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The Howden Town Forum 'Working towards the regeneration of Howden' holds regular meetings with the next one being 28th May.
Everyone is welcome at the Forum meetings which are held upstairs
at the Wellington Hotel. To find out more check out the forum
pages.........
 'Tallboy & Tirpitz'
Barnes Wallis Memorial Trust
Howden School & Technology College
Derwent Road, Howden, Goole,DN14 7AL
7pm Thursday 25th June 2009
Prof Richard Morris (historian and author)
Robert Owen (official 617 Sqn historian)
Archie Johnstone & Colin Cole (Tirpitz raid veterans)
Chris Henderson (617 Sqn V-force navigator)
Further details:
Free Admission Ken Deacon 01430 431858
A new book written and published by Kenneth Deacon, on the men and women who built the R.100 airship in Howden.
The book tells the story of the building of the R.100 airship designed by Barnes Wallis (of "The Bouncing bomb fame") and built at the WW1 airship station at North Howden in 1925-29. 
In the summer of 1930 the airship R.100 successfully flew to Canada and back.
The book tells the story of some of the people involved, and the background of the Officers and crew, and what happened to the best airship ever built in Britain.
It also covers the final stages of the building and testing of the R.101 airship, the final trial flight and the final flight when it crashed and burst into flames in Northern France in October 1930, while on its way to India.
It also tells the survivors stories of how they escaped from the burning wreckage.
Copies can be purchased from Chappelow's Newspaper shop in Howden, The Book Shop in Goole and California Garden Center. Price £7.50.
It is also available direct from Langrick Publications 8, Langrick Ave. Howden DN14 & 7SN. Price £7.50 +p/p
Make cheques/Postal Orders payable to Langrick Publications.
Can also accept Pay Pal.
A new local history book is called ' More Tales From the East Riding and is the sequel to 'Tales From the East Riding' published by Tempus in November 2006.
This fascinating new collection of tales of the East Riding contains momentous events, true crimes, surprising incidents and biographies of the area's famous sons and daughters. The stories cover an area from York down to Hull and include such tales as: Across the Humber, The Civil War in East Yorkshire, When Cholera Came Calling, Mary Wollstonecraft in Georgian Beverley, William Wilberforce, Airships Over East Yorkshire, Rogues' Gallery and many more. This book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the history of the region, and also awaken memories of a bygone time for those who worked or lived here.
Books will be available online from companies like www.play.com or www.tesco.com
Historic ex-York author's 'homecoming' announced
Britain's best selling author of the mid-20th century, Nevil Shute, left his place in York's history, before moving to Australia in 1950. Some of his 24 books became global best sellers and major movies, such as A Town Like Alice and the post-nuclear war story On The Beach. Shute's novels are still in print and a growing revival of interest in his life and works has spawned a world wide appreciation group.
The Nevil Shute Norway Foundation has previously gathered together every other year around the world and has now announced that it is to hold its 6th biennial conference next July in York. Spokesman, Philip Nixon said "York was an important place in Shute's life, and that's why we are so excited to get some of our UK and international members together here to discover more about this period and how it influenced his writing".
Nevil Shute moved to York in the late 1920s from London as a young man, to work on the design and production of the giant airship, R100, at Howden. When the airship project was scrapped in 1930, following the crash of rival airship R101, he co-founded an aircraft design and manufacturing company called Airspeed. This got started in 1931 in the old bus garage that is still just about standing on Piccadilly, near the Red Lion pub. Airspeed moved to Portsmouth in 1933 and became a significant business, but by then Shute had started to become a published author, with much of his early work originating from his time spent in Yorkshire.
The conference is to be held in York's Novotel between 26th and 31st July 2009. "We are still finalising Speakers and content, and are particularly interested in engaging with local historians or members of the public who have anything to contribute to our knowledge of Nevil Shute's time in the York area" said Nixon. The daughter of Barnes Wallis, Mary Stopes-Roe is to be a Guest Speaker at the Conference Banquet . A dedicated conference website has just been launched www.uk2009.info and more information about the author can be found on www.nevilshute.org .
Have you got an event going on in 2009 in the Howden area? Get in touch, and it could appear here!!
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