| Description | Includes articles:
'Paull Battery and the submarine miners' by Arthur G Credland, which details on the submarine miners service which deployed mines as a defence of the coastal batteries. Includes biographical notes on W H Willat (1868-1942) who served in the corps.
'Shipbuilding in Selby in the nineteenth century' by Peter Gutteridge. Gives information on shipbuilding in Selby, including the early shipbuilders Shepherd and Foster 1800-1816 and Samuel Gutteridge 1816-1854. Also includes an account of the competition between the canal and the railways.
'The enclosure of the open fields of Wetwang 1803-1806' by David Lunn
'The Greame family of Sewerby House' by Susan Parrott. Gives a brief summary of where the Greame family originated with discussion of the upwardly mobile transition of the family in the Georgian period and describes the changes that took place in the Victorian times when the Greame family incorporated Lloyd into their surname. Includes a pedigree of the family.
'Scholars, Boys and masters: memories of Hymers from 1938' by Derry W Jones. Hymers College, Hull opened in 1891, with short biographical notes on the staff and some pupils in 1938.
'More light on Thomas Fletcher and a family of craftsmen' by Arthur G Credland, is a discussion on Thomas Fletcher an artist in the 1790s who may have painted a maritime landscape of Portsmouth.
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