Author name: Richard Clarke

The view west from my living room window shows an image of another slow spring, like last year, although for opposite reasons. In 2022 there had been virtually no rain from the first of April, and this was to continue. This year April, and March, have been very wet, and with little settled sunny weather […]

The quote for the title of this new set of blogs/posts is a phrase I heard someone say in conversation to their friend sitting on a park bench where I was also sat. The person who said it was explaining in a short, but carefully considered, answer to the question ‘why don’t you move house?’

The construction of railways into the Humberside region further stimulated tourism, particularly day trippers. In his book (s.p.b.s) D’Orley presented a number of examples unearthed from his researches, these described on p.35. For example, on 22nd. August, 1844 a pleasure train from West Yorkshire brought 3,200 people to Hull in 82 carriages ‘being the longest

Near to concluding his coverage of the impact of pleasure trips by steamer along the Humber Estuary and its feeder rivers Trent and Ouse D’Orley (s.p.b.s) gives another example; those to the Yarborough Arms at New Holland. The Yarborough Arms (later Hotel) was one of the first buildings to be erected by the Manchester, Sheffield

The scenic value of the Humberside region (s.p.b.) was much promoted and valued, by citizens of Hull who might discover that the whole region was not flat! In promoting steamboat day trips the emphasis was as much on exploring the two great feeder rivers that met at Trent Falls as on the Estuary itself. Gainsborough,

The History of Humber Crossings was one of the first topics I researched and prepared as a power point presentation. In doing so I came across references to Alun A. D’Orley’s book ‘The Humber Ferries’ but never had a copy. recently I acquired one and indeed it is on a number of used book sites.