In December 2021 I compiled an inventory of posts up to that point; this inventory can be read by clicking on that month from the right hand column. I am now going to add to that inventory by listing the topics of the posts from December 2021 to May 2023. I will list by month […]
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The photo above shows a view looking east and taken on the north bank of the lower River Ouse before it flows into the Humber Estuary at Trent Falls. Having walked from the rail bridge over the R. Ouse opposite Goole Docks (lock and basins) the interesting village of Saltmarsh is passed, while ahead can
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Although not as clear an example of an avenue (s.p.b.s) this scene from Western Cemetery, Hull shows that the planners of early municipal cemeteries were driven by some of the same principals as in municipal parks, in particular, the value of diverse species of deciduous trees incorporated into the planning. This was more of an
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