History of Cottingham: Snickets - Boardside Walk
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- Cottingham is cut through with old pathways that slice across newer roads, between houses that were built around them, and in some cases went to historical places that are no longer there, yet these snickets remain. In this episode, I'll be looking into the history of the most well known of the snickets of East Cottingham, Boardside Walk, and the other two that link it to the centre of the village, Station Walk and Caukeel Lane.
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From fishing for Sticklebacks as a child to walking my Husky in my 50's this video is just beautiful for me.
Me and Sonya watched it in the car down Hallgate as the Christmas lights twinkled. Sonya can't walk too well so I drove down to show her the start and end of your walk. I liked the bit about the enclosures. A forgotten but traumatic time in our history. I wrote my dissertation partially on this and compared them with the "enclosure" of the commons online and restriction of free speech/access etc. More relevant than ever. I think you're right about the age of the path. Who knows how old it is? It got me thinking that it passes right by the site of the Augustinian priory when it crosses the train track and then runs straight to the church. .This has to be significant. Hallgate is the old route to the castle but Celtic coins were found in gardens along it and I have a weird feeling that the motte is a prehistoric mound. No evidence yet though! I also think the church sits on an ancient pagan site. Hallgate and the snicket could be very old. Cottingham has so many springs and good water sources it had to be important going way back into prehistory. Look forward to the other videos!
Yes, that's very true about the priory; I had noticed it but was saving it for the episode on the snicket that used to be the route to the later site of the priory!
Interesting note about the Celtic coins, I'd love to know more; it's obvious that Cottingham's history goes back further than Domesday as it was quite clear that it was a mature community by that time, but as to how far back it goes... this is a good lead for me to look into when I do a video on the bigger picture of Cottingham's history!
@@hullhistorynerd Look forward to the priory one! Been through all my books but can't find it. I definitely didn't imagine it though as it gave the house number and stated they were of the Corieltauvi as the Parisi didn't mint their own. There was an Iron Age settlement just to the north at Burn Park Farm. There was a bronze celtic terret found on Snuff Mill Lane near the railway track plus of course the gold bracelets at Pillwood farm. Important people were in the area! Look forward to the rest!
@@nodarkthings Wow, can't wait for the History Centre to reopen so I can get some serious research in on this topic! Cheers for the leads!
@@hullhistorynerd Hope that's soon! Beverley Treasure House is good too
@@hullhistorynerd driving down Priory Road today I mentioned to Sonya you'll be doing a video about the priory path when she said, omg, that's him! And it was! A cosmic piece if synchronicity :)
Oh man, I haven't watched this yet but I immediately hit like. I visit Cottingham every day and I often wonder about all the little passageways and snickets. Cottingham has a really good feel about it,. There are lots of springs around and you get the feeling it's really old. High status Celtic items have been found around the place so I've always felt it was a lot older than the Saxons as we're told. I have a book by a local Victorian who thought the name came from Ket, a name for the Celtic Goddess Keridwen. But I'm blabbering now! I look forward to watching :)
An interesting video! Apparently the houses at the end of Exeter were built for the wardens of St Mary's church and originally had names before numbers. The names were given from the places the wardens originally came. Some still have these on the house!
Ah, interesting! I have a copy of a book detailing all the houses in Cottingham, that row was built 1905/6 and designed by the same chap who designed most of Exeter Street, Devon Street and that end of New Village Road, which is why those houses all share a similar design language. I grew up in one down Devon Street!
Many thanks for another fascinating video. I used this snicket when I attended Cottingham Hallgate Primary School (too many decades ago to admit to) & I was transported right back to those uncomplicated days. I can still remember precise details of atmospheric elements (to me then) along the beck side despite not being aware of their historical significance at the time, so your film is answering questions that that child wondered about.
I've lived all over the country since then & I may be biased but I think Cottingham as a settlement has a particular warmth of character which sets it apart from many other places.
As someone else who grew up in Cottingham, I absolutely agree! It's a lovely place.
I have now watched your series a couple of times and it hasn't aged. I really enjoy it. I am very pleased to see you back and really enjoyed this. Please keep it going and thank you.
Thankyou, and I'm certainly trying to get back to a fortnightly schedule again, watch this space for the next episode of the Snickets series, as well as a video on the history of Hull's North Bridge, which I'd just shot all of the B roll for just before the second lockdown started.
Thanks for this video. Nice to see the old snicket again. I used to live on new village road but moved up north 20 years ago. I could still walk the full length of that snicket blindfold.
Thanks again.
Happy days, I remember climbing over the concrete fence on dog sh*te lane as a kid in the late 70's/early 80's. There was a particular lamp post that made it easy. Our bounty, bags full of conkers! Got our collars felt once by a local bobby for trespass - didn't stop us going back the next autumn.
Super that you are back. Very interesting, thank you. Looking forward to something about Beverley, where I moved to, aged 12, in 1955 after growing up in the prefabs in Froghall Lane, Hull. I now live in Leipzig.
Good to see you again. Look forward to the next vlog
Nice to see you back.
Thank you Mr Nerd! Lots of memories came flooding back when I saw this.
Cheers! Odd question, but were you a teacher at Cott High in the 80s/90s?
@@hullhistorynerd Yes, that’s was me! I was a student from 1963 to 1970 then taught there from 1973 to 1994.
I guess I must have taught you PE at some time!
@@iangrandidge3279 You did indeed, although, to be fair, I never really did PE, I always had a letter excusing me and went to sit in the library reading books. I did find my old school reports and there is a mention from you saying "Jamie has not taken part sufficiently to receive a grade", which sounds about right. Alan Hunter took me after that and found the increasingly rare diseases I had a letter for every lesson amusing and frustrating in equal measure...
Nice to see you back 👍
A smashing insight into a Cottingham not known to me. Thank you so much. Great to see you back online!
Great video, thanks for the memories when i used to use them on my bmx back in the day going from endyke to cott....
Good to have another video from you!
Great to see you back again. Really interesting video.
That was really interesting, can't wait for the next one!
Very interesting, we are just moving very near to CAUKEEL lane
Having discovered your channel only recently, I'm gradually working my way through. I knew Cottingham well growing up in Hull and then, as soon as I went away to Uni, my parents moved to Cottingham (Castle Park, near the hospital) and lived there for almost the next 40 years. So, I came to know Cottingham particularly well.
It's interesting that you call them snickets, although you refer to "ten foot", the local term for an "alleyway", early on in the video. Of course, it wouldn't be appropriate to call these paths "ten foots", as that name derives from the housing bylaws, if I recall correctly, which specified the width of the ways between the backs of terraced houses. In Lancashire, where I was born and spent my early childhood, these are mostly just called alleyways, or back alleys. I can't recall ten foot being used anywhere except Hull, but I may well be wrong. Snicket, on the other hand, seems to be much more geographically widely used, referring more to a cut-through.
Your theory that this particular snicket was the start of a "trade route" between Cottingham and Holderness is interesting but, by 1770, many of the main present day roads would have existed. So, why was a narrow, and possibly more dangerous, pedestrian route alongside a probably not very sweet-smelling drain needed? Would it be to avoid tolls or HM Customs and Revenue perhaps?
In the video I used tenfoots to describe specifically the gaps between houses in built up urban areas; context is key!
Also, the trade route was actually confirmed by the Cottingham Local history society as connecting Cottingham with its outlying hamlet of Hull Bank, just north of Clough Road today. The route, as mentioned in the video, is far older than the 18th century; in fact, its from the 18th century and the new roads that came from enclosures, that these old lanes declined in importance.
Think a Snicket would be a ginnel in Manchester area (my partner's from Bolton & that's what she calls them). My Grandparents lived in a 1930's terrace in Hull with a Ten-foot behind which gave access to all the garages at the end of the gardens. There was an interconnecting network of them providing a parallel routeway that the kids would use to play in & move around, away from the cars. Similarly, the snickets in Cottingham were particularly used by kids too (including me).
Superb Video so much info.
Pleased to see you're back!
Welcome Back. Very interesting film. I’ve heard about the snickets but didn’t know anything about them, until now. 10/10
Great series Mate, I spent half my youth down the Snickets of Cottingham ( All of them ), There was a Fable/Folklore ( in the 70's/ 80's ) that down the part of the snicket that runs from the Station to New Village Rd, If you went down there late at night you would see the "Mad Monk", Any one else remember this ?
So one night a load of us went to see if it was true...... Of course it was only a Myth, but we were still pretty scared, it was dark and kinda spooky
Amazingly about half way down We saw him, standing in the shadows, holding a staff and nodding his hood covered head....We were scared but baffled, it can't be ? but we could see it with our own eyes, So we slowly edged closer and closer egging each other on !
As we got pretty close we all realised what was causing the Illusion, the shadow caused by the concrete wall looked like the body of the Monk, the "hooded head" was the branches of a tree gently blowing in the night breeze and the "staff" was a "no cycling" sign...... the MAD MONK Mythbusted !!
Ah, innocent days. Today, it would probably have led to a full Police mobilisation.
Great to have you back. Looking forward to more local history 👍
A very merry Christmas to the brilliant Hull history nerd & all his subscribers. And hopefully 2021 will be a better year!
And a very merry xmas to you too thankyou!
Excellent...just what need this Sunday evening 👍 Another one of your very entertaining and informative videos...more...more.. more 👍🙂
More on their way, got plenty planned and some with footage already in the can, as they say!
Welcome back mate my work's around Cottingham and he uses the same way and thanks for putting my name on that made me happy
My dad works in Cottingham
I got more information you might like My dad says he has read somewhere that Cottingham parish boundry reached the river hull and the humber which fits with you imagined path
Yes, I read that Cottingham's parish was absolutely huge before Hull started getting bigger, all the way out to Newland in the south east, which ties in nicely with Clough Road, which technically was part of Newland.
I actually live in one of the houses at the end of Exeter street. It’s quite strange to think that the back of our house was once the front, although I did know this previous to the video. Very interesting stuff.
It really is an unusual way round for a house!
Ahhhhh I love Sundays....Martin zero and hull history nerd is back!
Good to see you again. I look forward to seeing the rest of the series.
Marvellous! Looking forward to more.
So glad to see you back! I found your channel a few weeks ago and have watched all the videos , but noticed you’ve been gone for a while. Nice to see you’ve returned and doing a series on Cottingham.
Thankyou! Between covid and a lengthy house move it's been very difficult to get out filming, then, just as I started, another lockdown came along. But now the house move is all out of the way, I'm back to at least putting together some short videos like this!
Wonderful to see you back, use to go down that path as a lad
absolutely love watching your videos
Very interesting, I'm looking forward to the next one, very Informative.
You probably have a lot of topics you want to cover but can I just throw one out there... The history of Hedon, particularly Hedon Haven. It was the major port before Hull. The church also has a interesting history dating back to the 1100's
You'll be pleased to know that I am indeed planning a History of Hedon episode, covering the Haven! It's been on my list of episodes to work on for about the last year, along with a series on the history of Beverley, and the series on the History of Cottingham that I'm working on at the moment. So yes, History of Hedon is indeed on the list!
@@hullhistorynerd fantastic news. Keep up the good work.
Welcome back Jamie. I knew about the enclosures but nothing about the snickets until now. Interesting that one of the maps included the site of a priory.
Indeed, I'll be doing an episode on that priory as it's actually a priory that upped sticks and moved from one place to another! It will also get a mention in another episode of the snickets series, too.
Good to see you back! I also use to live in Cottingham, so this brought back memories of walking to school down this snicket!
Good to see you back, thank you.
Good to see you back on YT. Look forward to more in this series.
Yeah. Good to see you back and your great videos.
A part of hull i've never heard about.. nice. Great to see you back anyway looking forward to more content from you :)
Great to see you back, interesting stuff as always.
Fascinating stuff, as always. Thanks.
Very interesting, looking forward to more of the same
Welcome back m8
Seriously I was getting a bit worried. Made my day seeing a Hull History Nerd production had dropped!
Welcome back
I missed these vids!
My mother was born and bred in London on the edge of Essex but used the term snickets for cut thru from road to road that were pedestrian only and probably been there pre 1900 when walthamstow was growkng fast...
Many of these snickets in villages or small towns that experienced fast growth are actually the 'skeletons' of older country lanes, like the subject of this video, or Snuff Mill Lane, or Bacongarth.
Nice to know you survived lockdown
Enjoying this. You’re a TV natural. I libed on Kirby Drive as a kid in a house overlooking the school. But I never knew the snicket was called Caukeel Lane and never heard the name mentioned. Does anyone know how old the name is? The sign is new. I don’t remember the sign at least from the seventies.
The name is indeed very old, it's present on the 1853 Ordnance Survey map, which is the earliest map I have access to of the area.
I've walked these snickets maybe 200 times and I'm so annoyed that I didn't look properly!
New subscriber - Interesting video, thank you for making :)
Can I ask if you use a mount on your camera to make your footage so smooth when you walk?
Lo_ok forward to more videos!
Thanks! I do use a gimbal, but most of this footage was shot during lockdown walks on a GoPro Hero 7 using it's Hypersmooth stabilisation which is ridiculously effective. I also make use of post production stabilisation in DaVinci to reduce shake in other shots.
@@hullhistorynerd o thank you! Keep you the good work with your videos :)
Paupers Village wouldn't go down well on Estate Agents Brochure!!
The old straight track by Alfred Watkins maybe of interest
Ah no, not my thing I'm afraid!
@@hullhistorynerd no not the mad lay line stuf but he makes some valid points about the age of old paths.. Very interesting work and thanks for the vids 👍
@@vernontaylor7950 Ah right, I only know of the book through the ley line stuff!
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