August 2026

The photo above, taken over a year ago, shows a section of Pickering Park just inside the main gates off Hessle High Road. It shows the location of a very good information panel, the park keeper’s house and various trees with the two sycamore either side of the drive definitely planted when the Park was

The above photo shows part of Ferens Boating Lake, 1914, two years after the land was donated to extend the Park in 1912. On two occasions Thomas Robinson Ferens bought land across which the original East Park, as established in the 1880s, was extended. Thomas Robinson Ferens, 1847-1930, was a remarkable benefactor to the City

This aerial photo was scanned from Bamford, T.W. The University of Hull, the first Fifty Years (Oxford University Press, 1978, p.23). It shows the buildings that comprised Hull University from the late 1920s to the 1950s when further building took place. The buildings shown survive facing Cottingham Road with building top-left now called Venn building