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Following on yesterday’s ‘Personal’ what is it about the seaside? Is it a reflection of our psyche in some way or is it an enduring historical trend. How can it be that on the three caravan parks I visited yesterday most renters/owners pay £4000 ground rent a year in static vans that can cost over […]

As I noted on 5th April this is work in progress (along with history of Hull parks s.p.n.). The picture shows a map of Sculcoates parish, surveyed in 1691 but published 1725 (?), and shows Sculcoates church near the west bank of the River Hull (not to be confused with the windmill symbol). At the

Like Pearson Park Pickering Park, on the north side of Hessle High Road, was a product of private benevolence. The land on which the Corporation mapped-out the facilities planned for the Park was donated by Christopher Pickering early in the 20th century, at which point, like the other Parks discussed, it was then on the

East Park, north of Holderness Road and surely Hull’s largest park in area, was an area of post-enclosure farmland landscaped in the late 1880s. Like West Park it incorporated a central ‘carriageway’ bordered by an avenue of trees (see above photo.), this enabling the more wealthy inhabitants to ‘progress’ through the park in their carriages,

Pearson Park remained as Hull’s only public park for over two decades. Both East and West Parks were the result of municipal initiatives with land for both being initially earmarked in the mid 1880s. The development of and history of West Park, on land bought previously from the North Eastern Railway Company, has been well documented in the

Pearson Park, Beverley Road, Hull was the town’s first public park. Like Baysgarth Park, Barton it was the result of private benevolence in that the then town’s mayor Zacharia Pearson donated land for the creation of the Park, land that was then beyond the northern fringe of the built-up area. Unlike Baysgarth Park then Pearson