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

The section of the book on the Humber (s.p.b.) having described Stony Banks goes on to warn mariners of three rocky ‘knolls’ at south of Stony Banks that break the surface of the Estuary at low tide, particularly the low tides following spring tides. I have not come across this reference before so I guess

The book introduced in blog 12 of this run (published 1841) deals with the Humber across pages 62 to 69. The section is divided into two parts, a description of the aids to navigation then in use and the main mudflats, the second section giving detailed advice on navigating the Estuary from Spurn to Hull

Another book I was fortunate to acquire, as well as the one which sparked-off this series of blogs and described in Humber Beacons 1939, has the overall title ‘The North Sea Pilot’, published in 1841. Its more descriptive title is ‘Sailing Directions for navigating the North Sea and its Bays and Harbours … the coasts