February 2019

27th February, 2019. History of Hull’s Public Parks, 6.

This third blog about the early days of West Park includes a picture (above) of the original bandstand on the island (s.p.b.), this taken from the Malet Lambert Reprint identified in the last blog. The lake, island, rustic bridge and bandstand are long-gone. Already by the late 1880s the Corporation Parks Committee was making provision for […]

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25th February, 2019. History of Hull’s Public Parks, 4.

As regards the early development of Hull’s West Park it needs to be recorded straightway that in 2011 Paul Gibson published his excellent booklet on this topic (cover-page see above). In May 1882 the Minutes of Hull Corporation’s Parks Committee, 1882-1884, record that a sub-committee was formed to search for a ‘suitable site … in

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20th February, 2019. History of Hull’s Public Parks, 3.

As with many public parks around the country created in the mid-to-late 19th century, at Pearson Park, Hull the intention was to sell-off plots of land around the perimeter of the land allocated to the park for ‘villa development’, often envisaged for relatively large detached (although terraces/semis survive beside Pearson Park) period houses and where proximity to the

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