Author name: Richard Clarke

I have had such a lot of trouble with internet access – either on one minute off the next or just not available at all – that blogs have not been possible. Have had countless long mobile calls to EE, eventually got new router which is helping but reception is still unreliable. Suggested I move […]

Last Saturday the evening high tide (two high tides daily) stood at 8 metres (that is 8 metres above mean sea level) whereas the previous low tide five and a quarter hours earlier stood at sea level (sometimes the low water level is a bit below mean sea level). This gave a tidal range across five

On Sunday, 9/04/’16, having visited an event at the Floral Hall, Hornsea I went for walk with dog along the beach to the north and beyond the concrete promenade. In places the coltsfoot were in full flower the day being sunny (for a change), like daisies and lesser celandines the flowers open and close with

Sorry – Landmarks and Beacons is also in pdf form. Also add; History of Barton’s Cement making plant.

This might be an appropriate point to list my currently available power-point presentations; Some thoughts on the Geology of the Humberside Region and its impact on social and economic history (a clumsy title but, I think, a good presentation). History of Housing in Barton and area (x 2). History of Housing in Barrow. History of

The six week W.E.A. course at Barrow on Humber is now finished, the feed-back (formal and informal) from the class members was positive and by the last session Sylvia had printed-out and brought together in a folder all the sections researched and written by the class members. Over the next few months the text has to