Nice building, wonder what it will end up as, probably flats? Hull College to close and sell Park Street campus please log in to view this image HULL College has announced that it will be selling one of its main sites. The Park Street campus in Hull city centre will close at the end of the current academic year, next June. The further education institution, which is one of the biggest in the UK, said that it would be selling the centre and moving all students to its Queens Gardens site. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull...tory-28293617-detail/story.html#ixzz3tN6CHE9l
This has been ongoing for quite a while now, the refectory was closed a few weeks ago and if the grand plan for Hull College had come to fruition a few years ago then the tower block would have been demolished and a brand new university style campus would have been built on the existing land. Park Street would have been incorporated within that campus so would have closed anyway, but of course funding was pulled by the coalition government after Hull College had spent something in the region of £2 million on preparation work. It could have been catastrophic like Bradford College (I think or maybe Barnsley) which pulled down it's building before the funding was pulled. I think there has been some commercial interests that doesn't include Manor Properties.
I just found this, and signed, but does anyone else on here know of him/knew him? He taught Paul Gibson the ropes. https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petitio...l_Historian_lets_remember_his_name/share/?new
Went there from 1956-1959 when it was called Hull College of Technology and studied for an external London University degree along with 3 other students. Went from Riley High( Boulevard site) with Riley High being originally at Park St from 1926 before moving to the Boulevard in 1945. Education at Park St began in 1898. Played Union for the 3 years I was there and was the Union club secretary writing reports of all our matches for the Hull Daily Mail. I believe the Park St site was bombed in 1941.
Chris was head of the Local History Unit at Park St before the place became an art and design centre, after which he was moved to somewhere on Holderness or Beverley Road I believe. He was a bit of an excentric he even took pictures of the many gents urinals that used to be dotted around Hull. He had a group of volunteers to help him with the history stuff, one of them still does the Ghost Walks around Hull, but Chris was a minefield of information and quite passionate about the history side of things. And yes Stanley, I knew him.
Agreed. We should run a sweepstake in when it'll be set on fire too. Chazz will have to be excluded from that though...
Holderness Road, I believe, ref - inside the Reckitts Library. When he and Ann broke up, he ended up down the same street as me - Clumber Street. What he didn't know about Hull was hardly worth knowing...
I went and did some GCSE's there as a mature student, school had told me I didnt need em and should just leave earlier than everyone else... Lovely old building, lots of wooden floors wasnt there...
Spent many endless nights in this building in the early sixties then again some years later struggling with telecoms qualifications, never was much good at study and theory.
The place was architectually quite a nice building, and yes there were wooden floors but due to modern requirements lots of the floors were covered over but the archways in the foyer remain and a lot of the basic brickwork walls showing the arches over the windows. The place was knocked about a bit to accommodate the art and design people so some features were lost but the building was partially destroyed during the war hence the different floor levels when rebuilt. I do have a history book of Park St, yes from Chris Ketchel, which shows the bombed buildings, I may get round to scanning and posting those pictures on here. But my history with the place goes back to 1965 when I used to do day release during my apprenticeship so a bit of sadness on my part of its demise.
One feature that is often not noticed, in fact hardly ever, are the figures right above the front entrance at the top of the building. Their significance evades me at the moment but they are all in some historical context, you can see them in OLM original post and again I have some closer pictures somewhere but that's the trouble I have so many pictures that I lose track of what I actually have.,
It's amazing how much you can learn about a place you think you know like the back of your hand if you just look above the ground floor of the buildings as you walk round. We did a GPS treasure hunt for a company in Belfast, and one of the teams thought we'd got someone on the tourist board to set the observation questions because it was all about things they hadn't noticed in 20 years of living there. What it had actually been is 2 of us who'd never been there before just went wandering about for a few hours one day a few weeks earlier.
Member being next door in Park Street hospital on St George's day in 1967 for an emergency appendectomy as a young lad. Is that building still in use?
That was the old Victoria Childrens Hospital of which I was a regular visitor during my childhood, the main hospital was on the site that is now The Prospect Centre. The old childrens hospital is now mainly used for admin and support for mental health issues.
Spot on AFC I'm afraid that when I'm out and about taking pictures I am often looking towards the sky at clouds and rooftops. A lot of people wonder what I'm looking at and give me a strange look when I tell them chimney stacks and clouds, but I think I hit the jackpot the other day, well I think so, see what you think.
