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HULL SCIENTIFIC AND FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



The house was taken down when a new house was built 

 some seventy-five years ago. The small portion now 

 remaining consists of a low room with a chamber over ; the 

 floor of the chamber is carried on a beam and joists, all 

 bearing a good moulding on the angles. There was origin- 

 ally a wide fireplace, but within the opening a more modern 

 fireplace has been constructed. It maybe that this was done 

 by Mrs. Watson, or even by the Trusloves or Thomas 



LATEST FORM OF SPINNING WHEEL. 



Watson. The floor-timbers and the wide fireplace look as 

 old as the time of Stephen Hogge.* 



The Rev. J. H. Bromby, Vicar of Hull, remembered the 

 ladies being carried to Sutton Church, as Ann Watson had 

 provided, riding on pillions behind the tenants. Until the 

 direct road from Hull was made, Stoneferry had much 

 of the quaint tranquility of a Dutch village. But until the 



* The implements for spinning', measuring, and hanking flax, here 

 illustrated, are part of those used at that house until 1829 by my grand- 

 mother and her daughters. 



