Author name: Richard Clarke

A continuation of the list of recommended blogs from this website, for numbers 1-20 s.p.b.s. (21) History of Hull’s Cemeteries, 24 blogs, starting 10/3/2019. (22) Reed’s Island, Ravenser Odd and Sunk Island, 16 blogs, starting11/6/2019. (23) County maps of the East Riding, 13 blogs, starting 28/8/2019. (24) Pearson Park, Hull restoration, 7 blogs, starting 5/11/2019. […]

1 – 10 of selected titles s.p.b.(11) River Hull, 3 blogs, starting 22/2/17, Plus single blogs on 14/11/2016 and 29/11/2016 and 19/12/2016.(12) Copernicus, 2 blogs, starting 14/2/2018.(13) History of Hessle Common, 5 blogs, started 17/2/2018.(14) Gainsborough Old Hall, 2 blogs, started 27/2/2018, plus 2 blogs starting 24/2/2018.(15) Peter Scott, 2 blogs, starting 18/3/2018.(16) Churches Conservation

I have been up-dating the inventory of my blogs compiled between 19/02/2016 and 2/12/2021. The 600+ blogs cover a total of 188 topics, some covered by just one blog, some up to 40. Of the 188 there are 35 of which I am not too ashamed. Therefore I am going to list those 35 with

I compiled the bulk of this Inventory between 3/11/’20 and 11/11/’20, with a summing-up blog on 2/2/’21. So the sections unrecorded on the previous Inventory are; Disused Rail Lines as Public Rights of Way, 20 blogs, 13/11/20 – 31/12/20, Update and Overview for 2021, 6 blogs, 12/1/21 – 20/1/21, Allotments, 5 blogs, 25/1/21 – 4/2/21,

By the late 18th century Wallingfen was becoming a well known area for the cultivation of hemp, this especially so around its edge where post-enclosure drainage was beginning to have an effect. As seen from the picture above hemp is a tall crop with spiky, serated palmate leaves, it needs a plentiful supply of ground

Today’s picture is a photo, presumably taken from a crane gib, of the excavation of what might be called Wallingfen’s celebrity. About 2400 years ago a huge, hollowed-out log-boat sank in a channel in the marsh not far from the current course of the River Foulness. In 1984 it was fortunate that archaeologists were field