Author name: Richard Clarke

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.

This will be the last post of this run and I have been reminded that to some extent recent posts have repeated some stuff recorded in the run ‘Humber Beacons’, written between 1st November 2022 and 15th December 2022. Here the features are written about in the context of walking the Humber bank. The above

Whereas the brickwork of the was rendered and then painted red the low light (s.p.b.) was coloured white by the unpainted render. There is no evidence that the high light was lived in although the spiral staircase was lit on each flour by a twelve-pane vertical sash window and the chimney stack retains evidence of

A very interesting point on the walk along the tidal barrier promenade is encountered near to Immingham Dock. Here are three historic lighthouses, the one above the only one still functioning as such, although I don’t think it’s essential. The one above, the most easterly of the three, was built in 1835 as the ‘low