Some years ago I was fortunate to be given a pack of papers and reports broadly relating to the Humber Estuary. One was a hard cover ‘Report on the Lighthouses, Lightships, Light Floats, Buoys and Vessels’ belonging to the Humber Conservancy Board, dated 1939.The Humber Conservancy Board had been formed in 1908 at which point […]
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Today’s picture shows one of a number of paths through the line of old sand dunes along the lowland coast south of Cleethorpes Leisure Centre with the lowland coast seen beyond. Such paths, although convenient for people, actually are a weak point in the coastal flood defences, a combined spring tide and coastal surge would
Today’s photo is of Cleethorpes seafront (taken a few years ago); none of the workers being ferried out to work on Haile fort would have seen such a scene but rather a part promenade, the railway station, sand dunes along the top of the beach and just a few houses.The German battleship attacks on Scarborough
Unfortunately, my photos recently taken of the two forts out in the Estuary came out fuzzy and so my pictures for this sub-topic will be of sections of the lowland coast between Cleethorpes Leisure Centre and Humberstone Fitties. The one above shows a section of now inland, once beach, land between two ridges of old
A few years ago I was kindly given some old documentary stuff, generally about the Humber Estuary in some context or another. One item was an A3 magazine published in August 1923, one of a long-running series entitled Blackwood’s Magazine. Its remit seems to have been stories from around the world, these with good provenance
The photo above is of St. Peter’s church, Rowley, taken from the south-east corner of the churchyard. The church stands 200 yards east of the Manor house and comprises west tower, nave south and north aisles, the Ellerker chapel and the chancel.For about a century the Ellerker family were based at Risby Hall, also in