Author name: Richard Clarke

The picture above shows part of the first known navigational chart of the Humber compiled by Lord Burleigh, or more likely his workforce, c.1560. It clearly shows the coastline of south Holderness before the reclamation of Cherry Cobb Sands and Sunk Island – in doing so it shows the Humber Estuary lapping-up to the southern […]

Today’s photo. shows a view across the Estuary from the south bank. This particular point along the coast is known as Chowder Ness, a curious name, its etymology being unknown to me. As along much of the south bank, the coastline here is a man-made sea bank and ‘promenade’. I think this is one of

The final location in this series on monastic history is the site of Hull’s Carmelite Friary. The photo. above shows the excavated site of Hull’s Beverley Gate, one of four gates in the late-medieval town wall, with Whitefriargate street stretching east. The name Whitefriargate comes directly from the position of the Carmelite Friary, ‘white’ from

The above picture shows a remnant of Blackfriargate Staithe which led to the River Hull ‘Old Harbour’, incidentally, the point from which the Hull – Barton ferry sailed from 1320s onwards as permitted initially by Edward II. Just inland of this point was the built complex of the Augustinian friary in Hull from the 13th

When Ken MacMahon’s history of Beverley was printed (Beverley (Dalesman Books, 1973) he wrote of the site of the Dominican Friary ‘the building stands pathetic, forlorn and desolate – grim evidence of 20th century official vandalism and planned neglect’. By the early 21st century David Neave, in his updating of Pevsner’s Yorkshire – York and

Contemporary with the establishment of Hull’s Carthusian monastery (s.p.b.) friars and friaries had become the most endowed of monastic establishments. Unlike the ‘older’ monastic orders friaries were usually established in urban, rather than rural, areas and the lifestyle of friars was outgoing rather than cloistered. Two results of these points are that friars must have