Although the words ‘Myton Ward’ are clearly marked on the 1928 detailed O.S. map it is hard to find the word Myton appearing in any context on today’s equivalent except for Myton Street, the short street immediately west of the new Bonus Arena. To the north of Myton Ward in 1928 was ‘Botanic Ward’, this […]

The picture above (taken from Wikipedia) shows the gates to an area of Liverpool known as Strawberry Fields made famous in an early Beatles song. It was in their younger days (I think) the site of a Salvation Army children’s home, now demolished, presumably. I suspect the term Strawberry Fields pre-dated the Home as it

Today’s picture is a view from above Welton Dale and looking south-west across the upper Humber Estuary to Trent Falls with, on the horizon, a threatening Autumnal sky. Twenty years after the enclosure of Myton Carr the remainder of Hessle Common was enclosed by Act of Parliament. This would have impacted on the southern part

Today’s picture has nothing to do with Myton but given that I, and I imagine at least some others, am clinging to the hope of some more settled spring weather its comforting to see a mid summer grass verge which includes some tall (yellow) agrimony. The text of the Act for ‘Dividing and Inclosing a

The left-hand side of Buck’s ‘The South-East Prospect of Kingston Upon Hull’, 1745 (see above) shows a small section of Myton manor immediately beyond Hull’s west-side 14th century town walls. Here shown is a three-cottage terrace of one-and-a-half storeys with three chimney stacks and, alongside, a four-sail post-mill. Jeffries map of Hull, 1767, the earliest

This third picture of blackthorn bushes shows wild strawberry in flower at ground level below the bush. Given that wild strawberry like a calcareous soil it would have been unlikely that any would have grown across historic Myton, plus the grazing sheep would have soon nibbled off the flower-heads. Wild strawberries always remind me of