Detritus2
St Augustine's Church, Skirlaugh Monday morning meant a visit to The Wilson Centre in the city of Hull to register Simon's death and to pick up copies of his death certificate. Then we wandered through Queen's Gardens up to Hull College so that I could take a photograph of a stone column on which is there's a statue of one of Hull's most famous sons - William Wilberforce (1759-1833) who diligently and successfully campaigned for the abolition of slavery in The Americas. Once out of the city we stopped to pick up sandwiches and drinks in the village of Skirlaugh knowing that we had a few hours ahead of us working through the remaining detritus in Simon's cottage. We ate the sandwiches in the village churchyard. Built in the early years of the fifteenth century, St Augustine's is an unusually light and airy church - an excellent example of the Perpendicular style of ecclesiastical architecture. Onward to the village, finding more boxes of stuff to sort ...