Like some of us doubtless the local barn owls are struggling to cope with winter conditions, particularly so last month (December) when the weather was very cold and raw. However I don’t have problem of shortage of food – the Xmas-time pressure to excess, with the consequent excessive waste generated, being a stain on western society. […]
4th January, 2018. Wildlife. Read More »
Normanby Hall, four miles north of Scunthorpe, was built in the 1820s, again on the site of an earlier mansion. It was built by, as was its predecessor, the family of the Earls of Sheffield. One hundred years previously an ancestor had built Buckingham Palace in London. Post-war Normanby Hall was gifted to the local authority
28TH December, 2017. Humberside large period houses – final one of my list. Read More »
Elsham Hall (see above) is in the village of Elsham, the most southerly of the six ‘Low Villages’ (South Ferriby, Horkstow, Saxby All Saints, Bonby, Worlaby and Elsham) all of which stand along the near the base of the scarp slope of the Lincolnshire Wolds along the spring-line. Saxby All Saints has a large Hall in
14th December, 2017. Humberside large period houses – south bank (cont.). Read More »
Barrow Hall (Barrow on Humber) stands immediately south of the village and is currently a private nursing home. The main block, built as a period residence in the late 18th century, is a two-storey, brick-built and hip roof plain classical construction with its seven-bay, centre-entrance main façade west facing (see aerial photo. above). Considerable evidence
12th December, 2017. Humberside large period houses, south bank (cont.). Read More »
Baysgarth House in Barton on Humber (s.p.b. on Baysgarth Park immediately south of the house) was built of brick to an L-shaped ground-plan. The earlier park of the building complex, behind the south-facing frontage seen above, had a north-south orientation and faced west, the seven bay two-storey addition dates from the mid-18th century (see above). Records show
10th December, 2017. Humberside large period houses, south bank (cont.). Read More »
Whereas, particularly on the southern Yorkshire Wolds, there was a cultural trend for those who achieved wealth and status through business and trade in Hull to move out to ‘the country’ and to build or extend ‘country seats’ (see Allison, K. Hull gent seeks country residence), on the south bank of the Humber no parallel
9th December, 2017. Humberside large period houses – south bank. Read More »