January 2020

Just last night discovered this print of an early photo taken on the occasion of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, 1897, and the site Pearson Park, Hull. In the top right-hand corner can be seen the Park’s original bandstand with its centre-roof ball and pinnacle of which the new one (s.p.b.) is a copy. Well done […]

The photo. above shows one area of the ongoing upgrading of facilities at Pearson Park, Hull. The new conservatory in the background appears to be nearing completion as is the new footbridge over the curving linear pond, just off picture to the right. The new bandstand is emerging beyond the scaffolding and sheeting and the

Also in the same section of Beverley Road, Hull only 50 yards south of the Baths (s.p.b.) and Stepney Primary School (s.p.b.) stand two early 20th century purpose-built public houses, both now disused. The ‘Rose Inn’ standing on the west side of the road was built of red brick and included an unusual rounded corner

Vertical/horizontal – I give up – it was the right way up on my desktop. Just to remind – spires are perhaps the most dramatic of rooftop embellishments, but essentially with no practical purpose. Here on Prince’s Avenue Methodist church, red-brick with decorative stone additions and including four corner pinnacles at the base of the

I don’t know what’s going on with these photos but cannot change now. Just north of Beverley Road Baths, on the other side of the road and on the corner of Pearson Avenue stands ‘Rosa Villa’, now a home for the elderly but originally built as a private house when this section of Beverley Road

Above is a rooftop feature, also on the east side of Beverley Road, Hull, (and I don’t know why it isn’t vertical here) a six-sided turret with a clock mounted on one of the sides and the turret capped by a short, concave-sided spire. This, and the slate covered roof, must have been extremely difficult