Author name: Richard Clarke

Best quote of the ‘lockdown’ so far, ‘My mind is free I can be anywhere’, said by elderly man self-isolating. Worst quote of the ‘lockdown’ so far, ‘ We will have 100,000 test available per day by the end of April’ (thinks – nice round figure to dominate the media) ‘and come the day I […]

Above is an extract from Goodwill and Lawson’s map of Hull, 1842, ‘Engraved for Stephenson’s Hull Directory’ (trade directory). Surprisingly, given that across the intervening quarter of a century the national population had risen at an unprecedented rate, this map shows little increase in urbanisation across southern Sculcoates when compared with Cragg’s map (s.p.b.). Yes

The map extract above is taken from ‘A New Plan of the Town of Kingston upon Hull and its Environs’ published by ‘J. Craggs, Bookseller, Hull, 1817’. It shows the late-Georgian northward expansion of the built-up area of Hull into Sculcoates parish (Green Lane, near top of extract, still has that name, just north of

The above extract from Hargrave’s ‘Map of the County of Kingston-upon-Hull’, 1791, includes a slightly bigger area of south Sculcoates (see above) than Thew’s map (s.p.b.) and so includes the open quadrangle of Charterhouse alms-houses. To the south of the master’s house (surviving) a planted orchard/woodland is shown. Although this doesn’t extend south to Princes

The extract above is scanned from the top-right-hand corner of Thew’s map of Hull, 1784. Robert Thew was a Hull based engraver, on this occasion commissioned jointly by Samuel Thornton, M.P. for the town and county of Kingston upon Hull and William Wilberforce M.P. for the County of York. The map follows close on the

In the last blog (posted yesterday) I forgot to mention two points promised in the previous blog of 25/04. Workhouses were not so bad – this point was prompted by the consideration of those who died in Sculcoates workhouse and were buried in the second of the two detached burial grounds north of Sculcoates Lane.