Recently spent day in Lincoln, mostly around Castle Hill and St. Paul in the Bail area. Allowed to take dog into cathedral, surprisingly, cathedral authorities seem far more liberal than they use to be. Made a great fuss of by one of the vergers. Tea outside No. 1 Castle Hill. Return journey along scarp top road […]

Trip to York on Friday all but wrecked by continuous heavy rain but did ‘do’ Castle Museum, having not been for years, and it was really good, and not too crowded. At last suddenly blackthorn in flower this week, masses of white blossom appearing from nowhere it seems (see above), image from point on Middlegate

Last Thursday covered the penultimate stretch of the River Hull bank, that being from Wilfholme Landing upstream to the mouth of the Driffield Canal. The above image is of ‘Corps Landing’ today, by kind permission of the local farmer. Traditionally this was a landing point for goods ordered by Wolds dip-slope farmers and by estate

Interesting display in Bransholme Centre commemorating first 50 years of the estate. The Centre and surroundings on the site of Sutton Airfield (see above), this, in turn, on farmland of lower ‘carr land’ of central Hull Valley. Bransholme at one point was Europe’s largest satellite town. Origin of name probably = ‘holme’ island above surrounding

To conclude, for now, the River Hull theme, three detailed sources of evidence; Sheppard, J.A. The Draining of the Hull Valley (East Yorkshire Local History Series, 1950s), Fenwick, H., Thomas, G., Van de Noort, R. Wetland Heritage of the Hull Valley, An Archaeological Survey (Hull, 2000) (one of six Humber Wetland Heritage studies), River Hull Drainage

Presentation on River Hull will be in two halves, (a) Geology and landscape of River and its valley, then its role as transport highway, then importance and location of ferries and then recreation. (b) journey in pictures from mouth of River Hull to its source. The picture above shows how Barmston Drain, dug in the