Cottingham Local History Society

Meetings are usually on the first Wednesday of the month from October to April, but this may change if too near to New Year’s Day Christmas or the Easter weekend. They are held in Cottingham Civic Hall, Market Green 7.45–9.15 p.m. Admission fee for members is £2 and for non-members £4.

Programme of Talks 2024–25

October 2 Robb Robinson ‘Agnes to Zebedee: Pioneers of the great city of Hull’. To mark the Lord Mayors’ Centenary Robb has produced a new book celebrating over 100 people connected with Hull who have had a major impact nationally or globally.

November 6 Sam Bartle ‘The “What was Here” app. Its use of historic photos and maps of the East Riding’. Sam Bartle is the Digital Archivist at East Riding Archives.

December 4 John Scotney ‘Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire Railways’. Cottingham included.

January 8 Peter McClure ‘“Whose side are you on?” The impact of the Reformation on the naming of children in 16th- and 17th-century Cottingham’. The Annual Stamp Lecture. Particular attention will be given to the unusual forename of Everild Maltby (born Everild Creyke).

February 5 Liz Shepherd, ‘The history of the Carnegie Heritage Centre’. How Liz Shepherd, Paul Gibson and others rescued this historic Edwardian library building, turning it into a thriving local and family history centre for Hull and the East Riding.

March 5 Michele Beadle ‘Out with the old and in with the new’. A history of Hull’s Repertory Company at the Little Theatre and the early years of the New Theatre including theatre manager Peppino Santangelo’s career. Covering the period from 1924-1958, this talk gives an insight into the day to day running of a theatre, its highs and lows, plus the difficult war years.

April 2 AGM and social event for members only. No admission fee.