Apologies to any regular readers for the month+ delay in completing this series of blogs initially centering on my extended article of similar title. I have experienced some ill health and have had to focus on preparing my contributions to the national Heritage Week events in Hull – second illustrated talk on Thursday 16th, 10am […]

The chart above was one I complied a few years ago. The 10 regions named along the base line are the regions of which part is encompassed in the Humber Region, of these two, the Lincolnshire Wolds and the Yorkshire Wolds, have already been covered by this series of blogs. The side-line identifies 10 types

The photo above shows the cliff-face of the long disused ‘New Quarry’ at Barton. Neither the bed of this quarry nor its cliff-face have been disturbed since being abandonned so it is a fine example of natural re-colonisation of a chalk quarry. The ‘New Quarry’ is separated from Barton Cliff Quarry by a narrow ridge

The photo above, taken from the farm track on the south bank of the Humber Estuary that in centuries past was a section of Ferriby Low Road (from Barton), shows Melton chalk quarry just visible in the dip slope of the Yorkshire Wolds.The development of large-scale chalk quarries was allied to changes in the pattern

The above photo shows a wild strawberry plant in flower (May time), these being the ancestors of the modern cultivated strawberry and much prefering calcarious soils such as chalk soils. The photo was taken on the spoil-heap of South Ferriby’s second chalk quarry (see below). By 1826 trade directories record four ‘manufactories’ of whiting in

Disused chalk quarries that were originally excavated for commercial purposes are a significant landscape feature in the Humberside region, particularly on the south bank. With Barton on Humber evolving as an Anglo-Saxon settlement at the foot of two dry valleys and on the edge of the Estuary flood plain it follows that when leaving Barton