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from the Hull Daily Mail/East Riding Mail Thursday, June 11

The history of the town’s medieval cross has been unveiled along with information on the cemetery lodges and gates in Southgate. Hornsea In Bloom has worked closely with Hornsea Town Council and various other groups in producing a plaque explaining its past. Christine Sumner, chair of Hornsea In Bloom, said: “Since 2006, Hornsea In Bloom members have planted flowers and bulbs around the cross and we were fascinated when we started to collect information about it.

“We felt many residents and visitors would also be interested and so the idea of the plaque came about. “We believe it’s a market cross. Antiquarians in the 19th century repeated a local tradition the people of Hornsea, Burton and Southorpe brought their local produce here to sell, or that it was the site of Hornsea’s second market.” The plaque says the cross appears to be a composite of two different medieval crosses, probably 14th century.

The two lodges were built in 1887. Mrs Sumner said: “One being used as a cemetery chapel and the other as a boardroom and office for the local Board of Health, which was succeeded in 1894 by the Hornsea District Council. “The lodges were converted to dwellings in 2007. “We are proud of Hornsea and its history and we hope this will be the first of many information boards.”