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

2/01/’25. Not resolutions but clear objectives – to continue first draft of proposed book on Hull’s municipal Parks and Cemeteries in the national context. Have done a first draft of the first three chapters over ‘festive period’. to only give public talks that are already planned. to actually get round to some domestic decorating. to