It's not down to the Council, it's down to the utility company that messed it up, they've already had a notice from the Council forcing them to sort it.
I don't know how these things work but doesn't the utility company have to get some sort of authority from the council to start works? And if that's the case wouldn't the authority carry some sort of t&c's? eg making good to pre-works standard? I'm not looking to knock the council in particular but there has to be a responsible party somewhere, surely...?
Yep, the private utility company that initiated the works, and the ****, private sub-contractor they employed. You could take it further and apply some responsibility to those that have shares, or whose investments are linked to these private bods making profits at public expense.
Lots of cobbles were used because they were readily available on local beaches. My great grandfather wrote and had a book published about cobbles in this area, he was an architect in Hull and also the oldest person to graduate from Hull University.
Bit off topic but has anybody had a look at "Hull" by David and Susan Neave which is one of the Pevsner Architectural Guides. Has some excellent photos of the city's older buildings and includes 10 walks in the city.Has a reproduction of an engraving of Beverley Gate in the late !8c when it was more substantial than now.Even had a gate.Pity it wasn't maintained as in the engraving. By the way the city walls took at least 4,700,000 bricks to build.
Cobbles were used locally, but not primarily for roads, Spurn cobbles were collected on a big scale, but were mainly used for building houses, farm buildings, churches, and construction of the docks.
Incidentally, for those who haven't been down there recently, the side of the Marina looks like this (as does Humber Street)... please log in to view this image
Not much for roads in Hull, which is what was being discussed when I mentioned some of the cobblers on threads like these.
There were still some, may have been replaced as some of the 'SETTS' don't look authentic anyway. They look later replacements for something else.
Nope, there were very few. Certainly not synonymous to the area. I think there's some in a yard back of Sugar Mill, but there's never really been much else cobble wise. There used to be wooden setts around Princes Dock.
I lot of Hedon rd was wooden setts They used to catch fire when the incendary bombs fell during the blitz
I can't even begin to imagine how slippery the wooden setts were when it got wet with a bit of Algae on them. They must have been deadly.
Primarily used for buildings in Hornsea, Aldbrough, Tunstal, Withernsea, Preston, Burstwick, Keyingham, Skeffling and Easington (courtesy of the British Geological Survey).
