Snapshots of civic pride

Members of a local history group are photographing up to 200 buildings and structures across the city to celebrate and record Hull's distinctive built environment.
Historic pubs, terraces, cinemas, bridges, fire stations, hotels, schools and chapels are included, as well as curiosities such as old lampposts, a roadside milestone and the drinking fountain in Pickering Park, west Hull.
"Hull has a fascinating built environment and the architecture of the city is something we can be proud of," says Margaret Justice of the Hull and District Local History Research group.
"Our photographs will record how the city's most interesting, quirky and unique places look today so that we will have something to compare and look back on in years to come."

Victorian landmark

The buildings and structures that members of the group will be photographing are mentioned in a Hull City Council document called the 'Local List'.
The list profiles places that Hull people have identified as important and which have helped shape the culture and identity of the city.
For example, one of the structures listed is a gasometer at St Mark Street, east Hull. The list describes it as a 'prominent and distinctive Victorian landmark and industrial relic.'
The list should not be confused with the national statutory list of buildings of special architectural interest which gives protection after recommendations from English Heritage to the government.
Hull's list takes in buildings and local features which may not be worthy of statutory listing but which residents say should still be cherished and preserved.
"The council is working hard to preserve Hull's historic features and this works best when it is done in partnership with local people," says the council's senior conservation officer, Philip Hampel.

Pictured (clockwise from above): Anderson’s Warehouse, off Wincolmlee, which was demolished last year; the River Hull entrance to the former Queen’s Dock, operational between 1778 and 1930, which was located where Queen’s Gardens now stands; the former Spiller’s Mill, on Cleveland Street, knocked down last year; Street Shrine, still located on Dansom Lane, in memory of the men from the area who never returned from World War One; the Albert Hall music hall, built in 1874, on Midland Street, off Anlaby Road, the façade of which is to be preserved as part of the new £11 Park Inn hotel.

For more information and to view the Local List visit www.hullcc.gov.uk