May 2020

Unlike 20th century suburbs of Hull, the spring-line settlements at the base of the dip slope of the Yorkshire Wolds and those on the fringes of Holderness such as Sutton and Bilton, Sculcoates has no ‘centre’ by which it can be defined. Even when still a rural parish the settlement was ribbon or straggling in […]

The last map extract I am using to show the development of Sculcoates from farming hamlet to part of an urban area is from G. W. Bacon’s ‘Plan of Hull’ produced in 1906 for inclusion in the Kelly’s Directory of the time. (With the History Centre being closed I am limited to the maps I

The map extract above covers much of Sculcoates parish and is taken from Goodwill and Lawson’s second ‘Plan of Hull’ published 1869. The extension of the built environment through Sculcoates was still dominated by industrial development snaking beside the meanders of the lower River Hull. The largest industrial building shown was that of the Kingston

Best quote of the ‘lockdown’ so far, ‘My mind is free I can be anywhere’, said by elderly man self-isolating. Worst quote of the ‘lockdown’ so far, ‘ We will have 100,000 test available per day by the end of April’ (thinks – nice round figure to dominate the media) ‘and come the day I

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

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