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When thinking about coastal studies, and resorts in particular, it soon happens that similar histories crop-up in different places, indeed this is why local history alone can fall short.The financial failure of the proposed cliff-top resort at Ravenscar and of the similar project at Withernsea on the Holderness coast is one such example, although Withernsea […]

Most of the man-made scars on the cliff-face in the coastline north and south of Ravenscar are not the result of the planned gardens of a new resort (s.p.b.s) but a result of the alum open-cast mining along and above the cliffs. Certainly in the 18th and early 19th centuries alum quarrying was a major

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The photo above shows the view north-east from the patio of Clock Cafe, South Bay, Scarborough (s.p.b.).South Cliff Gardens is in fact an amalgamation of a number of ‘garden’ areas that were created below the Esplanade at various points of time. To catalogue these separate points from north to south: the gardens above and either

Today’s picture is taken from George Poulson’s History of Holderness and is an illustration of Hedon church as seen from the north. As G.E. Scott’s restoration of Hedon church was not carried-out until the 1860s Poulson’s illustration shows the church prior to that restoration; although the more obvious changes to the fabric, such as the

St. Augustine’s church is one of the very big parish churches on the north bank of the Humberside region. Like its XXXL neighbours St. Patrich’s, Patrington and Holy Trinity, Hull (Hull Minster) it was never a monastic church whereas St. John’s, Beverley (Beverly Minster) was. The size of Hedon church is explained more by reference