Borrowed from Hull Central Library, the above book makes very interesting reading. Published in 2014 it deals with landscapes encountered by the author, not as the sub-title suggests, all lost landscapes. However, the author’s approach makes it all the more meaningful because he connects the areas with his biography, with the landscape and geology central […]
Today’s photo shows a small ‘no-mow’ area in Pearson Park left for the first time this spring and summer and shows what Nature shows which would otherwise have been just an area of mown grass if not left. Glorious display of buttercups and thistles which, although they might seem uninviting, are a magnet for bees
Published by the East Yorkshire Local History Society back in 2020 this A4 size book is mostly a product of the author’s oral history interviews in the 1970s of elderly ex-farm workers who had worked in the Yorkshire Wolds and Holderness. The chapters are arranged across the farming year from autumn and winter ploughing to