It is not just the disused rail lines that create an opportunity for a green corridor but also rail lines still in use. The best example in Hull is the ‘high-level’ created by the Hull-Barnsley Railway in the 1870s. This line looping around the northern edge of the town (then) was built on a man-made […]

The plaque above, on a wall beside the pavement at the west end of Spring Bank, shows an elderly woman holding the hand of a child, both presumably just off the train for a day beside the sea at Hornsea. Both the rural lines to Withernsea and Hornsea diverted from the Victoria Dock Railway at

One current project is to compile an illustrated paper/presentation on the route of the once Hull – Hornsea rail-line through the city of Hull and the countryside and villages of Holderness. Through much of the route in the City the line has been converted to a cycleway and footpath and to each side as much

A while back English Heritage announced that where possible some programme for the 2020 Heritage Week should go ahead, while mindful of social distancing etc. I know of some places where, in view of the difficulties involved, their programme for this year has been abandoned, but John Netherwood, who organises Hull Civic Society’s programme for

In writing about sand-martins, the smallest of the ‘hirundines’ (s.p.b.s.), the Rev. White  focussed on their manner of nest building. Unlike swallows and house martins, sand-martins built their nest in a hollowed-out hole in an earthen bank, these holes, he claims, being up to two feet in depth. White develops a moral point from this

Just a couple more of Rev. Gilbert White’s eloquent observations on the lives of swallows; Having  described the fledglings as ‘perchers’ because on first leaving the nest they perch on a branch (more often these days a telephone wire) as yet unable to fly White writes (1774) ‘in a day or two they become flyers,