Author name: Richard Clarke

There is much positive comment re David Attenborough’s 100 birthday, and quite rightly so. There is no doubt that over the past 100 years there has been a great social change in attitudes towards animal welfare, although there remains a long way to go particularly re factory farming, mostly pigs and chickens, and agribusiness in […]

Photo of a section of the lowland coast at Cleethorpes, view east with Spurn Point, East Yorkshire in the distance, (not taken recently). Two days ago went on the train from Barton to Cleethorpes, fine morning but cold wind. Bit of lunch at Darracoates cafe beside the pier then walked the long promenade south to

Having mentioned Thomas Sheppard in the previous blog I initially wondered if any of his publications would be listed here. Foolish idea as Thomas was only 9 years old when this ‘Catalogue’ was printed; he left the elementary school four years later, all his qualifications and credits being gained in manhood. Staying on this theme

Above is the cover page of a reprinted book first published in 1912. The author ‘Tom’ Sheppard was the first curator of Hull Museums located on Albion Street in a large building, never rebuilt after being bombed in 1943. A large volume of the exhibits were also destroyed, for example the long log dug-out canoe,

The above photo shows just inside the park gates at Pickering Park (s.p.b.). The main carriage gates seem to be permanently shut these days, the side pedestrian gates open. Mr. Pickering was quite happy, it seems , for the main carriageway to be used as a way-through between Pickering Road (not then so named) and

The troublesome image above is of a postcard dated July 13th, 1911 and was reproduced in a copy of the Hull Daily Mail on December 5th, 2008. It shows the main entrance gates to Pickering Park off Hessle High Road when they were first made and installed in 1909. The businessman Christopher Pickering (shown top-left)