Author name: Richard Clarke

Most of the man-made scars on the cliff-face in the coastline north and south of Ravenscar are not the result of the planned gardens of a new resort (s.p.b.s) but a result of the alum open-cast mining along and above the cliffs. Certainly in the 18th and early 19th centuries alum quarrying was a major […]

The photo above shows the view north-east from the patio of Clock Cafe, South Bay, Scarborough (s.p.b.). South Cliff Gardens is in fact an amalgamation of a number of ‘garden’ areas that were created below the Esplanade at various points of time. To catalogue these separate points from north to south: the gardens above and

Recently took the train to Scarborough in order to join a tour of the restored Italianate Gardens, South Bay, Scarborough, organised by Scarborough Civic Society. Having walked down the pedestrianised shopping street turned right past Grand Hotel, over the Valley footbridge and past the Spa on the way to Clock Cafe on the hillside (cliffside)

Continuing west from Market Weighton canal lock along the top of the clay bank the walk approaches Trent Falls, the point at which the Rivers Trent and Ouse merge to form the inland end of the Humber Estuary, the ‘head’ of this coastal estuary. The best viewing point by far from which to see Trent

I have no picture of Broomfleet church so am showing one of Cliffe church, sited on the eastern edge of Wallingfen and mostly built of the local limestone (clad, if I remember correctly, onto brick walls). Broomfleet church comprises nave, chancel, north tower incorporating an entrance porch, the tower topped by a short spire. The

The photo above shows a view north from the footbridge over the lock-gates of Market Weighton Canal and shows a view over this section of Wallingfen. The Market Weighton Canal was created in 1773 by the canalisation of the lower River Foulness which previously meandered across Wallingfen. The economic incentive for the canalisation was the