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Various aspects common to Hull’s public parks were being decided between 1882 and 1884. One was that each should have an imposing main entrance, the picture above is of the ‘triumphal arch’ entrance to Pearson Park which, although earlier than East and West Parks set a benchmark to be followed. The main entrance to East Park […]

Between early 1882 and late 1884 Hull City Council made great strides forward in its intention to provide for its population ‘places of resort’. The Parks Committee focused its attention on finding and purchasing land suitable for a public park on the eastern and western fringes of the then town, ‘suitable site … in the East

(The above picture is taken from Wikipaedia and is of British military graves at Ypres, Belgium, it is not directly relevant to the current series of blogs). My current long-term research, the history of parks and cemeteries in Hull, currently involves a study  of Hull Council Committee Minute Books housed in the Search Room of Hull

While studying the minutes mentioned in the last blog I came across evidence of such a story, this unresolved. Hull City Council Burial Committee had, in 1881, ordered 10 dozen young trees to be planted in their cemeteries and disused burial grounds, those in Castle St. Burial Ground ‘so as to make it a more agreeable

The second detached burial ground for the parish of Holy Trinity, Hull (second to Castle St. site s.p.b.) was sited just north of Hessle Rd. and west of St. George’s Rd. at its southern end. This was then known as Division Rd. Cemetery as it was immediately west of that road. It had a long

Castle St. graveyard was a detached burial ground for the parish of Holy Trinity, Hull from 1783 to 1861. Later in its life as a functioning burial ground it stood near Railway Dock immediately west of which was the initial terminus of the Hull-Selby Railway, before Paragon Station was built in 1848. The burial ground