The photo above shows another section of Barmston Drain showing luxuriant summer growth, before the reeds were dredged out s.p.b., both along the drain banks and along the embankment to the left of the footpath. The view is looking north from a foot/cycle bridge over the Drain with the ‘narrow bridge’ at the eastern end […]

Apologies for the break in transmission, an aching right eye became so painful that I spent last Sunday in A. and E. and the Eye Hospital, eventually decided I had severe retinal infection, then getting a supply of the relevant steroid eye drops took two days. The eye is still painful but the drops are

Today’s picture shows a section of Barmston Drain with the bridge being at the eastern end of Stepney Lane, off Beverley Road, Hull. The single low-arch red brick bridge and parapet is sometimes called ‘narrow bridge’; although across it is a low key industrial estate and a detached house, it was clearly never built to

Today’s photo shows the final section of Barmston Drain before a culvert under Wincolmlee carries the water into the River Hull (the metallic silos shown are on the opposite bank of the River Hull). The scene shown is part of Hull’s old industrial corridor threading up both sides of the River. Just off picture to

The photo above, the only one of 5 taken at dusk and worth showing, shows the outline, but certainly not the details, of a 15 – 20 feet high embankment running north-south along the eastern edge of Victoria Dock Village, Hull. The reason for this embankment being there is unknown to me, presumably it is

There has been a gap as I was meant to have surgery on Friday 1st December which did not happen because was told at 9am, when all ready, that there was a robot malfunction and the operation had to be postponed. Telephone call today from the hospital to say that it has been rescheduled to