Evening ride to Minerva pier, J. Cash tribute about to start on stage erected at water-front, first of four days of music festivals there. Then parked alongside Queen’s Gardens, walked park, fountain and gardens and through to Quenn Victoria Square and sat beside new fountains, all pedestrianisation, re-surfacing and upgrading here and streets around and, […]

Personal – Strange weather, some v. strong gusts of wind am and early pm, few light showers, tea when took dog in Baysgarth totally still with black threatening clouds, didn’t rain hard till later in night. Plan to go to Brid. on train didn’t happen. Undercoated upstairs bathroom walls with stinking old left-over paint. R.

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,