February 2021

It bothered me somewhat that although Claire Cross included the site at Kirkham on her map, s.p.b., I didn’t think it was in the East Riding. The confusion arises because that area has changed Ridings on the occasion of boundary changes. Kirkham is a significant site as it retains considerable standing ruins of the gatehouse […]

(text continued from previous blog) Yedingham (the village being in the East Riding but the site of the priory being across the River Derwent and just into North Yorkshire). These five nunnery sites followed the Benedictine Order whereas the sixth nunnery site in East Yorkshire at Swine in Holderness followed the Cistercian Order. The site

The history of monasteries, nunneries and friaries, and of the land they controlled and farmed, is an important element in landscape history as, although it seems distant from modern life, it can bring to light issues of building management, land management and, indeed, people management that can have parallels in 21st century life. Two important

The point about today’s and yesterday’s photos is that they are of a 500 sq. yard allotment I have recently taken-on on Clough Road allotment site. Last year I worked a small allotment on the same site and got the little plots winter dug ready for spring planting. However, this one became available and I

At a local level, Hull City Council owns 22 allotment sites across the City in which are over 1800 plots. As with other local authorities (I think) a ‘plot’ is oblong in shape and covers 250 square yards. As previously stated this is much more flexible than in the past, and indeed at the other

A break from the Allotments theme for this blog at least. Recently have been in contact with John Netherwood who, with the help of Mrs. Netherwood, have compiled the programme for Hull and Beverley for the annual Heritage week in September, and have done so for many years. In 2020 most of the planned events