Author name: Richard Clarke

Back to the focus on the Humber Estuary and in particular here the stretch of Humber bank walking west from Hessle Country Park to Brough Haven area. As previously stated for much of this route the public right of way is sandwiched between the Estuary foreshore and the rail line to Hull Paragon station. Inland, […]

I think that, for some reason , this set-up can only present pictures taken landscape rather than portrait, anyway, again apologies. The photo above shows a statue near to the entrance lock to Humber Dock, now Hull’s Marina, and standing behind the flood defence wall of the Humber Estuary bank itself. The statue shows two

(Again this problem of pictures going sideways which I cannot solve). The photo above shows a section of Beverley Beck with a shoal (‘school’) of the type of fish that dominate this watercourse which look like small sharks, clearly they are not, but what are they? This was taken on one of those very hot

I have resolved to re-walk the Humber Estuary bank in stages, re-walk because I did this about 20 years ago but the photographic record is on slides. Have so far completed two sections; one from Hessle Country Park west to the old British Aerospace site near Brough Haven and the other from Blacktoft on the

Sorry, but again the photo has presented sideways and I cannot find out how to change it. The photo shows part of Eske Carrs wetland nature reserve administered by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. It covers the whole of a meander in the middle section of the River Hull, a couple of miles north of Beverley.

Looking south across the Humber Estuary from the new seating on Nelson St. (see previous blog) in the distance, and just rising above the reclaimed lowlands of the south Humber foreshore, is an indistinct outline of the dip slope of the Lincolnshire Wolds. Such a view sets in motion thoughts as to the width of