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The unprecedented levels of rainfall throughout October and November (particularly) have led to much flooding with ground saturated and a resulting build-up of surface water. In Pearson Park, Hull this has resulted in a large percentage of the Park’s grass areas becoming shallow lakes showing, as water always does, the slightly lower-lying areas in a […]

The final element of the Pearson Park Restoration Scheme as listed on the public information board (s.p.b.s) is ‘Refurbishment of statues and memorials around the Park including Queen Victoria and Prince Albert statues and the drinking fountain’. From the outset I have to admit that I am no fan of statues – they make ‘great’

The next element of the Restoration Project as listed on the information board is ‘Landscape Improvement Works’. This is more open-ended than the other elements but, presumably, includes such things as the installation of a road-side kerb separating the park land from the peripheral road around it. This has been a big job as it

The next element of the Restoration Scheme as stated on the information panel is ‘Improvement works to the ice-cream kiosk’. The present building serving this purpose is seen above, right of centre, middle distance, with at one end public toilets and at the other end the park ranger’s storage ‘shed’. Immediately behind this building is

The fourth element on the Restoration Project information board is ‘re-building the Victorian conservatory’. (Large heated greenhouses – conservatories -, like bandstands, were to become a standard feature of most, but not all, late Victorian municipal parks. These represented a great investment by the park’s authorities not only in their building costs but also in

The photo. above shows one of the information boards for the above Scheme. Each of the above elements of the Project is progressing rapidly, this despite the extremely wet weather this Autumn especially earlier this week which has left much of the Park a shallow lake and which caused severe flooding in the River Don