Throughout the Middle Ages and beyond the basic form of flood defence was the linear ‘clay bank’, a potentially misleading name as the soil that was piled-up would have often been estuarine silts. If available, the ‘bank’ might have been reinforced by turves. The tidal range in the Humber Estuary is second only to that […]

The story of the Estuary’s wetlands, past, present and future is both interesting and very relevant. The extent of the wetlands, as seen in black in the map above, is second only to that of the Fens of Norfolk, Lincolnshire (Holland) and Cambridgeshire. Moving from right to left across the north bank the areas at,

On Saturday 27th July (next Sat) I will be tutoring a class in Barton on Humber organised by the recently formed Lifelong Learning group there, 1-30 to 3-30pm in the Joseph Wright Hall, short refreshment break halfway through. The Subject is ‘Flooding’, History of flooding across the Humberside region. I am intending to divide it

The photo above could almost have been taken anywhere across the country in a municipal cemetery; in fact it is the cover of a book about one specific municipal cemetery in Kings Lynn. Entitled ‘Studies on Hardwick Road Cemetery, Kings Lynn from 1849 to the Present’, edited by Julian Litten, published by the Friends of

If this topic has been of some interest to you I would draw your attention to my 36 page study of the topic which can be found in section three of this website and by clicking on ‘Read’ it comes up on the screen. Without wishing to be too self-complimentary, I think it ended-up a

T. Tindall Wildridge presented his own ideas on this Early History in his book ‘Holderness and Hullshire, Historic Gleanings’, published in 1886. In a short section entitled ‘Pre-Historic Hull’ he focusses on a discovery made when the building of a new warehouse on High St. was taking place. Apparently when digging the foundations about 10