Author name: Richard Clarke

On the theme of Spring, and writing on a windswept, wet Easter Monday morning, the frogs seem to be coming out of hibernation late this year. Have not yet seen any frog-spawn and unfortunately on Sluice Road as many properties have large gardens and outbuildings the frogs are having to cross the road from their […]

(Sorry no picture, I’m still trying to work-out how to download pictures transferred from my camera). One plant/tree that is doing well is the alder, A native tree and at home in very wet soil it has clearly coped well with the very wet Winter and early Spring, although the drab colours of the catkin-like flowers and last

Strange that after a comparatively mild winter Spring seems to be slow and patchy. Just one or two hawthorn bushes just opening to leaf but the rest holding back, see picture above taken beside West Drain south of South Ferriby cement works. Similarly the odd young blackthorn just in flower but the rest no sign of

Apologies to readers for the big gap since the last update – I tried and tried to download two further pdfs (articles) to the Publications page, got in a complete muddle and somehow jammed the system. Ryan was booked-up for a few days, I had other things to do etc. etc. So I’ll post a few

The purpose of the Monday night WEA short course currently in Barrow is to edit and collate the historical notes of the late Dora Borrill, a local activist, teacher and historian. Unfortunately her ‘jottings’ were so disorganised that, in their present form, they are not accessible. Members of the class are willing to read the

One of the main purposes of this website is for it to be a platform for my researches and articles. To this end I am going to list the articles already uploaded (as pdfs), completed articles soon to be uploaded and articles in progress and to then be uploaded. Articles already uploaded (see Publications); Landmarks and