July 2021

Field quarries is a term used to describe usually fairly shallow diggings into the surface of fields overlying chalk bedrock, this usually done by the farmer and his/her workers. As with parish quarries the chalk quarried might have been used as hard-core but it was also broken down (crushed) and spread as lime on fields, […]

The fact that the Humber Estuary bisected the ‘Ferriby chalk’ escarpment has meant that the side of the Humber valley immediately east of the boulder clay ‘Cliffs’ has been an ideal location for quarrying the chalk rock. By driving a level-floored cutting into the valley side an increasingly deep wall of chalk was revealed and

The photo. above shows the ‘cliff-face’, not on the coast as at Flamborough Head, but at the head of a chalk quarry on the south-Humber bank just west of the parish boundary between Barton on Humber and South Ferriby and commonly known as Leggett’s Quarry (chalk quarrying here ceased in the late 1960s so the

The picture above shows part of the traditional farm buildings of a small farm between Barton on Humber and South Ferriby. It shows walling of chalk blocks roughly cut square and coursed and sections of brick walling of various dates. The steeply pitched roof covered by pantiles, of a type known as Dutch tiles (similar

I have decided to compose a series of blogs to compliment and extend on my extended essay ‘A Simplified study of the Geology of the Humberside Region and some examples of its im[act on the reion’s Social and Economic History’ (see section three of this website). The rocks under the surface of soil and water

The theme of this, the final blog of this 12 blog series on the overview history of English Cathedrals, is 20th century cathedrals. There were three new-build cathedrals in the 20th century, the 10 other new cathedrals being previously parish churches – Southwark 1905, Birmingham 1905, Bury St. Edmonds 1914, Chelmsford 1914, Sheffield 1914, Bradford