Unfortunately I had not completed the setting up of the WhatsApp group as stated in yesterday’s blog. People interested need to email me their names and phone numbers and I then add them to the blog (I hadn’t understood one cannot sign oneself up). So please email me richardclarke278@gmail.com with name and phone number, I […]

Last years guided walks in some of Hull’s Parks and Cemeteries went well and I would like to thank those who attended a number of the walks across the various venues, and wish them well in 2026. The ‘just turn up’ system is all very well but it meant there was no contact between attendees

Today’s photo shows the north side of All Saints church, Boughton (not 2025). My parent’s and sister’s grave is one with a headstone roughly in the middle of the picture. An interesting aspect of Ladbrooke’s work (s.p.b.s) is the fact that about 30 years earlier a person was doing the same thing in north Lincolnshire

My photo of the south walls of All Saints church Boughton (taken two years ago) shows clearly the Y tracery and intersecting tracery of the new windows 1872. The replacement roofing material not pantiles but North Wales slate, readily available nationwide by 1870. The three-stage buttress at the south-east corner of the nave looks very

In the book Hinton, Ian Ladbrooke’s Church Lithographs, Journal of the Norfolk Historic Buildings Trust, Vol. 8 (2025) all the lithographs produced by the father and son team in the 1820s/’30s, 600+ in total, are reproduced along with a modern photo taken from the same angle (as far as possible) and a few history notes;

The undulating landscape of south-west Norfolk, inviting the pastime on a clear day ‘How many church steeples can you see from here?’ begs the question ‘How has this landscape been created?’ It is certainly a glaciated landscape, although on the southern fringes of the glacial advances of the last glaciation, sometimes known as the Anglian