Author name: Richard Clarke

Today’s picture is a view from above Welton Dale and looking south-west across the upper Humber Estuary to Trent Falls with, on the horizon, a threatening Autumnal sky. Twenty years after the enclosure of Myton Carr the remainder of Hessle Common was enclosed by Act of Parliament. This would have impacted on the southern part […]

Today’s picture has nothing to do with Myton but given that I, and I imagine at least some others, am clinging to the hope of some more settled spring weather its comforting to see a mid summer grass verge which includes some tall (yellow) agrimony. The text of the Act for ‘Dividing and Inclosing a

The left-hand side of Buck’s ‘The South-East Prospect of Kingston Upon Hull’, 1745 (see above) shows a small section of Myton manor immediately beyond Hull’s west-side 14th century town walls. Here shown is a three-cottage terrace of one-and-a-half storeys with three chimney stacks and, alongside, a four-sail post-mill. Jeffries map of Hull, 1767, the earliest

This third picture of blackthorn bushes shows wild strawberry in flower at ground level below the bush. Given that wild strawberry like a calcareous soil it would have been unlikely that any would have grown across historic Myton, plus the grazing sheep would have soon nibbled off the flower-heads. Wild strawberries always remind me of

On 12th January, 2012 I took some photos of wild plants that have the potential to flower throughout the 12 months of the year. Although struggling to cope with a hard morning frost the daisies above would have opened their petals given the rays of low-angled sunlight that were soon to follow. For the issue

The above photo. shows a mature blackthorn bush in flower in late February, it is situated alongside Middlegate an ancient (pre-Roman) routeway that linked the Wash with the Humber. This particular point may be found two-thirds of the way up the scarp slope of the Lincolnshire Wolds about halfway between the villages of South Ferriby