The Council didn't demolish them, they were CPO'd by the Government in the form of the Highway Agency or at least its predecessor to make way for the A63 Castle Street as a trunk road.
Did they patch it up or close off sections that had been bombed? It was in an edition of the HDM's 'Flashback' and it said that bomb damage coupled with the new HRI on Anlaby Rd signalled it's end and was demolished.
A group have been collecting money to turn it into a memorial, but they need to raise the funds to buy it off the developers who want to turn it into a restaurant.
Dunno but it was still the main hospital in the city until what is now HRI was built in 1965 on Anlaby Road
Every discussion I've ever had on the matter, everyone had the impression it was due to the council - even if it wasn't, they should have lobbied for a different route. Not only did it wreck the heart of some of the city's impressive historical buildings, it cut it off from it's waterfront too.
Being still very naive I wouldn't know about that !! Not sure when it was demolished after the HRI was built in 65 but I think the Prospect Centre that replaced it wasn't built till the early 70's wasn't it?
Slightly off-topic, but the award winning Arc building, which cost £570k to build, has just been sold for £21k... please log in to view this image http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-22452949
Before this became the women and childrens hospital this place was the Hull Sanitorium. Not a nuthouse but a place to treat infectious diseases. Castle Hill Hospital took over as the main sanitorium around 1929 and this was converted to women and childrens hospital.
The hospital moved to Anlaby Road in 1967 apparently and the Prospect Centre opened in 1975. On those ghost tours, they claim that the ghosts of dead patients walk around the Prospect Centre on a night.
I agree to some extent with you on this - this part of the Old Town was however in a right old state and the new road took a route partly along the old Myton Street. In hindsight it has completely severed the city centre from what is now the marina etc area albeit the Marina wasn't up and running then and all it meant was that Humber Dock and Princes Dock were now longer joined together. I have heard runours that the preferred route of the new trunk road was a straight line hugging the Estuary but Smith & Nephews objected to this (severed their land?) and as a result the route swung back onto Hessle Road by means of what is now Dalty Street flyover.
Either a typo by the BBC or HDM, as the HDM says it cost £750,000 to build. It's a strange building on the inside - the blue box parts were mini offices and storage compartments. The blue box at the back stored a wood chip burner that burnt recycled wood chips to produce heat for the building. Rain water which ran down the roof was filtered and used as the buildings water supply and the mini wind turbine and mini solar panels produced electricity for the building (though not very effectively). I think it suits it's location and the yellow solar panels match well with the yellow top of the bridge to The Deep. The blue boxes let the building down though - they're hand-painted and it doesn't look good. The random multi-coloured stripes on the blue boxes are stickers and don't flatter it either. The landscaping around ARC was/is impressive too - much better than when it was just a part of the gravel car park.
At my granddads recently I was reading a history of Hull book and it suggested that Prospect Centre is the most haunted site in Hull not only for that reason, but also because prior to the hospital being there it was the place where public executions were carried out at the gallows. Shop store rooms are said to be scary places when it gets dark. Fascinating stuff.
I think it'd have been better coming into the city further north and curving down to meet up with Mount Pleasant instead. That way the trunk road could have served the docks and the industrial Bankside/Wincolmlee areas too.
I remember seeing an aerial photo in HDM's Flashback a while back, showing the area sometime just before work started. It looked very run down and dilapidated, although still incredibly interesting. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but an outer ring road north of the city might have been preferable and would have taken huge amounts of traffic away from the city centre/mytongate area. Access on foot to the Marina from the city centre could have made it a huge attraction. But what's done is done - let's hope the tunnel gets the go ahead.
