November 2023

Green Places 10.

(Photo taken with phone rather than camera). The 1928 O.S. map shows an area of woodland/scrubland above the Scarborough rail line and next to the southern edge of Hymers College playing field, this extending south under (now) the footbridge to the Stadium from Argyle St. On this map it is named the ‘Wilderness’. The view […]

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Green Places 9.

I discovered recently that the band of land between the northern part of the loop road round West Park, Hull and the open ground to the north where cars can be parked when Hull City are playing at home, where Hull Fair’s ‘attractions’ are sited and where an open market and car-boot sale are held

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Green Places 8.

The arrangement of sports facilities immediately east of West Park, Hull as shown on the 1928 O.S. map and preceding the building of the KC Stadium between 2000 and 2002 is confirmed by an aerial photo., both these in Paul Gibson’s ‘The West Park’, pub. 2011, (s.p.b.). Mr. Gibson’s text on p.20 of the booklet

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Green Places 7.

The photo above shows part of the stadium (s.p.b.) viewed from the southern entrance to the site from West Park. It also shows a planting of diverse trees near the West Park fence but which are not shown on the 1928 O.S. map. The wedge of land, itself edged by railway lines, was never really

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Green Places 6.

Chris. Packham’s soul searching as to whether the time has come for direct action re climate change and potential biodiversity collapse in the face of government ‘drifting’ on the matter seemed to come to a rather inconclusive conclusion. That is not to belittle the man who is doing such good works and using his public

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Green Places 5.

Today’s photo shows three curlew feeding with their long down-curving beaks in the muddy foreshore of the Humber Estuary on a flow tide. These the largest of the mudflat waders of the Estuary, winter numbers can be inflated by migratory birds from Scandinavia. Their beaks probe for invertebrates living in the mud revealed at low

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