The site that was the Zoological Gardens, 1840s to 1860s, can easily be located today in the southern parts of Hutt and Peel Street on the north side of Spring Bank. Further up Hutt Street the street plan has changed. The book ‘Streets of Hull, A History of their Names’ (John Markham, Highgate Press, 1987) […]

In researching the history of the once ‘ruins’ at Pearson Park Folly Flaneuse found out thinks about Hull’s Zoological Gardens including the map shown above. Incidentally, Hull History Centre staff Verity and Claire have researched and written-up an article about the Zoological Gardens which can be accessed on the Centre’s website. Verity kindly emailed me

Folly Flaneuse considers that some stone artifacts may have come from at least two other churches – Withernsea and Holy Trinity, Hull. Withernsea because the late-medieval church had fallen into disrepair and was being restored and Holy Trinity again as a result of aa Victorian restoration. Poulson’s History of Holderness was published in 1840 and

The story is that in 1862 the various attractions at the now closed Hull Zoological Gardens just north of Spring Bank were being sold off. We already know that at this time a fountain and rockery were transferred from the Gardens to the recently created Pearson Park but Folly Flaneuse tells us that also bought

Just to add a quote that should have been included in the last blog/post – ‘Rambles to, and ramblings about, Follies and Garden and Landscape Ornament’. The two pictures above are copies of postcard pictures from a few decades past, the bottom one a photograph the top a painting. Copies of these postcards have been

2/01/’25 While doing some online research for chapter two of proposed book (s.p.b.) I came across a very interesting website called The Folly Flaneuse, although the creator calls it a series of blogs/posts. Although she does not give her name she is a she as Flaneuse is the feminine form of the noun. The word