Hull's most mobile statue! Andrew Marvell sculpture could be on move again By Hull Daily Mail | Posted: October 30, 2015 By Angus Young please log in to view this image TALK OF THE TOWN: In 1902 the statue was moved to the junction of George Street and Jameson Street Comments (0) THE city's most mobile statue could soon be on the move again. A striking depiction of 17th century politician, poet and satirist Andrew Marvell, it was originally placed indoors inside the old Town Hall in Alfred Gelder Street in 1886. After four other homes during a turbulent history, it could soon be shifted one more time. Hull City Council is seeking to move the sculpture 18ft across Trinity Square. please log in to view this image "If approved, the new location will mean the statue sits more prominently and centrally in front of the Grammar School and create more symmetry with the proposed new development of the square," a spokesman said. "The statue and the coloured granite plinth will be retained with the remaining plinth replaced with a smaller version, allowing visitors to get closer to the statue." Made in white marble, the artwork was crafted by renowned Hull sculptor William Day Keyworth Junior, a third generation marble mason. When the old Town Hall was demolished to make way for the current Guildhall in 1902, the statue was moved outdoors to the junction of George Street and Jameson Street. Twenty years later, with traffic starting to threaten its foundations, it was moved again to a quieter spot in nearby Bond Street. Having survived the Blitz, the landmark remained there until 1963 when the decision was taken to relocate it away from the city centre altogether. The statue's fourth home was to be outside the main entrance to the new-look Hull Grammar School in Bishop Alcock Road, west Hull. The move was a nod to Marvell's links with the original Grammar School overlooking Trinity Square in the city centre, where he had been educated as a boy. Then, in 1999, the statue was brought back into the city centre as part of a £30,000 council regeneration scheme in Trinity Square to mark Hull's 700th anniversary celebrations. That move was helped by the Mail which provided archive photographs of the statue in previous locations, allowing engineers to work out the exact depth of the plinth hidden below ground level at the Bishop Alcock Road site. As it was, they had to dig the plinth out of 12 inches of reinforced concrete. The latest move is outline in a council planning application. It's part of the authority's £25m public realm facelift programme fore the city centre
During the Second World War, in the blitz, all around it Buildings we destroyed but it just stood there, untouched, Almost saying to hitler " come on you little corporal try and hit me" There's a pic of all the devastation around it and him untouched...
My old memory doesn't remember it being near HGS on Bishop Alcock Rd. Can someone please remind me where it was? Ta.
OK, ta. I left there (from Schol. 6) in 1964, apparently a year after it got installed, so I'm surprised I have absolutely no memory of it. Oh well!
Good job I didn't say that it was near the sixth form building then! That was made in the same area about 1972. I started there in 1966 so as far as I was concerned it had always been there. There was some story about there being an argument with Andrew Marvell School about which one should have the statue.
I don't even remember there being an AM school! From Google, it looks a hideous building -- one of Prince Big Ears' "carbuncles". Teachers I remember at HGS between 1956 and 1964: J. Leslie Nightingale -- with the world's most forgeable signature. Oscar Paige -- about a 100 years old when he was young. Charlie Cutsforth -- "Mr. Chips" -- "Remember, laddie, he who laughslastlashlash" Tom Laughlin -- Free books, etc. -- "These boys go on detention ...". No one ever did! Wheezy Gradon -- "Then floouuurish long, be this our song ..." Dog Ranson -- R. Sole of the Chemmy Lab. Jake Dennison -- Puppy of the Chemmy Lab -- not much older than the students. Pa Roberts -- "Go in, rats!" -- and much more, to remain unsaid. Mick Mitchell -- he wrolled his R's Ben Bowen -- an imposing figure! Debbie Reynolds -- "In mathematics, we must be precise." Harry Feaster -- The jolly math teacher. Wally Stott-- "... the Noorth Yooorkshire Mooors ..." Terry Satterford -- "L for leather, R for crown" Señor A.H. Jackson -- "Sliding down Popocatepetl on a straw mat toboggan ..." Pubs Garbett -- Lord of the Murder Ball! Tom Pierce -- didn't he kill someone with a javelin? Any of the oldies remember any more?
After further thought, at my time there was definitely NOT a sixth-form building. We used the rooms behind the stage as temporary classrooms. I suspect there's an error in the date stated in the OP. That's my conclusion, and I'm sticking to it!
Jim Matthews - English? Ken? Foster - General Science Perce Wade - "Perce Wade persuades you" Curly Coultas - "Bring me the detention register" Danny Silverstone Maggie McGreal(?) "Le sable le gagne, de plus en plus..."
At Andrew Marvell high school the PE teacher was called Mr McCormack He was an absolute psyco, a ****ing big bully(he was massive) And such a ****ing child... He used to use his size 12/13 trainers To dish out corporal punishment... He was The first of many 'Complete ****ing Pricks' I was to meet throughout my life
If you left in 64, there wasn't a sixth form building. When I first went there in 66 the sixth form was still using behind the stage. The sixth form building went up in 71/72. My year was the first to use it. Did you ever dare walk on the mosaic schoool badge in the entrance hall?
I left in 1959. I went back in 85/86 to a second-hand book sale, one Saturday. It was in the Dining Hall/Junior Assembly Hall. We pulled up in the circle and parked. Went in the main entrance. I saw that coat of arms on the floor in front of me and I kinda took a breath and walked over it. It felt so ****ing weird. Physically weird. I guess it was always taboo.
I never did walk on it when I went back, even thouugh I wanted to. I guess some things are ingrained into you.
