May 2016

Recently Will. Jennings and I, once work colleague and ex-Head-teacher at Cottingham High School, undertook one of my favourite short circular walks. Starting in Paull village we followed the ‘dockside’ where fishing smacks and shrimp boats once tied and below the outer rampart of Paull Fort. Having looked at the, now redundant, ‘high and low lights’ (see Landmarks and […]

Thirdly I wanted to re-visit St. Nicholas church, north Lynn. A few years ago this church passed into the care of the Churches Conservation Trust and extensive repairs have recently been completed. Often called a ‘chapel’ as for much of its existence it was a chapel of ease to St. Margaret’s church (as Holy Trinity, Hull

Denver Sluice is in fact a complex of three sluice gates which control the flow of water between a series of large drainage canals dug between the 1630s and the 1960s to drain water from the Fenlands to the River Great Ouse, to reduce the flood-risk to the region and to prevent further ingress of

Three weeks ago I spent a week  with my touring caravan at the small Woodstock caravan site (thankfully no clubhouse or vans all in rows), Gibbet Lane, Boughton – the parish where I grew-up. Apart from local walks and visiting niece and husband in Kings Lynn three things deserve mention here. On a bitterly cold

I have had such a lot of trouble with internet access – either on one minute off the next or just not available at all – that blogs have not been possible. Have had countless long mobile calls to EE, eventually got new router which is helping but reception is still unreliable. Suggested I move