Apologies for the break in transmission, an aching right eye became so painful that I spent last Sunday in A. and E. and the Eye Hospital, eventually decided I had severe retinal infection, then getting a supply of the relevant steroid eye drops took two days. The eye is still painful but the drops are […]

Today’s picture shows a section of Barmston Drain with the bridge being at the eastern end of Stepney Lane, off Beverley Road, Hull. The single low-arch red brick bridge and parapet is sometimes called ‘narrow bridge’; although across it is a low key industrial estate and a detached house, it was clearly never built to

Today’s photo shows the final section of Barmston Drain before a culvert under Wincolmlee carries the water into the River Hull (the metallic silos shown are on the opposite bank of the River Hull). The scene shown is part of Hull’s old industrial corridor threading up both sides of the River. Just off picture to

The photo above, the only one of 5 taken at dusk and worth showing, shows the outline, but certainly not the details, of a 15 – 20 feet high embankment running north-south along the eastern edge of Victoria Dock Village, Hull. The reason for this embankment being there is unknown to me, presumably it is

There has been a gap as I was meant to have surgery on Friday 1st December which did not happen because was told at 9am, when all ready, that there was a robot malfunction and the operation had to be postponed. Telephone call today from the hospital to say that it has been rescheduled to

(Photo taken with phone rather than camera). The 1928 O.S. map shows an area of woodland/scrubland above the Scarborough rail line and next to the southern edge of Hymers College playing field, this extending south under (now) the footbridge to the Stadium from Argyle St. On this map it is named the ‘Wilderness’. The view