Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    Z1715
  • Title
    Gift of the late Mr Arthur James Horne (1912-2018)
  • Admin/biog history
    Arthur James Horne (1912-2018) Born in Kingston upon Hull on 27th November 1912 to Maria Kate Bartholomew and James Courage Horne of Salisbury Street, Hull; Arthur was educated at Sidmouth Street school in Hull. Arthur had three brothers: Douglas Raymond 1920-2009, Charles William 1906-81 (who married Beatrice) and John Peter 1922-2015 (who married Mary). Joining his father and older brother, Arthur first worked as an apprentice bookbinder at M Harland & Co Hull printers until 1934 when he moved to Pulsford & Wales printing company in Chapel Lane, Hull as a bookbinder & paper cutter. By 1947 Arthur had moved to Bedford to work at the printing firm Castle Press. He lived in Cornsay Cottage near Carlton. In 1958 another move took Arthur to the University of North Wales at Bangor where he was the first bookbinder to be employed in the University Library, working on mainly academic periodicals/journals etc. He then moved from North Wales in 1967 to the University of York where he was appointed to be their first Librarian, a post he held until retirement age in 1977. At this time he bought his home in Dunnington and undertook a part-time post as Librarian at York Minster until 1986. He continued to bind his own books, magazines and photograph albums at home. Arthur Horne served in the British Army from 17 July 1940. As part of the East Yorkshire Regiment, his military service - in Brigade HQ Intelligence - took him to Cornwall, Pembrokeshire and Croydon then Normandy in France, on the Rhine in Holland, Northern Ireland and Belgium before being transferred to the Welch Regiment while still in Germany in April 1945. He was awarded the 1939/45 Star and France & Germany Star before being released from military service at Strensall Barracks in January 1946. Arthur’s leisure activities have included bicycle touring, rambling, watercolour artist, birdwatcher, conservationist, gardener, baker and handyman. He has been a member of the YHA, the Cyclists’ Touring Club, The Woodland Trust, the Yorkshire Wolds Heritage Trust, the Friends of Hagg Wood and Sustrans. He is also a Life Member of the Ramblers’ Association, CPRE, the Pocklington Canal Amenity Society, Plantlife and the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. Living in the same house in Dunnington for 40+ years and until 2015 Arthur grew fruit and vegetables, grapes on the vine and tended to a small orchard of fruit trees. He was passionate about the Yorkshire Wolds and its rights of way and became particularly interested in later years in the conservation of Hagg Wood, a local Forestry Commission site being restored to its pre World War 2 state of native semi-rural woodland. As an accomplished watercolour artist, Arthur has had many articles and pictures published in “The Dalesman” magazine and the Pocklington Canal Society’s “Double Nine” magazine. Many of Arthur’s paintings, dating back to the early 1930’s, he has donated to Beverley Art Gallery and some years ago he sold others to raise funds for the Pocklington Canal Amenity Society. He passed away at the age of 105.
  • Level of description
    fonds
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