| Description | Originally deposited as a DVD-ROM.
Timing: Action on film.
(00:12) Warter, where there was a monastery in the 1100s. It has been an estate village for hundreds of years.
(00:44) We look at the old buildings in the village including some thatched cottages, which are unusual for this area. Warter Hall no longer exists.
(01:47) A stone and photograph mark the site of the sheep wash at Bishop Burton.
(02:13) The Altisidora pub, which was named after a horse who won the St Ledger for one of the Watt family in 1813.
(03:08) The village pond.
(03:14) The blacksmith's house and forge.
(03:29) An award-winning barn conversion.
(04:07) Dunnings's farmhouse.
(04:31) The village pump.
(05:23) Mere Cottages were built in 1756. They were originally thatched. In about 1912 Richard Hall Watts renovated them.
(05:53) Some estate cottages.
(06:03) A lynch gate in memory of Julia Philadelphia Eyre, one of the Watt family.
(06:23) All Saints Church, Bishop Burton. Francis Watt had the church and many other buildings restored.
(07:06) A blackbird with largely white plumage filmed in the church yard. This is known as 'leucism'.
(08:37) Inside the church. The chair in the chancel was built by the village joiner, possibly one of the Duck family.
(09:18) The panelling behind the altar was made by Robert Thompson of Kilburn, whose trademark was a carved mouse.
(10:27) The coats of arms of the Archbishop of York, the Watt family and the Gee family on one wall of the church.
(11:33) The East Window.
(12:19) First World War memorial.
(13:28) At the west end of the church is the memorial to Rachael Gee.
(15:08) The exterior of All Saints church with the 15th century tower.
(15:31) The schoolmaster's house.
(16:13) Hornsea Mere.
(19:48) Inside St Ethelburga's Church in Givendale.
(21:02) A [coffin plate] for George Jackson from 1641. This is now attached to the church wall.
(22:29) Some notes about the restoration of the church.
(23:33) An ancient weather-worn stone font.
(23:36) A memorial to Ann Maria Singleton who died in 1811.
(24:01) A font with an elaborately carved cover.
(24:29) A painting of the chancel, donated in memory of Arthur Beaulah, who was a church warden.
(24:15) Some nearby ponds.
(26:41) The church of St Ethelburga, Great Givendale.
(31:49) A thatched cottage in Thixendale, opposite the Post Office.
(32:15) The Old School House, built by Sire Tatton Sykes's architect G E Street.
(32:53) Inside the church of St Mary created by G E Street in 1870.
(36:31) The exterior of St Mary's Church.
(37:00) The school, schoolmaster's house and some estate cottages.
(37:39) A display board giving a history of Thixendale and illustrated with old photographs.
(52:58) The old school house, which is now the Village Hall. |