Author name: Richard Clarke

Green Places 12.

Today’s photo shows the final section of Barmston Drain before a culvert under Wincolmlee carries the water into the River Hull (the metallic silos shown are on the opposite bank of the River Hull). The scene shown is part of Hull’s old industrial corridor threading up both sides of the River. Just off picture to […]

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Green Places 11.

The photo above, the only one of 5 taken at dusk and worth showing, shows the outline, but certainly not the details, of a 15 – 20 feet high embankment running north-south along the eastern edge of Victoria Dock Village, Hull. The reason for this embankment being there is unknown to me, presumably it is

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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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