December 2022

Photo shows a view south-east from the bank of the River Ouse with the entrance to Goole Docks (s.p.b.) just off picture centre-right, the last meander to be negotiated by ships sailing up River from the Humber to Goole. The house in the distance on the south bank of the River is identified as ‘Goole […]

Didn’t get this blog written before Christmas Day so doing now.The other pre-Christmas outing was to Goole (other to Knaresborough (s.p.b.). The church, dedicated somewhat unusually to St. John the Baptist, is a complete build of the 19th century, a Gothic Revival church with a very prominent spire, visible far and wide across the low

Tonight’s picture shows a cluster of sand martins’ nest holes in the unconsolidated moraine soils of South Ferriby ‘Cliff’ (opposite North Ferriby ‘Cliff’).Recently drove to Knaresborough Christmas Fair/fayre. Went early afternoon so quite soon lost daylight but pleasant atmosphere in Market Place and not too crowded. Don’t know Knaresborough at all really but walked down

In the book (s.p.b.s) the author gives a full two paragraphs to the ‘Humber Lighthouses’, two, then, at South Killingholme (the third one built in the 1860s s.p.b.s) and the single one at Paull (see above). These were only a decade or so old when the book was published in 1841 and the author credits

The section of the book on the Humber (s.p.b.) having described Stony Banks goes on to warn mariners of three rocky ‘knolls’ at south of Stony Banks that break the surface of the Estuary at low tide, particularly the low tides following spring tides. I have not come across this reference before so I guess

The book introduced in blog 12 of this run (published 1841) deals with the Humber across pages 62 to 69. The section is divided into two parts, a description of the aids to navigation then in use and the main mudflats, the second section giving detailed advice on navigating the Estuary from Spurn to Hull