April 2017

Although the above view is of part of Goxhill ‘Marsh’ taken from the vantage point of the clay-bank flood defence it is a suitable image for the following comment. Today, 9th April, went for walk along the concrete flood defence alongside the Humber Estuary from the mouth of East Halton Beck to Killingholme dock jetty. […]

Recently encouraged to explore Sculcoates Lane, Hull cemeteries as she had some evidence that paupers from the Sculcoates workhouse were there buried. There are in fact three historic cemeteries on Sculcoates Lane/Air Street. The one beside the junction with Wincolmlee I know well and close-by was once Sculcoates parish church, this when Sculcoates was a village

Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473-1543, was a Renaissance academic and astronomer of Polish/German descent. Shortly before his death his book was published in which he expanded on his discovery that the Sun, not the Earth, was at the centre of our solar system, which brought his ideas into direct conflict with the Roman Catholic Church. Even Martin