The method of presenting a text covering lots of different subjects and topics, very much like a collection of short stories in fiction, appeals to me having been identified as a child as a ‘slow reader’, which I was and, to a degree, still am. A favourite book of mine dealing with various aspects of […]

I recently bought an old book being sold at the desk in Hull History Centre, presumably ‘taken off their shelves’, entitled ‘Holderness and Hullshire, Historic Gleanings’ compiled by T. Tindall Wildridge (see above) and published in 1886. Wildridge owned a local printing firm based on Savile St. and was one of the cluster of local

Photo shows a view south-east from the bank of the River Ouse with the entrance to Goole Docks (s.p.b.) just off picture centre-right, the last meander to be negotiated by ships sailing up River from the Humber to Goole. The house in the distance on the south bank of the River is identified as ‘Goole

Didn’t get this blog written before Christmas Day so doing now.The other pre-Christmas outing was to Goole (other to Knaresborough (s.p.b.). The church, dedicated somewhat unusually to St. John the Baptist, is a complete build of the 19th century, a Gothic Revival church with a very prominent spire, visible far and wide across the low

Tonight’s picture shows a cluster of sand martins’ nest holes in the unconsolidated moraine soils of South Ferriby ‘Cliff’ (opposite North Ferriby ‘Cliff’).Recently drove to Knaresborough Christmas Fair/fayre. Went early afternoon so quite soon lost daylight but pleasant atmosphere in Market Place and not too crowded. Don’t know Knaresborough at all really but walked down

In the book (s.p.b.s) the author gives a full two paragraphs to the ‘Humber Lighthouses’, two, then, at South Killingholme (the third one built in the 1860s s.p.b.s) and the single one at Paull (see above). These were only a decade or so old when the book was published in 1841 and the author credits