27p46: Play street and cleared site, 1981 - North & West Hull
- Hessle Rd
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A view of Hull
Still Occupied
Images on this site are arranged into rough areas by location as in my book 'Still Occupied', available on Blurb. Eventually this site will contain all the images in that book and more.
This is the image I chose for the cover of my book 'Still Occupied' and from my contact sheet it appears to have been taken in the Goulton St/Subway St area, although when I showed it in 1983 it was titled 'Clearance area near Woodcock St', around 600m to the north-east. I'm afraid the exact location of some of my pictures is something of a mystery as I did an awful lot of wandering around while taking pictures. Those more familiar than me with Hull may be able to identify the large curved roof in the right background, and below it, just in front of the houses a small obelisk on a plinth, though these details are probably too small to be seen clearly on the web image. Just to the left of the post, partly obscured is a building which could be a pub.
I've spent a little more time researching this (thanks to Google Streetview), and the street at the left is definitely what is now called Conway Close, though when I took the picture it was Division Road. The mound and monuments are the Division Road burial ground - an overspill from Holy Trinity - and the houses at right are terraces from Tyne St. The buildings close to the post have I think all been demolished. The 'Play Street' I was on the edge of was I think Beecroft St or Massey St. The latter is still there.
Peter Marshall
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