Author name: Richard Clarke

The above photo was taken on 7th December, 2013, two days after the great flood resulting from the combination of a spring tide and coastal surge happening at the same time in the Humber Estuary. The view is looking west from a point east of the working clay tile works east of Barton’s coastal nature […]

The photo above shows a section of clay bank along the southern coast of Holderness (s.p.b.s), it is in the area of Cherry Cobb Sands, this a western extension of Sunk Island. This is clearly not a medieval clay bank because of its size and because the history of this whole area is complex with

Throughout the Middle Ages and beyond the basic form of flood defence was the linear ‘clay bank’, a potentially misleading name as the soil that was piled-up would have often been estuarine silts. If available, the ‘bank’ might have been reinforced by turves. The tidal range in the Humber Estuary is second only to that

The story of the Estuary’s wetlands, past, present and future is both interesting and very relevant. The extent of the wetlands, as seen in black in the map above, is second only to that of the Fens of Norfolk, Lincolnshire (Holland) and Cambridgeshire. Moving from right to left across the north bank the areas at,

On Saturday 27th July (next Sat) I will be tutoring a class in Barton on Humber organised by the recently formed Lifelong Learning group there, 1-30 to 3-30pm in the Joseph Wright Hall, short refreshment break halfway through. The Subject is ‘Flooding’, History of flooding across the Humberside region. I am intending to divide it

The photo above could almost have been taken anywhere across the country in a municipal cemetery; in fact it is the cover of a book about one specific municipal cemetery in Kings Lynn. Entitled ‘Studies on Hardwick Road Cemetery, Kings Lynn from 1849 to the Present’, edited by Julian Litten, published by the Friends of