Have just completed preparing the quarterly newsletter for the Friends of Pearson Park, my 17th. On Saturday last was highlighting the once green areas off Spring Bank. It was the latest of my monthly guided walks highlighting Hull’s green areas (although this was once green areas). Started at Morpeth St. and spoke about the once

An easy one mile walk that takes in the eastern part of Beverley Westward. I start at Grayburn Lane car park as I have to park there (very expensive). Exit on to Lairgate and on to North Bar within, possibly stopping off at Memorial Gardens, St. Mary’s Beverley’s first detached cemetery. On through the late

The photo above shows the particularly well prepared information board at Pickering Park, just inside the main gates. Following on from the previous blog the question arises as to whether Christopher Pickering was competing with T.R. Ferens (East Park) with a view to ensuring that west Hull had as good a park as east Hull?

Today’s photo shows part of the rockery complex at Pickering Park, this would have just been completed at the outbreak of the Great War. It is of some interest to speculate on the possible relationship between Pickering and Ferens (s.p.b.s), the two great municipal park benefactors. I know of no direct evidence regarding this line

The photo above, taken over a year ago, shows a section of Pickering Park just inside the main gates off Hessle High Road. It shows the location of a very good information panel, the park keeper’s house and various trees with the two sycamore either side of the drive definitely planted when the Park was

The above photo shows part of Ferens Boating Lake, 1914, two years after the land was donated to extend the Park in 1912. On two occasions Thomas Robinson Ferens bought land across which the original East Park, as established in the 1880s, was extended. Thomas Robinson Ferens, 1847-1930, was a remarkable benefactor to the City