Author name: Richard Clarke

Today’s photo is of a bed of lady’s bedstraw, or maybe crosswort. It is said to have been a medieval mattress stuffing or just strewn on the top-sheet as it is soft to the touch and has a mild fragrance, a present from the groom to his bride on their wedding night. Historically Marfleet was […]

Rose-bat willow herb, known in Tudor times as ‘codlings and cream’. Continued directly from last blog – Book of Inquisitions – transcribed by members of the Yorkshire Archaeological Soc. and printed in their Record Series from 1890s onwards. Yorkshire Deeds – transcribed in Yorkshire Archaeological Journal. Calendar of Patent Rolls (rolls of parchment containing archives

Willow herb flowers from the top down. Holderness Road had been part of the Hedon-Preston-Hull Turnpike between 1745 and 1878 (see MacMahon, K.A. Roads and Turnpike Trusts in Eastern Yorkshire (E.Y.L.H.S., 1964) and as residential development extended along it from the late 19th century (s.p.b.) this long straight road came to divide the Southcoates area

Above photo is of a patch of willow-herb, just coming into flower now (photo some years ago), a month earlier than 50 years ago. The last map I have available to me at present to show the development of Drypool parish from rural late-Georgian settlement to industrial/residential suburb is Bacon’s Plan of Hull of 1906.

The photo above shows a view east along Victoria Dock from a point near the Dock entrance off the River Hull, it shows how the creation of the Dock really hemmed-in St Peter’s church (s.p.b.s), Drypool, this before the damage done by enemy bombing during the early 1940s. To return to the line of thought

As well as the Victoria Dock Railway the map extract of the last blog shows the points at which the Withernsea (Hull and Holderness Railway) and Hornsea Railways veered off from the main line. The rail-line to Withernsea was opened in 1854, that to Hornsea a decade later. Therefore people living in west Hull could