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"Wait, Doc, I have trouble thinking fourth dimensionally. You're telling me this was actually the year 2016? This is heavy. "
Beverley Beck was once a very busy medieval port with boats regularly arriving at the wharves e.g. from Holland (Netherlands) and Belgium. Stone for the Minster was also conveyed from quarries by boat or barge.
Creelers or carriers would unload heavy baskets of firewood, salt and other goods which carried on carts to the town on barrows and sleds by carters and porters. The area by the wharves was also quite industrial e.g. kilns of the brickworks - the production of 'Beverley bricks and tiles' from local clay.
Even by the 1100s the Archbishop of York recognised the commercial importance of the Beverley Beck and had the waterway ('canal') deepened, straightened and widened so that larger commercial vessels could moor nearer the town centre and connect with the River Hull which ran south into the River Humber.
Before the arrival of the railways in the early 19th century, boats and barges were the quickest way to transport goods in bulk, but canal traffic significantly declined as the national railway network expanded.
In contrast to today, by the 1300s, Beverley was one of the largest towns in England and became very prosperous through the sale of wool, a valuable locally produced commodity.
The Beckside area was very busy and thrived on the work of millers, leather workers, shipwrights, potters and brick/tile makers.
The water in Beverley Beck and River Hull was also needed for the cloth and leather industries, power for corn mills as well as the transportation of goods.
By the 20th century the brick works was replaced by market gardens producing fruit, flowers and vegetables.
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