28h52: Hessle Rd Public Wash House, 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.
The scene is still readily identifiable on Street View. The window at left is in the Top Deck Snack Bar featured in yesterday's image and there is still a wooden pole (though probably a replacement) in the same place on the pavement. Most of the next section of wall has gone, replaced by a wider blue painted metal gate, and those two window recesses I carefully placed on either side of the post have been filled in, their positions still marked by a groove or crack around them. The roof has been renewed and its front replaced; Google, not always reliable in such things, tells me this is the Tom Thumb Industrial Estate. The next section of buildings has also had its frontage rebuilt, but the final group of three window recesses remains. Street view doesn't let me manoeuvre myself into quite the position I stood in the road to produce this image, and certainly doesn't let me reproduce the glancing lighting that produced the textures and shadows from 1981, and the tension and atmosphere I felt then have disappeared completely. 28h46: English St, 1981 - North & West Hull - Hessle Rd http://www.hullphotos.co.uk/images/5-westnorthhull/hessle/28h46.html 25 January 2017 Hessle Rd Public Wash House was opened in 1885, though the baths it was a part of were rebuilt and added to at later dates. It was between Madeley St and Daltry Street, where Clive Sullivan Way now turns off from Hessle Rd. As well as swimming baths and slipper baths there were laundry facilities and I photographed the notice on the outside of the Public Wash House, by then closed and boarded up.
Peter Marshall
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