angus young @angus_young61 Cllr Keal calls for public vote on name, then makes rubbish suggestion to call it Brand New World , a song off War of the Worlds LP. angus young @angus_young61 Cllr Tom McVie recalls council offer to buy Castle St off the Highways Agency using KC windfall. HA weren't prepared to sell. angus young @angus_young61 All systems go, Castle St bridge approved angus young @angus_young61 Construction on new £11.5m Castle St footbridge will start "early next year" with completion by Easter 2017 angus young @angus_young61 New Castle St footbridge will have specially designed tilted railings designed to prevent people jumping/falling onto Hull's busiest road. please log in to view this image
Why would you even think of putting a glass atrium on Ferens??? I cant stand **** like that. We need to have ideas, I know lets... **** off
Has anyone considered double-decking Castle Street? One level in each direction. Solving the congestion problem? It works for the Oakland Bay Bridge.
Aren't there a few former fire stations scattered around d Hull? I seem to recall a doorway with fireman's helmets (fnaar) around the side of Spring Bank Tavern on that road that leads to the fantastically named Milky Way.
That was an old fire station. The building was used by Cornell's who had the music shop on the corner with Spring Bank. Then the Brewery took over the property and extended the old SBT on to the corner and that's how it is now.
The new fire station they're moving to is also being built near Milky Way. This is the old Volunteer Fire Service Station on Hall Street... please log in to view this image There's also the old Hull Corporation Fire Station... please log in to view this image
Ha, I, and two others, attempted to buy that in 2006/7. Fell through due to planning issues and also some investor problems. Rather glad about it in hindsight considering what happened to Hull's housing market shortly afterwards. ESSEX GULL
As well as a face lift, it would be good if it had a lift to the upper tier. Access for people with mobility problems is poor at the moment.
I'm not sure, but I think it was near the Railway Dock and was probably demolished when they built the A63.
You could well be right, Lambo. I remember there were a number of buildings - offices, warehouses - that had curving walls, in that area. Wasn't there a brilliant old warehouse that could have been saved, like those at Railway Dock? But it went.
I believe a warehouse very similar to Warehouse 13 was demolished, but I can't remember the details. There were a lot of great properties demolished to make way for the A63, this is Queen Street looking towards Hull, it was all demolished (now the bottom of the flyover)... please log in to view this image
Aye. A quick Google, and that picture was taken I April 1987. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3280624
Found it, Warehouse No.7 was demolished in 1971, it's criminal that it was allowed. There's a picture on page 47... http://rtpi.org.uk/media/998408/david_neave.pdf
Cheers for that link. That warehouse I remember, vaguely, but it's not the one I was thinking of. Got any links to old street maps, before the clearance/development?
It was said to be required for maintaining the environmental conditions needed for attracting national and international exhibitions. Guessing that's no longer the case. Maybe they're sticking that water fountain back in.
The glass box required to maintain the temperature/humidity is still there, they're just building it inside instead of sticking it on the front.
