Author name: Richard Clarke

The next element of the Restoration Project as listed on the information board is ‘Landscape Improvement Works’. This is more open-ended than the other elements but, presumably, includes such things as the installation of a road-side kerb separating the park land from the peripheral road around it. This has been a big job as it […]

The next element of the Restoration Scheme as stated on the information panel is ‘Improvement works to the ice-cream kiosk’. The present building serving this purpose is seen above, right of centre, middle distance, with at one end public toilets and at the other end the park ranger’s storage ‘shed’. Immediately behind this building is

The fourth element on the Restoration Project information board is ‘re-building the Victorian conservatory’. (Large heated greenhouses – conservatories -, like bandstands, were to become a standard feature of most, but not all, late Victorian municipal parks. These represented a great investment by the park’s authorities not only in their building costs but also in

The photo. above shows one of the information boards for the above Scheme. Each of the above elements of the Project is progressing rapidly, this despite the extremely wet weather this Autumn especially earlier this week which has left much of the Park a shallow lake and which caused severe flooding in the River Don

I think it has been a slow autumn, the loss of leaves from the deciduous trees has been slow, here we are getting into November and very few trees have lost all their leaves although the rate of fall has quickened today with a blustery north-east wind and wintery showers blowing in along the North

Hull is getting an increase in its number of footbridges. A couple of years ago a very modern swing footbridge was constructed over the lower River Hull just north of Myton bridge, this carrying the heavy east-west traffic over the River Hull between Castle Street and Drypool. Now two further footbridges are under construction. For