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In the Country Park at Barton on Humber, in an area between the Visitor Centre (T.I.C.) and the Humber bank promenade is an arcing area of land where plants and grasses have been allowed to develop naturally. Nestling amongst the plants is a willow twig statue entitled ‘Daphne’. Daphne was a female fallow dear that, […]

With Spring being so held-back by the bitter weather throughout March (the coldest month of a long cold Winter) the sudden onset of unusually hot weather for April has caused Spring to spring into life suddenly. Suddenly the horse chestnut trees are bursting into leaf, suddenly the umbellifers are growing an inch a day, suddenly,

Various aspects common to Hull’s public parks were being decided between 1882 and 1884. One was that each should have an imposing main entrance, the picture above is of the ‘triumphal arch’ entrance to Pearson Park which, although earlier than East and West Parks set a benchmark to be followed. The main entrance to East Park

Between early 1882 and late 1884 Hull City Council made great strides forward in its intention to provide for its population ‘places of resort’. The Parks Committee focused its attention on finding and purchasing land suitable for a public park on the eastern and western fringes of the then town, ‘suitable site … in the East

(The above picture is taken from Wikipaedia and is of British military graves at Ypres, Belgium, it is not directly relevant to the current series of blogs). My current long-term research, the history of parks and cemeteries in Hull, currently involves a study  of Hull Council Committee Minute Books housed in the Search Room of Hull

While studying the minutes mentioned in the last blog I came across evidence of such a story, this unresolved. Hull City Council Burial Committee had, in 1881, ordered 10 dozen young trees to be planted in their cemeteries and disused burial grounds, those in Castle St. Burial Ground ‘so as to make it a more agreeable