28l32: Trippetts for Gloves & Hosiery, Railway Houses, Londesborough
Street 1981 - Springbank
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28l32: Trippetts for Gloves & Hosiery, Railway Houses, Londesborough
Street 1981 - Springbank
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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 sign that greets travellers approaching Hull by rail while their train waits to go into Paragon Station. The sign was still visible the last time I remembered to look out of the window at the right moment, but most of the black paint has peeled off, leaving the remnnats of the white lettering on red bricks, with just a few black flecks.
Trippetts were drapers and had stores in Bradford and Nottingham as well as a large block in Ferensway, Hull, and was "noted for value in Yorkshire since 1887" as a department store with a 'cash only' policy. They occupied an ugly 1930s block on the corner of North St which extended to Prospect St and the block was recently demolished. The store closed towards the end of the last century.
The store belonged to the Trippett family. I don't know if it is simply a co-incidence that the area of Hull immediately to the north of the old town between the walls and the Charterhouse was the liberty of Trippett, which although owned by the corporation for several centuries was only incorporated into the parliamentary borough in 1837. There is still a short and rather empty Trippett Street there.
Peter Marshall
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