Author name: Richard Clarke

Above is a scan of a postcard bought in the late 1970s, the date of the photo probably not much before that. It shows the upper section of the Synchant Pass and the road that snakes down from rising land to the west of Conwy town to the coast and to Penmaenmawr. For a week […]

Straight after post the last blog this photo appeared on ‘Old Hull’ Facebook page submitted by Mike Hawkins, a regular contributor. It shows Queen’s Dock in 1930 just as the filling-in of it was beginning (s.p.b.). Now Queen’s Gardens, the surrounding buildings have all long gone except perhaps the taller building top right which was

The photo above shows a section of the waterfront of Victoria Dock Village looking east towards Alexandra, king George and Queen Elizabeth Docks. Victoria Dock Village was developed in the 1980s/’90s after the Victoria Dock had been filled in as out of date and superseded by Docks further east (see above). Victoria Dock had been

The photo above shows a section of the relatively new ‘sea-wall’ at St. Andrews Dock, this for almost 100 years a purpose-built dock for Hull’s deep-sea fishing fleet but filled in in the 1960s and ’70s with the demise of the fishing industry to be replaced by a retail park, although the original buildings around

As seen in the previous blogs/posts the traditional man-made structure to reduce flooding in lowland areas across the Humberside Region was the linear clay bank, shaped to improve its effectiveness (s.p.b.s). Sections of the Humber Lowlands are still protected by clay banks including the south coast of Holderness, the Lincolnshire Marsh, apart from the sand

The Lincolnshire Marsh (s.p.b.s) has a history of flooding across many centuries. Here is a selection of recorded events’ 1176 ‘sea burst forth – engulfing men and herds’, this extract from the Louth Abbey Archives. 1253 ‘Great flood from the sea’. This storm surge wiped out a string of low-lying coastal islands, now the foundation