So HULL SCIENTIFIC AND FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



To those of us who remember Southcoates two genera- 

 tions ago its then condition seems already ancient. At the 

 enclosure, ditches were cut to define the allotments, the 

 Holderness Road, having been, I think, until that time, 

 open to the Common. 



The allotment in Summergangs, made to Mr. William 

 Constable on the north side of the Holderness Road, with 

 adjoining lands, was within a few years occupied by a 

 house, the property of Mr. Hall. In 1785 it was ad- 

 vertised for sale as "a handsome new-built house, 

 commanding a beautiful expansive view of the Humber." 

 It became the residence of Mr. Pickard, who sold it 

 to Mr. John Broadley. By the kindness of Mr. Walter 

 J. Jalland, I am able to give an illustration of the original 

 house. In 1838 it was bought by Mr. Boswell Middleton 

 Jalland and his brother, who erected in its place the fine 

 Elizabethan mansion called Holderness House, two illustra- 

 tions of which appear in Poulson's " Holderness." 



Except Holderness House, no residence, unconnected 

 with business premises, was erected on the north side of 

 Holderness Road beyond Dansom Lane before 1850. About 

 that date the site of Wilton Terrace at the corner of Dansom 

 Lane and the Holderness Road was still a grass field. With 

 several properties in Sutton and Hull, it was left by Thomas 

 Mould to John Graham, afterwards Graham-Clarke, of New- 

 castle, the son of John Graham, of Sutton, and the 

 maternal grandfather of the poetess, Elizabeth Barrett 

 Browning. Nearly all the old buildings north of the 

 road have been removed, but one long covered rope-walk 

 is now embedded in a great joinery factory. The mills, with 

 the smoking chimneys of distant factories, were the great 

 features in the approach from Holderness.* 



The mill, called Block House Mill, recently taken down, 

 stood in Drypool by Summergangs, in a line with the centre 

 of Witham. Its lower story was, in shape, like a dwarf 

 tower or fortification. But sketches on the maps of the 

 allottments shew only a little wooden mill. I suppose it 

 took its name from Blockhouse Lane. 



South of Holderness Road, the terrace called Somers 



* These mills included the "Six Sail Mill," the sails of which, having 

 caused the death of" a man, were said to have revolved afterwards the 

 contrary way ! Such was the legend ; but the Rev. John Ellam, formerly 

 the Vicar of Drypool, heard as a fact that, the accident having happened 

 during its construction, the owner had the machinery reversed as a mark 

 of his sorrow. 



