Doing it Howard’s Way I think it was way back in early 2019 when myself and colleagues in the Archives and Museums Services were approached by Howard Tomlinson in his capacity with the Grovehill Area Action Group about a proposal he had for a permanent memorial to the shipbuilding industry that once thrived at the […]
Read More Remembering grovehillTV Documentary Goes Online! Following the success of its preview screening ( see The Story On Screen), its tv broadcast and publication on DVD (see TV Times) we’re delighted to announce the tv documentary of ‘Trawling Through Time: The Story Of Cook, Welton & Gemmell’ is now online! In these unprecedented times affected by COVID-19 […]
Read More Netcasting The StoryThe Catalogue Is Online One of the main goals of the Trawling Through Time project since the very beginning, way back in April 2018, was to produce an online finding aid for the Cook, Welton & Gemmell archive, that would allow researchers to discover what we hold in the collection and request to see items […]
Read More Ships LogUnlocking an Archive, To Tell A Story… On Friday 16th August the project tv documentary will receive its big screen preview at Parkway Cinema, Beverley, before it airs on That’s TV Humber later in the year. ‘Trawling Through Time: The Story Of Cook, Welton & Gemmell’ begins at 7pm and admission is just £2! (Please […]
Read More Big Screen PreviewVolunteers Week 2019 Monday 3rd June saw the start of Volunteers Week 2019, and so what better way to celebrate the contribution of our own volunteers on the ‘Trawling Through Time’ project than with a specially chartered trip on the pleasure cruiser (and local icon) the ‘Yorkshire Belle’ ! ‘Why the Yorkshire Belle?’, you may […]
Read More Making a ‘Splash’ on The Yorkshire BelleAt Brunel’s SS.Great Britain The ‘Trawling Through Time’ project is all about the story of Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley shipbuilders, and bringing that story to as wide an audience as possible. That is why we were delighted to be hosted by Nick Booth and his team at the SS.Great Britain in Bristol on Thursday […]
Read More From Beverley To BristolExhibition and Stage From the outset, one of the central goals of the ‘Trawling Through Time’ project was to create a legacy that educates mainstream audiences about the story of Cook, Welton & Gemmell, so that its heritage is allowed to continue and thrive beyond the lifespan of our own project. It’s always difficult to […]
Read More The Legacy BeginsThe Plans Go Digital! (See example plans of historic ships now in our Vessels gallery) Technically speaking, most of the general arrangement plans in our Cook, Welton & Gemmell archive are actually made from tracing cloth rather than paper, but hopefully you get the idea – our volunteers have succeeded in converting original hard copies […]
Read More From Paper to PixelsPutting the Plans into Perspective The incredible progress being made by our volunteers towards meeting the output targets of our project, meant that during December 2018 we could afford to give them a well-earned rest from cataloguing & digitisation, and reward their efforts with a pre-Christmas treat. Thanks to our friends at the ‘Hull: […]
Read More All Aboard The Arctic CorsairLots of free family fun was had when the Trawling Through Time project partnered with the East Riding Museums Learning Team for this year’s Big Draw event held on the 21st October at the Treasure House, Beverley. The theme for this year was ‘Play’ and we had lots of exciting learning activities in store! “This […]
Read More When Maritime met the Big Draw
Trawling Through Time 