May 2020

The above extract from Hargrave’s ‘Map of the County of Kingston-upon-Hull’, 1791, includes a slightly bigger area of south Sculcoates (see above) than Thew’s map (s.p.b.) and so includes the open quadrangle of Charterhouse alms-houses. To the south of the master’s house (surviving) a planted orchard/woodland is shown. Although this doesn’t extend south to Princes […]

The extract above is scanned from the top-right-hand corner of Thew’s map of Hull, 1784. Robert Thew was a Hull based engraver, on this occasion commissioned jointly by Samuel Thornton, M.P. for the town and county of Kingston upon Hull and William Wilberforce M.P. for the County of York. The map follows close on the