Coordinates: 53°44′39″N 0°51′48″W / 53.744111°N 0.863416°W / 53.744111; -0.863416

Howden
Howden Minster and Market Cross
Howden  Howden shown within the East Riding of Yorkshire
Population	3,810 (2001 Census)[1]
OS grid reference	SE749281
Civil parish	Howden
Unitary authority	East Riding of Yorkshire
Ceremonial county	East Riding of Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	GOOLE
Postcode district	DN14
Dialling code	01430
Police	Humberside
Fire	Humberside
Ambulance	Yorkshire
EU Parliament	Yorkshire and the Humber
UK Parliament	Haltemprice and Howden
List of places: UK • England • Yorkshire

Howden is a small market town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies north of the M62, on the A614 road about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Goole and 17 miles (27 km) south-west of York. William the Conqueror gave the town to the Bishops of Durham in 1080.^[2] The wapentake of Howdenshire was named after the town, the Bishops of Durham also owning the wapentake.

Geography[link]

Howden is situated on the A614, although the town itself has been bypassed. Howden lies close to the M62 and the M18 motorways, nearby to Goole which lies at the opposite side of the River Ouse. The town is served by Howden railway station, which is situated in North Howden and has services to Leeds, Selby and Kingston upon Hull.

Howden is surrounded by largely flat land and in some places marshland. Much of the land surrounding Howden is separated by many drainage dykes.

Early history[link]

One of the earliest recorded parts of Howden's history is King Edgar of England giving his first wife, Ethelfleda, Howden Manor in 959 AD,^[3] the beginnings of a long connection with the royal court of England.

In 1080, William the Conqueror gave the town, including its church, which later became the minster, to the Bishop of Durham, who promptly conferred the church upon the monks of Durham. However, he kept Howden Manor for himself. Records show that the church was at first a rectory, but conflicting records also show that Hugh, Prior of Durham, was given a bull from Pope Gregory IX for appropriating the church towards the maintenance of 16 monks.^[4]

Howden's royal connections continued when, in 1191, Prince John spent Christmas in Howden. Nine years later, John, now King of England, granted Howden the right to hold an annual fair.^[3]

A view of the front of Howden Minster.

In 1228, work began on the current Howden Minster, though it was not finished until the 15th century when the chapter house and top of the tower was added by Bishop Walter de Skirlaw.

In the 14th and 15th centuries, Howden became a centre for pilgrims because of John of Howden's alleged miracles in the latter part of the 13th century.^[5]

The most prolific of these tales was that John of Howden, at his funeral in 1275, raised his arms from his open coffin during his requiem mass to greet the host. As such, he has become regarded as a saint, though the Catholic Church has never made this official. Through the pilgrims, Howden received the money that it needed to complete the minster, fulfilling John of Howden's prophecy that he would continue aiding the minster from beyond the grave.

Howden's Workhouse From 1665-1794, a site on Pinfold Street in Howden was used as a lodging house for the needy. A workhouse was then opened on the site which included a manufactory, stone-breaking yard, cowshed, and prison. A parliamentary report of 1776 listed the parish workhouse at Howden as being able to accommodate up to 20 inmates.

After 1834 Howden Poor Law Union was formed on 4 February 1837. Its operation was overseen by an elected Board of Guardians, 42 in number, representing its 40 constituent parishes as listed below (figures in brackets indicate numbers of Guardians if more than one):

East Riding: Asselby, Aughton, Backenholme with Woodale, Balkholme, Barmby-on-the-Marsh, Belby, Bellasize, Blacktoft, Breighton, Broomfleet, Bubwith, North Cave with Drewton Everthorpe, Cheapsides, Cotness, Eastrington, Elberton Priory, Flaxfleet, Foggathorpe, Gilberdyke, Gribthorpe, Harlthorpe, Hemingbrough, Holme upon Spalding Moor, Hotham, Howden (2), Kilpin, Knedlington, Latham, Loxton, Metham, Newport Wallingfen, New Village, Newsham & Brind and Wressal & Loftsome, Portington & Cavil, Saltmarsh, Scalby, Skelton, Spaldington, Thorpe, Willitoft, Yokefleet.

The population falling within the union at the 1831 census had been 12,728 with parishes ranging in size from Cotness (population 29) to Howden itself (2,130). The average annual poor-rate expenditure for the period 1834-6 had been £6,263.

Initially, the Howden Guardians declined to build a new workhouse but made use of the existing parish workhouses in Howden, Holme and Cave. However, in 1839, following persuasion by the region's Assistant Poor Law Commsissioner John Revans, a new building was erected on the south side of Knedlington Road. It was designed by Weightman and Hadfield of Sheffield.

Ruin of Howden's minster[link]

Some of the original stones from the ruins of Howden Minster

In 1548, Henry VIII dissolved the Collegiate churches, including Howden. During her reign, Elizabeth I gave the revenues of the Manor of Howden to local landowners. But these landowners refused to repair the choir of the church,^[2] which eventually fell into ruin.

The minster fell into further ruin during the English Civil War, when the Parliamentarians used it as a stable during their stay on the way to lay siege to Wressle Castle. The troops damaged the interior extensively, destroying the organ, much of the wooden structures, and damaging some of the masonry. It is said that when leaving the town they were playing the pipes of the organ like penny whistles.^[2]

On the night of 29 September 1696, after nearly 150 years of neglect, the roof of the choir fell down. The minster ruins were left where they fell until 1748 when the site was cleared, and the townsfolk took them for their own. Many used the masonry as building stones.^[2]

19th century[link]

In the early 19th century Howden became famous throughout Europe for its horse fair, held every September. In Georgian times, the fair was quoted in The Sporting Magazine in 1807 as being the "largest fair for horses in the Kingdom".^[6]

The fair, at its height, attracted all the principal horse dealers from every part of the United Kingdom. It is estimated that up to 4,000 horses were displayed for sale every day of the fair and that the total worth of this kind of sale was £200,000.^[6]

Representatives of the British Army attended the fair, and it is thought that Wellington's cavalry used horses bought at Howden in the Napoleonic Wars.

Howden's architecture is chiefly from the Georgian and Victorian era, most of the town centre exclusively being built in this period. Most of Howden's pubs were built during this time, and it is said that, at one point, there were more pubs in Howden per square half mile than anywhere else in the country.^[7]

One notable piece of architecture from this period is the Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart located at the junction of Knedlington Road and Buttfield Road. It is one of the early works of the distinguished architect, Joseph Aloysius Hansom, who later became famous for designing the Hansom Cab. However Hansom's greatest achievements were the churches (mostly Catholic) he designed, the most notable of which are St Walburga's in Preston (the church with the highest spire in England), The Holy Name in Manchester and what is now Arundel Cathedral. The Sacred Heart Church in Howden was opened in 1850 and is comparitatively modest in size and simple in design, but nevertheless is clearly a work of some destinction.

Howden's first railway station opened in 1840 and a second on the Hull and Barnsley Railway was open between 1885 and 1955.^[8]

The town was the scene of an early rail disaster which killed five passengers when a large iron casting fell from a wagon, and derailed the train. It was one of the first accidents to be investigated by the new Railway Inspectorate.

20th century[link]

In 1915, during the First World War, the British Admiralty needed a suitable site in north-east England for a new airship station, to protect the ports and ships from the threat of attack by German U-boats.

RNAS Howden opened in 1916 with its airship hangars. It provided not only protection for shipping along the east coast, but also jobs for hundreds of civilians. This helped to turn round the town's fortunes, which had been suffering since the building of the port at nearby Goole, and the passing of the horse fairs.^[9]

Between the wars, and then during the Second World War, the author Nevil Shute worked in Howden for the Airship Guarantee Co, as part of the team that created the R100. While here, Shute worked alongside Barnes Wallis, the scientist and inventor of the bouncing bomb. Shute lived at number 78 Hailgate, and a plaque is now fixed to the house to commemorate this.^[10]

Shute is not always popular in Howden, because of what he wrote in his autobiography:

The lads were what one would expect, straight from the plough, but the girls were an eye-opener. They were brutish and uncouth, filthy in appearance and in habits. Things may have changed since then – I hope they have. Perhaps the girls in very isolated districts such as that had less opportunity than their brothers for getting in to the market and making contact with civilization; I can only record the fact that these girls straight off the farms were the lowest types that I have ever seen in England, and incredibly foul-mouthed.

- Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer, Nevil Shute, 1954.

In 1932, Howden Minster's renovations were completed, and its bells chimed every 15 minutes, a tradition that continues to this day.

A view of Howden town centre, with the Minster in the background.

It is popularly believed that on the night of 24 June 1954 the historian A.J.P. Taylor spent the night at the Wellington Hotel, and that he broke a water jug and a shaving mirror while staying there. However, this is untrue, as Taylor spent the night at the Bowman’s Hotel, next door to the Wellington. It is also untrue that he broke the jug and mirror. Instead, he broke his wrist falling from the unusually high bed.^[11]

In the latter part of the mid-20th century, two banks and a Co-op, the town's largest grocery store, opened, giving the people of Howden a more convenient infrastructure.

21st century modernisation[link]

In late 2003 The Press Association (PA) completed building work on what it calls its 'Operations Centre', despite notable opposition from the residents of Howden, and it stands on the site of the old Georgian Police Station. This left Howden without a police presence in the town until late 2005. The building was officially opened by the Prince of Wales, continuing Howden's relations with the Royal Family.

PA has several hundred employees, most of whom have been brought into the town from Leeds and London, at this building and others in the town. The local public transport facilities have proved inadequate for many staff who commute, as much of the work is done round the clock. This has led to considerable strain being put on Howden's parking facilities, leading to the creation of a Controlled Parking Zone embracing most of the central area of the town.

Online retailer Ebuyer.com also recently relocated their headquarters from Sheffield to Howden. Their vast warehouse and office building is on Ferry Road, close to Howdendyke. Adjacent to the Ebuyer.com headquarters is that of Wren Kitchens along with a new warehouse and distribution centre. This new development is in partnership with Ebuyer.

Plans for the further development of Howden include a permanent set of traffic lights, more housing, an industrial estate.

Howden Minster is currently undergoing another renovation, with the aid of English Heritage. The Minster hopes to raise £300,000 in the next two years.^[2] The famous Yorkshire wood carver, Mousy Thompson of Kilburn, made the fine choir stalls and much of the other minster furnishings, as seen on Look North. Children love to hunt for the 30+ Thompson mice hidden around the Minster

Howden was featured in The Times top 20 list of places with the best standard of living in the UK in 2005.^[12]

Politics[link]

The parliamentary seat of Howden and Haltemprice is held by David Davis, the former Shadow Home Secretary. The civil parish of Howden had a population of 3,810, according to the 2001 UK census.^[1] The civil parish also includes North Howden and part of Boothferry.

The current Howden town councillor is Mark Preston, of the Conservative Party. Chris Hobson, of the Labour Party, is the shadow councillor.

See also[link]

• Howden School and Technology College
• Howden rail crash

References[link]

The History of the Workhouse in Britain by Peter Higginbotham accessed 03042011

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Howden

• Profile of Howden by Yorkshire Tours
• Howden Secondary School and Technology College
• Howden workhouse

Howden Ganley

Born	(1941-12-24) 24 December 1941 (age 70)
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	New Zealander
Active years	1971 - 1974
Teams	BRM, Iso Marlboro, March, Maki
Races	41 (35 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	10
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First race	1971 South African Grand Prix
Last race	1974 German Grand Prix

James Howden Ganley (born 24 December 1941 in Hamilton) is a former racing driver from New Zealand. He participated in 41 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 6 March 1971, scoring a total of 10 championship points. He also participated in numerous non-Championship Formula One races.

Personal and early life[link]

When he was thirteen years old, he attended the 1955 New Zealand Grand Prix at Ardmore^[1] which inspired him and provided him with an impetus to follow a career in racing.^[2] Immediately after leaving school, Ganley became a reporter for the Waikato Times^[3] and wrote a column for Sports Car Illustrated.^[3] He moved to the United Kingdom in 1961 and pursued a career as a mechanic.^[1]

Career[link]

Pre-Formula One[link]

Between 1960 and 1962, Ganley competed in many events throughout New Zealand driving a Lotus Eleven.^[3] Throughout this period, he was earning a living by working as a foreman for a concreting company.^[3]

In 1970, Ganley finished second to Peter Gethin in the European Formula 5000 championship.^[1] This caught the attention of the BRM Formula One team, who signed him to a contract for 1971.

Formula One[link]

In 1971, Ganley started off the season promisingly with fifth place at the non-championship Race of Champions.^[4] At the end of 1971, having scored two points finishes during the year, Ganley was awarded the Wolfgang von Trips Memorial Trophy for the best performance by a newcomer to Grand Prix racing.^[3] At the 1973 Canadian Grand Prix he was almost declared the winner because of a timing mix up with the pace car, when the results were corrected, Ganley was classified sixth.

Post-Formula One[link]

Ganley's Tiga team had plans to compete in Formula One in 1978, with the Finnish driver Mikko Kozarowitzky, but the project didn't succeed due to a lack of funding.^[5]

Complete Formula One World Championship results[link]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Footnotes[link]

Gideon Emery
Born	(1972-09-12) 12 September 1972 (age 39) Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK
Occupation	Actor, voice actor
Years active	1994–present
Website
www.gideonemery.com

Gideon Emery (born 12 September 1972) is an English actor and voice actor, known for his stage work in South Africa and for providing voices in video games. He lives in Los Angeles.

Early life[link]

Emery was born in Windsor, Berkshire, England. At the age of four, his father moved the family to Johannesburg, South Africa.^[1] An only child, Emery kept himself amused by imitating characters from film and television.^[2] Early impersonations included Michael Jackson^[3] and Max from Hart to Hart.^[4] He returned to England during high school, briefly attending Reading Blue Coat School. But it was back in South Africa at St John's College where he cemented his love for acting, playing Dick Deadeye in the Gilbert & Sullivan musical HMS Pinafore^[5] and winning Best Actor for the role of Mr Glum in The Glums comedy sketch, "L'Engagement".^[6] After briefly considering a career in graphic art, he went on to study acting at the University of the Witwatersrand.^[1] Student roles included Salieri in Amadeus and Gregor in Steven Berkoff's adaption of Kafka's The Metamorphosis.

Career[link]

In his 3rd year of drama school, friend Ashley Callie was going to audition for the annual Christmas pantomime. Emery was persuaded to go along and ended up being cast. He played a couple of characters, but impressed with his stand-up routine during a set change.^[1] As a result, fellow cast member, veteran actor Bill Flynn introduced him to his agent and his career was started. Around this time, he also began what was to become a prolific voice career.^[7] (He would later win a Gold Craft Award at the 2003 Loerie Advertising Awards) He played in a number of stand-up venues and established himself as character actor,^[3] often performing multiple roles within a single play, such as all the male roles in Mark Ravenhill's Sleeping Around^[8] and Tom, Leslie and Phyllis in A.R. Gurney's Sylvia.^[9]

He performed standup comedy on television and was a series regular on the sketch comedy show Not Quite Friday Night.^[3] He received the National Vita Award for Comedy for the role of Maloom in the play Heel Against the Head,^[3] once again alongside Bill Flynn and actor/playwright Paul Slabolepszy. Emery has also performed his own one-man plays, Thin Man Talking^[10] and The Great Glendini.^[11] For the latter, he recorded a jazz standards album, Standard Ease. He acted alongside the late Bill Flynn for a third and final time, playing Bernard to Flynn's Willy Loman in the award-winning Baxter Theatre production of Death of a Salesman.^[12]

Thanks to his keen ear for accents, Emery found himself playing various roles in visiting British and American film and television productions. He soon decided that the screen was where he wanted to focus his attention. With most major projects casting their lead roles overseas, he decided it was time to explore more diverse opportunities.^[13] In late 2003, he moved to Los Angeles, where he has established himself as a versatile character actor and voice actor for video games such as Vanquish, Dragon Age, Street Fighter X Tekken and Battlefield 3.

Selected filmography[link]

Voice acting - video games[link]

• Assassins Creed 2 (2009) as Minstrel, Monk in Black Robe, Ferry Captain
• Assassins Creed: Brotherhood (2010) as Borgia Captain Guards
• Battlefield 3 (2011) as Staff Sergeant Henry "Black" Blackburn (also motion capture and facial capture)
• Blade Kitten (2010) as Sol Trooper, Infestation Worker
• Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War (2007) as British Soldier, French Resistance (uncredited)
• Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII (2006) as British Soldiers
• Blazing Angels 2 (2007) as British General, British Pilot 1
• Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (2008) as PFC Dawson
• Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2008 (2008) as Bekele
• Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2009 (2008) as Henry Tally, Sergei Demochev
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) as Mac, SAS 4
• Castlevania Judgment (2008) as Trevor Belmont (uncredited)
• The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (2009)
• Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts (2007) as Major Blackmore, Churchill
• Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor (2009) as Kangaroo, Churchill, Stag
• Dead Rush (2005) as Jake
• Diablo 3 (2012) as Caldeum Guard
• Dragon Age: Origins (2009) as Alarith, Oskias, Saevrin, Frandlin Ivo, Human Male Mystic, Human Male 4, Human Male 29, Human Male 36, Dwarfman 8, Drunken Elf 2
• Dragon Age II (2011) as Fenris, Paxley, Temmerin, Liam
• Dragon's Dogma (2012) as the Seneschal
• Dungeon Siege 3 (2011) as Florin, Mudgutter, Abi-Eshu, Gavril, Hans, Ironmonger, Lescanzi Mercenary, Royalist Soldier, Royalist Survivor, Goblin Bandit
• Dynasty Warriors 7 (2011) as Sun Quan
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011) as Etienne Rarnis, Gaius Maro, other various characters
• Everquest 2 (2004) as Overseer Travagg, Lt.Darrius, Vleko, Sentius Poisonleaf, Crispin Luvinius
• Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) as Victor Von Doom, Dr Doom
• Fear 3 as Armacham Soldier 2, Civilian 2
• Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions (2007) as Balthier
• Final Fantasy XII (2006) as Balthier
• Final Fantasy XIII-2 (2011)
• Gears of War 3 (2011)
• Ghost Recon 2 (2004) as German Soldier
• God of War III (2010) as Poseidon, Captain
• GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (2004) as Number One (Ernst Stavro Blofeld)
• Guild Wars 2 (2013)
• Halo Wars (2009) as Spartan, Suicide Grunt
• Hannah Montana: Spotlight World Tour (2007) as Announcer
• inFAMOUS (2009) as Cole MacGrath (Motion Capture only)
• Kane & Lynch 2 (2009)
• Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom (2008) as Duane
• Mass Effect (2007) as Chellick, Jered Salenta
• Mass Effect 2 (2010) as Kenn, Officer Tammert, Captain Gavorn
• Medieval Games (2009) as Jester, The Black Knight
• The Matrix: Path of Neo (2005) as Bane
• Pirates of the Caribbean Online (2007)
• Red Faction: Guerilla (2009)
• Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (2012) as Carlos Oliveira
• Resistance 2 (2009) as British Commando
• Rift (2011) as Trucker, Stranded Crew, Fan
• Rise of Nightmares (2011) as Josh
• Rocksmith (2011) as Narrator
• Samurai Warriors 3 (2009) as Kanbei Kuroda, Tatsuoki
• Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster (2011) as Doo-Rays
• The Sims Medieval (2011) as Sim
• Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron (2009) as Col Serra
• Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron (2007) as Col Serra
• Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption (2006) as Universal HUD, General MOHC, Imperial Officer 1
• Star Wars: The Old Republic (2011) as Captain Revar, Tobin Harlan, Abdan Sho, Alek Teral, Cavill Arin, Comms Officer Jule, Lokir-Ka, Peyton Swole, Sadoll, the Argent Serpent, W6-S4, Captain Winborn, Col Hunt, Narvurin, Spice Trader
• Street Fighter X Tekken (2012) as Steve Fox
• Tekken 6 as Steve Fox (uncredited)
• Terminator Salvation (2009) as John Connor
• Tom Clancy's Endwar (2008) as German, Russian soldiers
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier (2011)
• Turok (2008) as Reese
• Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (2011) as Marlowe's Agents, Indian Ocean Pirates
• Vanquish (2010) as Sam Gideon
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution - Imperial guard, Sentinel
• Warriors Orochi (2007) as Orochi (uncredited)
• Warriors Orochi 2 (2008) as Orochi (uncredited)

Voice acting - audiobooks[link]

• Live and Let Drood by Simon R. Green (2012)
• Size Matters Not by Warwick Davis (2011)
• Hell Ship by Philip Palmer (2011) - narrates the role of Sharrock
• For Heaven's Eyes Only by Simon R. Green (2011)
• The Fuller Memorandum by Charles Stross (2010)
• From Hell With Love by Simon R. Green (2010)
• Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd (2010)
• Rogue Farm by Charles Stross (2010)
• Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us by John Quiggin (2010)
• Operation Kronstadt by Harry Ferguson (2009)
• The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier (2009)
• The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross (2009)
• The Atrocity Archive by Charles Stross (2009)
• The Resident Member by Paul Marlowe (2009) - narrates the role of Litchfield
• The Price of Love and Other Stories by Peter Robinson (2009) - narrates stories The Magic of Your Touch, Shadows On The Water, The Cherub Affair
• The Genesis Secret by Tom Knox (2009)
• Amazing Tales for Making Men Out of Boys by Neil Oliver (2009)
• The Boat by Nam Le (2009) - narrates the story Halflead Bay
• Enough Already by Peter Walsh (2009)
• Playing the Enemy by John Carlin (2008)
• Tell Me a Story 2 by Amy Friedman (2008) - narrates the story Kerplunk

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Gideon Emery

• Official website
• Gideon Emery at the Internet Movie Database
• Gideon Emery on Twitter
• Gideon Emery on Facebook
• Gideon Emery on Blogger
• Wookieepedia Page
• Gamecca - "The Voice: On the Battlefield With Gideon Emery"
• The Gaming Liberty - "Balthier Speaks: An Interview With Gideon Emery"
• Square Haven - "Setting the Stage for Balthier: A Conversation with Gideon Emery"
• Shades of Sentience - "Interview with Gideon Emery - Balthier From FFXII!"