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As is often the case in the English language the noun ‘citadel’ has taken on various meanings and inferences over time. The most common use for the term is to define a fortress (fort), a stronghold, a place of last stand if under threat or invasion and the Hull Citadel certainly fits that context. In some […]

The picture above is a copy of the bottom right part of Thew’s ‘Plan of the Town of Kingston upon Hull, from an Actual Survey, 1784’ and shows the ‘Citadel’ near the east bank of the lower River Hull. The Citadel was a roughly triangular fortified enclosure and was built in the 1680s as an improvement on

Last Tuesday’s lecture at Hull History Centre (s.p.b.) reminded me to check-out a booklet have had for years entitled Hull Castle Excavation 1970 (Hull Museum’s Bulletin No. 6, March 1971). The map above comes from this booklet and is entitled ‘Site of Tudor Fortification shown in relation to existing Victoria Docks’, 1970 – that is before

Last Tuesday attended the most recent of Hull History Centre’s monthly lectures. Given by Ken Steedman of Humber Field Archaeology it was a resume of digs and finds along the east bank of the lower River Hull, opposite the Old Town. The earliest fortification defending the eastern approach to Hull, apart from the River itself, comprised

The harsh reality of encouraging birds to your garden, particularly if they nest there, is that at this time of year there will be evidence of predation. My garden this year has been no exception; one helpless young bird had fallen, been plucked or pushed from the nest and had died. The picture above shows a reed warbler

The news that House of Frazer department store in Hull is to be closed could be viewed as an almost inevitable result of the demise of department stores, partly in the face of loss of trade to on-line buying, after all most other stores have gone already, Woolworths, BHS, Co-op (store), Alders etc. The House