Above is an extract from Goodwill and Lawson’s map of Hull, 1842, ‘Engraved for Stephenson’s Hull Directory’ (trade directory).
Surprisingly, given that across the intervening quarter of a century the national population had risen at an unprecedented rate, this map shows little increase in urbanisation across southern Sculcoates when compared with Cragg’s map (s.p.b.). Yes there had been an increase in the built environment either side of Church St., Sculcoates, this road following parallel to the meanders of the River Hull but it seems likely that this development was as much industrial as residential.
This extract again shows a cluster of what appear to be formal gardens on the edge of town mostly either side of the lower section of Barmston Drain and between it and Cottingham Drain, the area around Charterhouse alms-houses now (1842) being completely built-up with a grid-plan of streets (s.p.b.s re earlier gardens around Charterhouse). Little remains of the late-Georgian/early Victorian suburb of the Sykes St./New George St. area, the area cleared and replaced by a small, rather stark inter-war estate. However, a fascinating terrace does survive sandwiched between Freetown Way and Caroline Place, faced across Freetown Way by the relatively new (and apparently successful) Technical School and the Hull History Centre.
This map shows how from Humber St. there was a continuous road running parallel to the west bank of the River Hull up past Sculcoates church variously named (south to north); High St., Trippet (s.p.b.s), Wincolmlee and Church St. The building of the ‘Old Dock’ had prevented a northward extension of its parallel routeway Queen St., Market Place and Lowgate. In modern times the development of west-east arterial roads, Castle St. (A 63) and Freetown Way have made it difficult to envisage the old south-north axis of the Town.
Rather than a point of view just a recap on the present theme.
We tend to think of suburbanisation as a 20th century theme of landscape history but here is an earlier Georgian/Victorian era of suburbanisation transforming the previously rural communities of; Sculcoates, Newland, Drypool, Southcoates and Marfleet.
In truth cities such as London have generated successive waves of suburbanisation since early modern times.