Author name: Richard Clarke

The photo above shows the particularly well prepared information board at Pickering Park, just inside the main gates. Following on from the previous blog the question arises as to whether Christopher Pickering was competing with T.R. Ferens (East Park) with a view to ensuring that west Hull had as good a park as east Hull? […]

Today’s photo shows part of the rockery complex at Pickering Park, this would have just been completed at the outbreak of the Great War. It is of some interest to speculate on the possible relationship between Pickering and Ferens (s.p.b.s), the two great municipal park benefactors. I know of no direct evidence regarding this line

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

Hull University has a very attractive campus, the buildings date from various eras since the 1930s including modern halls of residence on campus. The campus contributes much greenery to the north Hull landscape and all is open to the general public. Generally I park up in Newland Park, cross Cottingham Road and enter the university