On Saturday 27th July (next Sat) I will be tutoring a class in Barton on Humber organised by the recently formed Lifelong Learning group there, 1-30 to 3-30pm in the Joseph Wright Hall, short refreshment break halfway through. The Subject is ‘Flooding’, History of flooding across the Humberside region. I am intending to divide it into four sections although they sort of run together anyway. The four are (i) The history of flooding across the region, (ii) the historical geography of flooding, (iii) the history of flood alleviation across the region, (iv) the future.
Over the years I have tutored a number of classes for Barton W.E.A. group, the predecessor of this group.
I have been questioning the future of this website of late but it still gets ‘viewings’, and I don’t really want to go over to Facebook.
The photo above shows my bookshelves on 6th December 2013, the day after the house was totally flooded on the ground floor by the combined spring tide and surge up the Estuary on the evening, the vast excess of water simply overtopped the clay bank on the south bank and parts of the north bank. One casualty was the two red folders on the bottom shelf containing all my notes from walking the east coast of England in stages during the 1990s. The slides that went with the notes survived better but were in poor condition and were later dumped to landfill. Such is Life.