| Description | Subjects include: East Riding and other roads (general and specified), their maintenance and repair; sale of Cottingham Grange Estate; railways; village Greens (North Riding and Cranswick); Drainage; water supplies; photograph of fire damage at Cripplegate, London, 1897; motor traffic; York Strays; Driffield Canal; picture of a thatched cottage 'erected 1714' at Southburn; advertisements of Driffield Rural District Council Highways Committee for tenders. Protection of wild birds. Also includes details of: sale of Londesborough estates; subsidence at Hull; sanitation; water divining; disease among military horses at Beverley; national service; food control; Howden Air Base; human remains (Saxon) found at Kilham; etc. |