| Description | Includes duplicate photographs that appear in 'Country Coppers' and 'The Policemen of Hull, the story of Hull Police Force 1836-1974', written by A A Clarke, and in this collection under references POL/3/11 and POL/4/10. It also contains additional labelled photographs not appearing in either publication or in this collection and these are listed below. This file also includes unidentified photographs that do not appear elsewhere, such as the alternative images suggested for the front cover of both publications.
The photographs have been divided into the following sections:
a) Chief Constables, b) Group photographs of police, c) Individual police officers, d) Police buildings, e) Photographs taken for the front covers of the Hull City and East Riding publications, f) Police uniform and equipment, g) Miscellaneous. The following are additional labelled photographs within each section:
HULL CITY POLICE
Section b) Hull City Police, Government inspection of officers outside Game Market, Park Street, early 20th century.
Section c) Inspector Gall, c.1920; Chief Superintendent James Ferrier, Head of Western Division, retired 1969; Hull City Police 19th century watchman's rattle.
EAST RIDING CONSTABULARY
Section a) Chief Constables Andrew McManus, Major Bower, R D Lemon, Captain Barnwell, J W Blenkin, Robert Walton.
Section b) East Riding Constabulary group photographs: group at High Green Police Station, Bridlington, c.1900, Sergeant Henry John Smith (seated second from left); Howdenshire Division, 1909; Sergeant Beal's first training class (with names on the reverse); photograph with John McKie identified, c.1920s; copy image of Beverley Borough Police with Superintendent and Mrs Carpenter just prior to amalgamation in 1928; Driffield Division, c.1948; Howden Section on a Drill Day at Pocklington (6 officers pictured with names), c.1940s; image of East Riding rifle team, H H Walker in foreground, 1930s; 'Skill at arms competition E R C, Hull Police and E R T A at Strensall, North Yorks, c.1955'; inspection of women police, c.1950s; retirement of Sergeant E Eade, 1962, at Howden (with names); children being shown road safety in classroom, 1960s; Hessle Division prior to amalgamation, 1968.
Section c) East Riding Constabulary individual police officers photographs: Sergeant 121 Samuel Cross who served from 1898-1925; Sergeant William Green with family, c.1915; Sergeant Green with son, c.1910s; Sergeant Eade examining a skeleton found on Blacktoft foreshore c.1950s; East Riding constable surveying damage after serious east coast storm damage, 1953.
Section d) East Riding Constabulary buildings photographs: Hemingbrough police station/house; small round detention cell; double lockup at Hunmanby, built 1843; photocopy of image of Leven police station; Driffield Magistrates Court; High Green police station, Bridlington; original police cottage, Hornsea.
Section f) East Riding Constabulary uniform photographs: ex-army helmet, hastily painted blue for East Riding Police 1939.
MISCELLANEOUS (section g)
Includes police officers being allocated uniforms c.1900s; photograph of Queen Mary visiting Newland School, 1917; East Riding Police on ceremonial duty at the reading of the proclamation for the accession of King Edward VIII at Beverley on Thursday Jan 23 1936; photograph of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh attending a presentation by a police officer relating to Hook, c.1960s. Also includes photographs of printed records and newspaper extract (photograph only) relating to the strike at Reckitts in Dansom Lane, Hull, 1911. |