| Description | Originally deposited as a DVD-ROM.
Contains video of Ernie Teal MBE giving the viewer a guided tour of Beverley Westwood.
Timing: Action on film.
(00:19) A view of Beverley Minster from the Westwood.
(00:56) The Black Mill.
(01:32) The clock on Anti Mill, given by Mr Rex Foster of Beverley. The clock was originally at the Racing Stables.
(03:09) The Minster with St Nicholas Church in the right-hand distance.
(04:14) Looking across to St Mary's Church.
(05:06) The golf club at Anti Mill.
(06:10) Black Mill. Description of its history and we see some old photographs of the Mill. Lists some of the Mill's tenants over the years.
(12:28) Golfers on the site of the Town Gallop, where racehorses were once trained.
(13:11) Anti Mill, built in 1799 as a co-operative mill.
(15:32) The buildings belonging to Beverley Racecourse.
(17:16) The remains of Wilson's Mill, near the Grammar School.
(19:00) The Hurn, with a view of the Norfolk Street houses beyond it.
(20:00) Burton Bushes, the last of the great forests which once covered the Westwood.
(21:55) Willow Grove with Beverley Hospital beyond.
(22:22) Kite-flying on the Westwood.
(23:39) The main stand of Beverley Racecourse.
(25:04) Some other views of the Racecourse.
(26:10) The houses in York Road.
(28:14) A bench dedicated to Hilda Wilson.
(29:17) One of the gatehouses onto the Westwood and a housing development on the site of the racing stables.
(29:58) Old photographs of the gatehouse and other views of the Westwood.
(30:24) The Cinder Track during the great flood of 1912, and other old photographs of the Westwood.
(32:44) The new 'Tote' buildings at the Racecourse, the Parade Ring, and the Grandstand from York Road.
(35:33) Old photographs and drawings: the Racecourse, the Pond at Anti Mill, the Golf Club in 1913, the Black Mill, Union Mill, Bateson's or Wilson's Mill, Fishwick's Mill and the Queensgate Whiting Mill.
(38:47) We meet Ernie Teal who tells us about the chalk and alum quarry on the Westwood where he once worked.
(40:30) The Black Mill. Ernie describes his memories of the Mill from his childhood.
(43:29) Ernie describes meeting the actor Ronald Coleman, who he says was born in Molescroft.
(44:19) Burton Bushes.
(46:38) Ernie talks about bullises (sloes) and also discusses the following:
(47:35) Jimmy [Prest], a well-known poacher.
(49:06) The birds and animals that inhabit the Westwood.
(50:32) How some parts of the Westwood were named by soldiers returning from the Crimean War. Parts of the pasture are named after Crimean battlefields such as 'Hill Sixty' and [Majuba] for example.
(51:05) Cobbler Well, which Ernie Teal describes as a 'dimple' to the south of the Westwood. He has been told that cobblers used to meet there each summer to agree prices.
(55:04) Ernie tells of how metal detectorists have found hundreds of cap badges and military buttons from the times when there were army camps on the Westwood.
(56:11) Flying model aircraft on the Westwood.
(57:45) Mrs Healey, Val and Gordon Atkinson, and Pete Goodfellow playing golf on the Westwood.
(1:00:22) Ernie Teal reads out a description of Beverley, including a list of names of people he remembers.
Film and Sound Archive access copy available onsite in the Audio-Visual Room |