Today’s photo shows the part of the ‘Multangular Tower’ and a bit of the City’s public library, in the corner of the perimeter wall of the ruined St Mary’s Abbey, York. Yesterday took a trip to York on the A47 bus service, which along with the A46 and one or two others comprises a half-hourly […]

A linear green area is likely to be more biodiverse than isolated ‘islands’. Small mammals, insects, song-birds etc can move along the area without having to cross hostile barren environments. To a field mouse or house mouse a road and two four feet wide pavements is unlikely to be ever crossed, even if the other

Another of Hull’s many pocket parks (s.p.b.s); this very nice area in summer when the trees are in leaf, has no name plate. I have asked a couple of local people about its history but gained little as there are a lot of houses locally tenanted out to economic migrants. On my street map of

Just a brief diversion from the Green Places theme, expanding on points raised in the last blog (Green Places 20). Soon after writing Green Places 20 I decided to visit St. Mary’s church, Sculcoates (Kingston upon Hull) which is open for public viewing between 11am and 1pm on Wednesdays and Mondays. This is a very

Just an addition to yesterday’s blog/text. The redbrick building on the right, behind he Trippett detached burial ground (s.p.b.), is part of Charterhouse Lane School. This elementary ‘board school’ was one of the 37 board schools built between 1870 and 1902 by the municipal authority by the terms of the 1870 Education Act which required

Today’s photo shows a large section of what was once the Trippett detached burial ground for St. Mary’s church, Lowgate. The land here was consecrated in 1775 because already the graveyard around the church itself was so crammed with bodies that it formed a mound beside the street (the original churchyard on Lowgate extended further