Author name: Richard Clarke

I don’t know what’s going on with these photos but cannot change now. Just north of Beverley Road Baths, on the other side of the road and on the corner of Pearson Avenue stands ‘Rosa Villa’, now a home for the elderly but originally built as a private house when this section of Beverley Road […]

Above is a rooftop feature, also on the east side of Beverley Road, Hull, (and I don’t know why it isn’t vertical here) a six-sided turret with a clock mounted on one of the sides and the turret capped by a short, concave-sided spire. This, and the slate covered roof, must have been extremely difficult

Also visible from the same rear window of a property on Pearson Park (s.p.b.) is the rooftop structure of Stepney Primary School’s (s.p.b.) neighbouring building Beverley Road Baths. David Neave (s.p.b.) tells us that the B.R.B.’s building was constructed in 1905 to a design by Joseph Hirst and built in red brick with stone dressings,

Cupolas, or at least decorative rooftop projections on older buildings, seem to be quite common in the vicinity around Pearson Park, Hull. Above is a photo of the cupola(?) projecting from the roof of Stepney Primary School, Beverley Road, Hull, the picture taken from the rear window of a property on Pearson Park itself. David

Yesterday’s blog was finished early because, by mistake, I pressed the ‘Publish’ button instead of the ‘Save’ button, at which point there was no turning back. Anyway, the cupola seen in Pearson Park was moved to the municipal park shortly before the outbreak of the Great War as an architectural artefact displayed in this public

In a real sense anything standing vertical – pylons, skyscrapers, chimneys (industrial and domestic), statues(?), aerials, trees etc. – falls into this category, it’s just that church towers/spires and rooftop projections come most readily to mind. On the Princes Avenue side of Pearson Park, on a man-made grassy mound, stands a cupola (see above).