January 2023

Compared with the rest of the south Holderness coast Stone Creek is a ‘busy place’. Two of the main arterial drains of Sunk Island have their confluence here, Keyingham Drain and Ottringham Drain, and the resulting outflow has developed into a tidal river mouth (see above). From the point seen in the photo the outflow […]

Walking the clay bank eastwards after having walked round the area of managed retreat at Thorngumbald Marsh is a lonesome exercise as the above photo conveys, inland (left) large arable fields with, as is the case nowadays, no sign of farm workers, seaward (right) of the clay bank expanses of saltmarsh and seagrasses with, at

Last Friday I managed to cover the walk from Thorney Crofts to Stone Creek having previously just got as far as Thorney Crofts from Paull on 2nd December 2022 (s.p.b. of that date). Although battling a cold wind the air was here clear and the views good, initially looking across the Humber to Killingholme Dock

Some ancient crosses of Holderness – Tindall Wildridge firstly summarises the various symbolism related to crosses over time such as pre-Christian, freemasonry and identifying a site of evil doing or national significance. He then focusses on the various functions of public crosses in Christian times; headstones, ‘stations’ related to religious processions, preaching crosses, market crosses

The method of presenting a text covering lots of different subjects and topics, very much like a collection of short stories in fiction, appeals to me having been identified as a child as a ‘slow reader’, which I was and, to a degree, still am. A favourite book of mine dealing with various aspects of

I recently bought an old book being sold at the desk in Hull History Centre, presumably ‘taken off their shelves’, entitled ‘Holderness and Hullshire, Historic Gleanings’ compiled by T. Tindall Wildridge (see above) and published in 1886. Wildridge owned a local printing firm based on Savile St. and was one of the cluster of local