STILL OCCUPIED

Peter Marshall

A view of Hull

West & North Hull

Hessle Rd area
 


28h15: St Mark's Square from Edgar St, 1981 - North & West Hull - Hessle Rd

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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.


Four months after the last picture here I was back in Hull and went back to the same area. St Mark's Square is not the only thing that Hull has in common with Venice - it also has the parish and church of St Charles Borromeo, a sixteenth century Cardinal and administrator of the archdiocese of Milan which stretched from Geneva to Venice, and it used to have a great deal of water in the centre of the city, though rather less since Queens Dock was filled in as public gardens in the 1930s and a disturbing shopping centre plonked down in Princes Dock in 1990-1.
 
Hull's St Mark's Square is perhaps a little less imposing than its Venetian counterpart, but was at the centre of Hull's first out of town suburban development by Thomas English, a wealthy local shipbuilder in the first decade of the nineteenth century known as the Pottery Ground. Edgar was one of his sons, and there is also an Alfred St, named after the other, as well or course as English St. Where St Mark came in I don't know - there wasn't a church there, though it did have a Wesleyan Chapel in the early years. St Mark's Square was an open square for some years at the centre of the new development. All that remains from around 1802-3 appears to be the street pattern.

 

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