Category: History

Bill Goldthorp History
January 1, 1970

Transport in Crowle. – Submitted by Bill Goldthorp

I have no photographs of transport when I lived in Crowle. Very few people had cars, most used bicycles. The cinema in Epworth and the Olde Tyme Dances, in the village halls at Xmas if we could not scrounge a lift in a car was also by bicycle. Our dinner suit trousers well tucked into long socks, the girls had their dresses in a haversack […]

History
January 1, 1970

Derivation of the name Crowle

A number of alternatives have been proposed for the derivation of the name Crowle: an old British word Croc meaning a winding river the Dutch word Krul which means a small settlement Old English river-name crull, a word related to the Middle Dutch krul or ‘curled hair’, and meaning a winding river or stream. The English Place Names Society provides the following derivation; Crowle Originally […]

Historic Directories
January 1, 1970

Directory: Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

Crowle (St. Oswald) CROWLE (St. Oswald), a parish, and formerly a market-town, in the union of Thorne, W. division of the wapentake of Manley, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 35 miles (N. N. W.) from Lincoln, and 164 (N. by W.) from London; containing, with the chapelry of Eastoft and hamlet of Ealand, 2544 inhabitants. The town is situated at the north-western extremity of […]

Bill Goldthorp World War 2
January 1, 1970

Crowle at War Part 1. A schoolboys memories. – submitted by Bill Goldthorp

Crowle at War. A Schoolboy’s Memories – Part 1 By Bill (once known as Billy) Goldthorp. Background. My mother’s forebears, Tills, Everetts, Oates, etc. had been farmers in the Isle of Axholme for generations. For ten years prior to marriage Doris had been the primary school teacher at Eastoft. Boltgate my grandfather’s farm was a mile north of Eastoft. At that time when a woman […]

History Roads
January 1, 1970

Street Names on the 1822 Enclosure Map for Crowle

The 1822 Enclosure map for Crowle has street names marked on the map; Common Townside Road – now known as Windsor Road Bellamy’s Road – this was off Common Townside Road Broad Fleet Road – now known as Godnow Road Broad Fleet – is marked on the short section of the High Street between Fieldside and Potts Lane Back Lane – this is now known […]

Historic Directories
January 1, 1970

19th Century Directories of Crowle

This is an Index of Crowle residents and businesses listed in 19th Century Drectories. I have sorted the names alphabetically to help in identifying which directories a prticular person appears in. A B – Broth Brown – Butl C – Cou Cow – Cuth D E F G H I – J K L M N – O Pac – Post Potts – Pyc Q […]

Bill Goldthorp World War 2
January 1, 1970

Crowle at War: Part 3. Transport. – submitted by Bill Goldthorp

TRANSPORT. In 1939 very few people from Crowle worked at the steel works. There was no workmen’s bus; you had to have your own transport. My father had the Morris equivalent of The Austin 7. He was allowed a petrol ration to go to work and continue his agency supplying oil and grease to the local farmers. This of course meant he had permission to […]

Bill Goldthorp History
January 1, 1970

Gervii (Fen Dwellers) – submitted by Bill Goldthorp

I am proud to admit being a 50% Gervi by inheritance and a born and bred Gervi until the age of 18 when I went to University. At this time immigrants into the Isle were rare. It probably accounts for my bizarre sense of humour which is constantly getting me into trouble. So here goes lets get into trouble again. For the benefit of newcomers […]

History
January 1, 1970

Derivation of Crowle.

1088. Manor In Crule, Alwin has one oxgang less than six carucates of land to be taxed. Land to as many ploughs. Inland at Hubaldestorp. Now a certain Abbot of St. Germaine in Selby has there, under Geoffrey, one plough in the demesne, and fifteen villanes and nineteen bordars, having seven ploughs, and thirty-one fisheries of thirty-one shillings. Thirty acres of meadow. There is a […]