Notices Regarding Stolen Bicycles, Streetlife Museum of Transport, Hull, 29/11/14.

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“The Model Riche Gloria” (1903 Pattern).

I’d swear that I notice something new every time I visit the Streetlife Museum in Hull and this occasion it was these notices in the window of the bicycle shop, which forms part of the Museum’s comprehensive bicycle collection.

The other Police Notices.

I do not ride a bicycle myself; it was more the language of Edwardian bicycle that caught my attention. I noted in my diary, as you can only get an impression of the notices through my photographs, some of the names and features. I found “The Victor” bicycle, the “Albion Saddle” and “Lucas’s King of the Road lamp” particularly noteworthy, amongst the impressive lists of patriotically named bicycles and accessories.

Rhinoceros Wheelbarrow, Streetlife Museum of Transport, Hull, 29/11/14.

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Made by Richardson & Sons of Hull in 1862.

In the October of 1862 Joseph Armytage Wade turned “the first sod” of earth to ceremonially start the construction of the Hull to Hornsea Railway. Having turned the first clump of earth Mr. Wade placed it into this fascinating wheelbarrow, shaped like a rhino; a heraldic device used by the Wade family. Mr. Wade was then given the spade and the wheelbarrow as souvenirs of the big day. What a brilliant object!

The last passenger service ran on the Hull to Hornsea line on the 19th October 1964, with the last goods train following on the 3rd May 1965.

“MAKE YOUR BELLY HAPPY!”, Victorian Christmas Event, Streetlife Museum of Transport, Hull, 29/11/14.

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STOP HERE… EAT CAKE.

“It’s A Grown Up World!”, Without a Tricycle, Streetlife Museum of Transport, Hull, 29/11/14.

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Where has it gone?

The photograph of this spot I posted here Photo Archive: “It’s A Grown Up World!”, Tricycle, Streetlife Museum of Transport, Hull, May 2010 clearly shows a tricycle and now its gone! The tricycle was one of my favourite exhibits at the Streetlife Museum of Transport, so I hope it hasn’t gone far; could it have been stolen by particularly audacious bike thieves?!

Pulman Street and Evans Square Roll of Honour, Streetlife Museum of Transport, Hull, 29/11/14.

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This is one of three memorials now displayed at the Streetlife Museum of Transport. The two other Rolls of Honour or Street Shrines are rather large, Gothic, dark, wooden affairs, so this one stands out considerably in comparison, with its names clearly displayed in black and white. I became curious to know if I could find out anything about these men and their service in World War One, so I took this photograph on Saturday morning and I have spent my Sunday evening researching; largely with the aid of www.ww1hull.org.uk. 

Sergeant Albert Arksey MM and Bar (33399) gave his address as 23 Pulman Street when he joined the 11th (Service) Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment on the 1st November 1917. By the 28th June 1918 he had won his Military Medal and was promoted to the rank of Sergeant. On the 6th September 1918 he was killed by a German sniper after only 10 months service. Arksey also appears on a list of railway employees, published by the National Railway Museum, who lost their lives in World War One, so we know that he worked as porter with the North Eastern Railway and that his death was reported in the North Eastern Railway Staff Magazine for November 1918 (page 208).

Corporal Gilbert Lupton (10453) served with the 4th Battalion of the Coldstream Guards and died on the 20th January 1918.

George Alfred Harman (7753) joined the 8th (Service) Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment, one of the eight Kitchenner battalions raised in the August of 1914, and George William Yarrow joined the 11th (Service) Battalion known as the “Hull Tradesmen“.

Three of the men joined the Northumberland Fusiliers. George Holmes Ellis (5498) served in the 19th (Service) Battalion, the 2nd Tyneside Pioneers, raised in Newcastle on the 6th November 1914. George Borman (3881) and Harry Wright (242265) both served in the 4th Battalion, which was a Territorial unit originally based in Hexham. Harry Wright’s brother, Lance Corporal John Henry Wright (21725), died serving with the 7th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment.

The other names seem to have been lost to history, apart from C Smith, whose initial and surname are so common that my research discovered 607 possible Smiths.

Photo Archive: “It’s A Grown Up World!”, Tricycle, Streetlife Museum of Transport, Hull, May 2010.

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