In 1985 the East Yorkshire Local History Soc. published a booklet edited by Donald Woodward and entitled Descriptions of East Yorkshire: Leland to Defoe. Dr. Woodward extracted the descriptions of Hull from various travel writers across the two centuries, in some cases also extracts on the rest of East Yorkshire and, as in the case […]

Having explained the current lack of blogs in the previous one ‘one week’ became two weeks and to cut a very long story short it seems that in Windows Power-point 2007 it isn’t possible to ‘export’ to You-tube so I have wasted tooooo much time. A further result is that I have two new ‘Articles

Am taking a week off producing blogs as am having to focus on producing a narrated power-point presentation for one of the two talks I was the give at the Hull History Centre during national Heritage Week. Given the current circumstances Hull Civic Society is setting-up a website to stand in lieu of the usual

Today’s photo. is of the west front of St. Giles’ church Marfleet, built in a neo-Geometric style in 1884 and was/is the third church built for the community of Marfleet on this or a nearby site. Close to the east of this church is a lower section of Holderness Drain, a ‘green corridor’ in east

Firstly just a concluding comment on the point I made at the end of the last blog – yes, as with roadside grass verges, it may be considered right to trim back undergrowth for the first metre from the edge of the path or road, this usually done after 1st June, but why flail all

Two other important green corridors for local diversity are Barmston Drain and Holderness Drain. Both these large, man-made drainage channels have steep sides colonised by local flora and fauna, their steepness making them hostile to trampling by people and thus more eco-friendly. When first built neither impacted on the built-up area of the town but