Author name: Richard Clarke

Lowthorpe church (above from the s.w.) has a ruined chancel built in a very different style to the nave and must have been related to a small college of canons established here in 1333 and, along with other such colleges, dissolved in 1548. Church set in an isolated location, mostly surrounded by woods. Unusual royal […]

Harpham village lies east of Driffield on the southern edge of the Yorshire Wolds dip slope and in the valley of Kelk Beck, a headwater of the River Hull. It was the estate village of the de St. Quintin baronial family until the 1690s, while the church remained their mausoleum thereafter. The ‘Venerable’ Bede, writing

Apologies for the gap since last post – had another viral stomach infection until middle of this week which flared-up Easter Friday. April is a month to relish in the hedgerows, roadside verges, churchyards and indeed in the fields of growing crops. This afternoon walked Cliff Rd., South Ferriby, then onto chalk shingle beach to

Although the above view is of part of Goxhill ‘Marsh’ taken from the vantage point of the clay-bank flood defence it is a suitable image for the following comment. Today, 9th April, went for walk along the concrete flood defence alongside the Humber Estuary from the mouth of East Halton Beck to Killingholme dock jetty.

Recently encouraged to explore Sculcoates Lane, Hull cemeteries as she had some evidence that paupers from the Sculcoates workhouse were there buried. There are in fact three historic cemeteries on Sculcoates Lane/Air Street. The one beside the junction with Wincolmlee I know well and close-by was once Sculcoates parish church, this when Sculcoates was a village

Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473-1543, was a Renaissance academic and astronomer of Polish/German descent. Shortly before his death his book was published in which he expanded on his discovery that the Sun, not the Earth, was at the centre of our solar system, which brought his ideas into direct conflict with the Roman Catholic Church. Even Martin