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Follow-up to the last blog.

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Above is a photo of a late 17th chair. The issue of to what extent flooding was considered a disaster in the past is an interesting one. For those living on flood plains flooding must have been relatively common, clay bank or no clay bank, river levee or no. Modern houses can very easily be […]

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The Early History of Kingston upon Hull.

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The photo above shows a section of the Humber Estuary north-bank clay bank between Thorngumbald Marsh and Stone Creek on a particularly cold, grey February morning. I am, for this post, just picking-up on the mention of clay banks in the last post and have probably written about this before. The bank here almost certainly

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Update/Explanation.

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I have neglected my blogs/posts for a week or two as I needed to focus on preparing various presentations in the diary for this summer. Although I had promised myself I would not embark on any new projects, three of them are! The short list is – 17/5/24 – Barton Civic Society – ‘Early History

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The Early History of Kingston upon Hull 4.

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Only a decade before Abraham de la Pryme, s.p.b., came to Hull the events of 1688 had taken place whereby King James II fled England and was replaced by William Duke of Orange and Anne Stuart (James’ daughter) as joint monarchs (married couple). Presumably Abraham approved of these events as he had been brought-up as

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The Early History of Kingston upon Hull 3.

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The two book covers shown above are of a two-part publication produced by Malet Lambert Reprints in 1986 (Kingston upon Hull City Council having the copyright and both having an ISBN number). When Abraham de la Pryme compiled his manuscript of primary source material and commentary in, or around, 1700 he was employed as one

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The Early History of Kingston upon Hull 2.

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The above map is taken from the much referenced booklet published by the East Yorkshire Local History Society in 1958 and entitled ‘The Draining of the Hull Valley’, author June Sheppard. Incidentally, June Shepperd was no relation to Thomas Sheppard (1876-1945) the first curator of Hull Libraries; but she was an early student ay Hull

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