in 1886 for James Elwell. Pinewood was built for his son, [Fred Elwell].
(13:13) Some later houses on New Walk. The Chestnuts were built by [Smith and Broderick] of Hull for themselves.
(15:11) Georgian and Victorian houses in New Walk.
(16:23) Houses on Norfolk Street, overlooking the Sessions House and the House of Correction.
(17:47) The statue on top of the Sessions House.
(19:05) Mr Tony Froggatt of Tickton, about to show us around Sessions House.
(19:22) In the courtroom. Mr Froggatt says the building was built between 1805 and 1810 by Charles Watson, an architect from Wakefield. The Court was connected to the House of Correction. Nearby Gallows Lane was connected to the courts.
(20:18) The courtroom was still furnished for its original purpose at this time. Mr Froggatt describes who sat where during a trial.
(21:10) The Jury Retiring Room. Some of the chairs were donated by the East Riding Yeomanry.
(22:02) Court number 1. On the wall is a drawing of the treadmill which was part of the House of Correction.
(24:04) The cell passage from the dock.
(24:31) The holding cells.
(26:58) The room where the judge waited after summing up during a trial.
(27:34) The smaller courtroom.
(30:10) A separate room used for waiting defence witnesses.
(30:24) A cast iron urinal in the grounds of the Sessions House. It is listed.
(32:35) A Victorian post box on New Walk.
(33:29) Some houses dating from the 1700s.
(33:45) A house which once belonged to the Sykes family and is now owned by the Marrs who own a shipbuilding business.
(33:51) Some cottages on North Bar Without which may have been for gardeners and grooms. Next door is the stables and coach house, probably belonging to the Red House.
(34:47) The Red House at 56 New Walk, once owned by the [Baintons].
(35:10) The House once owned by Mr Neville Hobson, founder of the Boys Brigade in Beverley.
(36:08) Osborne House, on the corner of Seven Corners Lane.
(37:27) The North Bar Hotel and Harper's Garage.
(38:06) Looking into the yard of Harper's garage which is now residential housing.
(39:01) Aragon House, which has an arch leading through to Peel Place.
(40:09) Amphion House beside North Bar. It was built by [William] Middleton.
(40:30) Looking at the wood carvings on James Elwell's house, including the red devil on the roof.
(42:35) An old photograph of the original Roman Catholic church.
(43:12) An old photograph of North Bar Within before Wylie's Road was knocked through.
(43:38) An old photograph of St John's [Catholic] Church and of the shops in front of the Rose and Crown pub at one time.
(43:53) Wylies House, which was later the Conservative Club. This was destroyed by fire and demolished to make way for Wylies Road.
(44:50) Wylies Road under construction.
(45:05) New Walk and North Bar in old photographs.
(46:51) One of the gatehouses onto the Westwood.
(47:16) A development of modern houses on the site of the racing stables on York Road.
(47:29) An old photograph of the gatehouse mentioned earlier. Taken on a snowy day, with the gates in place.
(47:40) The Westwood in old photographs, including one of the great flood of 1912.
(48:20) Old and new images of Beverley racecourse.
(53:30) The Golf Club on the Westwood, in a 1913 photograph.
(53:52) The Black Mill and the original Golf Club in 1898.
(54:13) Old photograph of the Black Mill with sails attached, long before the Golf Club.
(54:51) A print of the Union Mill which was built in 1799.
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