Walkington News

Welcome to Walkington

A view along East End, with the shop and the Ferguson-Fawsitt Arms

A very warm welcome to all our visitors, regular, occasional and 'first timers'.
An even warmer welcome to the new look website. We hope you like it.
There is still a bit of work to be done to move all of the content over, so please
bear with us if you can't find what you want.

The Queen's Diamond Jubilee
Walkington is planning a variety of events and activities to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. There is now a page on this site dedicated to information relating to those plans: Diamond Jubilee Events (see left)
                        Revisit regularly to check for updates!

The Ancestors page in the History section has had a full over-haul. We have tried to email everyone who had a family history request on it. A number of the email addresses are no longer valid so the items have been removed. If your request has gone and you want it replaced please contact us. We are happy to add new requests or update old ones at any time, and would love to hear of any family history success stories relevant to the village.
Please let us know if you have any comments about the site, or suggestions for improvements.

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To see a 'slide show' tour of the village and surrounding area, go to the About Us page, which also gives an update on current weather conditions in the area.

For those who may be researching their family history or simply have an interest in our village in times past, take a look at the History section of the site. This includes the Ancestors page, an opportunity for researchers to request help in tracing their forbears. Let us know if you can help or would like to add a request.

Odds and Ends

  Car Boot Sales
Weather and field conditions permitting, the next Car Boot Sale of the year will be on Sunday 10 June. (Call 07981 272644 to check if it is on.)
Dates etc. for this year are on the Events and Playing Field & Sports Clubs pages.

Village Open Gardens
This event is planned for Sunday 24th June 2012
Contact Ted Anderton (01482 882635)

Village Quiz Season
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of this annual competition, in which
village organisations compete against each. The final of this year's season
was on Friday 16th March. Congratulations to the team from All Hallows
Church on retaining the trophy.
As always, the season ended with a 'celebrity' match in honour of the late
Mike Scrowston, in which the Brains of Walkington played a team from
University of Hull. This year's match took place on Friday 20th April in the
Village Hall, and resulted in a convincing victory to the Walkington team. Congratulations to them all!

Worth a look
Photographs from the 1970's taken in and around the village and wider area.
eg. Building the Beverley by-pass and Humber bridge, floods and snow in the village, etc.
Go to basphotos.com  and click on 'Gallery'.

The Walkington Newsletter - 50 years young!
There was a special 50th anniversary edition of the Newsletter in May 2010: there are still copies available (for a small charge) so contact us if you would like to have one.
The Walkington Newsletter has for 50 years been a vital source of local information as well as a way for everyone in the village to keep up to date with local events. It is entirely staffed by volunteers and distributed free of charge to every home in the village.
This website edition has for more than a decade provided an opportunity for regular updates about what is happening between issues of the Walkington Newsletter and also enables the many organisations within the village to give more information about their activities than would normally be possible. I am aware that some of these items are out of date. If organisation representatives wish to contact me with up-dated information I will be delighted to add it to their page or create a new page for them if they are not already represented here.

Pam Hardy (web editor)

Alan Hardy, who was the creator and original caretaker of
this website, sadly passed away in September 2008.
The website goes on, so please continue to send village
information in the usual way (see the Contact Us page).

Contact Us
If you have any comments, suggestions or contributions please use the feedback form on the Contact Us page to send messages directly to us. If you would like a page about your club or association please let us know.