As promised, the first of three blogs on the above interrupting the run on Descriptions of Hull. The picture above, taken this morning, shows the sandy upper beach and rocky lower beach at low tide, taken from the promenade at the north end of Whitley Bay leading to St. Mary’s island and lighthouse (see later). […]

Like his monarch a few months later (Leland didn’t make clear the dates of his descriptions so am making an assumption) Leland travelled to Hull form Beverley although, unlike Henry VIII, he detoured through Cottingham. His initial comments on Hull show but a vague knowledge of Hull’s history ‘The towne of Kingeston was in the

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