Yateley Society Local History Exhibitions

1999: Yateley Fact & Fiction

Wordcount excluding captions and family trees: 18,493

Board 0: Introduction to the Society and to the Exhibition

• How we began: one man had an idea...
• About the Society: our constitution
• Four Groups, One Cause: our constitution
• About this Exhibition
• More questions to answer
• Society Membership
• New History Booklets
• Yateley Society Publications
• 25th Anniversary of Yateley Library

Board 1: True or False?

• The Yateley History Project phase 2
• The Secret Tunnels of Yateley?
• African King visits Yateley Hall?
• Mediaeval Convent of Yateley Hall?
• The Urnfield Legend
• The Jan Paderewski Myth
• The First Motor Coach Service from Yateley
• Bull Baiting on Yateley Green
• The Dehay complaint
• First Organ with an Electric Action

Board 2: Charles Peace, murderer

• The Myths
• A Likely Lad
• Villain rents Yateley House
• Stolen Goods in Tree Trunk
• The Raffles Touch
• Practice makes Perfect
• A Thief's Progress
• Murder of Irate Husband
• Menage a Trois in Peckham
• Ambush & Betrayal by Mistress
• Dying Declaration

Board 3: Parson Darby

• The Myths
• Why the 1841 myth is wrong
• Likely explanation of the myth
• The Prime Suspects
• The Heyday of the Highwayman
• Darby Green
• Yew Tree Inn, Darby Green
• Murders in Yateley
• Hold-up at Blackwater
• Hanging by Lynch Mob
• The Real Parson Darby

Board 4: Yateley & the Gunpowder Plot

• The Myths
• The Gunpowder Plot in a nutshell
• Why the Gunpowder Plot myth is wrong
• Sources of the Gunpowder Plot myth
• Likely explanation of the myth
• Essex Rebellion in a nutshell
• When was Lord Monteagle in Yateley?
• Monteagle House: archaeological evidence

Board 5: Biodiversity Fact & Fiction

• Stone Curlew sighted at Blackbushe
• Stone Curlew main breeding areas
• What was the bird doing at Blackbushe?
• Could Blackbushe support nesting Stone Curlews?
• The Yateley Society & Biodiversity
• Note 1: Myth or Fact
• Note 2: Annex 1 Birds
• Note 1: UK Biodiversity Action Plan 1994
• Acknowledgements

Board 6: Mediaeval Fish Farming

• The 'Rural Backwater' Myth
• Initial Conclusions
• Taxation in 1334
• The facts in the 14th century
• National comparison with Yateley
• The facts in the 16th century
• The Manor & Hundred of Crondall
• The Mediaeval Parish of Yateley
• Why Mediaeval Yateley paid high taxes - a hypothesis
• Fish farming in Yateley
• The inhabitants of Yateley in 1287
• Yateley and the Domesday Book

Board 7: Yateley's Silk Worms

• Local Silk used for Altar Frontal
• Easter Day 1877
• Altar Hangings

Board 8: The Crystal Cup Mystery

• The Myths: version A and version B
• The undisputed facts
• Expert opinion
• Who was Mrs Sarah Cocks, widow?
• Why did Sarah Cocks give the Crystal Cup to St Peter’s
• Who was William Geale, King’s Cupmaker?
• Who was Richard White, Queen’s Cupmaker?
• Most likely explanation

Board 9:

• Acknowledgements
• Empty Boards?
• Hunting Down the real Parson Darby