Author name: Richard Clarke

Yesterday’s blog included a photo of the Newland Community notice board on the corner of Clough Rd. and Beverley Rd. In need of t.l.c. but nevertheless an indication of the idea that once separate communities to the main town can, with some determination, retain some identity as, for example, do the spring-line settlements to the […]

The second pre-20th century suburban development is centred on the Newland area of north Hull, being still in the mid 19th century a straggling hamlet into which the ribbon development alongside Beverley Road was intruding by that time. My study here is currently disadvantaged by two things; (a) with the Hull History Centre being closed

Unlike 20th century suburbs of Hull, the spring-line settlements at the base of the dip slope of the Yorkshire Wolds and those on the fringes of Holderness such as Sutton and Bilton, Sculcoates has no ‘centre’ by which it can be defined. Even when still a rural parish the settlement was ribbon or straggling in

The last map extract I am using to show the development of Sculcoates from farming hamlet to part of an urban area is from G. W. Bacon’s ‘Plan of Hull’ produced in 1906 for inclusion in the Kelly’s Directory of the time. (With the History Centre being closed I am limited to the maps I

The map extract above covers much of Sculcoates parish and is taken from Goodwill and Lawson’s second ‘Plan of Hull’ published 1869. The extension of the built environment through Sculcoates was still dominated by industrial development snaking beside the meanders of the lower River Hull. The largest industrial building shown was that of the Kingston

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