February 2018

In anticipation of receiving an invitation to the wedding thought best to read-up on the above from a booklet have had for years (must have been bought on a visit to the town, not the castle, back in the early 1980s). The man-made mound of the original motte-and-bailey castle survives with the keep having some […]

The opening of Pickering Park and accompanying alms-houses in 1911, and the inter-war Gipsyville council estate (an estate the lay-out plans of which incorporated the principles of the Garden Village movement) pushed the urbanisation of Hessle Common west of the Hessle Road railway crossing, at least on the north side of Hessle High Road. From Pickering

By the 1850s the O.S. map shows that the area of Myton Manor (as had been) west of the town docks of Princes and Humber Docks had become quite built-up, more densely so the nearer to the ‘old town’. Coltman Street was the most westerly street off Hessle Road, a street of high value villas,

One surviving structure from the rail freight/St. Andrew’s Dock age is part of the massive ‘engine shed’ of the North Eastern Railway, now used by a haulage firm off Freightliner Way (Dairycoates). Engine sheds incorporated one or more turntables by which steam engines entering frontwards could be turned to exit form the shed at its

Even a late as the early 20th century the lower R. Hull estuarine lowlands between what in 1911 became Pickering Park to the north of the Hull – Hessle Road and Hessle village itself remained post-Enclosure fields, probably a mix of arable and pasture.  South of the road – although alongside the road would have

Last Monday night gave a talk to Hull Civic Society at the Royal Station Hotel (Mercure Hotel) entitled ‘The History of Hessle Common (South-west Hull)’. It was quite well received and included some welcome and informative comments and questions from the audience. One such recollection was of Priory Farm surviving well into the 1960s. Priory