Apologies for the gap since last post – had another viral stomach infection until middle of this week which flared-up Easter Friday. April is a month to relish in the hedgerows, roadside verges, churchyards and indeed in the fields of growing crops. This afternoon walked Cliff Rd., South Ferriby, then onto chalk shingle beach to […]

Although the above view is of part of Goxhill ‘Marsh’ taken from the vantage point of the clay-bank flood defence it is a suitable image for the following comment. Today, 9th April, went for walk along the concrete flood defence alongside the Humber Estuary from the mouth of East Halton Beck to Killingholme dock jetty.

Recently encouraged to explore Sculcoates Lane, Hull cemeteries as she had some evidence that paupers from the Sculcoates workhouse were there buried. There are in fact three historic cemeteries on Sculcoates Lane/Air Street. The one beside the junction with Wincolmlee I know well and close-by was once Sculcoates parish church, this when Sculcoates was a village

Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473-1543, was a Renaissance academic and astronomer of Polish/German descent. Shortly before his death his book was published in which he expanded on his discovery that the Sun, not the Earth, was at the centre of our solar system, which brought his ideas into direct conflict with the Roman Catholic Church. Even Martin

First ones of the season seen recently either beside Middlegate or New Quarry – periwinkle, buttercup, cowslip (see pic.), speedwell, white deadnettle and single flowering head of cock’s-foot grass. All early, particularly the grass, except for speedwell and white deadnettle, one of the few plants for which flower-heads can be found throughout the year in favourable

Illustration – Mid-19th century lithograph entitled ‘Museum and Cliff Bridge, Scarboro’. The image shows most of the Rotunda (see last blog) with the headland-top Castle in the distance – the Grand Hotel had not then been built. Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, like Smith was an ardent geologist, but is better remembered as a naturalist following his