This following the blog of 30th October. The first surviving written record of Burton Constable Hall dates from 1560 when it was already described as an ‘ancient building’. There is evidence in the immediate grounds of ‘ridge and furrow’ which may be related to the fact that nearby is a deserted village site, this and […]

Apologies again for the ‘break in service’, have had a mid/late-life crisis – details to anyone interested but for the moment sufficient to state ‘no fool like an old fool’. Last Monday saw the first of my five-week (short course) W.E.A. course on the English Civil Wars, 1642-1651, sometimes known as the Wars of three Kingdoms

Yesterday visited a craft fair at Burton Constable Hall, central Holderness, East Yorkshire. So long since I had been to Burton Constable Hall that it was in effect a first visit. The event was held in part of the stable block of buildings, as the room was so large and showed no signs of past

On watching the sheep in the field between this road (A1077) and the clay-bank of the Humber Estuary, on watching the birds at the bird-table (see above), on watching the dozen or so ducks on the ‘Beck’ in Barton and on numerous other occasions in the past I have noticed evidence of varying personalities among

Following on the theme of a few days ago Andrew Robinson gave a very good presentation on trees in Barton on Humber to the local civic society last Friday evening. His slides were excellent, and because they had been deliberately taken when few people or vehicles were about, e.g. Sundays, they focussed attention on the

Above is part of the cover of an occasional newsletter published by the ‘Animals Asia’ international charity. The principal aim of this charity is to rescue close-caged black bears that otherwise are kept in this state all their lives so that bile can be extracted from their abdomen, this being an ingredient in some traditional