A reference to ‘Cannon Street recreation ground’ appears in the minutes of the Parks Committee, Hull Corporation in the summer of 1891. It appears that the land of the ‘rec.’ was leased from Hull Municipal Hospitals and that this 21 year lease was coming to an end, the Committee recommended renewal. So it seems that […]

The photo above shows the south facing entrance door to the chapels complex at Eastern Cemetery, Hull, to the left the war memorial mentioned in a recent blog. Over the last six months (almost) have been highlighting my main focus of study and research currently, that being the history, locally and nationally, of municipal parks,

A couple of further comments on Eastern Cemetery, Preston Road, Hull; As far as I know Eastern is the only Hull cemetery to have two areas dedicated to Muslim burials. The ‘old’ site (certainly in use up to the early 1970s), see above, is near the south-east corner of the Cemetery, the ‘new’ site is

The history of Hull’s Eastern Cemetery, beside Preston Road, being an inter-war development has not yet been covered by my research. The site is very well kept with a main carriageway from the mail gates to the two chapels complex seen above, and a rectangular network of paths radiating from either side. The ‘planting’ (s.p.b.s) examples the more

By the lay-out plans for Northern Cemetery (s.p.b.) walks and drives were to be at right angles ‘to avoid waste of space’. Initially three chapels were proposed but only one was built (see above), this giving the same accommodation as the chapel in Western Cemetery. The photo. above shows the original chapel (surviving, but I have not

The photo above shows a section of the brick-built columbarium at Northern Cemetery, Hull. A Northern Cemetery website states that the Cemetery was first opened in 1915 so by study of the Corporation Burial Committee Minutes only tells the story of the early land acquisition as I am currently only up to 1908 (except for