Don't miss ' The Settlement at the End of the World: Ex-Servicemen's Communal Farming at Sunk Island, 1917-27 ', when former Hull Local Studies Librarian Jill Crowther turns the spotlight on an almost forgotten episode in the history of Holderness. Jill will examine the national background to the creation of this agricultural settlement in the latter years of the First World War, the social problems of its urban families and the stresses it placed on the existing rural community. Sunk Island remains a remote place at the edge of the Humber estuary, its open landscape and wide skies vividly described by the contemporary writer Winifred Holtby, who used it as a setting for her final and most celebrated novel 'South Riding'. Next meeting : Tuesday 10 May : Josie Adams , 'Welcome to Farrago' . All welcome! Join at any meeting. £10 a year. Venue : Church Rooms , Magdalen Gate, Hedon HU12 8JP, 7.15pm for 7.30pm . More information : co...
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