June 2020

Willow herb flowers from the top down. Holderness Road had been part of the Hedon-Preston-Hull Turnpike between 1745 and 1878 (see MacMahon, K.A. Roads and Turnpike Trusts in Eastern Yorkshire (E.Y.L.H.S., 1964) and as residential development extended along it from the late 19th century (s.p.b.) this long straight road came to divide the Southcoates area […]

Above photo is of a patch of willow-herb, just coming into flower now (photo some years ago), a month earlier than 50 years ago. The last map I have available to me at present to show the development of Drypool parish from rural late-Georgian settlement to industrial/residential suburb is Bacon’s Plan of Hull of 1906.

The photo above shows a view east along Victoria Dock from a point near the Dock entrance off the River Hull, it shows how the creation of the Dock really hemmed-in St Peter’s church (s.p.b.s), Drypool, this before the damage done by enemy bombing during the early 1940s. To return to the line of thought

As well as the Victoria Dock Railway the map extract of the last blog shows the points at which the Withernsea (Hull and Holderness Railway) and Hornsea Railways veered off from the main line. The rail-line to Withernsea was opened in 1854, that to Hornsea a decade later. Therefore people living in west Hull could

The map extract above is from Goodwill and Lawson’s Plan of Hull published 1869, a generation after their previous Plan (s.p.b.). The most dramatic impact on the Drypool area across those 27 years was the construction of Victoria Dock in the late 1840s and the destruction of the Citadel. As regards the latter development the

The map extract above is from Goodwill and Lawson’s Plan of Hull, 1842, and shows the extent of change across the Drypool area over the intervening years from 1817 (Cragg’s ‘plan’, s.p.b.s). One interesting point is that Drypool retained its ‘village green’ (Drypool Square’) in the face of industrialisation and suburbanisation, this unlike Sculcoates and