November 2022

Page 26 of the book (s.p.b.s) gives a detailed cut-away section of a Humber lightship of the day. Presumably the Spurn lightship built in 1927 in Goole (s.p.b.) has the same design features. It is this Lightship (now, seemingly, called Hull Lightship) which was moored at the north-east corner of Hull Marina, and which is […]

The book, published in 1939 by the Humber Conservancy Board (s.p.b.s), highlights the Spurn Lightship as ‘the most modern lightship owned by the Board’ as it had been built in 1927. Today it survives and is moored in Hull Marina (see above!) and is soon to be a key element in Hull’s Maritime open-air museum.Light

Today’s photo was taken at Faxfleet looking south. In the middle distance it shows Blacktoft Sand, an island in the upper Humber that has survived for a couple of centuries, and which is now designated a nature reserve, and is almost entirely covered by reed-beds, this binding the topsoil enabling the island to resist marine

Today’s photo shows much of the upper Humber Estuary in the middle distance, this view taken from near the top of the scarp slope of the Yorkshire Wolds above the Ellerker area. On the opposite Humber bank the end of the Lincolnshire Heights (Lower Lias limestone escarpment which, in turn, merges into the Yorkshire Wolds

Today’s picture is a photo reproduced in the 1939 book (s.p.b.s) showing the high and low lights at Saltend. Described as being sited just west of the mouth of Hedon Haven, I know of no surviving evidence of things shown in the photo. I’m not sure when the chemicals complex currently at Saltend began to

The photo above shows the redundant lighthouse at Paull, built in 1836 and on the north bank, this taken recently. All three lighthouses built in 1836 had lighthouse keeper’s cottages built onto the structure. In the case of the Paull one (above) I am not sure if the small building left of the main structure