Of course the overall figure of persons per square mile across the whole area of a nation is a crude yardstick. In the case of Britain, for example, the new housing policy immediately following the Great War (‘Homes for Heroes’) required a density of new-builds, mostly for working class people, of four to the acre. Given […]

A clear knowledge of the total population figure is fundamental to the functioning of a modern country. Forward planning by the government for all social and economic policies relies on this knowledge. Obviously in the 21st century the government needs to know much more than the global figure but the basic premise still stands. Governments through history

In often heated debates in/on the media in the last few years related to immigration and its associated phrases such as; racism, economic migrants, E.C. policy of free movement and the looming possibility of migrants driven by climate change I have yet to here any commentator, academic or politician home-in on density of population statistics.

In the Country Park at Barton on Humber, in an area between the Visitor Centre (T.I.C.) and the Humber bank promenade is an arcing area of land where plants and grasses have been allowed to develop naturally. Nestling amongst the plants is a willow twig statue entitled ‘Daphne’. Daphne was a female fallow dear that,

With Spring being so held-back by the bitter weather throughout March (the coldest month of a long cold Winter) the sudden onset of unusually hot weather for April has caused Spring to spring into life suddenly. Suddenly the horse chestnut trees are bursting into leaf, suddenly the umbellifers are growing an inch a day, suddenly,

Various aspects common to Hull’s public parks were being decided between 1882 and 1884. One was that each should have an imposing main entrance, the picture above is of the ‘triumphal arch’ entrance to Pearson Park which, although earlier than East and West Parks set a benchmark to be followed. The main entrance to East Park