Author name: Richard Clarke

Today’s photo. shows Rowley church as viewed from the south-east. Rowley church stands alongside the early Georgian rectory, this now a hotel and tearoom. The five bay original house faces south, the east wing was a late 18th century addition and on a clear day standing at the french windows of this east wing there […]

Today’s picture is an early 20th century (exact date uncertain) black and white photo. of the rooftops of Barton as taken from the top of the tower of St. Peter’s church. As such it shows the terrace of five cottages previously discussed and demolished in 1957. The ‘row’ is upper centre of the photo. with

Following on from yesterday’s blog the photo. above shows the gable end wall of the two cottages on yesterday’s plan on the right and which still stand, the wall showing the outline of the end of the five adjoining cottages demolished in 1957. This shows that the five cottages opened onto the street/pavement (as do

Apologies for the recent poor level of service but I have had, and still do have, a very bad cold, not Covid. Continuing the above theme today’s illustration is a plan copied from some old documents which were saved from destruction by John French when Lindsey County Council gave way to Humberside in 1973. It

Firstly, just a hangover from the last blog – St. James’ church, Grimsby and Holy Trinity, Hull are both now classified as minster churches, however, St. James actually was a medieval ‘minster’ church. Another comparison is that old Grimsby once had two parish churches but St. Mary’s fell into disrepair and was demolished, in Hull

I have decided to linger with Grimsby for a while. As previously identified, the Nunsthorpe local authority housing estate was started in the late 1930s. As such it must have been an example of Lindsey County Council’s response to government legislation of the mid-late 1930s prioritising house building in which to rehome families living in