Today’s photo is of Cleethorpes seafront (taken a few years ago); none of the workers being ferried out to work on Haile fort would have seen such a scene but rather a part promenade, the railway station, sand dunes along the top of the beach and just a few houses.The German battleship attacks on Scarborough […]

Unfortunately, my photos recently taken of the two forts out in the Estuary came out fuzzy and so my pictures for this sub-topic will be of sections of the lowland coast between Cleethorpes Leisure Centre and Humberstone Fitties. The one above shows a section of now inland, once beach, land between two ridges of old

A few years ago I was kindly given some old documentary stuff, generally about the Humber Estuary in some context or another. One item was an A3 magazine published in August 1923, one of a long-running series entitled Blackwood’s Magazine. Its remit seems to have been stories from around the world, these with good provenance

The photo above is of St. Peter’s church, Rowley, taken from the south-east corner of the churchyard. The church stands 200 yards east of the Manor house and comprises west tower, nave south and north aisles, the Ellerker chapel and the chancel.For about a century the Ellerker family were based at Risby Hall, also in

Recently revisited here for a mini afternoon tea. The interior has not been radically updated and has real charm and elegance.The view above taken from the lawn to the south-east of the building shows the south-facing front of the original rectory of the early 18th century. It is of five bays, two-and one-half storeys high

At the end of the public access road running down the western edge of King George Dock is this ‘installation’. It is large in size and initially weird until it becomes clear what it is. It is a representation of a curlew (possibly a whimbrel, but less likely) and appropriately shows it penetrating the Humber