March 2020

26th March, 2020 Hull Museums Publications/Pickering Park 6.

Following on yesterday’s blog and focusing on the ‘entertainment’ section of Pickering Park (see yesterday’s picture). The Park’s bandstand was planned to be ‘sunken’ and the part of the Park where this once was is somewhat sunken today. I think the intention was to be amphitheatre-like with terraced seating around the central performance area, five

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25th March, 2020 Hull Museum Publications/Pickering Park 5.

The map extract above focusses on the ‘entertainments’ section of Pickering Park in the inter-war years. As with the ‘Recreation Ground’ (see yesterday’s map extract) Pickering was forward thinking in providing ‘tennis ground’ and ‘bowling green’ from the outset whereas the three other municipal parks in Hull had had to incorporate bowling greens particularly into

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