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July 2018

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Hull - Pearson Park & Beverley Rd

Thu 26 Jul 2018


     
 Tree carving, Pearson Park
     
 A plaque records that Larkin lived in Carisbrooke at 32 Pearson Park from 1956-74. He wrote most of his poems in the top floor flat. Grade II listed

 Pearson Park

 The arch to Pearson Park, in cast iron by Young & Wood of Hull, 1860. Grade II listed

 The Dorchester. Linda's cousin Billy owned this at one time. He died young.

 The Rose Hotel, Beverley Rd

 is opposite The Bull, also closed. This is now flats.

 

 Former Stepney Station - on the lines to Hornsea & Withernsea

 

 Possibly the last bomb site in England - apart from some churches. Listed, and subject of a long campaign to

 turn the former National Picture Theatre into a memorial garden.

 Strand Close

 Brunswick House built as a Higher Grade Board School in 1890

 Beverley Rd

 Former Gatepost for Kingston College built in 1836. In 1847 Trinity House bought it for seamen's almshouses, then became a youth centre

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