April 2021

Have had a ten-day break based near Worcester, hence the break in service from the Views of the Humber Estuary theme, so will try a run of daily short blogs remembering my stay. The ‘cottage’ is actually in the village of Hallow two miles north of Worcester but the footpath beside the River Severn can […]

The photo. above shows part of the middle reaches of the Humber Estuary looking north from the mouth of Barrow Haven on the south bank. The large white building in the distance is the Arco distribution warehouse beside the A63 and the main rail-line west from Hull, the Humber Bridge is out of the picture

Even by the 1560s (s.p.b.) there would have been far more ships sailing up and down the Humber Estuary and along the East Yorkshire coast than might be seen today, but, of course, much smaller in size. Burleigh’s map shows this by the many ships shown on his map (s.p.b.), most of them three-masted rather

The picture above shows part of the first known navigational chart of the Humber compiled by Lord Burleigh, or more likely his workforce, c.1560. It clearly shows the coastline of south Holderness before the reclamation of Cherry Cobb Sands and Sunk Island – in doing so it shows the Humber Estuary lapping-up to the southern

Today’s photo. shows a view across the Estuary from the south bank. This particular point along the coast is known as Chowder Ness, a curious name, its etymology being unknown to me. As along much of the south bank, the coastline here is a man-made sea bank and ‘promenade’. I think this is one of

The final location in this series on monastic history is the site of Hull’s Carmelite Friary. The photo. above shows the excavated site of Hull’s Beverley Gate, one of four gates in the late-medieval town wall, with Whitefriargate street stretching east. The name Whitefriargate comes directly from the position of the Carmelite Friary, ‘white’ from