HODS part 1

What an amazing transformation is taking shape in Castle Street before our very eyes!

It’s worth taking a closer look at the incredible intricacy and challenges and progress, on what must be one of the most complex civil engineering projects in the country.

If ever there was a project to squeeze a quart into a pint pot, this is it.

Constrained by a very narrow space and the legal obligation to keep two lanes of traffic flowing at (almost) all times, magic is being worked as the contactors – National highways, day by day shuffle their huge set of enormous machines around, whilst removing thousands of tons of material and inserting a forest of reinforcing steel bars to provide the foundations for the new under-over re-make of the a63 Castle Street– a big job, but undoubtedly worth it.

this is heritage in the making!

When this year’s heritage Open Days (hODS) theme was announced by organisers, the National trust, at the back end of last year, ‘the Creative arts’, it sounded very formidable to a humble engineer, more used to things that are made and move.

however, it soon became eminently

Heritage in the making

clear that here in hull and the East Riding, we have an abundant store of artistic assets, past and present, from which to construct this year’s programme.

It’s been very interesting meeting quite a lot of new people and opening the book on many historical figures who have left a legacy of creative genius.

Following last year’s hODS, after working with us for the past five years, Barbara English decided to retire from the project and concentrate on her many other historical interests. Many thanks to her for all her fascinating talks, features and organisation skills in producing Beverley’s hODS events.

She handed her hODS Beverly interest over to Sandra Williams and Mike Farrimond, members of Beverley Civic Society. they in turn have decided that Beverley should now work independently from hull and the other parts of the East Riding.

this year we are very pleased to welcome Bridlington and North Ferriby to join us, and their small teams of local volunteers have put together hODS

programmes which we are pleased to reveal in this year’s brochure. also, as it has grown over the past few years, under the guidance of tony Porter, hedon is now shown in its own section.

Local Volunteers

It is amazing to think that, locally and nationally, hODS is the largest volunteering event there is. Over 10 days in our area, around 400 volunteers take part – opening their buildings, guiding walks and giving talks.

Sponsors

Last year, 8,000 copies of the 90-page hODS Brochure were distributed free of charge throughout hull and the East Riding.

We are very grateful for the collective funding received from our two local councils and over 20 local companies who’s financial support help us design and print the brochure.

Our production Team

For many years now the editorial and graphical design teams at the hull Daily Mail have taken the programme and features draft and assemble them into the stunning pages of print and images which they always turn out.

The region’s creative arts in the frame for this year’s festival. Looking at some of the historical figures who have left a legacy of artistic genius

John and Christine Netherwood

Front page picture: Reckitt Benckiser Health Care UK Ltd, by Katie Pugh

The national HODS Team

Heritage Open Days is England’s largest festival of history and culture, bringing together over 2,000 organisations, 5,000 events and 40,000 volunteers.

Every year in September, places across the country throw open their doors to celebrate their heritage, community and history. This year North Ferriby is excited to participate in the festival’, in partnership with Hull and the East Riding over the weekend of September 16 and 17 by opening our historic village. We will be opening the Anne Turner Memorial Allotments and All Saints’ Church.

Located In London at the HQ of National Trust is the dedicated HODS team – five people who work really hard to draw the strings together of the National HODS Festival of Heritage. They provide local organisers with help and advice and banners and bunting and, very importantly, manage the HODS directory.

The Brochure seems to us to be particularly important because when you think about it, only a relatively few people are able to attend only a few, or none, of the scheduled events due to having to work, living outside our area, or due to infirmity – the HODS brochure is something which will last all year!

Fame At Last!

Thanks to our area’s joint tourism bodies, Visit Hull and Visit East Yorkshire, last year we were surprised and delighted to be presented the Remarkable East Yorkshire Tourism Award for the development of tourism in our area, at a very glittering Oscars style event at Bridlington Spar. Their work in championing what our area has to tourists both local and from far away, is very important to the development of our region’s economy.

So, enjoy this year’s HODS!

CONTENTS

Features

P4-5: Maritime to shine - A look at artist John Ward

P6-7: Inside the huge global art market born on English Street

P8-9: Winifred Holtby - strong an independent woman

P10-13: Community theatre home grown in Hull

P11-15: Beverley Road reveals a landscape rich with stories

P16-17: The city’s Hull Truck Theatre celebrates 50 years

P18-19: When Botanic Gardens we blooming in the city

P20-21: The famous faces on The Wall of Fame

P22-23: Drawing inspiration from artist FS Smith

P24-25: How firm’s innovation helped to shape the world

P26-27: Why we should cherish our iconic cream phone boxes

P28-29: Amazing space - the craftsmen of Hull Minster

P30-31: Sculptures that have brought creativity to region

P32-33: Cheers to the city’s famous Ale Trail Talks

P36-41: Faci na ting insights into our region’s hidden history Walks

P42-45: Enjoy the views and take a walk on the wild side Hull

P47-59: All this year’s buildings and venues you can enjoy

Bridlington

P61-67: Oh we do love to be beside the seaside

Ferriby

P69-73: Sparkling village is jewel in the Humber’s crown

Hedon

P75-79: A safe haven that’s always been a special place

Maritime to shine: One of the finest artists of his time

largely forgotten outside of east yorkshire until the 1950s, John Ward is now accepted as one of the finest marine artists of the 19th century.

Son of abraham Ward, a master mariner, he like most of his rivals before the age of Victoria, started his career as an artisan painter. He was a house painter, a painter and decorator as we would nowadays describe him.

Ward was also a ship painter in the most literal sense, applying his paint mop to the timbers of a ship while in dock.

He learned the basis of his trade in the workshop of Thomas Meggitt, painter, gilder and decorator of george yard, Hull, where Thomas Binks and William griffin who also became notable marine artists served their time.

The earliest canvas that we can

certainly attribute to Ward is dated 1821, depicting the wreck of the troopship Thomas on the Stony Binks, near Spurn. Quite how he made this transition from artisan to artist is unclear but it may have

been through the medium of the tavern sign. In a port city like Hull there was a considerable demand for depictions of ships and maritime scenes for the numerous public houses. at this time thanks largely to Dr John alderson, chief physician at the Hull general Infirmary, Hull was developing an active cultural and artistic scene. alderson was founder of the Hull literary and Philosophical Society in 1822 and he and other local professional men and merchants established the Hull and east riding Institution for the Promotion of the Fine arts.

Ward contributed to the first exhibition of the latter in 1827 and in the same year was admitted a member of the Humber lodge of Freemasons. This brought him in close contact with master mariners and those active in maritime affairs. Two years later Ward was appointed Worshipful Master of the lodge.

1831 saw Ward exhibiting for the first time at the royal academy in london and in the two decades 1820-1840 he produced most of his finest work in oils. The William lee in the arctic is a masterful depiction of a ship in the whale fishery, celebrating the bumper catch of its master richard Hill in the 1831 season.

The same vessel, then owned by Joseph gee appears in the The return of the William lee, 1839, after renewing the direct trade with India. This canvas is an

Celebrating marine painter John Ward, of Hull, (1798-1849).

By Arthur Credland –retired curator of Hull’s Maritime Museum

Hull From The Humber c1837 and other works by John Ward

Lithograph of Bark Raymond, 1843

outstanding composition which in the present writer’s opinion is one of the finest marine paintings of the 19th or any century.

In 1840 two of the best-known whaleships, the Swan and Isabella, were the subject of his piece for the Royal Academy, after an interval of nearly a decade. There are also oils of the crack Hull-London paddle steamers, Victoria, Wilberforce and the Vivid and Waterwitch, all of which were also made available as aquatinted prints by their steam packet owners. The canvas of P.S. Victoria is in the Hull Trinity House and the rendition of the waters of the Humber sparkling in the sunshine is worthy of an Impressionist.

1843 was a major watershed in Ward’s career, when he sold the House and Ship Painting business to John Willoughby, a former apprentice. At the same time he offered ‘instruction in marine drawing as applicable to marine painting.’ He had over several years been making drawings and watercolours of all the contemporary ship types which he then had lithographed by Monkhouse of York. The intention was to provide a comprehensive guide for marine painters but the first portion of the great work comprised prints of the different rates of Royal Naval vessels. The first-rate man-of -war depicted was the 120 gun vessel Britannia. Batches of prints of merchant vessels were also sold in paper covers and many of these sheets have, adjoining the main image, sections and rigging plans too, providing

comprehensive details for the would-be marine painter.

The prints of HMS Britannia show the hull, masts and rigging in tremendous detail drawn by the artist onto the lithographic stone and are masterpiece of the printmakers’ art. The vessel is also the centrepiece of what would turn out to be Ward’s final contribution to the Royal Academy in 1847.This massive canvas the largest the artist ever produced was commissioned by Sir Edward Bates, Liverpool ship-owner and director of the Cunard company. In recent years purchased by local connoisseur Malcolm Shields it is now part of the collections of the Hull Maritime Museum.

A number of ship portraits were produced in print form in the 1840s, including the Raymond, commemorating her arrival n Hull 14 October, 1843, ‘the first vessel direct from China.’ The Royal

His origins as an artisan painter were clearly never a source of embarrassment for Ward and at the acme of his career he produced a booklet entitled The English Alphabet arranged for the use of House and Sign Painters (1848). There are eight plates depicting a variety of letter forms and the buyer received the bonus of one of the prints of his series of ship types on the reverse of each page.

Sadly this is the last datable product of Ward’s hand and he was one of the many victims of the cholera epidemic which struck the east coast in 1849. Buried in the Castle street cemetery, the much worn headstone was later transferred to the entrance of the chapel in the Hull Trinity House.

Yorkshire Yacht Club commissioned a lithograph recording the Hull Grand Regatta, 1847, another outstanding piece of print-making

The huge global art market born on English Street

Joseph Duveen and

the

business

The total value of transactions in the art market worldwide was US $67.8 billion in 2022. For many, this huge and influential global market was born on english Street in hull.

Joseph Duveen (1869-1939), the man who would go on to completely change America’s relationship with art, was born above his parents’ antique shop in 1869.

Duveen’s clients included Mellon, Frick, hearst and Morgan. If you weren’t a client, chances are you were a nobody.

Joseph’s Father, Joel Joseph Duveen, moved from the Netherlands to the port of hull in his early twenties. There, he began his business by travelling back to the Netherlands to source Dutch teacups, saucers, and Delftware, reselling them on his return to england. From teaware, he moved to Medieval tapestries.

By 1879, they traded the shop in hull for a shop in London. Within a few years, Joseph’s father had become the “most sought-after decorator” in London.

Duveen’s well known observation that “europe had lots of art and America lots of money” was the wellspring of his art dealings. Joseph positioned himself as the go-to person on all things art and decoration for mega-millionaire clientele: Altman, Frick, Gardener, huntington, Morgan and others.

And in europe, he built a network of personal valets to the landed gentry families as a means to track where the paintings and a willingness to sell could be found. Duveen knew where the heirlooms, paintings and sculptures were and it was his skill to connect them with mega rich American buyers.

Joseph’s Uncle henry, who had opened the Duveen’s first store in New York back in 1879, was made an appraiser of US Customs on imported works of art. Suddenly, Duveen’s competition found their works being appraised at higher prices than Duveen’s – a clear tax advantage.

Then, in 1912, he engaged the great Bernard Berenson, to be his personal authenticator for all works from that era

of

art – by Rob Bell

– at the time, an authentication from Berenson could significantly increase the value of a painting.

With the First World War on the horizon, Duveen officially moved from London to New York City. From that new base, he would quickly become the biggest art dealer the world had ever seen. The American economy boomed during the war years and the mega rich had money to spend.

Duveen was fond of saying, “when you pay high for the priceless, you’re getting it cheap”, and was able to shape the tastes of American buyers.

But there were problems. Lord Crawford said: “Duveen lectured and harangued us, and talked the most hopeless nonsense about cleaning old works of art. I suppose he has destroyed more old masters by overcleaning than anybody else in the world, and now he told us that all old marbles should be thoroughly cleaned – so thoroughly that he would dip them into acid. Fancy –

we listened patiently to these boastful follies …”

Pentelic marble naturally acquires honey colour when exposed to air, but Joe mistakenly believed they should be white. Duveen was responsible for using Plenderleith’s method of medicinal softsoap and ammonia, and also steel-wool and scraping. Ouch!

he created a brilliant network of architects, interior decorators, art restorers as well as the cruise ship crews and personal valets – all to make sure he had the ideas on how to fill wall space, the inside information to know where he could find the art to fill the space and the knowledge of where he could meet the buyers face to face. Deck hands would position his deckchair next to the right person on Atlantic cruise ships; valets would set up Duveen to be in a hotel lift at the right moment. Duveen’s charm would do the rest. he acted like a friend but he had been a spy to tip the odds in his favour.

Joseph Duveen

But perhaps his best move was to grow the art market at the precise time when rising income tax and the decline of big houses meant taxation stood in the way of spending and smaller houses meant less wall to fill.

Duveen’s strategy was to focus clients on immortality and the creation of public galleries named after the ones with the money.

The Frick Collection stands on 5th Avenue, New York. Internationally

recognised as a premier museum and research centre, the Frick is known for its distinguished Old Master paintings and outstanding examples of European sculpture and decorative arts. Truly great works of art that the mighty Lord Duveen would have been proud to trade for the Elgin Marbles.

The collection originated with Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919), who bequeathed his home, paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts to the public for their enjoyment. And Frick was one of Duveen’s clients.

Perhaps the best testimony to Duveen’s legacy is the fact that some of the Great Masters were known as Duveens; which was enough to raise the profile of the piece – and its value.

For Duveen, it was easy to sell for tens of thousands, but the real skill was in selling for hundreds of thousands.

For decades, the art market in Europe and the Americas danced to a Duveen tune.

A section of the Parthenon Marbles, also known as the Elgin Marbles, in the British Museum Matthew Fearn/Pa wire

Rembrandt, Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, 1653 iMage via wikiMedia CoMMons

Thomas Gainsborough, The Blue Boy, Portrait of Jonathan Buttall, ca. 1770 iMage via wikiMedia CoMMons

Raphael, The NiccoliniCowper Madonna, 1508 Courtesy oF the national gallery oF art

‘She was incandescent with the radiance of her short, concentrated life’

A look back at one of the region’s strong and independent women Winifred Holtby

Winifred Holtby was an english novelist and journalist, now best known for her novel South riding, which was posthumously published in 1936.

She was born to a prosperous farming family in the village of rudston, in the east riding of Yorkshire.

Her father was david Holtby and her mother, Alice, was afterwards the first alderwoman on the east riding County Council.

Winifred was educated at home by a governess and then at Queen Margaret’s School in Scarborough.

Although she passed the entrance exam for Somerville College, Oxford, in 1917, she chose to join the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in early 1918 but soon after she arrived in france, the first World War came to an end and she returned home.

during this period, Holtby met Harry Pearson, the only man who stimulated romantic feelings in her, due primarily to his tales of the suffering soldiers endured during the war.

in 1919, she returned to study at the University of Oxford where she met Vera Brittain, a fellow student and later the author of Testament of Youth, with whom she maintained a lifelong friendship.

After graduating from Oxford, in 1921, Winifred and Vera moved to London, hoping to establish themselves as writers. (The blue plaque at no. 82 doughty Street is where they lived).

She was, together with Brittain, an ardent feminist, socialist and pacifist. She lectured extensively for the League of nations Union.

She was active in the independent Labour Party and was a staunch campaigner for the unionisation of black workers in South Africa.

in a 1926 article, Holtby wrote: “Personally, i am a feminist, because i dislike everything that feminism implies.

“i want to be about the work in which

my real interests lie, but while injustice is done and opportunity denied to the great majority of women, i shall have to be a feminist.

After Brittain’s marriage in 1925 to George Catlin, Holtby shared her friend’s homes in nevern Place earls Court and subsequently at 19 Glebe Place, Chelsea; Catlin resented the arrangement and his wife’s close friendship with Holtby, who nevertheless became an adoptive aunt to Brittain’s two children, John and Shirley (Baroness Williams of Crosby).

Shirley describes her as being “tall, nearly 6ft, and slim, she was incandescent with the radiance of her short and concentrated life”.

Winifred began to suffer from high blood pressure, recurrent headaches and bouts of lassitude, and in 1931 she was diagnosed as suffering from Bright’s disease.

Her doctor gave her only two years to live. Aware of her impending death, Holtby put all her remaining energy into what became her most important book, South riding.

Winifred Holtby died on September 29, 1935, aged 37. She never married, though Harry Pearson proposed to her on her deathbed, possibly at the instigation of Vera Brittain. Holtby’s fame was derived mainly from her journalism: she wrote for more than 20 newspapers and magazines, including the feminist journal Time and Tide and the Manchester Guardian newspaper. in her book ‘Women and a changing civilisation’ Holtby linked the 1930s reaction against feminism to a broader “revolt against reason which has affected

Winifred Holtby was inspired by the East Riding County Building

Winifred Holtby

the intellectual life of the entire Western World”.

Holtby contextualized the rise of the Nazis, and the Western turn to the political Right in general, as a reaction to the broader upheavals of war and depression: “Just after the First World War, society was infected by a rush of idealism to the head.

“Democracy and reason, equality and co-operation were acclaimed as uncontested virtues.

“In the new constitutions of Europe and America were incorporated splendid statements about the freedom of opinion, equality of the sexes, and accessibility of education.

“We were about to build a brave new world upon the ruins of catastrophe earthquakes, Chinese famine, African drought.

“The individual will seem unimportant,

the individual personality is dwarfed, by happenings on so large a scale. This is the slump complex, this narrowing of ambition, this closing-in alike of ideas and opportunities.

“Somewhere, a spring of vitality and hope has failed.”

Holtby perceived feminism as necessarily tied to enlightenment rationality, progress, and social engineering:

In 1974 South Riding was adapted by

Stan Barstow for Yorkshire Television. Her letters, along with many of Holtby’s other papers, were donated in 1960 to Hull Central Library in Yorkshire and are now held at the Hull History Centre. Holtby was buried in All Saints’ churchyard in Rudston, East Yorkshire, just yards from the house in which she was born.

Her epitaph is “God give me work till my life shall end and life till my work is done”.

Rudston Church in the countryside which had such a lasting influence on Winifred Holtby

Winifred Holtby’s home, Thwaite Street, then Bainesse, now renamed Holtby House

COMMUNITY T he ATR e feature

Community theatre in Hull and East Yorkshire

–

by Rupert Creed

The cultural shifts of the 1960s and early 1970s brought new ways of making art, music, poetry and performance that challenged the traditional models of regional repertory theatres, arts and literary institutions.

In hull, the creation of hull Arts Centre (from its origins in Coltman Street later renamed humberside Theatre, then Spring Street, then hull Truck Theatre) gave residents a new venue offering plays, live music nights, a resident theatre-in education company and workshops in all art forms.

hull Truck Theatre Company was formed in the city by Mike Bradwell, pioneering new ways of making plays through weeks of improvisations with actors.

When John Godber took over in the early 1980s he created a hugely popular and innovative form of physical theatre, typified by Bouncers and Up and Under.

hull University drama department produced notable graduates such as Anthony Minghella, and more recently James Graham, Lucy Beaumont and theatre companies such as Middle Child, the Roaring Girls and Silent Uproar.

hull-born Richard Bean has enjoyed a prolific career as a playwright, as has hessle Road-born actor and theatre director Barry Rutter who went on to form Northern Broadsides.

Home grown

hull’s Architecture College and hull Art College trained a generation of young artists, with a fertile crossover into music and performance-art leading to hull Time based Arts. The embedded Londoncentric perception of hull being a cultural backwater has only been challenged in recent years –particularly as a result of hull City of Culture 2017 – but the truth is, hull has always been a place for

artistic experiment and innovation. One of the city’s pioneers in community theatre was Remould Theatre Company.

Remould Theatre Company was founded in 1981 by Rupert Creed and Averil Coult. With few initial resources other than a commitment and passion to tell the stories of hull and its people, the company grew in scale and ambition.

By the end of the 1980s, Remould’s work had attracted revenue funding from humberside County, east Yorkshire and hull City Councils, Lincolnshire and humberside Regional Arts Association, and was one of only a few companies in

Coltman Street

And who better to tackle it than St George, played in this 1985 picture by Remould Theatre director Rupert Creed? With Sara Hawkins, who played the dragon, and Charlie Chaplin (Robert Sim), they were taking part in St George’s Day celebrations at Chaplin’s Restaurant, Princes Avenue

in city of Hull

the region with revenue funding from the Arts Council.

This allowed Remould to develop an integrated programme of documentary plays based on local people’s working lives, a series of large-scale community play projects, and outreach drama work in schools and community centres across the region.

Over its 16-year existence, Remould produced 20 new plays, toured intensively within East Yorkshire, extensively across the UK and beyond – to Norway, Iceland, the Faroes, Germany – and left a legacy of community plays, created and performed with residents in Hull, Howden, Bridlington and Easington.

Remould’s first rehearsals took place in 1981 at Northumberland Avenue Arts Centre set up by the late Pam Dellar, herself a pioneer of early community theatre.

In the same building at the same time was a young film-maker called Sean McAllister starting his career with Frontier Films. It took another 35 years for Creed and McAllister to finally work

on a project together, when they linked as writer and director of ‘Made in Hull’, the opening event for Hull 2017 UK City of Culture.

Remould secured a rehearsal base and office firstly in Trinity Market on Lowgate (now a Backpackers Hostel) and then in a former school on Middleton Street off Spring Bank (now demolished and replaced by housing).

From 1985 onwards the company focused on producing “oral history” documentary plays, based on hours of recorded story-gathering interviews with workers from industries or professions such as fishing (The Northern Trawl),

nursing (Close to the Bone), social work (The Care Takers), Scunthorpe’s steel industry (Steeltown), Humberside police (Street Beat), and press journalism (The Greatest Story Ever Sold).

Their words and stories shaped these authentic powerful portrayals of the working lives of local people.

From 1988, Remould began to develop large-scale community plays in Hull and East Yorkshire. These productions involved working for a year with local residents in a particular village, town or city, firstly to find a story that expressed the history and character of their community, and then to mobilise that community to stage a promenade production on an epic scale, often with casts of between 120 and 200 local performers.

In all Remould productions music was an essential element, either in the form of a small rock band, an ensemble of actormusicians, or a full community orchestra.

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‘Made in Hull’, the opening event for Hull 2017 UK City of Culture

Lucy Beaumont

Anthony Minghella

Bouncers in the 1990s

C omm U ni TY THEATRE feature

From the mid-1990s, the reorganisation of arts organisations led to the abolition of Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts Association and the devolution of some Arts Council clients to regional arts bodies, with Yorkshire Arts taking on responsibility for most of Remould’s funding.

The substantial grant from Humberside County Council disappeared with the demise of the county, and within two years Yorkshire Arts halved, then withdrew its entire grant to Remould.

Despite continued support from Hull City and East Riding Councils, and massive support from local people, the company could not continue to operate and closed down in February 1997.

The archive of all Remould Theatre Company productions has been kept intact, including hundreds of hours of audio interviews with the many local people who contributed their stories and memories of the history of their communities or their own working lives.

After Remould’s demise in 1997, Rupert Creed continued to live and work in Hull as a writer, theatre director and story facilitator. He worked as a producer for the BBC in Hull on the innovative community storytelling project ‘Telling Lives’ enabling local people to tell their stories in the digital format of a short film using personal photographs as visuals for their narrated story.

He also worked on storytelling projects in the city including ‘Freedom to Tell Tales’ for Freedom Festival and ‘Untold Hull’ that is creating a reminiscence archive of Hull residents’ memories and stories.

He formed the Centre for

Contemporary Storytelling in 2012 with the aim of developing forms of community storytelling across all performance genres. The company’s productions continue the Remould ethos and practice of engaging local communities in the co-creation of

stage shows and publications.

Their productions include ‘Turning the Tide’ – that tells the story of Hull’s Hessle Road women who campaigned for improved safety in the wake of Hull’s 1968 Triple Trawler Tragedy. Combining original audio testimony from the women

Leah Kelly, 8, left, and Eve Kelly, 6, members of the Remould Theatre Company, ready with the hundreds of pairs of shoes that will be lined up on the pavement in Dewsbury, as the company protest at their grants cut, by Yorkshire and Humberside Arts Council

Rupert Creed with a promotional poster for Turning The Tide. Inset, a poster for Turn and Face the Strange

of that time, projected image and film, music and live storytelling, ‘Turning the Tide’ portrays a period in the city’s history of national significance, when Hull women stepped beyond the constraints of their time, culture and gender to take a male-dominated industry to task and effect much-needed reforms to an industry that was killing their men.

The company’s most recent production is ‘Turn and Face the Strange’ – written by Rupert Creed and Garry Burnett –portraying the life and career of Hullborn guitarist Mick Ronson, who became David Bowie’s essential sideman and musical collaborator.

Based on local people’s memories and stories, the show takes its audience on a spectacular sound and light experience through the music of a supremely talented guitarist, song arranger and album producer, whose career was tragically cut short by cancer in 1993.

The production has led to the

publication of ‘The Mick Ronson Story’, which is taking his story to a wider international audience, and the show itself is scheduled to run again at Hull New Theatre in December.

Community theatre empowers local people to participate creatively in the act of making drama, it gives a platform to share stories that are relevant to our lives, it takes the history and heritage of our community to a wider audience, and it enriches the lives of local residents.

When Remould started in the early 1980s we were driven by the ethos of community engagement for all the benefits and value outlined above. We didn’t want community involvement to be tokenistic, or a tick-box means to secure funding – we felt it was an essential ingredient to create distinctive, powerful, resonant and relevant theatre. With a new generation of theatre makers at the helm, community theatre can continue to thrive in Hull and East Yorkshire. Long may it continue.

Flooding in Hull in 2007

Community theatre projects by Remould Theatre and beyond

‘The Nuclear cabareT’

Remould’s first production in 1981 was a timely satirical political comedy on the resurgent nuclear arms race and civil defence planning, it featured a rock band and through a series of sketches and scenes explored the aftermath of a nuclear bomb attack on Hull.

‘The NorTherN Trawl’

First performed in 1985, the play was based on the first-hand accounts of fishermen and their families from Hull and Grimsby. The actors underwent training on the Arctic Corsair (berthed at the time in Albert Dock) and local fishermen advised on rehearsals to ensure an authentic portrayal of their working lives.

‘STreeT beaT’

Humberside Police gave the company unprecedented access to shadow and observe its officers at work and record their stories. For six months in 1990 the writers were out on the beat with Hull bobbies & Bransholme CID, sometimes to their alarm being mistaken as plain clothes officers themselves.

hull commuNiTy PlayS – ‘ViTal SPark’ aNd ‘No SurreNder’

Local people provided the stories for Remould’s documentary plays, which were then rehearsed and performed by a small team of professional actors. With community plays we took the idea of community engagement to a whole new level: local people not only helped shape the story, they were integral to every aspect of getting the production staged, and they rehearsed and performed the shows.

‘eVery Time iT raiNS’ - hull’S 2007 floodS

CommIssIoneD by Hull Truck Theatre and performed in 2009 as part of the opening season in their new theatre on Ferensway, ‘every Time it Rains’ told the story of the devastating Hull floods of 2007 through the words and memories of the city’s people.

Buildings can mean a lot to us. They are the sites of our everyday lives and most treasured memories, first dates, family gatherings, new jobs, shopping trips, religious ceremonies, nights in, spontaneous adventures.

streets tell stories too, from our own personal tales of moving in or moving on, to monumental national and international histories signified by memorial plaques and street names.

Beverley Road is a place that can tell a multitude of stories.

it has been a major route into Hull since at least the medieval period and flourished in the 19th and 20th centuries as one of the city’s first suburban districts.

Taking a journey along Beverley Road today is a route through our history, with a range of historical architecture to enjoy and an abundance of tales to explore.

Take, for instance, stepney station.

Built in the early 1850s, the station and rail route first opened as a freight line for local industry, linking the city centre and Victoria dock.

soon it served thousands of passengers taking day trips and summer holidays to the promenades of Hornsea and Withernsea, for the delights of a cool ice cream (flake, sauce, and sprinkles, please), or an even cooler dip in the north sea.

Closing in 1964, stepney station now plays an important role as a community learning centre.

The old railway track is a footpath and cycle track, and the station House and platforms have recently been refurbished as part of the Beverley Road Townscape Heritage scheme.

You’d need to know what to look for to spot that the area around stepney station was once a village entirely separate from Hull.

Clues to its more rural past now exist in the relatively narrow road layout along this stretch of Beverley Road, as well as in centuries-old streets like stepney lane.

More recognisable are those Victorian

A ROUTE THROUGH HISTORY

A journey into Hull from the North along Beverley Road reveals a landscape rich with stories.

By Charlotte Tomlinson

and Edwardian buildings that characterise the area today, such as Beverley Road Baths or the Bull inn, and which contribute to Beverley Road’s status as a designated Conservation Area. some of the earliest examples of suburban housing in the area, dating from the first half of the 1800s, can be more easily spotted by their distinctive bay windows, classical porches, and large front gardens. set back from the road, surviving terraces from this period make it possible to imagine the varied lives of the people who once called them home.

A trade directory from 1892, for example, lists a diverse mix of fish dealers, brewers, paint manufacturers, gardeners, wine merchants and greengrocers, boot repairers, solicitors, wool brokers, butchers, bookbinders and more living along the road at the

end of the 19th century.

Other sites which have been altered over the years perhaps require a little more, but no less delightful, imagination.

At 108 Beverley Road operated Field’s Model Bakery, from which a steady supply of tea, coffee, groceries, confectionary, chocolates and other “fancy goods” were delivered around Hull by motor van.

during the same period, and just a couple of doors down at grosvenor House, dr Mary Murdoch was paving the way as Hull’s first female gP with her assistant dr louisa Martindale.

Murdoch was a committed campaigner for women’s rights and worked hard to improve the lives of local women through a range of initiatives focused on support, training, and active participation in citizenship.

she founded the Hull Women’s suffrage society in 1904, organising weekly suffrage committees from her home on Beverley Road, and also established a school for Mothers and a crèche to support local working-class

Stepney Railway Station house

women. One year later, she also founded the Hull branch of the National Union of Women Workers, a network established to consider the social, economic and political position of women and campaign for improvements to their working and personal lives.

By the time she died in 1916, thousands of patients, friends, and fellow campaigners had stepped through the doorway of Murdoch’s home and practice at 102 Beverley Road.

Two commemorative plaques now mark the lives and work of Murdoch and Martindale; a little further along the road, at the former National Picture Theatre, work continues to protect and remember another Hull story of national and international significance.

In March 1941, the National Picture Theatre was bombed during a Luftwaffe raid on the city and largely destroyed as a result.

Luckily those sheltering inside the cinema’s foyer survived but during the course of the Second World War, around twelve hundred people in Hull did lose their lives as a result of similar air raids.

Today, the site stands as testament to the impact and legacies of war on the city of Hull, as well as an important memorial to civilian loss.

It is also a reminder of the onceenormous role of going to the pictures in

what has been dubbed by some “the cinema city”. Tales of Victorian and Edwardian Hull are now beyond the limits of living memory.

Only a handful of people can still recall experiences of the blitz first hand. But thousands more will have their own, more recent memories of Beverley Road

to treasure and pass on to younger generations.

Since 2015, the Beverley Road Townscape Heritage Scheme, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Hull City Council, has been working steadily to restore many sites and to protect them and the stories they hold.

Grosvenor House and plaques

National Picture Theatre

Beverley Road in 1901

Keep on Truckin’

my relationship with Hull goes back way beyond when I came to live here in 1984.

As early as 1975 a group of students from Bretton Hall College, Wakefield, performed at the University’s Gulbenkian theatre. I was one of them, I played Queenie, a young drag queen in Fortune and Mens Eyes set in a Canadian reform school. There are no existing pictures.

Earlier in 1972, I played in the English Schools Rugby Union Sevens competition held at Riley school. In the semi-final against Normanton Grammar I incurred an eye injury and was rushed to Hull Royal infirmary for stitches, the same hospital saved my life twenty two years later. Little wonder I was to later write about rugby, albeit a different code.

But it was in 1981 that my relationship

with the city really took root: I wrote a play and brought it to the National Student Drama Festival, and on Princess Avenue there was an American style diner called Chaplin’s, I took a girl from Skipton there for a burger, we have been together ever since. It was that year that I met Oscar winner Anthony Minghella, who introduced me to Sir Phil Redmond, and that’s how my TV career was launched; writing Brookside, Grange Hill and Crown Court. When I came to run Hull Truck I expected to stay for three years…I had no idea that I would build a theatre, invent a theatrical style, and create a brand. So when we set up our own company we saw what Eddie Stobbart and Marks and

Spencer’s had done and called it something obvious.

We are a relatively small company; but we have over a 100 years worth of experience making theatre. We tour extensively so our market is wide, and our plays are performed world-wide, so we take the name and the flavour of Hull around the globe, all our work is made in the region. We are BAFTA winners, Olivier Award winners, Los Angeles Drama Circle Award winners, as well as being patrons of National Drama, in support of the nation’s Drama teachers

And we don’t have to look for local writers and directors. Elizabeth who has just had a remarkable success with her adaptation, with Nick Lane, of The Comedy of Errors, produces all our tours. Her company, Smashing Mirrors is one of the UK’s leading Dementia Theatre Companies. Martha recently has co-directed the tour of Teechers Leavers 22 for Blackeyed Theatre, and has other plans for her skills. Jane is constantly working on projects and I have a new play, DO I LOVE yOU? on tour.

As a production company we are able to respond to ideas extremely quickly, more importantly we are able to create projects from nowhere, write, direct and act, we also have a huge back catalogue of successful plays as a resource which we haver access to any time, and it’s that what perhaps makes us unique.

John Godber

As Hull’s legendary theatre company celebrates its 50th Anniversary, two of the primary pioneers of its development, John Godber and Mark Babych, talk about their life and times at The Truck

Hull Truck Theatre in Spring Street, Hull

The 2003 version of John Godber’s Bouncers

When Hull Truck Theatre celebrated its 30th birthday

Hull Truck Theatre recently celebrated its 50th Anniversary year, a year in which we reflected on our past, present and future. From our origins in Coltman Street, to Spring Street and finally to Ferensway, we’re proud of the monumental journey that’s brought us to where we are today.

As a pioneering theatre with a unique northern voice, we are committed to inspiring artists, audiences and communities to reach their greatest potential, producing and presenting a programme of work that reflects the diversity of a modern Britain and developing conditions for talent to thrive.

Our 50th anniversary programme produced a range of popular, ambitious, and eclectic work that began by embracing the theatre’s rich heritage. Working closely with renowned playwrights Richard Bean and John Godber, we celebrated our origins in 71 Coltman Street and reframed one of John’s classic plays Teechers for audiences in 2022. We gave voice to local people with a joyous production of A Midsummer Nights’ Dream, took our first steps in embedding BSl and Deaf culture in A Christmas Carol, and celebrated the lives of strong working-class women in ladies unleashed. We also invested in future talent, commissioning plays by local writers Sam Caseley (Jack, Mum & The Beanstalk) and lydia Marchant, who wrote her first play, Mumsy, for our

mainstage earlier this year. We continue to work collaboratively with fellow artists and creative organisations throughout the city, and it’s important for us to be a valuable contributor to the local creative arts conversation. A huge focus as we move forward into the next 50 years is investing in local talent – both on and off the stage and investing in new work, alongside audience development too. We’re passionate about nurturing the next wave of ambition and creativity that this great city has to offer.

Hull Truck Theatre’s foundations are built on new work. We’ve always told stories that reflect real issues affecting our community which, at their best, echo the heartbeat of the nation. New writing is our lifeblood, and our challenge is to find new methods of communication to reach and deepen engagement with our audiences. New work isn’t just about

giving new writers a voice, it’s about giving a voice to our audiences too.

Hull Truck Theatre is so much more than just a building to so many people. It’s the beating heart of our local cultural scene, a place where people come together, a space to express creativity and ultimately a place for our artists, audiences and participants to find connection and community.

We wouldn’t be able to do the work we do without the support of our key funding partners, Hull City Council and Arts Council England. Their support enables us to put high-quality work on our stages and connects us with our local communities – offering fantastic outreach programmes in particular. For their financial support and general guidance, we are eternally grateful.

Here’s to the next 50 years of Hull Truck Theatre!

Mark ArtisticBabychDirector of Hull Truck Theatre

Hull Truck Theatre production of the John Godber play, Up ‘N Under, performed at the Spring Street Theatre in 1988. Below, Hull Truck’s, The New Garbo, in 1978

Was famous botanist linked to Hull’s first Botanic Gardens?

Looking back at Hull’s Botanic Gardens – by

WI’ve wondered for a long time where the name Linnaeus Street came from. I discovered it was named after Carl Linnaeus, a famous Swedish botanist.

Linnaeus Street, which is off Anlaby Road, is the place where Hull’s first Botanic Gardens, which covered five acres, were, and it seemed obvious to me that it must have been Carl Linnaeus who laid them out when they were opened.

Not so! City archivist and manager of Hull History Centre, Martin Taylor, pointed out that Carl Linnaeus had died in 1778 and, in fact, the gardens had been laid out in 1812 by Peter William Watson (1761-1830) and Adrian Hardy Haworth (1768-1833).

The image reproduced here is the view of the gardens prior to their move to what is now the grounds of Hymers College, just off Spring Bank West.

Botanist and entomologist Adrian Hardy Haworth was born in Hull. He belonged to a wealthy and wellestablished family who resided at Hullbank (or Haworth) Hall, near Hull. He was educated at Hull grammar school and was then articled to a solicitor, but renounced the legal profession and settled at his family’s dower house at Cottingham, where he began to study natural history.

In 1792, Haworth married eliza Sidney Cumbrey (1768/9-1803). Following their marriage he moved to Little Chelsea, a favoured location of gardeners, horticulturists and botanists. He became a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1798.

Haworth’s first significant publication was his botanical description of pubescent poison ivy, included in J Alderson’s An essay on the Rhus toxicodendron (1794). This was followed by one of his most important works, Observations on the Genus Mesembryanthemum (1794-5), in which he distinguished over 200 species, where previously only about 70 had been described.

During his stay at Chelsea, Haworth

was also active in entomology, going on extended walking tours around england, collecting specimens. This work resulted in his Lepidoptera Britannica (1803–28), which was the first comprehensive work on english butterflies and moths and remained the standard work on the subject for 50 years. He is, however,

probably best known for his synopsis plantarum succulentarum (1812), where his facility at the careful distinction of small differences in growing plants came out at its strongest, even if the validity of his taxonomic procedures was open to criticism.

Botanist Peter William Watson was born in Hull and educated at the grammar school. While he occupied early life in trade, he was an enthusiastic student of botany, entomology, chemistry and mineralogy, and a skilful landscape painter.

In his Dendrologia Britannica, or Trees and shrubs that will live in the open air of Britain throughout the year (1824-5), he alludes to his own endeavours to furnish the institution with many indigenous plants, “which I collected at considerable expense and labour, by traversing the whole east Riding”. Dendrologia Britannica was described by John Claudius Loudon as “the most scientific work devoted exclusively to trees which has hitherto been published in england”. Watson was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1824.

John Netherwood

Carl Linnaeus

So what about the famous Carl Linneaus? Carl Linnaeus has been one of the most influential scientists of all time.

Linnaeus was born in 1707 in southern Sweden. He was intended to follow in his father’s footsteps as a clergyman, but from a young age showed a keen interest in plants and flowers. A local physician, who realised there may be a potential future for Linnaeus in the field of botany, recommended he was sent to study at university. Linnaeus studied medicine, which at the time was based on herbalism, and so could combine his passion for botany with his studies.

Linnaeus excelled at university and in 1730 was appointed lecturer in botany. It was during this period that he began to outline the theory of plant sexuality, which was later used to construct his system of plant classification.

Linnaeus’ system of classification has been a huge influence in science and the basis for the modern classification of nature. Before the Linnaean system was universally accepted, scientific names for species were already in Latin but were often too long. For example, the tomato was called Solanum caule inermi herbaceo, foliis pinnatis incises, racemes simplicibus. The Linnaean system allowed for clear and easy classifications based on shared physical characteristics.

His idea was to classify nature in a hierarchy, starting with three kingdoms; plants, animals and minerals. Kingdoms were divided into classes and then into orders, which were further divided into

The view today is certainly very different to when this picture was taken at the junction of Spring Bank and Princes Avenue. It shows the former Botanic Gardens station, once an intermediate stop on the North Eastern Railway’s Victoria Dock Branch Line. The station was opened on May 8, 1848, by the York and North Midland Railway, and was originally known as Hull Cemetery. It closed to passengers in November 1854, before being reopened and renamed Hull Cemetery Gates in September 1866. It was renamed Hull Botanic Gardens on November 1, 1881, and remained as such until final closure on October 19, 1964. The site of the station is now a pub

genera and then species. All known plants were given a simpler binomial (in two parts) Latin name, which consisted of the genus followed by the species. Using this system the tomato simply became Solanum lycopersicum.

Over time, his binomial system was adopted as the standard way of naming organisms.

He is rightly celebrated worldwide as the inventor of the modern system of plant naming standards. He was also renowned for creating formal and more

intimate gardens for the rich and famous people of many European countries.

Hull’s Botanic Gardens site was sold in December 1878 and the Botanic garden, including its curator James Niven, moved to a new site at Hymer’s College.

However, our region also boasted two other such gardens - one at the University of Hull in Cottingham - recently closedand also the highly regarded Burnby Hall Gardens in Pocklington.

So, from what, for me, started out as a mystery trail, all is now revealed.

Sketch by the late FS Smith dates from 1889 and shows the entrance to the Spring Bank cemetery and Botanic Gardens level crossing from the collection held at Hull museum

The famous side of Hull

Celebrating achievements of people connected with city – by Steve Mathie

Spin-it Records is celebrating its 29th year this year trading in trinity Market. We are the oldest “vinyl only” record shop in the country.

ten years ago, i had an idea to celebrate the achievements of the people from and connected with Hull. this idea brought about a book, the Famous Side of Hull (if we can do it, you can) and a gallery entitled the Wall of Fame, which is situated within my shop in the market.

Spin-it Records and the Wall of Fame have become an integral part of the Old town and is one of the only independent free attractions in the city.

the objective of the Wall of Fame is to inspire people to achieve their potential as others from the city have done before.

1Peter Martin – Actor

1941- 2023

Born in Hull in 1941, he was famous in the 1980s for his many t V commercials for Jewson’s Hardware. He played the fish shop man in First of the Summer Wine. He also played “Charlie the moonlighting gravedigger” in the Beiderbecke tapes. He was in the Royle Family as Joe, and played the part of Len Reynolds in it V’s Emmerdale from 2001 until the character’s death on May 17, 2007, in Emmerdale’s 500th anniversary episode.

2Richard Bean – Playwright

Born in Hull in 1956

His first full-length play Of Rats and Men went on to the Edinburgh Festival. He adapted it for BBC Radio, and it was nominated for a Sony Award. Subsequent plays include: toast, Mr England, the Mentalists, Under the Whaleback, Smack Family Robinson, the God Botherers, Honeymoon Suite, Harvest, the Hypochondriac and Up On Roof.

Between 1989 and 1994, Bean also worked as a stand-up comedian and

went on to be one of the writers and performers of the sketch show Control Group Six (BBC Radio), which was nominated for a Writers Guild Award.

3

Paul Dakeyne – DJ/Producer

Born in Hull in 1961

paul has dedicated the past two decades of his life to record production and DJing. For six years he toured globally for the Ministry of Sound and has played DJ sets for the likes of U2 and Kraftwerk.

paul has remixed around 250 records in his career as an artist in his own right. He also had one of dance music’s crossover hits with his 18 Strings by tinman, single scoring a UK top ten in 1994. He also co-wrote and produced the music for BBC’s Watchdog and Crimewatch when they were both revamped in 2001 and 2006 respectively. His other career highlights include an A&R stint for Mercury Records, lecturing in “DJ culture and music technology” and creating mash-up mixes for BBC Radio 1.

paul now runs his globally popular 80s Electropop Radio Show and continues his music production activities from

his home studio based in Hull. 4

Aka Old Mother Riley – Actor / Comedian

Arthur Lucan,

1885-1954

Born Arthur towle, he toured ireland, where he met and subsequently married Kathleen “Kitty” Mc Shane. together they developed a double act – Old Mother Riley and Her Daughter Kitty.

they achieved some success with a sketch called Bridget’s night Out. For this he first wore drag, and began to develop the character of Old Mother Riley.

Whilst in Dublin, he changed his name to Lucan, and they continued to perform as Lucan and McShane. the act was so successful, they played it at the 1934 Royal Command performance at the London palladium, the most prestigious engagement of its time.

there followed a successful film career, a radio series and even a strip cartoon in the Radio times. in all, Arthur Lucan made 17 films, 16 as Old Mother Riley.

Steve Mathie

He performed literally up to his dying breath, collapsing and dying in the wings of the now demolished Tivoli Theatre in Hull in 1954.

5Andrew Penny – Conductor Born in Hull in 1952

As well as his contribution to British music, Penny has also conducted a recording of Mendelssohn’s Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings iAwards of 1999, the Editor’s Choice Award was made to 22 Naxos discs as an outstanding contribution to 20th-century British music. Three of these releases were conducted by Penny.

6Gavin Scott – Broadcaster and Novelist

Born in Hull in 1950

Gavin Scott is a novelist, broadcaster and writer of the Emmy-winning mini-series

The Mists of Avalon, Small Soldiers, Working Title’s The Borrowers and Sci

Fi’s Legend of Earthsea.

He spent ten years making films for British television before becoming a screenwriter, creating more than 200 documentaries and short films.

His first assignment in the US was with George Lucas, developing and scripting

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. His work ranges from family entertainment (Dangerous Archeologists) to comedy (The Suit, The Book, The Film and the T-Shirt), science fiction and

historical dramas. The list goes on.

7Dead Fingers Talk – Punk Band Formed in Hull in 1975

In 1969, Jeff Parsons and Rocky Norton put a band together called Bone. The band split after just a year. The same line-up went on to form Dead Fingers Talk (DFT) in 1975. In 1977, DFT moved to London and were signed to Pye

Records on a three-album deal but only released one, entitled Storm the Reality Studios, produced by Mick Ronson. DFT Released two singles, Hold On To Rock ‘n’ Roll And This Crazy World. The band split in 1979 in the middle of recording their second album.

8Barrie Rutter – Actor

Born in Hull in 1946

In the 1970s, Barrie Rutter worked with the National Youth Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. In the 1980s, he performed in three adaptations by poet Tony Harrison, The Oresteia, The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus and The Mysteries,.

He founded Northern Broadsides in 1992. In 2003, he received the Sam Wanamaker Award jointly with Stephen Unwin for their work promoting Shakespeare in the Regions.

He has appeared in many films and television programmes, including a regular role in the early 1980s ITV sitcom Astronauts. More recently, he appeared in five episodes of the series Fat Friends in 2004-05, playing Douglas Simpson.

9Cosey Fanni Tutti –Performance Artist

Born in Hull in 1951

Cosey Fanni Tutti is best known as a part of the band Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey.

In 1976, she co-founded the group Throbbing Gristle with Chris Carter, Peter Christopherson and Genesis P-Orridge. They disbanded in 1981.

In 2004, after 23 years apart, Throbbing Gristle reunited, with all four original members.

LONG GONE. This was how the area near Hull’s City Hall once looked. The picture, by artist FS Smith, shows the corner of Engine Street and Waterworks Street. In 1952, Waterworks Street vanished from the map when it became part of Paragon Street. Waterworks Street had previously ceased to exist, part of it being used for the City Hall. It was given its name because of waterworks in nearby Engine Street

A look at street artist FS Smith and his drawings

WHull’s collection of sketches by Fs smith contains more than 800 drawings of Victorian Hull and its surrounding region.

They were created by Frederick schultz smith between 1880 and 1920. They record many buildings and places that have long since vanished due to wartime bombing or redevelopment. Others still remain standing alongside newer properties.

Although Fs smith became a familiar figure sketching on street corners in Hull, he was not originally from the city. He was born in Worthing, sussex, in 1860. He came to Hull as a small child with his parents and he lived most of his life in the old st John’s Wood area in west Hull. He was still drawing in his sixties, shortly before his death in 1925.

The drawings are visual “snapshots” in time. They were often produced to record buildings that were due to be pulled down. One of his drawings shows the old Guildhall which stood on the same site as the present Guildhall. The drawing was created in 1913, the year after it was demolished, from earlier sketches. The only part of the building to survive today

Snapshots

is the cupola, which is in Pearson Park. They were most often done in pen and ink, though some scenes are in pencil or watercolour. Around 300 were produced as commissions for CE Fewster, a paint maker in Hull, who collected historical records. some were also used as illustrations in books and newspapers, such as the Eastern Morning News. Others were sold to the people who owned the premises which he had drawn.

Many of the drawings depict familiar buildings and landmarks within Hull’s Old Town. some, like Wilberforce House, are still around today. Others depict buildings that no longer exist such as the timber-framed King’s Head Inn.

some drawings show impressive buildings such as the Corn Exchange on High street. In contrast, others depict the slum-like dwelling places of the poor that were crammed into nearby passageways.

The Old Town was bordered by water. The River Hull was to the east, docks to the west and the River Humber to the south. several drawings depict the impressive double-decked Victoria Pier that was used by paddle steamer ferries on the Humber.

The River Hull and the old harbour are shown as busy waterways, crowded with many types of vessels including barges, keels and small steamers. The Princes, Humber and Queen’s Docks are also represented and include both trading and fishing vessels.

some drawings record the coming of electricity to Hull. One depicts the opening of the Hull Electric Tramway in 1899. several street scenes include strange new “arc” electric street lights. These were introduced as early as 1882 but because their carbon rods burnt out quickly, the town reverted to gas lighting after only two years.

This drawing by FS Smith shows Chariot Street in Hull city centre many years ago. At one time, the street ran between Jameson Street and Carr Lane, but today is only about 30 yards in length and goes from Carr Lane to Paragon Street

in time

This busy east Hull road for many years served one of Hull’s biggest and best known factories. This picture was drawn by FS Smith in 1889. The street – Dansom Lane

This picture by FS Smith shows Coltman Street during its finest years - note the carriage and the iron railings which adorned every property

Not a trace remains of this building which stood at the corner of Car Lane and Chariot Street, the site today of a Polish supermarket. The picture was drawn by FS Smith in 1897

Humble Hull beginnings to global force

How Reckitt’s

WReckitt has been in the city of Hull since 1840. today, the company sells 20 million products every single day in more than 60 countries across the globe.

Founded by Quaker isaac Reckitt, the business’s first product was laundry starch. the founding story of Reckitt is one of uncertainty, insecurity, but above all, determination. Determination to succeed in business, determination to create and produce great products and determination to build a better city. that determination is still alive 183 years later.

isaac moved to Hull at the age of 48. After two failed attempts at business, one in Nottingham and one in his hometown, Boston, Lincolnshire, he leased a starch factory on Dansom Lane using capital borrowed from his brother. Making a

success of selling laundry starch in this period was gruelling. competition was fierce and profit minimal.

As the century progressed, isaac and his sons (Frederic, George, James and Francis) began to branch into new products. this included Reckitt Blue (1852), a starch product containing ultramarine (a bright blue pigment) which made white garments whiter. Marketing for their products was widespread and Reckitt Blue even reached the Russian tsar and Napoleon iii! Other key products included metal

polishes, with the Uk’s first metal polish, Brasso, being developed, manufactured and launched in Hull in 1905.

Under the leadership of isaac’s sons, notably James and Francis Reckitt, the business grew from strength to strength seeing new products developed and acquired. Factories were opened across the globe, including Brazil and France, to help cope with demand for products. By the inter-war years, Reckitt was acquiring brands such as Harpic and Windowlene and developing its own with Dettol (also developed and manufactured in Hull) being launched in 1933. Dettol was the first health product created by Reckitt and one that came to have an important role in reducing maternal mortality and revolutionising first-aid.

With this new success came investment into the city. Garden Village provided affordable, clean and spacious housing for workers, alongside recreational facilities and grounds. the land for east Park boating lake was donated, along with the land for Dove House Hospice. James Reckitt was an advocate for literacy for all and funded and opened the first public library in Hull, along with establishing the Sir James Reckitt charity, which is still donating millions

determination, innovation and philanthropy shaped the world – by Dr Grace Chapman

Reckitt Blue product packaging

Isaac Reckitt

Hull Dettol Packing room, 1935

across the city to fantastic projects today.

In addition to James, Thomas Ferens helped shape Reckitt into the company it is today. Joining as James’s shorthand clerk. It only took him 20 years to rise to the board. Much like the Reckitts, Thomas was a keen philanthropist. Donating the money to build a new wing of Hull Royal Infirmary, the Ferens Art Gallery, founding Hull University and improving the infrastructure of the town through Ferensway, the want to build a better city and take care of its people has been deeply rooted in the company since its foundation. Today, that’s no different.

In 2019, the new Science and Innovation Centre, one of only nine global centres of scientific excellence, was opened making Hull. the largest research and development site globally for the company. This new building cost around £110mand was a significant investment to ensure innovation of products such as Dettol, Nurofen, Strepsils and Veet could be as effective as possible at the place where it all began.

Every effort was taken to incorporate the company’s rich heritage into the new design. This included preserving the board room and a series of other rooms from the original site, as well as celebrating the heritage of products through artwork and exhibitions.

Today, Reckitt continues to research, develop and manufacture world-leading brands in Hull as well as support the city through charitable giving and partnership initiatives.

Scientists in the Dansom Lane Laboratory, July 1910

Artist’s impression of the first starch factory on Starch House Lane in 1840

Reckitt Hull laboratory staff

Reckitt R&D centre of excellence. Dansom Lane South, Hull, 2019

Dansom Lane in the early 1920s

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The setting is a balmy evening sometime in the late 1990s or early 2000s. A group of us are playing out in the village on the edge of hull where I live, and between us we scrabble together enough change to ring home, ask my mum if I can stay out a bit longer – we’re going to a mate’s house to watch music videos on TV.

Other days, when we’re feeling flush, we might spend our £1.50 on prank phone calls – the prank calls will outlive us using phone boxes as we migrate to Nokia 3210s and Sony ericsson Walkmans, but we’ll still need to be frugal with 10p texts and £5 pay-as-you-go credit: “Going 2 Steph’s, c u l8r x”.

But for now, the cream-coloured telephone box just off the main street, between the pub and the church, is our only source of communication for extending playing out.

The phone box is a lifeline for making the most of lighter nights and pushing our curfews later and later. I’ll be in big trouble if I’m not home before the streetlights come on.

This is the memory that comes to mind when I think about my own relationship to hull’s distinctive cream telephone boxes. Many others will have their own variations, stretching across several decades.

The phone boxes are the site of moments both significant and routine: ringing a friend to join you in the pub; delivering sudden news, good and bad; calling a taxi from numbers pinned up

Most Hull people will recall this set which graced Monument Bridge outside what is now Princes Quay. When the picture was taken in June 1956, shortly after the boxes were installed, many shoppers branded them an eyesore

inside the booth; stealing secret ‘I love you’s to first loves, away from the prying ears of nosy parents and annoying siblings; breaking up with the same first loves a few weeks later; more prank

phone calls; sheltering from the rain.

earlier this year it was announced that nine of hull and east Yorkshire’s telephone boxes have been granted grade two listed status following the advice of historic england and a long-running campaign by the Twentieth Century Society.

Like most of the area’s phone booths, the rare K8 kiosks, designed by architect Bruce Martin in 1965-66, are painted cream as a mark of their independence from the British Telecom network.

While the K8 phone boxes once numbered in their thousands, most were removed during privatisation in the 1980s and now only a relative handful remain.

Described by Catherine Croft, director of the Twentieth Century Society, as “the last in the line of the classic telephone boxes”, they reflect the role of good design in serving people and communities. In hull and its surrounds, the K8 phone boxes remain much-loved local landmarks.

As a historian of modern Britain and a proud hull citizen, I’ve spent much of the last few years trying to better understand the places and parts of urban landscapes

Why the city’s rare and cream-coloured phone boxes are so special - by Charlotte Tomlinson

The cream of the crop

that mean the most to people in the city.

Through oral histories and interviews and workshops, I’ve asked people to describe the settings that have shaped their lives, and the places that define Hull’s story and their own.

Most of all this research has shown that it is everyday things that people engage with and care about most. Spaces and places that have been used by ordinary people and which reflect everyday working-class life and social history back to us today.

In other words, the vernacular: the corner shop, the swimming baths, the cigarette kiosk, the bus stop. The phone box matters because it is layered with memories upon memories of daily life which weave personal stories together with collective histories of place.

In Hull, the K8 telephone boxes are sites upon which people can and do narrate their own histories as well as those of the city itself – an independent city with its own phone network entwined with memories of growing up, getting together, and going out.

And more than that, Hull’s phone boxes also tell us something about how the city likes to see itself. It matters to

people in Hull that we are considered to be unique or distinctive.

Cream telephone boxes are a visible and tangible sign that the city, and

therefore its people, are different to others – a city variably at “end of the line”, “a bit on the edge of things”, an idiosyncratic place with a “different resonance”.

People might moan about being stuck to a specific internet provider, but still proudly answer visitors’ and onlookers’ questions about having an independent telephone network: “Don’t you have white phone boxes in Hull?” “Oh they’re cream actually?” “Why’s that then?”.

We claim the phone boxes as our own by amassing a range of telephone box ephemera, mugs and money boxes and keyrings. I am guilty of all of the above.

In recent years, projects like Telephonic Youth have begun to map people’s relationships with telephone boxes in the late 20th century.

Historic England now invites members of the public to share their own knowledge of historic sites to “enrich the list” with stories, photographs and more. Perhaps it’s time to add my own story of Hull’s K8 booths to these platforms. It will be just one person’s testament, among many thousands, to why these rare and cream-coloured telephone boxes are so special.

TRANSATLANTIC LOOK: That was how these new telephone booths outside Paragon Station were described in December 1977. The American-style booths were likened to the Dr Who Tardis by some users

Hiding from the law in a Sproatley phone box in 1988 are jailbreakers, from top, PC Russ Waterman, Gordon Eldon Snr, Stuart Birke, Gordon Eldon Jnr, Stuart McKenzie and Ray Green, in aid of Preston ambulance appeal

The artists and craftsmen of Hull Minster - by

Hull Minster has been described as one of the “greatest of England’s medieval town churches” both in terms of its size and its magnificence. Simply standing in the nave and looking around creates a sense of awe and wonder.

A church has been in this location since the 12th century when a small wooden chapel of ease (to Hessle, All Saints’) was provided for the convenience of the local population. By the end of the century this had been destroyed by fire and work begun, using local bricks, on a more permanent structure. Some of the original brickwork still stands and is the oldest of its kind in the country.

After Edward I bought the land, from the Abbot of Meaux, and established the King’s Town upon Hull, the brick church was developed into a magnificent stone structure fit for a king.

Royal masons, Michael of Canterbury and Walter of Hereford, were involved in the design and building of this new church. The church was known as Holy Trinity but remained a chapel of ease until 1661.

The 19th century saw restoration and renewal work by local architect HF lockwood (1840s) and Sir George G Scott (1860s-70s), and later F S Brodrick. More recently, restoration work has been carried out by local firms.

Standing in Trinity Square the west front, which has “a grandeur that has few parallels” in this country, is full of detailed architecture which features a figure of Christ by JB Philips (1863).

When you enter the Minster through the west door, you are immediately struck by the sheer size and brightness of the church. It is the largest parish church in England and within there is an array of the very finest work: monumental architecture, stained glass and furnishings of the very finest craftwork, much of it by local craftsmen.

Close by the west door is the medieval font, which is made from coralloid

Majestic minster

marble and dates back to c1380. It is richly decorated, a magnificent piece of medieval craftsmanship by an unknown master craftsman.

While standing here you must also look upwards to see the wonderful ceiling painted by Thomas Binks (1846), a local artist and general painter who was also regarded as one of Hull’s finest maritime artists. The ceilings above the nave aisles are also impressive.

On the south wall of the nave are three beautiful stained glass windows, two designed by the renowned leading light of the Arts & Crafts movement, Walter Crane. A third, by Stammers, is dedicated to the memory of Elizabeth Gelder and tells the early history of Hull (1952). One of Crane’s windows is based on Psalm 108, Oh Praise the lord of Heaven (1897 executed by Sparrow) and the other depicts the crucifixion (1907, by Christmas).

Notice also the magnificent window above the west door (1925) by John Hardman and Co, to replace an earlier one destroyed in a Zeppelin raid.

More excellent glasswork can be seen

in the retrochoir and the south choir aisle which houses the lille Window designed by Mary Hutchinson, a niece of the Moore family, and one of the few works in the Minster by a woman. Much of the stained glass is of the late 1800s and the first half of the 1900s.

Also to be seen in the nave is the great brass lectern by George Parker, a local coppersmith. It is dedicated to JH Bromby, the longest serving Vicar of Holy Trinity, on the Golden Jubilee of his incumbency. Opposite is the impressive stone pulpit by H F lockwood.

On the north side of the nave stand the beautifully carved oak pews of the 1840s restoration. These were the work of George Peck, son of a local cabinet

Michael G Free

maker. They feature over 200 decorative poppy heads featuring faces, animals and mythical creatures, all of which have been given added lustre by thousands of hands rubbing over them for 180 years. Further superb examples of the wood carvers craft can be found in the choir where the screen and the pulpit are the work of James Elwell (1890s) of Beverley. This work, untouched for over a century, retains its original crispness.

Also look for the carvings of St George and the dragon on the bench ends which are medieval in date.

Also to be seen is work by Robert “Mousey” Thompson of Kilburn, with three mice appearing on the porch in the south transept and four more mice around the church.

Only a small amount of brasswork remains in the church. Most of the medieval brass was taken by Cromwell’s men but one piece remains towards the eastern end of the south choir aisle. It is a floor memorial to Hull merchant Thomas Byll (or Bylt) and his wife, Margaret, dated c1451.

Hull Minster has dozens of memorials on the walls and on the floor. The collection of black ledger stones here is one of the best in the country. Much of the stone was imported from the Low Countries, either as ballast in the holds of

ships or deliberately for the purpose of marking graves.

The carving of these huge memorials shows a wealth of exquisite designs and workmanship despite the passage of thousands of feet over the years.

Other

memorials on the walls and to the sides of the chancel are by a range of renowned sculptors and artists. The Hull- born sculptor Thomas Earle, son of John Earle, was one of the finest sculptors of the 19th century and has four pieces on show –one of them (south choir aisle) being his own memorial. His father has two pieces.

Another local sculptor represented is William Day Keyworth senior. Other sculptors of note are William Behnes, (plaque to John Alderson, north transept); John Bacon (tablet to Joseph Milner, Tower); Robert Hartshorne (to Mark Kirby). Whilst on the north nave aisle wall are two excellent modern pieces to the Smith family.

There are only two paintings in the

church. On the north choir aisle wall is a painting of the Last Supper by Jacques Parmentier (1711), an itinerant French artist. It has a chequered history, being originally placed above the altar table under the east window. It was taken down in the 1830s, so that the window could be restored, and taken to Hessle Church, where it was found to be too large and was reduced in size, thus losing two of the disciples. Returned in the 1880s, it is now in need of restoration.

The second painting is in the south choir aisle and features the Good Samaritan. The artist is not known but it has been speculated that it may also be by Parmentier.

Other features not to be missed are the elaborately decorated Broadley Chapel and the alabaster figures of Robert and Emma de Selby in the south choir aisle. To the east is the colourful memorial to Thomas Whincop – one of only a few with a Latin inscription.

Other work that should not be overlooked includes the fabric kneelers in the choir, painstakingly and beautifully crafted by a number of volunteers, the Golden Book of Remembrance in the Retrochoir and the recently placed Timeline in the corridor leading to the toilets. This is a fine piece of modern craftsmanship (as well as research) in an entirely different genre.

The skilled craft of the mason is continued into the present day in the restoration work that has been taking place over the past few years. It is marvellous to see the stonework and carving of modern artisans and pleasing that it blends in so well with the older stonework.

originally planned as a ten week installation in 2010, several larkin’s Toads are still around 13 years later.

They went on to spawn the amy Johnson Moths in 2016 and in 2022 Puffins galore! flew in to join them across East yorkshire.

The colourful sculptures from the popular Puffins galore! trail went under the hammer in May, raising more than £94,000 for charity.

Managed by Hull-based auctioneer gilbert Baitson, the sale was held at West Building Supplies on Bridlington’s Bessingby industrial Estate, where the puffins had received some TlC after coming in from their perches in and around the east coast. With the net proceeds of the auction, and the sale of the puffins in advance, each of the nominated charities - rnli, yorkshire Wildlife Trust, rSPB and Hornsea inshore rescue - will receive at least £25,000.

Organisers of Puffins galore! were overwhelmed by the bidding war in the room and online from people around the UK. The highest bid was £14,200 for Beverley nightlife, created by artist Katy Cobb and sponsored by guest and Philips Jewellers, with the puffin going to a private buyer.

The man behind Toads, Moths and Puffins galore!, rick Welton, said: “Puffins galore! has been an epic project, owing its success to the vision, generosity, tenacity and patience of all those who have been involved along the way. We are delighted with the amount raised for charity and cannot wait to present the funds later this month.”

among the winning bidders were leszek and Fiona Piechowski, successful purchasers of lightbulb Moment, by Hannah Watson, which Boston Energy has sponsored. They said: “We love installation art, and the puffins are all so beautiful - we admired the puffins and made it to most of the trail.

“When we heard they were raising money for charity, we wanted to be part of it. Our puffin will overlook open fields from our patio and have a very happy life.”

yorkshire’s Catch of the Day, decorated by Eleanor Sofia Walker, was fittingly won by a lobster fishing family based in Bridlington. Darren Warters paid £6,200, with one of his sons, lewis Warters, of

atlanta 11 limited, saying: “We live in Bridlington and had a great family day out visiting the trail.

“Our family business is going to sea catching lobsters, with myself, my two brothers and our dad, who had his eye on yorkshire’s Catch of the Day anyway. He went over his initial budget, but that’s what happens when you want something. The puffin will be kept at my dad’s home for all of the grandchildren to enjoy.”

The second highest bid was for amy’s light, which raised £9,000. Painted by Emma garness and sponsored by amy Johnson arts Trust, Darren ralph and Victoria Kerwin from Sutton Mortgage Brokers won it.

Having previously purchased one of

Sculptures that have brought colour and creativity wherever they have landed

Moth photos courtesy of Jerome Whittingham

Toad photos courtesy of Dennis Low

Puffin awesome!

Amy Johnson’s moths and wanting another giant sculpture to start a collection, Darren said: “It was slightly over the budget, but we’re happy to help raise charity money.

“We’ll keep Amy’s Light at our office in Holderness Road for the time being. She may come home to the garden eventually, but our team and visitors to the business will enjoy her.”

Sue Hickson-Marsay, station manager from Hornsea Inshore Rescue, was delighted to be gifted a puffin by John Hepworth, a benefactor to the life-saving charity. Star Gansey was created by Claire West and sponsored by Wat’s On Fashion and Risby Fishing Ponds. It went for £6,100.

Sue said: “We’re absolutely thrilled. We missed our puffin when it was taken away for the auction, and John promised he’d buy one for us. The crew have just been knitted gansey jumpers, so the story is wonderful too.”

Milly Shaw attended the auction on behalf of her dad, who purchased a puffin for his granddaughter to enjoy. He successfully bid £5,100 over the phone on Nest Builders Well Spotted by artist Kate Eggleston-Wirtz and sponsored by Active Withernsea.

Milly said: “I made the trail with my daughter, who is two and a half, and this puffin was one of the most colourful ones; we both loved it. I’ll create a nice area for us to keep it in the garden.”

At £6,000, Hilary and Alan Chapman were the very happy winning bidders of Swim, Dive, Catch by children at

Bridlington’s New Pasture Lane Primary School and Joy Verda, sponsored by KCOM.

“It will be kept at our place of business, Langhill Holiday Cottages, in Burythorpe,” the said. “We want it to remain pristine so we may keep it inside one of the conservatories. We had four on our list and had lost out on a few, so we thought, right, we’ll dive in and get it, and I’m glad we were successful.”

Travelling from Derbyshire, Lorna Finn was successful bidding for much-loved Headscarf Revolutionary, aka Elsie, created by Susan J. Woolhouse and sponsored by Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime Project. Elsie sold for £7,100.

“My husband is originally from Hull, and his family all worked in the fishing industry,” said Lorna. “We came today, especially for Elsie. She reminds us of the strong women who fought for the fishermen’s rights.

“We’re going to keep her in our house. I had a limit, but we went over by £100 to ensure she would be ours.”

Andrew Baitson was the auctioneer from Gilbert Baitson’s. He said: “I predicted £102,000, but we just needed another puffin to get there. However, £94,000 is a fantastic amount to raise for charity. Beverley Nightlife by artist Katy Cobb was a lovely surprise, selling for the highest amount of £14,200.”

Artist Susan Woolhouse with Lorna Finn and Headscarf Revolutionary

sAMPLE ALEs ON OLD tOWN tRAIL

Visit some of the pubs for which our city is famous

1Minerva – nelson street

Built on reclaimed land in 1820s and included a hotel to accommodate passengers using the nearby dock and pier. A character- filled interior with a maritime theme, it boasts Britain’s smallest pub room. Its location offers wonderful views of the Humber and the marina. An excellent range of real ales, gins and spirits and very popular bar meals.

W: www.minerva-hull.co.uk

T: 01482 210025

2GeorGe Hotel – land of Green GinGer

The pub was part of a late 18th-century coaching inn with accommodation which fronted along Whitefriargate and into Land of Green Ginger. It has a fine panelled interior and is famous for having England’s smallest window – can you find it? An excellent selection of awardwinning real ales, gins and spirits. For local history enthusiasts, a looped film of old Hull is often shown.

T: 01482 226373

3HaWKes – scale lane

A recent pub with a surprisingly oldstyle interior. It takes its name from the gunsmith William Hawkes who had the premises in the early 1800s, taking over from William Bottomley who was one of just two registered Hull gunsmiths in the late 18th century. Reminders of its history are displayed throughout and the bar is equipped with a large array of real ales, spirits and speciality gins.

4lion and Key – HiGH street

The pub originally opened in the early 1800s as the Britannia Coffee House

and renamed following Wellington’s capture of Ciudad Rodrigo, the “key” to Spain during the Peninsular wars. After many changes of use, it was imaginatively restored as a pub over a decade ago and wins numerous awards and accolades for its real ales, gins, bar meals and overall ambience.

T: 01482 225212

5scale and featHer scale lane

This independent craft ale bar is right in the heart of Hull’s Old Town. A friendly pub with a fantastic atmosphere serving everything you would expect from a great pub! Including cask ales, craft beer and cocktails. It serves the most amazing hand-stretched, stone baked, sourdough pizzas on Friday and Saturday evenings. It is also dog and child friendly.

T: 07808 832295

6tHe Mission – PosternGate

The building dates from 1886 and was used as a Mission to Seamen highlighting Hull’s role as a thriving port. The chapel, “Mariners’ Church of the Good Shepherd” was added in the 1920s and is now an outstanding feature to be discovered inside. After being used as a dockers and then Post Office club, it was creatively transformed into a pub in the 1990s. The regular real ale is Old Mill (Snaith) and bar meals are served daily, the Sunday carvery being extremely popular.

T: 01482 221187

7ye olde BlacK Boy – HiGH street

One of Hull’s oldest and most-loved pubs, its origins date back to the 1720s. There is much debate about the pub’s name, one explanation being that it was named after

Charles ll who carried that nickname. The modest exterior hides a wonderful, panelled two-room interior, with further rooms upstairs and first-floor beer garden. An excellent choice of real ales.

T: 01482 470480

8ATOM BAR CORN EXCHANGE –NORTH CHURCH SIDE

A pub has been on the site since the late 1700s and an early name was the Excise Coffee House. In 1788 it was leased from the Corporation by local brewer

John Meggitt for £15 per annum and operated as a coaching inn. Its current name derives from the Corn Exchange, which met in rooms here. In 2018 it was acquired by the local Atom Brewing Company and at the large bar serves its own ales, guest beers and craft beers. Bar meals provided.

W: www.atombarhull.com

9WHITE HART – ALFRED GELDER STREET

Grade II listed Public house designed by Freeman, Son and Gaskell of Hull and built 1904. The elegant “Arts Nouveau” interior features a stunning semi-circular Burmantofts tile bar, behind which is a panelled segmental wooden arch with keystone, framing a central door. On either side, tower-fronted glazed cupboards.

After a few years of closure is now successfully run by the locally based Crafty Little Brewery, serving their own and guest beers.

W: www.whiteharthullpub.co.uk

10FRETWELLS – HIGH STREET/SCALE LANE

A new and welcome addition to the Old Town circuit, transformed from business premises that were once home to Fretwells printers.

Imaginatively renovated with different sized rooms and large bar stocked with the micro-brewed “Cathead” range and guest ales.

11CROWN AND CUSHION –TRINITY HOUSE LANE

The pub opened in the summer of 2018 in the former Trinity bar. Tastefully refurbished with a “retro” style.

It’s named after a lost Old Town pub which was located in Land of Green Ginger until the 1920s.

Serves two changing real ales and is establishing an excellent reputation for the quality of meals on offer.

W: www.crownandcushion.net

T: 01482 224694

Taking a leading role in high-street transformation

Council-led project will breathe new live back into much-loved area of city

LOnce again, we are delighted to be able to be able to stage the majority of our HODS Talks Programme, as we did last yea,r at Wrecking ball arts centre at 15 Whitefriargate, being able to use this great central location is made possible by the generous support of owners, Shane rhodes and garry Marks.

Situated in the heart of the Old Town, it is ideally located for easy access and, with its very attractive coffee house, will be an ideal place to hear one of the extensive ranges of HODS talks, get a coffee and snack, and make a day of it!

The refurbishment of the original kardomah café is part of the extensive renovation and rejuvenation of the whole of Whitefriargate in this council-led project which is breathing new life into this much-loved area of the city

HullBid events bring the city centre heritage locations to life

HullBID helping Heritage Open Days support businesses

HullBid is proud to once again to support Heritage Open days in celebrating some of the amazing buildings and locations across our historic city centre.

We showcase so many of the sites as venues for events and activities which draw thousands of people into our public spaces, generating more trade for businesses in all sectors.

We can only do that because of generous backing from the public and private sectors.

As a not-for-profit organisation we re-invest all the funds we receive in presenting a vibrant mix of free, family-friendly events and we freshen it up every year.

We also work hard with Hull City Council and Humberside Police to tackle crime and keep the city centre streets clean and free of graffiti.

Our thanks go to the office of the Humberside Police and Crime Commissioner for supporting our safety and security work and for providing funds for last year’s Hulloween Steampunk Festival,

which took place in such glorious settings as Hull Minster and the Guildhall.

We are also grateful to the City Council for assistance in securing money from the uK Shared Prosperity Fund, which will enable HullBid to deliver the new Trinity Festival Reboot in bars throughout the city centre.

From the private sector ResQ, one of the biggest employers in the city centre, is supporting this year’s Hull Street Food Nights in Zebedee’s Yard. A newcomer to the city, Clegg Gifford insurance brokers,

was the main sponsor of our inspiring People dinner held at The deep. Other businesses have stepped up by taking part in our inaugural Superhero day, which pulled the crowds into King Edward Street and Queen Victoria Square, and dino day, which returned after a “roarsome” 2022.

Hulloween Steampunk Festival will be back in October and there will be much more to come.

„ To find out about all our events just visit www.hullbidevents.co.uk

HullBID Inspiring People dinner

Hull Street Food Nights

Hulloween Steampunk Festival

Dino Day

HullBID Superhero Day

Talk of the town

Fascinating insights into our region’s hidden heritage

1

Hull’s Medieval New Town and Its Markets – by Rob Bell

The very word “market” divides opinion. Market fundamentalists see Adam Smith’s invisible hand from his Wealth of Nations (1776) as all that is needed; enabled by free trade and minimal state involvement.

And so to Medieval Hull. Imagine a three-storey house. Ground floor – the everyday market. Staple products and perishables. Just like local boxer Tommy Coyle’s family fruit stall today. Prices are visible and there is local competition. Second storey – a wholesaler with storage and distribution. Then, top storey. We have entered into “fernhandel” or long-haul deals – these need finance, cash money is not enough. But this is not a competitive market – here we deal in opaque transactions, high risk and higher rewards.

This talk, which was first given for the Regulatory Policy Institute in Westminster in April 2023, questions the markets that run today using Medieval Hull as the benchmark to test out the ideas.

„ When and where: Friday, September 8, 10am, Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

2The Artists and Craftsmen of Hull Minster – by Michael Free Hull Minster is Hull’s finest architectural treasure. Not only is it the largest parish church in the country but it also has the oldest mediaeval brickwork in any English building. Simply standing in the nave inspires awe and wonder of what is around you and for those who built it.

The history of the church can be traced back to at least c1160 when there was a wooden church on the site. When Edward I created Hull as the King’s Town he also ordered a new church fit for a King and stone began to replace the brickwork.

This well-illustrated talk introduces you not only to the history and building of the church but also to some of the craftsmen and artists who transformed it into one of the best churches in the country.

„ When and where: Friday, September 8, 11.15am, Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

3Juxtaposition – by Malcolm Sharman

Our visual acuity is perhaps the most immediate of our senses to enable abstract interpretations of our environment.

In this talk you will see illustrated how vision and viewpoint can be manipulated through abstract elements to create interest which may promote intellectual responses dependent on our individual sensibilities and may, although abstract, evoke emotional and psychological meanings without being pictorial or graphic in the formal sense.

Some of our feelings and emotions are evoked by seeing things which are not beautiful or well-designed but arise from random placements or relationships. Our perceptions can be trained to recognise and exploit elements brought together by chance or designed intention.

It’s creative, fun and it’s free!!

„ When and where: Friday, September 8, 1.30pm, Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

4Travellers Tales: Visitors to Hull in the 16th and 17th Centuries – by Richard Clarke

Between the reign of Henry VIII and early Victorian times many travellers passed through East Yorkshire and, in some cases, their recorded experiences survive. Some visited Hull and wrote of their findings and opinions at that time.

The purpose of this presentation is to highlight the travellers who also came to Hull and what they said about the town and port. These extracts will then be cross-referenced with other contemporary evidence to assess the

value of each travellers “tales” and to build a picture of the evolution of modern Hull.

„ When and where: Friday, September 8, 3pm, Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

5The Pistol Packing Rodean Girl – by Brian Lavery

Just a couple of years after all women got the vote, Dora Walker became the north-east’s first female coble skipper. Brian Lavery charts the life and times of the ex-Roedean girl who went wartime fishing with a pistol strapped to her waist.

„ When and where: Saturday, September 9, 10am, at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

6The Illustrated History of Hull Part 2 – by David Smith

Hull author and local historian David Alexander Smith presents the second of a new series of illustrated talks celebrating the history of Hull, its industries, streets, buildings and personalities from the Memory Lane Collection.

„ When and where: Saturday, September 9, 11.15am, at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

7Hooray for Hullywood – by Paul Schofield

This talk explores Hull’s strong links with the British film industry – being the birthplace of J Arthur Rank, a production line of famous actors and directors, a hotbed of cinemas and more!

Its current moment in the spotlight as a location for major movies including A Royal Night Out, The Personal History of David Copperfield, Enola Holmes 2

and the forthcoming Bodies is also documented and explained with plenty of exclusive pictures. Who needs Hollywood when we’ve got Hullywood!

„ When and where: Saturday, September 9, 1.30pm at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

8The History of Trinity House –by John

Tindal

Trinity House remains one of Hull’s most historic and active institutions. Officially founded in 1369, it has its heritage in Hull’s seafaring past. This illustrated talk by Trinity House Trustee Captain John Tindall, will take place in the English Rooms and will look back to the medieval roots of the Guild, the association with local churches and the religious history of Trinity House.

„ When and where: Saturday, September 9, 11am, at Zebedee’s Yard, Posterngate

9Robert Blackburn – by Stephen Blee

Robert Blackburn was one of the early aviation pioneers constructing and flying his first aeroplane in 1910. He formed the Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor company in Leeds in 1914 before expanding his premises and setting up a factory at Brough in 1916. The site, by then part of the BAE Systems company, celebrated its centenary in 2016 and remains in use today.

This talk will give a potted history of the site, its development and many of the aircraft that it has been associated with over that period, including the famous Buccaneer.

„ When and where: Saturday, September 9, 3pm, at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

10Toads, Moths and Puffinsby Rick Welton Originally planned as a ten-week installation in 2010, several Larkin’s Toads are still around 13 years later. They went on to spawn the Amy Johnson Moths in

2016 and in 2022 Puffins Galore flew in to join them across East Yorkshire. Behind all three projects is Rick Welton, who will tell the story behind the projects, how they originated, the processes from idea to installation and some of the difficulties and pitfalls the project team experienced along the way.

„ When and where: Monday, September 11, 10am, at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

11Curious incidents in the history of Hornsea – by Carol Osgerby

This talk arose from a commission by Hornsea U3A, to cover the history of the small coastal town of Hornsea. However, most of the major events in national history appear to have by-passed Hornsea.

Once a collection of villages, with a port and a small fishing industry, it never really succeeded as a spa and coastal resort. These days, it is considered a pleasant retirement community. What exactly has Hornsea’s impact on history been?

Some unexpected events have taken place here, including religious rebellions, and vicious attacks. There are tales of feet with mistaken identities, a reputed pirate, of brass bands and kidnapped furniture. Hornsea may not have hit the headlines, but it has attracted some interesting and eccentric people.

„ When and where: Monday, September 11, 11.15am, at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

TALKS PROGRAMME

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Lord Duveen – by Rob Bell

The total value of transactions in the art market worldwide was US $67.8 billion in 2022. For many, this huge and influential global market was born on English Street in Hull above the Duveens’ bric-a-brac store. Joseph Duveen (18691939), the man who would go on to completely change America’s relationship with art was born, one of 12, above his parents’ antique shop in 1869.

For decades, the art market in Europe and the Americas danced to a Duveen tune. This talk, by writer Rob Bell, will explore the journey from English Street to Fifth Avenue of a man who created the art market that functions down to now.

„ When and where: Monday, September 11, 4pm, at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

13Hull & East Yorkshire History Calendar – by Carol Osgerby

Every day, events in the history of Hull and East Yorkshire are posted on their anniversary. Events can come from any year, from Saxon times to last year. Events in the life of ordinary people who lived in Hull and East Yorkshire, (not just ‘the great and the good’ – though they are there too). To find out more, visit www. hulleastyorkshistorycalendar.com

„ When and where: Tuesday, September 12, 10am, Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

14The lives of Master Mariners – by Mike Rymer

This talk will explore the social and working lives of the sea captains of the port and answer the following questions and more: Who were Master Mariners? What links did they have to Hull Trinity House? What was their social status in the town? Were they wealthy? What type of ship did they sail?

„ When and where: Tuesday, September 12, 11.15am, at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

15The Hull video – by Ian Wolstencroft

Over many years, Ian has captured the

development of the city as a series of short videos and photographic images. In the course of his talk the fascinating redevelopment of parts of the city centre will be revealed.

„ When and where: Tuesday, September 12, 1.30pm, at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

17The Feminine Side of Sledmere House – by Janet Peacock

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Social Housing in Hull –1800-2000 – by Godfrey Holmes

From the workhouse to the housing of working people; from garden villages to vast estates of municipal housing; from doss houses to tenements, the City of Hull has never been short of social housing initiatives – yet Kingston-upon-Hull is currently very short of social housing! In this talk, local historian Godfrey Holmes attempts to span two centuries of housing families who would otherwise not be housed.

„ When and where: Tuesday, September 12, 3pm at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

Sledmere House was brought into the possession of the Sykes family by heiress Mary Kirby, daughter of a Hull merchant and philanthropist, whose son owned the original Tudor mansion. In 1704, Mary Kirby married Richard Sykes and her wealth passed to him, with two of their sons inheriting the estate and passing it down the generations for nearly 300 years.

Over the years, several heiresses have become mistress of the Sledmere Estate. Both Elizabeth Tatton, from Tatton Park in Cheshire, and Henrietta Masterman, from Settrington Hall, near Malton, brought money into the estate when they married. In contrast, one lady of Sledmere was taken to court for debt with a disclaimer being put into the newspaper by her husband.

In this talk, Janet Peacock delves into the lives of the women connected to Sledmere House.

„ When and where: Tuesday, September 12, 4pm at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

18The Artistic History of Fenners – by Bryan Burton

J. H. Fenner & Co was founded 162 years

ago in the “old town” of Hull.

The original products were of leather for use with horses, but expertise with that material was later applied to transmission belting for all areas of industry, followed by woven textiles for similar and other applications.

After 100 years, the company was a world leader in power transmission, perhaps most famously by vee belt drives but also by many other means, boasting that “Fenner keeps the wheels of industry turning”.

Cut to the present day and that world leadership is in heavy conveyor belting for mines and quarries, with Fenner now being part of a large multinational conglomerate.

In his talk Brian Burton unveils a collection of artworks, which were found concealed behind a partition in the factory.

„ When and where: Wednesday, September 13, 10am, at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

who also served to transform Hull and make it what it is today.

The Stather family produced two brothers who were in the forefront of this revolution. John, the younger brother, began his working life as a printer and then moved into catering to the emerging middle class with a revolutionary form of interior decoration.

Thomas, the elder brother, became an engineer, striving to improve the steam engines of his day and leaving behind some of the best examples of cast iron decoration that the city still holds. Both families lived on Spring Bank throughout three generations.

„ When and where: Wednesday, September 13, 11.15am at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

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Larkin – on the Edge – by Philip Pullen

„ When and where: Wednesday, September 13, 3pm, at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

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A Woman’s Work – by Mike Rymer

What was a woman’s social status in 17th-century Hull? What was a woman’s legal status at this time? How were women perceived by the church and society? Could a married woman work? What kind of work were women engaged in? How were widows treated in the 17th century? Was divorce an option available to 17th-century women? Who was in charge of the money in marriage? What local evidence exists that describes the lives of women?

The talk covers many aspects of the lives of women in both domestic and work situations and tries to answer the questions above.

„ When and where: Friday, September 15, 11.15am at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

22A History of Health in Hull -

by Rob Bell and Dan Roper

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The Stather Brothers of Spring Bank – by Peter Lowden

Hull in the early 19th century was a hive of industry and invention. Reckitt, Priestman, Blundell are familiar names to the people of Hull. Yet, there were others

It has been 12 years since the establishment of the Larkin Trail in Hull and East Yorkshire. Created by Jean Hartley, Philip Larkin’s friend and publisher, it takes us on a journey from the banks of the River Ouse through the heart of the city of Hull and out to the far reaches of Spurn Point, highlighting the importance of Hull and its environs to the poetic resonance of one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. In this talk, Philip Pullen, a trustee of The Philip Larkin Society and a Larkin writer and researcher, will take an inside look at the trail.

“History” wrote the historian Braudel “is what people make of their geography”. Hull’s location was the reason for the rise of the port city, a trigger for industrialisation and rapid population growth. Daniel Defoe, on his Tour of the Whole Island (1726) spoke of Hull being “exceedingly close built” – facilitating the spread of disease. This talk is a summary of a series of webinars written by Rob Bell founder of The History Troupe with Dr Dan Roper – a prominent Hull-based medical practitioner. The Ice Age left an area of marshland; ideal for malaria –the cause of Andrew Marvell’s death. The Black Death (1346-53) saw 60 per cent of Europe’s population wiped out; Hull’s lack of manpower forced the adoption of cranes and port expansion. Then, the crowded 19th century with an outbreak of cholera and waves of typhus, scarlatina and the Russian Flu.

„ When and where: Monday, September 11, 1.30pm at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

TALKS PROGRAMME

23Hull – England’s most poetic city – by David Osgerby

Local poet David Osgerby will host an informative and (hopefully) entertaining talk on the history of poetry and poets in Hull. From Marvell to Larkin and beyond, Hull has always produced outstanding poetry. In addition to the history, David will also pay tribute to the current poetry scene in Hull, which is as vibrant and varied as it’s ever been.

There will be poetry, and there will be history; two subjects inextricably interlinked. If you’re interested in either, (or both), please come along and lend an ear. David will also be asking the question – Why doesn’t Hull have its own Poet Laureate?

„ When and where: Thursday, September 14, 10am, at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

24Developments at the Picture Theatre – by Hilary Byers

The National Civilian WW2 Memorial Trust has, for over 20 years, been working towards saving the remains of the National Picture Theatre cinema on Beverley Road in Hull, a structure which is listed for its historic interest as the last ordinary civilian building in England surviving from WW2 in its bombed state.

Now at last some real progress is being made on preserving the structure, thanks to National Lottery players, Hull City Council and the Trust.

Trustee Hilary Byers will talk about the early years of the cinema and the fateful night of March 18, 1941. She will bring you right up to date with progress, including recent work to stabilise the building, and will explain plans for the future. Perhaps you have photos or memories of the National Picture Theatre or Beverley Road? Bring them along!

„ When and where: Thursday, September 14, 11.15am, at Old Stepney Station, Beverley Road HU5 2TX

through the ‘“fictions of flooding” from Hull, before reflecting on how we might harness the power of these historical flood stories to build resilience to flooding in Hull communities today.

„ When and where: Thursday, September 13, 1.30pm, at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

investment from Siemens Gamesa and the importance of the family-owned businesses in Hull, focussing in particular on Reckitt’s, Arco’s and Smith & Nephew’s importance within the city and wider economy. He will conclude with a snapshot of the council’s plans for three key development sites within the city.

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From Noah to now –creative responses to flooding in Hull – by Stewart Mottram

Hull has always lived with the risk of flooding. The town was originally founded on the floods of 1253, and there have been more than 40 other major flood events in Hull between 1253 and today. Hull’s history is in this sense a history of managing water risks, and the living with water mentality this creates also leaves its mark on Hull’s literary history, with writers across the centuries responding creatively to flooding in plays, poems, and novels. This talk takes us on a journey

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Hull – The 2020s - A Decade of Opportunity – by Alex Codd Alex Codd, the Assistant Director of Economic Development and Regeneration at Hull City Council, will outline the journey the city has been on so far this decade and where it is heading. Starting with the role of the trading port and the implications of exiting the European Union. How Covid has reshaped the role of international trade and the importance of place. He will outline some of the fantastic investment that has been secured into the city and where the city’s future is heading. He will touch on the opportunity the city has with the Humber Freeport, the further

„ When and where: Thursday, September 14, 3pm, at Wrecking Ball Arts, 15 Whitefriargate

27Art and Medicine – by Dan Roper

Dan Roper, a GP in Hull for 30 years, hosts an illustrated talk of personal reflection and charts a journey through a life in General Practice, very much with a local Hull flavour. Its interactive and participative nature will allow the audience to reflect on its own interests and experiences and how they interact with feelings of wellbeing.

„ When and where: Friday, September 15, 10am, at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

28Community Theatreby

Rupert Creed

The cultural shifts of the 1960s and early 1970s brought new ways of making art, music, poetry and performance that challenged the traditional models of regional repertory theatres, arts and literary institutions. In Hull, the creation of Hull Arts Centre gave residents a new venue offering plays, live music nights, a resident theatre-in education company and workshops in all art forms. Rupert Creed, playwright, theatre director and writer, gives a fascinating insight into the inception of community theatre in Hull.

„ When and where: Friday, September 15, 1.30pm, at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

29The Three-Day Millionaires – by Dr Alec Gill

At the height of Hull’s trawling industry, the port’s three-day millionaires returned home determined to spend their hardearned pay and live life to the full. After three gruelling weeks at sea, they had lots of money to spend in a short time. With their pockets bulging, they splashed their cash on flamboyant suits, drinks all round, lavish gifts to their kids and backhanders to friends. Set against these joys were the woes of landing in debt, drunkenness, fights with the police, worried wives, trawler tragedies and love-hate feelings about returning to sea once more.

„ When and where: Friday, September 15, 3pm, at Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, 15 Whitefriargate

Talks at a glance

1 Hull’s Medieval New Town and Its Markets – by Rob Bell

Friday, September 8, 10am

2 The Artists and Craftsmen of Hull Minster – by Michael Free

Friday, September 8, 11.15am

3 Juxtaposition – by Malcolm Sharman

Friday, September 8, 1.30pm

4 Travellers Tales – by Richard Clarke

Friday, September 8, 3pm

5 The Pistol Packing Rodean Girl – by Brian Lavery

Saturday, September 9, 10am

6 The Illustrated History of Hull Part 2 – by David Smith

Saturday, September 9, 11.15am

7 Hooray for Hullywood – by Paul Schofield

Saturday, September 9, 1.30pm

8 The History of Trinity House – by John Tindal

Saturday, September 9, 11am

9 Robert Blackburn – by Stephen Blee

Saturday, September 9, 3pm

10 Toads, Moths and Puffins - by Rick Welton

Monday, September 11, 10am

11 Curious incidents in the history of Hornsea – by Carol Osgerby

Monday, September 11, 11.15am

12 Lord Duveen – by Rob Bell

Monday, September 11, 4pm

13 Hull & East Yorkshire History Calendar – by Carol Osgerby

Tuesday, September 12, 10am

14 The lives of Master Mariners – by Mike Rymer

Tuesday, September 12, 11.15am

15 The Hull video – by Ian Wolstencroft

Tuesday, September 12, 1.30pm

16 Social Housing in Hull – 1800-2000 – by Godfrey Holmes

Tuesday, September 12, 3pm

17 The Feminine Side of Sledmere House – by Janet Peacock

Tuesday, September 12, 4pm

18 The Artistic History of Fenners – by Bryan Burton

Wednesday, September 13, 10am

19 The Stather Brothers of Spring Bank – by Peter Lowden

Wednesday, September 13, 11.15am

20 Larkin – on the Edge – by Philip Pullen

Wednesday, September 13, 3pm

21 A Woman’s Work – by Mike Rymer

Friday, September 15, 11.15am

22 A History of Health in Hull - by Rob Bell and Dan Roper

Monday, September 11, 1.30pm

23 Hull – England’s most poetic city – by David Osgerby

Thursday, September 14, 10am

24 Developments at the Picture Theatre – by Hilary Byers

Thursday, September 14, 11.15am

25 From Noah to now – creative responses to flooding in Hull – by Stewart Mottram

Thursday, September 13, 1.30pm

26 Hull – The 2020s A Decade of Opportunity – by Alex Codd

Thursday, September 14, 3pm

27 Art and Medicine – by Dan Roper

Friday, September 15, 10am

28 Community Theatre - by Rupert Creed

Friday, September 15, 1.30pm

29 The Three-Day Millionaires – by Dr Alec Gill

Friday, September 15, 3pm

Take a walk on the wild side ...

Take your pick to enjoy the region’s rich history

1Follow Hull’s Literary Trail

Join Hull tour guide Paul Schofield for a journey through Hull’s literary landscape and explore its links to Larkin, Plater, Dickens and many others, including a big whale!

„ When and where: Friday, September 8, 11am. Meet by the Larkin Statue in Hull Paragon Station. HU1 3UT

2Murder on the streets of Hull EPISODE 1. Local historian David Alexander Smith will take you on a tour of some of the older parts of Hull to explore some of the city’s most gruesome murders. Find out what happened to the “girl with the gold in her ears”; why Scotland Yard were called in to help on another murder; the woman covered in blood and the sad cases of child killings. Not recommended for the squeamish!

„ When and where: Friday, September 8, at 3pm. Pre-Booking only to davidxandersmith@gmail.com

3A Walk around the Western Cemetery

Opened in 1860 as part of Hull General Cemetery and leased to the Hull Corporation Board of Health, Western Cemetery is the oldest of Hull municipal cemeteries. It comprises 35 acres and is split into two portions by Chanterlands Avenue. It holds the last resting places of two famous Hull artists, the memorial to the R.38 airship disaster, the two graves of the victims of the Dogger Bank Incident when the Russian Imperial Navy fired upon the Hull Trawler fleet as well as many other graves of notable Hull citizens.”

„ When and where: Friday, September 15, at 11am. No booking just turn up. Meet outside the Lodge. Sensible footwear should be worn.

4Hull’s Amazing Heritage – Old Town Trail

Join well-known tour guide Paul Schofield for a four-stage guided walk to celebrate Hull Civic Society’s History Trail Brochure. Setting off from the city centre and visiting some of the highlights of Hull’s heritage and architecture.

The trail leads from Queen Victoria Square, taking in the likes of Ferens Art Gallery and the Maritime Museum before moving on to Beverley Gate and Princes Dock Street.

It then passes by Trinity House and into the Old Town to Hull Minster and on to the Old Grammar School.

It’s then on to the Humber dock and pier area – along as far as the tidal barrier before turning back to the High Street, to Wilberforce House and the Guildhall, past St Mary’s Church and on to Whitefriargate and Queens Gardens and finishing at City Hall.

The walk includes a huge variety of important historical locations, all expertly and entertainingly described by tour guide Paul Schofield.

„ When and where: Sunday, September 10, at 11am. No booking required Meet at the Tourist Information Centre/Box Office Hull City Hall, 75-76 Carr Lane, HU1 3RQ.

5The Avenues revealed Officially opened on March 29, 1875, Princes Avenue is the gateway to the area

known as The Avenues, developed by David Garbutt for the middle classes. On this guided tour, professional tour guide Paul Schofield will be showing some of the key features and buildings of the area.

„ When and where: Tuesday, September 12, at 11am. No booking required. Meet at Princes Avenue Methodist Church, Hull, HU5 3QP.

6A walk around Kirk Ella village

Join Hull tour guide Paul Schofield for a leisurely journey of discovery (especially for the guide!) of this ancient village which is mentioned in the Domesday survey and developed as a wealthy place to live for Hull merchants and Shipowners.

„ When and where: Tuesday, September 12, at 2.30pm. Meet outside St Andrew’s Church.

7Victoria Dock Village

Join city tour guide Paul Schofield outside the Victoria Dock Village Hall and Community Centre. Find out more about the history of east Hull’s first dock and its redevelopment into a thriving place to live.

„ When and where: Wednesday, September 13, at 2pm. No booking required. Meet at Victoria Dock Village Hall.

8Old Town Ale Trail

An intoxicating tour with tour guide Paul Schofield and a chance to drink in a few of Hull’s most historic and fascinating pubs.

The tour includes ten pubs, ranging from the Lion and Key on the High Street, to the Old House at 5 Scale Lane, situated in Hull’s oldest domestic building. It retains its timber framing and its distinctive exterior is matched by its fascinating interior.

„ When and where: Wednesday, September 13, 7pm. No booking required. Meet at the Minerva Pub, Nelson Street, HU1 1XE.

9Victoria Pier Tour – River Tales

Join city tour guide Keith Daddy for a tour around the Victorian Pier.

The walk will take a look at the Pier’s past events and some of its heroic people.

„ When and where: Wednesday, September 13, at 1.30pm. Minerva Pub, Nelson Street, HU1 1XE. No Booking required.

10Georgian Hull

Join city tour guide Keith Daddy for a tour of the streets and buildings of the present. Search for the streets that have been lost.

“When the walls came down a New Town was built . I’ll tell you what’s gone and about the beauty you will meet.”

„ When and where: Thursday, September 14, at 11am. No booking required. Meet at Central Library, Albion Street, HU1 3TF.

11Avenues and Alleyways

Meet city tour guide Keith Daddy for a tour around Hull’s Avenues and Alleyways.

He will take you – and lose you! – down

some alleys still left in the Old Town. You will saunter and discover some ins and outs around Hull’s oldest area. No maps provided … don’t lose sight of the guide!

„ When and where: Friday, September 15, at 1.30pm. Meet at Liquid Jade Café, Whitefriargate, underneath the Arch opposite Parliament Street.

12A leisurely stroll around Sutton Village

A leisurely guided stroll through the heart of the village of Sutton on Hull with tour

guide paul schofield, taking in Lowgate, Potterill Lane and Church Street, finishing at St James Church.

Refreshments will be available at the museum.

„ When and where: Friday, September 15, at 10.30am and noon. No booking required. Meet Outside the Exhibition of Village Life, Sutton Village, HULL, HU7 4TL.

G UIDED W ALKS PROGRAMME

13Pearson Park Guided Tour

Join Paul Schofield to take a leisurely stroll through Hull’s People’s Park, initially established in 1860 through the gift of land by Zachariah Pearson. On the walk through the city’s first public park, learn about the original design and creation by James Craig Niven and see its many impressive original historical features. These include seven Grade II listed structures such as the Queen Victoria statue, East Lodge (the old gatekeeper’s residence) and the unique Entrance Gateway which is the only remaining Victorian shaped archway of its kind left in the UK. The tour will also show you the newly built conservatory and the reinstated lost features of the Victorian style bandstand and bridge over the serpentine lake.

„ When and where: Saturday, September 16, at 11am. Meet at entrance gateway on Pearson Avenue. No need to book. Please note that the Friends of Pearson Park will be having a stall to promote the work that they do to benefit the park.

14Learning and Leisure on Beverley Road

Take a walk-up Beverley Road with conservation guide Hilary Byers.

We start at one of our oldest surviving school buildings, now the Kingston Youth Centre, set back from the road opposite Trafalgar Street.  We will appreciate the green haven created by Hull Community Diggers and admire the improvements to street frontages made by the Beverley Road Townscape Heritage Scheme.

We’ll look at the other schools that were in this stretch of Beverley Road. We may also be surprised at how many cinemas were proposed and built within a short distance of each other.

We’ll finish by updating you on the progress now being made with preserving the remains of the bombed National Picture Theatre, for which we are grateful to National Lottery players, Hull City Council and the National Civilian World War 2 Memorial Trust.

„ When and where: Sunday, September 17, at noon. No booking required. Meet outside the front of Kingston Youth Centre, 48A Beverley Road (opposite Trafalgar Street), HU3 1YE.

15The Hull Fish Trail

The much-loved Fish Trail has encouraged thousands of people to explore Hull’s Old Town since it was established in 1992.

Find out more as Paul guides you through the trail to point out every fish carving and explains the city’s history and architecture. Expect to hear a few fishy puns! Suitable for people of all ages.

„ When and where: Sunday, September 17, at 11am. No booking required. Meet outside City Hall Box Office (HU1 3RQ)

16Tracing The Course Of History Via Hull’s Eastern Defences

In 1541 Henry VIII ordered the building of defences on the east side of the River Hull to protect the eastern flank of the city, as well as to provide a watchful eye over the inhabitants. For the next 300-plus years these defences played a prominent role in the life of Hull until they were demolished in the 1860s.

During this guided walking tour you will walk the course of the former eastern defences defences, from the South Blockhouse to the Castle and on to the site of the North Blockhouse, and discover how the national concerns from the 16th century to the end of the 19th century influenced the development of Hull.

„ When and where: Saturday, September 9, 10am to noon. Meet at the Voyage Statue (at the confluence of the River Hull and the Humber Estuary). Free walking tour – limit of 20 people.

17The Beautiful View –Unearthing The 19th Century History Of The Western Docklands

Two hundred years ago residents living in Belle Vue Terrace, situated in the

burgeoning leafy suburbs to the west of Hull city centre, would awake each morning to panoramic views across the Humber Estuary. At the time the industrial expansion of Hull must have seemed so far away and yet within 50 years the terrace was gone, replaced by railway sidings, and the view encapsulated Albert Dock.

On this guided walking tour, by the Humberside Archeology Unit, you will take in the history of what is now the Western Docklands area of the city to uncover some of the lost sites and stories that reflect Hull’s rich heritage and history.

„ When and where: Tuesday, September 12, 1pm to 3pm. Meet at the corner of Kingston Street and Manor House Street, below the Hull Arena sign. Free walking tour – limit of 20 people.

18Walking From Wyke To Hull’s First Botanical Gardens

Caught between Anlaby Road, the A63, Ferensway and Rawling Way, the Thornton village area of Hull is an often overlooked part of the city, but this area hides a rich and diverse story that is eager to be told.

On this guided walking tour, by the Humberside Archeology Unit, you will be transported from the origins of medieval Hull, in the township of Wyke, through to Hull’s first Botanical

Gardens opened in 1812 and onwards to see a little of what remains of Hull’s Jewish heritage.

„ When and where: Wednesday, September 13, 1pm to 3pm. Meet at Great Passage Street, off Ferensway. Free walking tour – limit of 20 people.

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Holderness Road and Hull’s Forgotten Garden Village

Guided Tour

Holderness Road has traditionally been the key route linking Hull with Holderness. Local historian and author David Alexander Smith will take you on a tour pointing out the road’s historic points of interest, the famous people who lived along it and its hidden garden village.

„ When and where: Saturday, September, 16, at 2pm. By David Alexander Smith. Meet at the James Stuart statue, corner of Holderness Road/Village Road, HU8 8QY.

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Guided Walk down Beverley Road

Join Rebecca Wilkinson for a stroll down Beverley Road

„ When and where: Sunday, September 17, at noon. A guided walk starting at the corner of Fountain Road/Beverley Road and taking people on to the site, followed by a walk up Beverley Road finishing at Pearson Park, with a possible stop-off at the Station Pub Station Pub. Finish around 2.30pm in Pearson Park.

Walks at a glance

1 Follow Hull’s Literary Trail

Friday, September 8, 11am

2 Murder on the streets of Hull

- Episode 1

Friday, September 8, at 3pm

3 A Walk around the Western Cemetery

Friday, September 15, at 11am

4 Hull’s Amazing Heritage - Old Town Trail

Sunday, September 10, at 11am

5 The Avenues revealed

Tuesday, September 12, at 11am

6 A walk around Kirk Ella village

Tuesday, September 12, at 2.30pm

7 Victoria Dock Village

Wednesday, September 13, at 2pm

8 Old Town Ale Trail

Wednesday, September 13, 7pm

9 Victoria Pier Tour – River Tales

Wednesday, September 13, at 1.30pm

10 Georgian Hull

Thursday, September 14, at 11am

11 Avenues and Alleyways

Friday, September 15, at 1.30pm

12 A leisurely stroll around Sutton Village

Friday, September 15, at 10.30am and noon

13 Pearson Park Guided Tour

Saturday, September 16, at 11am

14 Learning and Leisure on Beverley Road

Sunday, September 17, at noon

15 The Hull Fish Trail

Sunday, September 17, at 11am

16 Tracing The Course Of History

Via Hull’s Eastern Defences

Saturday, September 9, 10am to noon

17 The Beautiful View – Unearthing

The 19th Century History Of The Western Docklands

Tuesday, September 12, 1pm to 3pm

18 Walking From Wyke To Hull’s First Botanical Gardens

Saturday, September 17 at 10.00am

19 Holderness Road and Hull’s Forgotten Garden Village Guided Tour

Saturday, September, 16 at 2pm

20 Guided Walk down Beverley Road

Sunday, September 17 at noon

Taking a walk through Hull’s Maritime history

Guided tour led by accredited White Badge volunteers

Join our free guided tours of Hull’s city centre maritime heritage led by accredited White Badge volunteers. Explore our rich maritime history with a guided tour of the city centre.

A group of dedicated volunteers who are accredited White Badge tours guides are offering guided tours for you to learn more about Hull and how the city has been shaped by its past, present and future.

The tours take place every Thursday and Saturday at 10.30am. Walks also take place on a Sunday at 11.30am and 1.30pm.

THE ROUTE

Thursday and Saturday at 10.30am and Sunday at 11.30am - long tour: Starting at the Museum Quarter gardens, the morning tours last up to 2 ½ hours and take in the future location of the Arctic Corsair at North End Shipyard, Queens Gardens, the exterior of the Maritime Museum and the new location of the Spurn Lightship in Hull Marina.

Other key landmarks include Blaydes House, Trinity House and Hull Marina.

The first phase of the Queens Gardens masterplan will provide enticing open spaces, improved access and seating for everyone.

Yorkshire’s Maritime City project artist’s impression.

Length: 2.4 km | Ascent: 8.95 m

Sunday at 1.30pm: The shorter tour will run on a Sunday afternoon at 1.30pm, it lasts up to 90 minutes and covers half

of the full tour route.

Length: 1.4 km | Ascent: 8.95 m

Supported by the Lottery Fund and Hull City Council.

Accessibility & Health and Safety: The tour is an approximately 1 mile circular route using public pavements and crossing roads.

A section is along the unfenced board walk next to the River Hull. There is no shelter from the elements along most of the route and limited or no seating at stopping points.

The route is level and across some sections of heritage paving that has been levelled.

The boardwalk has gaps of approximately 2cm between the planks. We will vary the route on the day if wheelchair users request it.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

For more details including accessibility information and to book your place visit www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/ hull-museums-41215371083

The 95 year old ship being towed into the Marina with the assistance of Deans Tugs