Filey Local History Collection

Collected local history material including directories, guides, leaflets and bochures relating to Filey and district, the East Riding of Yorkshire and Yorkshire in general; the Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalion; works on local poetry and dialect; maps; photographs and collected archives including: papers relating to Thornaby aerodrome, with aircraft training and identification manuals; Filey Golf Club; Filey Football Club; Filey Sailing Club; Butlin's Holiday Camp, Filey, including plan of 1956; RNLI Filey Lifeboat Station; HM Coastguard: correspondence; Filey Gardens Produce Association; the opening of the sea wall 1955; trial of Dr Pritchard; Filey Fishermen's Wives' Association records; Filey Brigg Angling Society; Flamborough and Filey inclosure acts, 1765, 1788, copies of Filey inclosure award and map of 1791; plan of the township of Hunmanby 1801; Brigg Cinema: log book of films shown c1930-1950; correspondence relating to the Festival of Britain 1951; Filey and District Chamber of Trade and Commerce: minutes c1965-1985; local tribunal minutes 1915-1918; Filey Local History Group minutes 1950-1957; Allotments and Gardens Association; Brigg Cinema and Snooker Club; Camera Club; Filey Coble Preservation Society; Fishermen's Harmony Group; Hunmanby Boys Camp; Institution of Oddfellows, Ancient Shepherds and Foresters; Filey Rotary Club; royal visit of 1880; diary of the Lancaster schoolboy J S Wane on holiday in Filey, August-September 1908; JRR Tolkein (visited Filey as a young man)

Transcripts of Filey parish registers of baptisms, marriages and burials

Dale Electric Company with annual reports and newsletters 1964-1993

Sawdon's, builders: wages book 1929-1933; Davenport's, grocers: ledgers; Cappleman, boatbuilder: ledger; Jenkinson's: ledgers 1933-1942; fisherman's ledger 1882

Filey harbour plans 1858-1880; Admiralty charts of Filey Bay 1892-1894; copies of maps of 1777 showing the German Ocean and British Ocean; anchorages off the East Coast 1974

Entries to competition: Everday life in 20th century Filey

Notes on Filey history and recollections by: Frederick W Fisher; John Crimlisk; R Harland; Mr Robinson, John Edwards; Michael Fearon

Photographic collection of: Walter Fisher; Geoff Riley

Newspaper files including runs of Filey News and Filey Post

• <persname>Crimlisk, John, 1916-1998, local historian of Filey</persname>
• <persname>Fisher, Walter, 1832-1911, photographer, of Filey</persname>
• <persname>Fisher, Frederick, d c 1989, of Filey</persname>

Filey was the centre of the east coast fishing industry and a fashionable resort in the 19th century