Apparently a book was produced in 1909 written by G.H. Hill and entitled History of Newland – but I have never seen it.
In writing of Newland Avenue John Markham (Streets of Hull, a History of their names, s.p.b.s) reminds us that Newland was part of Cottingham parish until the boundary changes of the 1880s when it became a suburb of Hull. Bacon’s Plan of Hull, 1906, shows that then the grid-plan of streets to the west of Newland Av. were only just beginning to be laid-out while between Newland Av. and Beverley Rd. the parallel streets of Alexandra, Grafton, Lambert and De Grey were already quite built-up. This is a reminder that the main driver to the northern extension of Hull’s urban area was Beverley Rd. and its initial ribbon development.
Some of the north Hull urban development was also directed by the preceding Cottingham Drain. The route of the Drain followed post-Enclosure field boundaries and was thus a series of straight stretches and right-angle bends, much of its route now, since being culverted, forming a wide grassy pathway, for example along the south side of Queens Rd. The Drain exited into the River Hull (s.p.b.s on Sculcoates and Barmston Drain) about 100 yards south of the exit of the Beverley and Barmston Drain. It was Cottingham Drain which was vital to the land of Newland being changed from marsh to it being suitable for building.
At the junction of Queens Rd. and Princes Av. was built in the 1890s a church to support the rapidly expanding urban area. Dedicated to St. Augustine of Hippo this building was initially designed by G.G. Scott junior and, later, Temple Moore (s.p.b.s on St. Mary’s, Sculcoates). Its illustration above is scanned from Lost Churches and Chapels of Hull p.50. Somewhat unusually it was designed as a copy of the Decorated style of medieval architecture (see the reticulated window tracery). The site is now a small residential development.
Apparently in his book Hill (1909) names the infant Newland Park as ‘The Crescent’.
Still to be covered in this sequence of blogs are Drypool, Southcoates and Marfleet.
Point of view 14b (s.p.b.) – Ever since Charles Darwin’s publication of On the Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871) it has been clear that homo sapiens/erectus evolved, as did all other life forms. At some extended point between Mezolithic and Neolithic Man’s ancestry our ancestors began to manipulate their environment far more than contemporary species – and so it has gone on to the point where man’s interventions are threatening the planet. This ‘progress’ allowed monotheistic religions to assume that man and god had a special relationship and ‘dominion over all creatures’ (Book of Genesis, rough quote). But what if god related to other species, we wouldn’t know because, despite the digital revolution and every other revolution, we cannot ‘talk to the animals’.