Off Topic Hull City Centre Public Realm Strategy

I was surprised at the height of it, i haven't really seen the plans until now. There's certainly alot going on in that area at the minute with the new

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Ron Dearing UTC being built alongside it.

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Drove past New Theatre yesterday, was gobsmacked at the size of the construction work. It's huge! What IS the big tower thing, anyone know?

 

Enhanced backstage space, would like to see more detail because your right it looks massive.

 

Cool. Very cool.

 

Found that really interesting. Never really heard about how the boundaries of Hull have changed over the centuries. I had no idea about the Citadel castle or that the tower on Victoria Dock came from it. Also had no idea about the Beetonsville area which is where I grew up.

 

All city boundaries change over the years. My dad used to live on the outskirts of Leeds before the war. Took him back in the nineties for a look round when I was going to a meeting in Leeds. Glad I did because he died not long after. He didn't recognise most of it, vast buildings on the fields where he played. He said that if you had dropped him off he wouldn't have recognised most places other than the very centre of Leeds, though that had also changed greatly, as landmarks like the town hall and market were still there. It has changed far more than Hull has looking at his old photographs.

 

I grew up in Beeton Street, Holderness Rd, it's nowhere near Beetonsville but I'm guessing there must be a link?

 

Maybe they named it in honour of the woman who wrote all those cook books?

 

It was on East Park rocks when I was a kid. Known far and wide as 'Piss Tower'.

 

A bit tenuous mebbe ..... as good a guess as mine though

 

Talking of naming, loved David Coleman's " Stan Mortenson, the man who scored a hat-trick in a Cup Final. Something so unique they call it The Matthews Final".

 

It really did perpetually stink of piss.

 

Sounds like James Beeton was actually a bit of a bodger. Beetonville was unsanitary with all the sewage running down an agricultural drain on the car park side of Walton Street. The greater Hull builder DP Garbutt who built the Avenues had to remedy the water supply & sink new wells in to Albert Ave, the site of these water works were later developed into the Swimming Baths.

http://www.carnegiehull.co.uk/the-anlaby-road/North/walton/walton-street-history.html

 

The post office on Anlaby road just before Walton street was called the Beetonville post office.

 

Next to the barracks?

 

Yes. Doesn't it still mention Beetonville on the sign? Or used to fairly recently? Rings a bell...