Author name: Richard Clarke

Today’s photo shows one of the horse chestnut trees forming the avenue that led from West Park’s main gates off Anlaby Road to an original large heated conservatory that no longer exists. This particular tree has a rectangular hole at the top of its short main truck (horse chestnuts normally have low sturdy main trunks). […]

Recently found a new route. Starting at the eastern end of Victoria Dock Village and followed an often done before wide surfaced path north towards Hedon Road. Benefits from a linear embankment on the west side and large warehouses behind security fence the other. The embankment is rich in wild plants and shrubs. Instead of

Although today’s photo shows part of plane tree in the foreground (see the seed pods that have clung on over winter) the focus of today’s blog is the garden area beyond, only part of which is visible. A detailed O.S. map of the late 1920s shows this area of the original park as being a

This photo of a young plane tree in Minster Square was taken a couple of years ago. As far as I know Andrew Marvell (see above) made no reference to plane trees in his writings; this not surprising as plane trees are not native and were only introduced to Britain roughly when Marvell was alive,

The photo above shows an old gas public light in the Castle Street detached, disused cemetery before the site was much reduced by the South Orbital roadworks – see the three coronets. I was very pleased to see about 25 people turned up for my first guided tour of 2026 on the morning of the

Recent afternoon’s walk. Light rain forecast, but held off (unusually for this winter), at one point thought I saw a sliver of blue sky but may have been a mirage. Started Cleveland St, opposite Tesco Express and walked north along a surfaced path (foot and cycle) with wide grass verge to west plus trees and