please log in to view this image Hull is one of the great historic trading centres of northeast England. Severely hit by industrial decline, it has recently begun to see substantial regeneration. Exciting new architectural projects reflect the fierce pride of the community and relate closely to the city's magnificent maritime history. Filled with numerous maps; plans; and superb, specially taken colour photographs, this new Pevsner guide is an indispensable visitor's companion to Hull. This is an authoritative, practical and well-illustrated guide to Hull's buildings. The core of the city is the Old Town with its medieval churches, 17th and 18th-century merchants' houses and Victorian and Edwardian commercial and public buildings. Detailed walks explore the waterfront area with its exciting recent developments and the Georgian and later suburbs with their many hidden delights. Excursions include the outstanding market town of Beverley. The wide-ranging introduction, specially taken colour photographs and numerous maps make this an essential reference work and easy-to-use visitor's companion. http://yalebooks.co.uk/display.asp?K=9780300141726#sthash.AAMoGI2N.dpuf There's some great images of Hull in the book... http://www.flickr.com/photos/yellowbookltd/sets/72157634790022081/
Great pics. Has the Humber Quays building got tenants in yet? See the art deco building down Whitefrigate is to let. Criminal that.
I think Spencers (Building Contractors) took the ground floor and RBS had the top floor. I quoted for some work there about a year ago.
I think One Humber Quays is almost full, but Two Humber Quays still has a fair bit of empty space. The deco building on Whitefriargate has been empty for years, ever since the Adams kids shop shut. It's not in bad nick inside if you fancy going into retail? (rent's probably a joke though) please log in to view this image
Good stuff, OLM - I met David Neave when he took a bunch of us (including the late Chris Ketchell) on a history walk, along Princes Ave. from Botanic junction up to, and around, Pearson Park. Excellent!
Barclays, PriceWaterhouseCoopers & One Gallery all tenants as well. Think I remember Baker Tilly being mentioned at some point too.
I did a walk with Paul Schofield a few years back as well as an open top bus tour wirh the bloke from Hull uni with a lisp (not sure of his name?) both very good though. VHEY should work better with local tour guides to offer a better more dedicated service to tourists. It would be beneficial for both. I saw Paul Schofield last week on a Friday night in old town dressed up as a Victorian gentleman in top hat taking a group of tourists around. Was good to see.
One Humber Quays is owned by Spencers. They let off some of the floors. I actually designed the building. The original back of a *** packet design came from Hopkins Architects on behalf of Yorkshire Forward. Michael Hopkins designed the Mound Strand at Lords among other things. I then had to make it work. Took a year and half of my life from start to finish. DLA (David Lyons Architects of Leeds) kept trying to claim it as there own but they were merely project managers for Yorkshire Forward. I designed it for Morrisons Northern Construction under a D + B contract. It was originally designed as a new headquarters for Northern Foods but it quickly became apparent before we started on site that they had no intentions of taking it. They ended up at Garforth. Yorkshire Forward kept changing their minds on what they wanted as Northern Foods interest waned. At one point I was tasked with putting a restaurant in on the ground floor. Everything that could go wrong on the building went wrong. Morrisons Northern lost that much money on the project that the main company Morrison Construction closed the subsidary down. I will stop waffling now, but I could rattle on about this building and the carpark next to it which I designed as part of the project all night.
Been to lots of meetings with David Lyons - had a big involvement in the Kingswood development but a bit full of his own importance.
Is he still alive? I know he stepped down from DLA some time ago. Definitely thought he was it. Something very fishy about the relationship between DLA and Yorkshire Forward. Not a very good practice yet got nearly all their work. Their place at Wakefield was like a factory. Come 5pm it was like lemmings rushing out.
Northern Foods was built on the site of Corporation Fields, where Hull Fair was held before it moved to the Walton Street site. Corpo Fields was also the site of a battle in the '30's, which took place when Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts attempted to hold a rally there http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/portal/page?_pageid=221,388764&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL http://www.heretical.com/British/charnley.html
