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Benches 74 - 76: Bridge Street | Benches of Louth

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Benches 74 - 76: Bridge Street. Down the hill from Bench 62. We go Past the Old Cemetery to the left (we'll get to that spot in time) and Grimsby Road segues into Bridge Street. You can't fault the namers for coming up with that; there's one of Louth's oldest river crossings here. It's scarcely creditable that this inoffensive stream could ever have raised itself to such murderous heights. Before then, this would have been a fording-place. Archaeological finds here indicate habitation in the fourteen...

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Bench 177 (and 0): Welbeck Way | Benches of Louth

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Bench 177 (and 0): Welbeck Way. Here we are. Full circle. Seven months, sixty-four blog posts, and one hundred and seventy six benches later. This is Bench Zero. And now it also has a number: 177. Welbeck Way is off Mill Lane, itself a turn-off from High Holme Road. There used to be a working mill here, according to Cait Green's. The Streets of Louth. And you'll get the full (ish) story about the bench's re-siting. I have a sit down. Welbeck Way itself ends in a community of bungalows; sheltered housing ...

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Benches 154 - 157: Keddington Road Playing Fields | Benches of Louth

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Benches 154 - 157: Keddington Road Playing Fields. I get off the bus back from Grimsby and turn left into Keddington Road. It's sixish on a wet Monday evening. The calendar might claim that it's July but the barometer's thinking more along the lines of October. A former industrial unit that's been converted awkwardly into flats. A builder's merchants, a fuel wholesaler. Something like that. Then the park. There's a basketball hoop and some hard standing set up for a little one-on-one. Two low benches...

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Bench 153: Watts Lane Playing Field | Benches of Louth

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Bench 153: Watts Lane Playing Field. I haven't been down here for over thirty years. Less than ten minutes from home, and this is a trip back three decades in time. Watts Lane is off Newmarket. You take a turn between the little Londis shop that used to have a post office on one side, and the new development (Co-op minimart, pharmacy, a fish and chip shop that's just about to open) where Brown's car showroom used to stand. The chippy is advertising for staff. You have to email a bloke your CV. These are ...

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Benches 81 - 83: the Old Cemetery | Benches of Louth

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Benches 81 - 83: the Old Cemetery. We call this the Old Cem. Short for the Old Cemetery, or if you're of an even greater vintage, St Mary's Burying Grounds. It occupies land between Bridge Street and St Mary's Lane; the path through it is a handy cut-through from St Mary's Lane and St Mary's Park beyond towards the town centre. St Mary's became the town's main burial ground in the early 18th century, and up until the 1770s you could choose whether to be laid to rest here or in St James' churchyard. T...

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Thinking it over, part two. | Benches of Louth

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Thinking it over, part two. Following on from last Friday's post, this is the second half of me getting my head around what I've been up to for the last six months or so as regards this blog and the thinking behind it. This perhaps inevitably means empty sites. Particularly around the periphery of the town; there's hardly been anyone about. Some fading away, some coming into focus. So I need to mull over what I've been up to and what I've seen (and chosen not to see? Along the way I've tried not to use t...

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Benches 118 - 122: Hubbard's Hills - top path | Benches of Louth

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Benches 118 - 122: Hubbards Hills - top path. Hubbard's Hills was carved out in the ice age. It's a mile-long scoop out of the ground, slowly widening and flattening as it comes out of the Wolds and heads towards Louth. The Lud runs in the bottom of the valley. Both sides are steep inclines, wooded. On the flood plain, the park. Open mown fields, paths that more-or-less track the river. And includes some interesting stuff about the 1920 Louth flood too. The roots help; they make for shallow steps up the ...

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Benches 123 - 142: Hubbard's Hills | Benches of Louth

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Benches 123 - 142: Hubbards Hills. In 1903. Now operated by a charitable trust in conjunction with the town council, Hubbard's Hills is open year-round. I'm at the wolds end; by the Hallington / Halfpenny Lane entrance, having just completed. The park's been here a century, but the route is older. Cait Green reports. The path's broad enough to accommodate a couple of lanes of public space traffic; cyclists, families with strollers or wheelchairs, skaters, amblers. Overtakers and stopper-offers. T...This ...

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Benches of Louth: an index and an introduction | Benches of Louth

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Benches of Louth: an index and an introduction. As the site interface (the blog's hosted by some folks called Postagon. Who do good minimal web-work) is light on direction, here's an index of the blog posts in order. Hopefully it's of some use! If you've not been here before, start with this first post. As that sets out what Benches of Louth is/was all about; from there, please wander as you may. Here's the map of places visited. Edit 14/8/15: that wrap-up post's now online here. Bench 6: London Road.

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Bench 84: High Holme Road | Benches of Louth

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Bench 84: High Holme Road. There's usually a vehicle parked in front of the bench. Often times it's a white Transit-like van. Today it's a Land Rover. Parking's tight around here and you've got to work and be a little inventive to get your wheels near to home. The roads round here weren't laid out with cars in mind, and the houses don't come with drives by right. There's markings on the pavement in front of the bench. Sigils prophecying a utility works van. There's a couple of stumpy concrete dol...High ...