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Following on from the previous post I also need to point out that although all the 800 or so posts are uploaded to the new website the pictures that went with them are now separate and I have to trawl through to reallocate them as they are not in any order. Consequently I only have […]

As previously stated, I have been wrestling with the refinements of the new website, and I nearly lost on a ‘submission’ (’60s wrestling on tele. Saturday afternoons). I think I now know how to compose a blog (post) although there are refinements I have yet to try. Also, as previously stated Section 3 of this

On another bitterly cold day with the wind unhindered from the north I walked the again concrete promenade (s.p.b.) from the outflow of Killingholme Beck (near the ships’ jetties) to the western boundary of Immingham Dock complex. All of the level land on the landward side of the flood defence has been reclaimed from the

Inland of the section of concrete promenade between the mouth of East Halton Beck and the Killingholme Dock jetties (s.p.b.) the large post enclosure fields had annual arable crops up to about six years ago. Now they are grassed, and for much of the length parallel channels have been dug. I think this land is

Recently endured a bitterly cold north-west wind to walk another section of the Humber bank, this time on the south bank. This stretch was from the mouth of East Halton Beck (sometimes called East Halton Skitter) eastwards to Killingholme Dock. This ‘dock’ is not actually a dock but two jetties out into the Humber along

The gun battery at Paull (s.p.b.) was apparently rebuilt in 1807 (p.646, s.p.b.s) and dismantled after the Napoleonic Wars in 1820. The bulk of the existing fortress complex was built in the early 1860s with some changes 30 years later. The inside of the complex is not visible from the immediate surrounding area as it