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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Every body had a bicycle, even my mother. Wicks the Cycle shop sometimes had a new one but many second hand plus numerous spare parts. Inner tubes and tyres could be ordered probably with the area being rural the authorities were more generous with cycle parts than in the towns. Garages, barns, old farm buildings were searched and ancient thirty-year old cycles were resurrected or […]
CROWLE. 1334 Subsidy £75.69. Market (Charter) Wednesday; granted 1 May 1305, by King Edward I to Abbot and Chapter of Selby. This grant was made in lieu of a market at the manor of Garthorpe, Lincolnshire (q.v.) previously granted by King Edward I to the Abbot and Chapter of Selby. on 10 Feb 1441, King Henry VI granted the Abbot and Chapter of Selby that […]
The history and topography of the Isle of Axholme By William Brocklehurst Stonehouse Published 1839 Now available in full text on Google Books http://books.google.com/books?id=s98HAAAAQAAJ
Later in the war as Sandtoft became a training and then an active bomber aerodrome. Bomber crashes would occur in the surrounding area. The local lads were usually the first to reach a crash site if it was any where near Crowle. They were always efficient souvenir hunters. The day after the crash, the police sergeant, both constables and several specials arrived at the school. […]
Local Board formed 11th August under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1858 Crowle Urban District Council formed in 1894. This image is of the last Urban District Council. The Council Meeting Room at that time was in the former Congregational Church (Now a joinery workshop). This picture was taken behind St Norbert’s Priory. Crowle became part of the Isle of Axholme Rural District […]
A topographical account of the isle of Axholme By William R. Peck Published 1815 Now available in full text on Google Books http://books.google.com/books?id=Nt8HAAAAQAAJ