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Programme for Parks, Cemeteries and Open Spaces for 2026, 14/02/’26 – Castle Street and Albert Dock meet at Greggs on Kingston Retail Park, 10am. 14/03/’26 – East Park meet at main gates, Holderness Road, 10am. 11/04/’26 – Pickering Park meet at main gate, Hessle High Road, 10am. 9/05/’26 – Sculcoates Lane Cemeteries meet at 200 […]

7/02/’26 – Trees and Curiosities. 7/03/’26 – Houses and Curiosities. 4/04/’26 – Birds, led by Africa Gomez. 2/05/’26 – Foraging and Medicinal Plants, led by Karen Wood. 6/06/’26 – Houses and Curiosities. 4/07/’26 – History of the Park’s site. 1/08/’26 – Trees and Curiosities. 5/09/’26 – Foraging and Medicinal plants, led by Karen Wood. 3/10/’26

Unfortunately I had not completed the setting up of the WhatsApp group as stated in yesterday’s blog. People interested need to email me their names and phone numbers and I then add them to the blog (I hadn’t understood one cannot sign oneself up). So please email me richardclarke278@gmail.com with name and phone number, I

Last years guided walks in some of Hull’s Parks and Cemeteries went well and I would like to thank those who attended a number of the walks across the various venues, and wish them well in 2026. The ‘just turn up’ system is all very well but it meant there was no contact between attendees

Today’s photo shows the north side of All Saints church, Boughton (not 2025). My parent’s and sister’s grave is one with a headstone roughly in the middle of the picture. An interesting aspect of Ladbrooke’s work (s.p.b.s) is the fact that about 30 years earlier a person was doing the same thing in north Lincolnshire

My photo of the south walls of All Saints church Boughton (taken two years ago) shows clearly the Y tracery and intersecting tracery of the new windows 1872. The replacement roofing material not pantiles but North Wales slate, readily available nationwide by 1870. The three-stage buttress at the south-east corner of the nave looks very