This is the Charles Brear memorial lecture.

Speaker:  Mr Richard Myerscough. BA.,Cert.Ed.,Cert.Arch.,ADES.,QTS.,FMF.

About the talk: The talk is the first of two parts about the ongoing investigations into the history of Queensgate Allotments.  There is evidence stretching back some 150,000 years and artefacts stretching back some 10,000 years when our hunter gatherer ancestors wandered Doggerland. As well as flint tools from various ages they also find pottery from the Roman Period (suggesting the presence of a cemetery?) and the Medieval Period.

About the speaker: Richard is a retired teacher and part time tutor for University of Hull and Open University as well as a former tutor for WEA and Bishop Burton College teaching Archaeology, Geology, Geography, Environmental Studies, Student Welfare, Church Building Stones and Landscape Studies.

He is a Fellow of PLACE and presently chair the Queensgate Allotment Society and the UNESCO Geoparks Project for East Yorkshire.

This event is for members & their guests only.