Author name: Richard Clarke

Pearson Park, Beverley Road, Hull was the town’s first public park. Like Baysgarth Park, Barton it was the result of private benevolence in that the then town’s mayor Zacharia Pearson donated land for the creation of the Park, land that was then beyond the northern fringe of the built-up area. Unlike Baysgarth Park then Pearson […]

For the East Riding another source of evidence on ’emparked’ private park landscapes are the county maps dating from the late 18th and 19th centuries. A complete collection may be viewed at the county archives lodged at the Treasure House, Beverley. One good example is Emanuel Bowen’s county map of the mid 18th century. Bowen,

To do the work involved in the supposed landscaping of Baysgarth House’s 14 acre parkland (see previous blog) the Nelthorpe family would have mustered a workforce and used ‘pattern book’ ideas rather than a nationally recognised landscape gardener. Probably this was true of other similar sized parklands in north Lincolnshire such as at Saxby Hall (financed

The south-facing wing of Baysgarth House, Barton on Humber was completed in 1731 was built in the Georgian classical style in vogue at the time and was funded by the Nelthorpe family (see above picture), generations of which had lived in the older north-south orientated block since 1620 and further generations of which were to

Public Parks and their history is a particular interest currently. Current research on the parks of Hull and recent publication (see Publications) on the Evolution of Baysgarth Park, Barton on Humber link to this interest. As with other studies of elements in the landscape, the objective is not just to discover facts on one example but

The telescope invented and constructed by Galileo (1564-1642) achieved a 30x magnification (about the same as a modern, medium-priced pair of binoculars), this enabling him to make ground-breaking discoveries about our solar system. Galileo had the advantages of a Mediterranean climate, little atmospheric pollution and minimal light pollution, compared to the 21st century. Both Copernicus and