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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

The image of Beverley Minster included on Bowen’s county map of 1832 (see above) is interesting in that it shows the Minster as might be seen today from the Beverley end of Long Lane, a majestic building the product of a two-hundred year east to west building programme spanning the three main eras of Gothic

The picture above is of the top right-hand corner of Greenwood’s map (s.p.b.s) and forms the title credit. The bit of the map visible shows Flamborough Head, and immediately south the fact that Bridlington (Burlington) and Bridlington Quay were then (1832) still quite separate settlements. Despite some features on the map being indistinct two elements

Greenwood’s map is the last of those listed in the blog of 28th August last. Christopher Greenwood (1786-1855) was a London publisher who compiled and published maps of most of the counties of England. Quoting from the notes on the back  of a print of this map, along with other East Yorkshire county maps published by the

Bowen’s mid 18th century county map incorporates a mine of information but mostly in the form of writing rather than by a lot of symbols and a comprehensive key. There is a small key ‘Explanation’ which distinguishes rectories from vicarages by a letter over a stylised church symbol, which identifies the site of ‘Antient Religious Houses’,