The last blog, Drypool (1), shows the representation of the village of Drypool on the east bank of the River Hull, from a medieval (allegedly) Plan of Hull. The presentation maybe stylised but shows a linear village stretching south from the church across land that is now a bit of the A63, a bit of Victoria Dock village and the site of The Deep.
The issue left ‘in the air’ last time was that of the lower course of the River Hull. It was speculated by some (s.p.b. and Hull in the Beginning) that at a point in southern Sculcoates area the course of the River turned west and then south, exiting into the Humber at a point roughly where the lock of Albert Dock now is, there being here in the 18th century the mouth of a ‘drain’ known then as Limekiln Drain/Beck (not sure). Furthermore, that the present lower course of the River was a result of the River breaking through a local watershed between it and Sayer Drain, probably a canalised drainage channel exiting into the Humber where the mouth of the River Hull now is, this in the 13th century. Thus for at least four centuries early Drypool would not have been beside the River, this making the ‘dried up pool’ idea (s.p.b.) more credible.
George Poulson states (The History and Antiquities of the Seigniory of Holderness (1840, 342) that the medieval church at Drypool was replaced in 1824, the image above taken from his text and dated 1822, the church clearly then in a ruinous state. The late-Georgian replacement church was to become rather hemmed-in by the creation of Victoria Dock in the 1850s and was later in turn demolished after the Second World War having been itself ruined by enemy bombing, although the tower remained standing for a few more years. The site of the once St. Peter’s, Drypool is now a small grassed area.
(to be continued)
Point of view 14d – Charles Darwin wrote ‘Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work worthy (of being) the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals’. A big answer to the question ‘if man is made in god’s image why war, planetary destruction, criminal behaviour, immorality etc.’ is that man was also given free will. Why? Given that logic is a standard yardstick, it doesn’t make sense.