Author name: Richard Clarke

A very valuable source of evidence re life in Hull in the 1830s and before is a Malet Lambert Local History Reprint of  Greenwood’s Picture of Hull, dated 1835 and including 70 illustrations (drawings/engravings). On page 79 in an illustration of the second parish church to be built in Sculcoates village (see above). To the […]

The photo above shows the ‘sylvan glen’ that is/was Castle Street d.b.g. Before getting onto to some more general points about Sculcoates (see blog 5/4/20) I list a few extracts from the Parks and Burials Committee minutes relevant to Trippett disused burial grounds (see previous blogs); 1885 – ‘big lads’ throwing stones from Trippett St.

One aspect of the relatively small area called Trippett (s.p.b.) that I know something of is that between 1775 and 1855 it was the site of St. Mary Lowgate’s detached burial ground. After 1855 deceased parishioners would have been buried in Hull’s General Cemetery, opened 1847, although as this was a private/commercial cemetery it would

One interesting aspect of the parish plan of Sculcoates dated 1691 (see above and s.p.b.) is the field pattern, the rectangular fields evidencing enclosure. As this was prior to the onset of Parliamentary Enclosure the parish land must have been enclosed by private agreement. In other parishes where this happened in north Lincs. and in

Having written 12 blogs between 4/02/’20 and 17/03/’20 on the theme of Myton I thought I would return to the above theme by considering Sculcoates, Newland, Drypool, Southcoates, Marfleet, the ‘groves’ (a term applied to more than one area) and Trippett. The scan above is from a very feint copy I have of a plan

This last blog in this series focuses on No 170 which I recently bought for 50p. at Hull History Centre and entitled ‘Roman Pottery and Kilns at Throlam near Holme-on-Spalding-Moor’, dated 1930. The picture reconstruction above is copied from page 3. Here again ‘Tommy’ Sheppard was leading an excavation. The number of this booklet in