June 2020

The scan above is from the leaflet The Avenues/Pearson Park Conservation Area (s.p.b.) and shows a drawing of the original fountain at the ‘circle’ where Park Avenue and Salisbury Street cross. David Neave describes The Avenues as ‘the most extensive area of middle class housing in Hull’ (‘Pevsner’, 2005, 554). The main financial promoter was […]

The image above is taken from a four-fold-A3 leaflet I have, published in 1983 and entitled ‘The Avenues/Pearson Park Conservation Area’. It shows the then ‘Victorian Conservatory’ (actually built in the 20th century) which, as part of the Pearson Park Restoration Scheme, has been demolished and replaced by a new one built to the same