Hull Street Atlas

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Situated off Ferensway and running alongside Hull's Paragon Station, the street was perhaps best known as being where the infamous Blue Box stood. He was a member of the Hull Broadley family, who consisted of merchants, bankers, landowners and was the first chairman of the Hull and Selby Railway Company. Collier's Street However, by the end of the war the area had descended into a sorry state. It remained until Mount Pleasant Retail Park was built - today the street is the shopping area's car park. Waterworks Street And the footage featured in the DVD is said to be a brilliant record of young people at a time of generational change. It was a mixture of lower class houses and was eventually considered unfit for habitation by the Department of Health. The street was demolished and later replaced with Ferensway. Kent Street/Beeton Street

Maps provide a detailed view about the local area and how land use has changed over the centuries. They were compiled for various reasons and there are a huge number of maps and plans to discover. The street was a mixture of housing with shops at either end, but was lost for the creation of the A165 Freetown Way. Mytongate Much of what we see here was the brainchild of Udolphus Coates, the first chartered planner to be appointed by the city." Most maps can be viewed in the library area or search room and many can be accessed through the map drawers.Henry Broadley was born in 1793 and was a member of the Conservative party who sat in the House of Commons between the years 1837 and 1851. Complementing the earlier maps are a series of 1:1250 scale maps dating from 1949 to the present day. This series shows Hull in the immediate years after the Second World War, and show how the city altered due to the numerous air raids during the war. Maps from the late 1960s and 1970s show its redevelopment with the removal of some housing across the city, most notably places like Hessle Road. The 1980s saw a continuation of Hull’s development, with the city centre being pedestrianised. Later maps from this series take into account developments and changes during the first two decades of the 21st century. Hull History Centre holdings

If you are visiting Kingston-Upon-Hull, or perhaps even taking a holiday in Hull, you will no doubt be looking for local accommodation, facilities and attractions, and this map is perfect for this job. You will be able to find major roads and streets in Kingston-Upon-Hull, and by using zoom (+) view smaller streets, avenues and lanes in the city, and also bus stops. With an emerging generation of teenage rebels including Teddy boys, these films are an important record of young people at a time of such generational change."

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Maps have been around for centuries, but the need for accurate maps became all the more important during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Britain found itself increasingly at war, which brought with it the impending threat of invasion. New methods, including photography, made the process of producing maps easier during the nineteenth century. More East Yorkshire Town Centre Maps: Goole - Hull - Bridlington - Driffield - Hessle - Hornsea - Howden

Many of the Ordnance Survey maps are available to browse in the library area. The most notable dates are those for 1855, 1892, 1910, 1928 and 1949-present day. Access is available via the map cabinets in the library area and includes: The store was one of many places badly bombed – along King Edward Street and Prospect Street – on 7 May 1941, as were Bladons, Edwin Davis’, the Co-op, the Prudential building and Thornton Varleys (now Debenhams). Similar to a ‘fly on the wall’ documentary, the camera and its operator have little or no impact on the subject of the recording. Read More Related Articles

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Located in east Hull, running from Holderness Road on the southern side, Waller Street was once a busy and densely populated part of the city. People travelled from new out of town neighbourhoods with schools, playing fields and libraries into the city centre to enjoy shopping and the new civic areas," Sean said.