Former Mayor of Beverley David Elvidge was officially welcomed to the Conservative Party this weekend. It was announced last month that councillor Elvidge was switching from the Labour party to the Conservatives. His move was made official at a gathering at the Memorial Gardens on Hengate this morning. He was welcomed to the party by councillors Bryan Pearson and Elaine Aird, along with association chairman Peter Turner and Beverley and…
Another fallen Beverley war hero’s name is set to be added to the new war memorial in Hengate Gardens. Former Beverley Mayor councillor David Elvidge has been the driving force behind the Memorial Fund, which raised money for the memorial to commemorate the town’s servicemen and women who have been killed in conflicts since World War II. The latest servicemen set to be included on the memorial is Sergeant Major…
On Sunday 25th April staff and cadets from 399 (Beverley) Squadron Air Cadets met at the memorial gardens in Hengate to clean the HMS Beverley and RAF 640 Squadron memorials, over the years the stonework has become dirty and required a heavy scrubbing to bring back some degree of cleanliness. Overall it was a busy weekend for the squadron, with staff and cadets spread around the country, as well as…
The changing vision of a young Beverlonian Born and bred in Beverley, I’m what is known as a Beverlonian. As a bored, disillusioned & angst ridden teenager, I frequently found myself thinking ’there must be more to life than just existing in a small town in East Yorkshire‘…a somewhat dreary place I felt, that seemed to suffer with a habitual case of nothingness and a constant attack of bad weather….
The Memorial Gardens on Hengate in Beverley were just reopened in time for Armistice Day. In the shadows of St Mary’s Church the Memorial Gardens was given a complete make over which included the relocation of the RAF Memorial and the Memorial for HMS Beverley. The gardens were given to the town of Beverley by Major Clive Wilson back in 1924, there is a plaque dedicated Major Clive Wilson as…
Beverley town centre came to stand still today at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month, veterans, and children from Beverley’s schools, the Mayor of Beverley and other town officials stood in silence for 2 minutes. In the Memorial Gardens, Hengate, Beverley Mr Longcaster of Molescroft Primary School held a special assembly for the children from his school and from Keldmash Primary School Primary School, Beverley. The youngsters…
Lost: 11 Apr, 1943 (Lt. Cdr. R.A. Price, RN.) at 05.52 hours two torpedoes were fired, by U-188 (Lüdden). Allied records indicate that HMS Beverley (H64) was hit and sunk at that time. There were only 4 survivors out of a crew of 158
