Author name: Richard Clarke

Today’s photo is of a cafe that once existed on the cliff top at Aldbrough on the Holderness coast, this copied from a Facebook post of some time ago. I would imagine that this would date to 1950s at a point on the coast long lost to coastal erosion. Aldbrough Top was a popular destination […]

The photo above was taken looking south-east from above Thornwick Bay on the north side of Flamborough Head. It shows the chalk cliffs and caves on the south side of the Bay and the thick overburden of boulder clay deposited by the retreating ice sheets of the Devensian (last) ice age. The lower chalk strata

This early photo, said to date from March 1906 shows a section of Hornsea front after a severe storm. The vertical timbers appear to be the remnants of a wooden plank sea defence, clearly breached by the storm. It is an example of the way coastal erosion takes place along the Holderness coast comprised of

The map above, again copied from the Doggerland Facebook page, shows the possible furthest extent of the area above sea level during the retreat of the last Ice Age. The river flowing out from the Humber inlet is shown as being a tributary of the river system flowing north to the ‘Norwegian Trench’ (now the

The above map is copied from the Doggerland Facebook page. It sets out to show that between 20,000 and 9,000 years ago the North Sea, English Channel and Irish Sea were above sea level with successive series of natural vegetation and fauna, including Neandertal Man and, possibly Palaeolithic Homo Sapiens. The explanation lies in the

Walking east from Sewerby Hall to the cliff top, across the links, and looking south towards Bridlington can be seen a very important point in terms of the landscape history of East Yorkshire. The photo above shows that point, where the chalk base to the Post glacial boulder clay above appears to end and the