November 2022

The discovery for the first time of three lighthouses, each forming the apex of a triangle, on a small field next to the Humber bank, at Killingholme on the south bank of the Humber is startling. Although the drawing above, taken from the 1939 book (s.p.b.s) shows the site and background to be rural, today

Today’s image is from the book (s.p.b.s) and shows the high-light at Thorgumbald Marsh. It is described in the book as ‘a circular wrought iron structure and stands on a circular brick and masonry foundation’. It is 49 feet high and can still be walked up to today, although, the spiral staircase shown in the

The photo above, taken earlier this year, shows the two surviving, but disused, beacons at Thorngumbald Marsh, just east of the Paull Fort complex. The view is looking south across the Estuary to the south bank and the grassy ridge centre-picture is the Humber flood bank. Just east of this point, about ten years ago,

Some years ago I was fortunate to be given a pack of papers and reports broadly relating to the Humber Estuary. One was a hard cover ‘Report on the Lighthouses, Lightships, Light Floats, Buoys and Vessels’ belonging to the Humber Conservancy Board, dated 1939.The Humber Conservancy Board had been formed in 1908 at which point