Author name: Richard Clarke

The two book covers shown above are of a two-part publication produced by Malet Lambert Reprints in 1986 (Kingston upon Hull City Council having the copyright and both having an ISBN number). When Abraham de la Pryme compiled his manuscript of primary source material and commentary in, or around, 1700 he was employed as one […]

The above map is taken from the much referenced booklet published by the East Yorkshire Local History Society in 1958 and entitled ‘The Draining of the Hull Valley’, author June Sheppard. Incidentally, June Shepperd was no relation to Thomas Sheppard (1876-1945) the first curator of Hull Libraries; but she was an early student ay Hull

The above shows a plan of Hull dated 1725 which can be viewed in the Search Room of Hull History Centre. In the lower centre is the mouth of the River Hull ‘Hull Fluv.’ It is clear that even by 1725 the 14th century town walls remained intact and the massive Citadel dominated the east

The small municipal park in Selby is a gem. One thing I like about Selby is that it is compact; within less than a square mile are; the rail station, bus station, the park, Selby Abbey, the market place, lots of shops (mostly small-scale) in close-by streets and alleys, a department store, the River Ouse,

I am going to conclude this series of blogs/posts under the heading of Green Places with a mention of the Humber Forest Project. Begun in 1990 the project is one 15 community forests in England with four being in the Northern Forest which stretches from Liverpool across to Kingston upon Hull. This description, which generates

Continuing east along the south bank of the Humber Estuary from the Lincs. Trust building (see blog 33) and passing under the Humber Bridge the ‘Point’ is arrived at, this being the Humber Bridge viewing area with seating, car park and cafe. Just inland a footbridge crosses Barton Haven (see above), the boatyard being on