The Council announced last August that Beverley Gate was going to be glazed and lit, they then announced this August that they'd gone off the idea as the glass got scratched when people walked on it and they were going to fill it in instead. If they didn't want people to start kicking up a fuss, they'd have been better off just asking for alternative ideas in the first place. Personally, I think glazing it, but not letting people walk on it (while obviously explaining exactly what it is and why it's significant) would please most and would avoid the potential issues mentioned. Ideally, you'd build a mock up of the original tower, while still being able to view the original foundations beneath, but I suspect that wouldn't be financially viable.
Without the past there can be no future !! Far too much of the history of Hull has been wiped off the map, for that reason we must do what we can to retain the remainder
It was attributed in the HDM to someone called Garry Taylor, who is apparently the City Council's Major Projects Manager.
I'm all for preserving history and I'm greatly saddened by much that the city has needlessly lost. On this issue, I'm sure we can easily come up with a plan to incorporate the gates remains into the development. But you do get certain elements that seems more interested in the past than looking to the future. And let's remember that Hull prospered very nicely whilst the remains of this gate were buried under it.
OK here’s an idea to ponder. The present amphitheatre should be reduced and remodeled as a sunken garden in the shape of a ships ‘hull’ below the waterline running alongside the remains, with the Beverley Gate encased in glass set at a modern 45 degree angle which can’t be walked on. Could the effect of peering at the remains over the side of a ship be achieved? Thus maritime themes, new seating, sculptures and civil war history could all be incorporated together around the new feature?
A simple way to glaze over something without people walking on it (this is over some Roman ruins in Malaga)... please log in to view this image
The mock-up Beverley Gate built at the end of Whitefriargate for the royal visit in 1903... please log in to view this image
Councillor Steven Bayes tells Burnsy that the council have listened to public protests and 'won't fill it ALL in'... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0338dqh
Nah, too naff. I'd like the ruins covered in a glass pyramid though like the picture in Malaga, with a slightly sunken garden representing a ship sailing alongside it between Princes Dock and Queens Dock where the Old Town moat would have been originally linking the history together with sculptured railings rising up at both ends representing Larkins Hull poem 'Here' engraved with the line 'pastoral of ships up streets'.
He (Bayes) outlines the significance and historical importance of Beverleygate, so why on earth would they even have considered filling it in as an option in the first place? The mind really does boggle at how Hull City council operates.
They have to consider all options. All local authorities do in such cases. It doesn't mean they're realistic or liable to be carried out.
That being the case, it makes you wonder why the Council didn't simply state that the Council representative who spoke to the HDM had got it wrong, saving thousands of people from having to sign a petition, or people marching on Beverley Gate putting up badly designed banners.
If people choose to light the torches and wave pitchforks, that's their prerogative. The Council couldn't say that they would or wouldn't be filling it in until they'd considered all the options. The HDM will do what the HDM does.
Because I take the time to look behind the splash in the HDM? It doesn't take any inside knowledge to look beyond the blurb. It's what most people that have had any dealings with the local media do. It's far more constructive to act on what's actually been discussed rather than some hype.
