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 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 […]

History
January 1, 1970

1961 in Crowle submitted by Alan Turner

In 1961 when I was serving in the RAF,I met a very nice girl named Anita Thompson at Bridlington.She lived with her parents at Crowle.Her father owned a farm and other businesses.He was a member of the Oddfellows club in Crowle.Some weeks after I met Anita,I was posted to Hong Kong and after a few letters,we lost touch. Does anyone know if she still lives […]

History
January 1, 1970

General History of Crowle

From Read’s History of the Isle of Axholme. 1858. After descending the downland lawns, and passing through the fertile plain called Belton Field, the traveler enters a similar tract of land, where the town of Crul, Croule, or Crowle, stands close to one of the branches of the southern Don. The word Crowle is probably a corruption of the Dutch word Krol, which signifies a […]

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
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 […]

History
January 1, 1970

Crowle Association for the Prosecution of Felons.

I came across an interesting document titled “Rules, Orders and Regulations of Crowle Association for the Prosecution of Felons”. It is dated 1814 and was printed by W.A. Justice of Howden. The introduction states that “Whereas Felonies and Misdemeanors of every Denomination have in the space of a few years increased to an alarming degree, and many persons have been deterred for prosecuting the Offenders […]