Author name: Richard Clarke

The last blog, Drypool (1), shows the representation of the village of Drypool on the east bank of the River Hull, from a medieval (allegedly) Plan of Hull. The presentation maybe stylised but shows a linear village stretching south from the church across land that is now a bit of the A63, a bit of […]

Continuing the current theme of late Georgian Hull suburbs I cross the River Hull to Drypool. The map extract above is taken from  a 14th century plan of Hull discovered by Hull historian Charles Frost in the Cotton Manuscripts in the British Museum (referenced in a number of earlier blogs). Remarkably Drypool remained a village

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

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

Some further extracts from the Oak Road information board – ‘In the 1800s the Hull Cowkeepers and Farmers Association was formed with an office situated on Clough Road. The Association was disbanded in the 1970s. An annual dinner dance was held every winter at Beverley Road Baths when the pools were boarded over. There was