Author name: Richard Clarke

Thirdly I wanted to re-visit St. Nicholas church, north Lynn. A few years ago this church passed into the care of the Churches Conservation Trust and extensive repairs have recently been completed. Often called a ‘chapel’ as for much of its existence it was a chapel of ease to St. Margaret’s church (as Holy Trinity, Hull […]

Denver Sluice is in fact a complex of three sluice gates which control the flow of water between a series of large drainage canals dug between the 1630s and the 1960s to drain water from the Fenlands to the River Great Ouse, to reduce the flood-risk to the region and to prevent further ingress of

Three weeks ago I spent a week  with my touring caravan at the small Woodstock caravan site (thankfully no clubhouse or vans all in rows), Gibbet Lane, Boughton – the parish where I grew-up. Apart from local walks and visiting niece and husband in Kings Lynn three things deserve mention here. On a bitterly cold

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