When writing the last blog/post, The Humber Estuary 3, I forgot to mention the Capper Pass site. Between Brickyard Lane and Welton Water is the site of the once Capper Pass non-ferrous metal refining industrial site which was developed here between the late 1930s and the early 21st century. The industrial complex included a high […]

Having passed the hazardous foreshore at North Ferriby walking west, west of the shelter belt (s.p.b.) the foreshore becomes much more accessible plus there is a public right of way along the top of Ferriby (North) Cliff along the field-side. Ferriby (North) Cliff is a low sandy cliff being matched exactly by the same geo-physical

Back to the focus on the Humber Estuary and in particular here the stretch of Humber bank walking west from Hessle Country Park to Brough Haven area. As previously stated for much of this route the public right of way is sandwiched between the Estuary foreshore and the rail line to Hull Paragon station. Inland,

I think that, for some reason , this set-up can only present pictures taken landscape rather than portrait, anyway, again apologies. The photo above shows a statue near to the entrance lock to Humber Dock, now Hull’s Marina, and standing behind the flood defence wall of the Humber Estuary bank itself. The statue shows two

(Again this problem of pictures going sideways which I cannot solve). The photo above shows a section of Beverley Beck with a shoal (‘school’) of the type of fish that dominate this watercourse which look like small sharks, clearly they are not, but what are they? This was taken on one of those very hot

I have resolved to re-walk the Humber Estuary bank in stages, re-walk because I did this about 20 years ago but the photographic record is on slides. Have so far completed two sections; one from Hessle Country Park west to the old British Aerospace site near Brough Haven and the other from Blacktoft on the