Author name: Richard Clarke

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

Quite by chance came across this Facebook site where Kayleigh, Dutch but perfect English, has posted a number of YouTube videos on the themes of Man’s evolution and the region of Doggerland (s.p.b.s). They are very informative and presented in an easy listening way. Mostly Kayleigh talking with some still supporting picture evidence, but she

Stanley Park on the outskirts of Blackpool covers a large area (over 200 acres) and dates from the 1920s. Although being a comparatively late municipal park it incorporates all the features of earlier ones such as ornamental flower beds, refreshment pavilion, boating lake, bandstand etc., as well as allocating a large area for team sports

Have been staying in a converted farm building at Thornton Cleveleys between Blackpool and Fleetwood, 3rd to 10th October. Unfortunately, the big Lightshow on the promenade is this week, including some of the old double-decker trams that were, apparently, taken out of service last year. Had to wrestle with storm Amy and aftermath on the

Given what has been stated already in this section, it follows that as a result of successive ice ages over the last c. five million years there may well have been successive areas of deposition in the area now called Holderness and successive periods of erosion across the area (as today). The landscape history of