Three weeks ago I spent a week  with my touring caravan at the small Woodstock caravan site (thankfully no clubhouse or vans all in rows), Gibbet Lane, Boughton – the parish where I grew-up. Apart from local walks and visiting niece and husband in Kings Lynn three things deserve mention here. On a bitterly cold […]

I have had such a lot of trouble with internet access – either on one minute off the next or just not available at all – that blogs have not been possible. Have had countless long mobile calls to EE, eventually got new router which is helping but reception is still unreliable. Suggested I move

Last Saturday the evening high tide (two high tides daily) stood at 8 metres (that is 8 metres above mean sea level) whereas the previous low tide five and a quarter hours earlier stood at sea level (sometimes the low water level is a bit below mean sea level). This gave a tidal range across five

On Sunday, 9/04/’16, having visited an event at the Floral Hall, Hornsea I went for walk with dog along the beach to the north and beyond the concrete promenade. In places the coltsfoot were in full flower the day being sunny (for a change), like daisies and lesser celandines the flowers open and close with

Sorry – Landmarks and Beacons is also in pdf form. Also add; History of Barton’s Cement making plant.

This might be an appropriate point to list my currently available power-point presentations; Some thoughts on the Geology of the Humberside Region and its impact on social and economic history (a clumsy title but, I think, a good presentation). History of Housing in Barton and area (x 2). History of Housing in Barrow. History of