Author name: Richard Clarke

The photo above shows the ‘central’ avenue at West Park, Hull looking south towards the Park’s main entrance (for pedestrians) off Anlaby Road. Paul Gibson’s excellent illustrated booklet on the history of West Park, published 2011, includes an extract from the 1928 O.S. 6 inch map and showing that half way along this avenue was […]

The word Avenue (s.p.b.) came to mean a wide street in the U.S.A. by the 1860s but in Britain it was already established as defining a way leading to a country house and implied that it was as straight as could be and tree-lined. These avenues usually led from the public highway to the main

The photo above shows the partial avenue of Horse Chestnut trees on the south side of Pearson Park, Hull. Seen at their best at this time of year, horse chestnut trees’ leaves have the shiny green of spring growth and the bold pyramidal clusters of white flowers. These trees normally have short trunks and, as

About half a mile east of Hawkins Point is a monument (‘Mon’ on O.S. map and see above). The crown shown in relief shows that it is related to the fact that the Crown owns the reclaimed land of Sunk Island On the side face of the monument is a plaque etched with the following

At Hawkin’s Point (s.p.b.) there is no obvious reason in the landscape as to why it should be named on maps, and no information board. However, there is a line of chalk stones at the high water line which are unlikely to be a natural feature; there is a bit of an inlet and the

The third section of the south Holderness coast walked, introduced by the previous blog/post, is the bottom section of Sunk Island, the vast area of land ‘reclaimed’ from the Humber mudflats over the past few centuries. This being so the region is all but flat, the estuarine silts providing some of the most fertile arable