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The above photo shows part of Ferens Boating Lake, 1914, two years after the land was donated to extend the Park in 1912. On two occasions Thomas Robinson Ferens bought land across which the original East Park, as established in the 1880s, was extended. Thomas Robinson Ferens, 1847-1930, was a remarkable benefactor to the City […]

This aerial photo was scanned from Bamford, T.W. The University of Hull, the first Fifty Years (Oxford University Press, 1978, p.23). It shows the buildings that comprised Hull University from the late 1920s to the 1950s when further building took place. The buildings shown survive facing Cottingham Road with building top-left now called Venn building

Hull University has a very attractive campus, the buildings date from various eras since the 1930s including modern halls of residence on campus. The campus contributes much greenery to the north Hull landscape and all is open to the general public. Generally I park up in Newland Park, cross Cottingham Road and enter the university

One more Twigmore view, bracken flourishing in the cover sands.

Another view in Twigmore Woods, showing part of one of the ponds with golden flags. A self-sown silver birch is doing well at the edge of the pond despite the water being very acidic. Most of the azaleas had purple flowers but a few we bright red and a few white. Azaleas are not native

Recently travelled to Twigmore Woods in the forested countryside south-east of Sculthorpe steel works. This is a famous wood as a result of diverse trees and shrubs growing there and for the large open pools. Once known as ‘Gull Wood’ because a large colony of common gulls stayed there all year round; it was a