Again apologies for break in service – changing to Windows 10 plus bad bought of sickness followed by chest infection. Following the last blog about Hessle Local History Society another article of interest was printed in the latest edition of Landscape History (the twice yearly journal of the Society for Landscape Studies) – interesting because […]

Incidentally it is six years to the day that I was flooded-out at South Ferriby – 6-30pm – and now I live on another floodplain! Have for some years been a member of Hessle Local History Soc., Hessle being now a suburb of west Hull but still in the unitary authority of the East Riding

Apologies again for ‘break in transmission’ further problems with laptop. The photo above is of a Croatian sheep. Just over a week ago I had an email from Animals Australia, a worthy charity that I have occasionally donated to, with the awful news that a Romanian ship transporting 14000 live animals to the Middle East

I have a copy of a leaflet published 1992 (see above cover page), Glanford was then the middle tier of the county council local government structure of Humberside. Glanford’s area covered the region between and around Barton and Brigg, it had existed as a local government area before the creation of Humberside County in 1973

The above 25” map extract shows Twigmoor Woods south of the M180 and to the west of the road leading south from the A18 en-route for Kirton Lindsey, the phrase ‘Gull Ponds’ is used on the map but these are now more wetland/marsh than ponds. In the south-west corner of the map extract is shown

The unprecedented levels of rainfall throughout October and November (particularly) have led to much flooding with ground saturated and a resulting build-up of surface water. In Pearson Park, Hull this has resulted in a large percentage of the Park’s grass areas becoming shallow lakes showing, as water always does, the slightly lower-lying areas in a