Most of it was demolished a long time ago to make way for a car park, originally there was just a small ground level car park where everything was demolished, but they left the Star of the West pub and the newsagents next door standing, on their own, with the car park around them. The multi-storey car park was built at the same time as the Prospect Centre was extended and Jameson Street had the Mail Buildings replaced with the **** that's there now. If I remember rightly, either the pub or the pet shop(which I think became the newsagents) wouldn't sell, despite getting a big offer for the site and it held things up for years. I believe that in the end, he ended up selling for less than the original offer. As far as I can remember, the original plan was for the Prospect Centre to take up the whole site, with it's entrance being on Jameson Street, but it got scaled back.
There's a brief history here... http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/museumcollections/collections/storydetail.php?irn=219&master=536
The Star of the West had quite an interesting life. It was originally a three storey house with a garden, build in 1788 and home to several sailors(the pubs name was a reference the houses previous occupants), then it was converted into a greengrocers. In 1870 the property was extended out over the garden to create a single story pub.. please log in to view this image In 1927, a couple more floors were added, along with it's timber facade... please log in to view this image It was demolished in 1997.
It went down long before the current car park and the "front" of Prospect Centre got put on. I remember as a kid that the road you can see in the picture that runs down from Ferensway right through past what was Woolworths and comes out opposite Burger King (unless that's moved as well) was as it is. The one you can see on the right just before C&As was also the same as it is now, but where if you went down there you'd get to the corner and have to turn left to go to Ferensway it used to be a T junction. Going to the right the road would run down to and then across the back of what was Woolworths to rejoin the street the picture is taken from. The whole area in the middle was just an open air car park. Years is probably a conservative estimate, decades might even be accurate. I'm sure it was already the flat car park when I was at an age where getting to go to Woolworths was still exciting (the innocent naivety of youth) so that would be 20 years ago minimum. What's the extension been up for, 5 or 6 years? Wouldn't take it having been down much before I remember for it to have been 20 years of wrangling.
Some good photographs here - and not only pubs: http://old-hull.weebly.com/public-houses.html ...and is there anyone old enough (on here) to have ever been in this place? I only went in once, and I'm sure I recall it having a balcony. It was a real alky spot and I was only in my late teens, so it scared me to death! http://www.paul-gibson.com/history/music-halls-of-hull.php
