February 2018

21st February, 2018. Final comment on History of Hessle Common.

The opening of Pickering Park and accompanying alms-houses in 1911, and the inter-war Gipsyville council estate (an estate the lay-out plans of which incorporated the principles of the Garden Village movement) pushed the urbanisation of Hessle Common west of the Hessle Road railway crossing, at least on the north side of Hessle High Road. From Pickering

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17th February, 2018. History of Hessle Common (south-west Hull).

Last Monday night gave a talk to Hull Civic Society at the Royal Station Hotel (Mercure Hotel) entitled ‘The History of Hessle Common (South-west Hull)’. It was quite well received and included some welcome and informative comments and questions from the audience. One such recollection was of Priory Farm surviving well into the 1960s. Priory

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