Author name: Richard Clarke

The photo above, Wikipedia credit ukhousing/images/8/8b/IMAG0239, shows Mildane, one of Orchard Park Estate’s 10 tower block housing units built in the 1960s. Until their staged demolition since 2002 these tower blocks formed a bold feature in the landscape visible across much of Humberside, this emphasising one of the potential advantages of tower block living – […]

Just a one blog break from the above title. The photo above shows a band of cow parsley growing along a hedge bottom beside the set-aside headland of an arable field. Early to mid May is the time when cow parsley suddenly seems to grow upwards a few inches overnight and come into flower with

(Above, Harold Wilson by an unknown photographer). Coming forward in time to the 1960s the ‘modernist’ movement dominated the scene. This was the decade when everything was going to become different typified by plastic household objects, mass car ownership, central heating, motorways, diesel trains, washing machines, ‘cubist’ building plans and prefabrication, these much influenced by

The above picture (attributed to Howard Coster on the relevant Wikipedia page) shows Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health 1945-1951 in Clement Attlee’s Labour government, and thereby responsible for housing in Britain. His, and the government’s, policy was to focus on building council houses rather than leaving housing provision to the free market. As in the

Today’s photo is taken from Wikipedia (despite what I stated last time) and has the author’s attribution as ‘By Peter Church, CCBY-SA20,https://commons’. It shows the Regal cinema in Ferensway, Hull, built in the 1930s by Tarran Industries and demolished in 2005 to make way for the new St. Stephen’s shopping, entertainment and eating emporium. Robert

Today’s photo shows the Georgian entrance to the market hall in Hereford town centre, picture taken Christmas Eve.After writing blog 32 I realised that there may have been a connection between the Charterhouse Board school picture and the development of North Hull Estate as some of the children that attended Charterhouse may have been re-home