Author name: Richard Clarke

The image above is an extract from a 1920s O.S. 25inch map showing Pickering Park. By then the boating lake, with six islands, this more than in East Park, had been dug (s.p.b.). Christopher Pickering before the Great War had always wanted the digging of this lake to be done by unemployed workmen at the […]

Following yesterday’s consideration of Pickering’s Whaling and Fishing Museum the above photo shows part of the main gates to Pickering Park, these ornate wrought iron gates funded by Christopher Pickering himself. Pickering Park was Hull’s fourth municipal park (Pearson, East and West Parks being the earlier three). In 1909 there were many discussions between Mr.

Another of the old booklets I recently purchased from Hull History Centre (s.p.b.) is entitled ‘Museum of Fisheries and Shipping, Pickering Park, Hull (illustrated catalogue)’, published 1915 and written by Thomas Sheppard (s.p.b.). The first illustration is a photo. of the building funded by Christopher Pickering initially as a reading room and then as a

Having finished, for the moment, consideration of Myton, and before going on to Sculcoates, I will draw attention to the above. For a while now Hull History Centre has had a table near the reception on which unwanted stock are being sold at very reasonable prices. Some of these items are booklets published back in

Although the words ‘Myton Ward’ are clearly marked on the 1928 detailed O.S. map it is hard to find the word Myton appearing in any context on today’s equivalent except for Myton Street, the short street immediately west of the new Bonus Arena. To the north of Myton Ward in 1928 was ‘Botanic Ward’, this

The picture above (taken from Wikipedia) shows the gates to an area of Liverpool known as Strawberry Fields made famous in an early Beatles song. It was in their younger days (I think) the site of a Salvation Army children’s home, now demolished, presumably. I suspect the term Strawberry Fields pre-dated the Home as it