The map extract above is taken from ‘A New Plan of the Town of Kingston upon Hull and its Environs’ published by ‘J. Craggs, Bookseller, Hull, 1817’. It shows the late-Georgian northward expansion of the built-up area of Hull into Sculcoates parish (Green Lane, near top of extract, still has that name, just north of the disused Jenning St. bridge over the River Hull as now).
Just north of Green Lane Cragg’s map shows the confluence of Barmston Drain (dug 1799-1800 to help drain the carr wetlands of the upper Hull valley region) and the River Hull, sited today under Wincolmlee.
The map extract also makes clear that both banks of the River Hull in-land of the ‘Old Port’ had become industrialised as the River was the main artery of commercial transport. Shown on the map are ‘timber yards’, ‘boat yards’, ‘ship yards’, ‘ropery’, ‘raffyards(?) and ‘Greenland yards’, this presumably related to the whaling industry still on the go at the time.
One very interesting item shown on the map extract, and something I hadn’t previously noticed, is ‘Sculcoates Intended Church’ site, now crossed by Freetown Way, and ‘Sutton Intended Church’ site, top right-hand of extract. Neither of these were built on those sites but here we have a link to a national initiative. The Church Building Act, 1818, came after Cragg’s map was compiled but the issue of the Established Church losing support to the Nonconformist Churches and the resultant proliferation of chapel building was a hot topic ‘When the war with France came to an end in 1815 the subject moved higher up the national agenda’ Morris, R. Churches in the Landscape (London, 1989, 428), this especially so in the context of industrialisation and population growth (suburban spread). So plans were being made for a second church in Sculcoates (presumably chapel of ease) a century before the then existing church was demolished.
(to be continued)
Point of view 7 – With a few hundred soldiers being deployed to help after the winter floods in South Yorkshire and now some helping with issues related to the pandemic the question surely is Why Not? Why should it not be that members of the armed forces assist in times of national/regional crises. Why not greatly expand the Army so that it can become also a national reserve disaster task force, this built into the defence forces terms of reference.