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Sculcoates Re-visited
by MikeCovell
about 1 year ago
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Historical Hull
Last updated about 1 year ago.
It is hard to keep away from the area of Sculcoates, as everytime I visit, I find something new!
It is like a treasure trail of historical buildings, mills, and industry, all tightly packed with modern businesses.
Earlier this week, I grabbed my old maps, new maps, camera, and plenty of batteries, and ventured back into Sculcoates.
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From Clough Road Bridge looking into Sculcoates.
The varnish, paint an colour works would have dominated the skyline here, few remain but this vast exapnse of land is now an industrial estate.
A World War Two bomb shelter was found during construction of the industrial estate and none of the on site machinery could break it. Instead, a fire had to be set to weaken the structure, before demolition could begin.
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Along this stretch stood Bankside Works, which was a paint, colour and varnish plant.
There was also the British Gas Light Co. which operated further along.
The large walls are a part of an old engine shed which looks like it served the Gas Works.
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Standing between the road and the river is this small warehouse. Now in use as a car showroom, it appears to have been used as possibly ship building, or as a oil and varnish works.
St’ Mary’s School can be seen further along the road.
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A small shed standing next to Number 29 pictured above.
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The old St Mary’s School and Old Mill on the opposite side of the River are surrounded by modern fencing, spot lights, and street furniture.
The small wall with two black uprights were once a ship building yard.
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The school stood opposite St Mary’s Church, which was situated in what is now Air Street Cemetery. The Church was first mentioned in 1232 but was replaced in 1760 by an improved church. In 1827-30, and 1861-63 architect William Botherill made some alterations. In 1869 the church was demolished again, and an even newer design implemented, which finally opened in 1873.
By 1915-16 the church was demolished for the final time, and a newer church was built, incorporating some of the stone much further down Sculcoates Lane.
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Air street Cemetery, site of St Mary’s church.
Air street is said to have recieved it’s name after the area was described as "open and airy"
Nowadays the smell of local industry hit’s the nose, as soon as you enter the street!
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Looking back we see the Main Door to St Mary’s School just over the wall.
Many years ago as an Industrial Cleaner, I was in this very yard, and like most, I just took it for granted.
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Gateway to St Mary’s Wharf, the mill on the opposite side of the River Hull dominates the skyline.
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The two large black stones dominate the gateway to Air street Cemetery. The church once stood at the bottom of this path.
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The Southern side of Sculcoates Cemetery. A Church of England Mortuary Chapel and Vaults once stood inside the gates, but have sadly vanished.
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The Northern side of Sculcoates Cemetery. In recent years the vegetation has been cut back, and wrought iron gates erected.
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Needlers Way.
Needlers the confectioners once dominated this plot of land and has done so for many years.
Fred Needler purchased the land in 1906 of Christie’s Patent Stone Co. By 1915 work began at the factory but the first world war slowed work and construction was not finished until 1925!
The company had closed in 2003 and by May 2003, site clearance had begun.
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The site of the Sculcoates Power Station which opened in October 1898. The spot was the Old Town Refuse Depot!
The location was ideal as it was close to several railway tracks, aloowing easy delivery of coal.
The company was Nationalised in 1948 and became part of the Yorkshire Electricity Board.
In 1976 it was finally closed after it could not meet the demands of the ever expanding city.
Between 1979 and 1980 it was demolished.
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The New St Mary’s Church standing on Sculcoates Lane. The church is partially surrounded by tree’s and quite difficult to photograph.
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Barmston Drain from Sculcoates Lane.
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Barmston Drain looking towards the old bridge. The site on the opposite side of the drain was mainly allotments.
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The Old Bridge across the drain terminates at the works on the opposite side of the drain, but at one point would have led to the allotments, and rear of the Tannery.
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Looking back towards the Old Bridge and further away Sculcoates Lane. The bridge supports can be seen in the foreground. Several of the tracks would have led to the Goods Shed, which we will see shortly.
The bridge which I am stood on, was also a railway track, which led over the Sculcoates Swing Bridge.
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Looking further up the drain we can see Maizcor rising above the tree line in the distance.
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Unknown building situated off Fountain Road. I initially thought this was the school, but I believe this was demolished some time ago.
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Railway sheds off Wincomlee. Side elevation, showing arches.
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Railway sheds off Wincomlee. Front view showing the arches and cobbles. Now a construction firm.
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Sculcoates Swing Bridge looking along the track. Now a Grade II listed building.
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Looking back to St Mary’s School along the river.
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Unknown building on the junction of Northumberland Avenue and Fountain Road.
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Unknown building on the junction of Northumberland Avenue and Fountain Road.
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The Hull Municiple Hospital or Almshouse stands at the bottom of Northumberland Avenue.
Built between 1884-6 to a design by Arthur Lowther.
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Standing on Northumberland Avenue this mutli windowed building stands head and shoulders above the local garages.
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The Oxford Street Chapel once stood in this spot but the Oil Mills later expanded and took over much of this end of the street.
A more recent tank farm has been demolished, and it is not looking too good for these buildings either.
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Site of the Wincomlee Colour works.
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christineblurton Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
is the unknown building northumberland ave school
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MikeCovell Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
Hi Christine, I am not sure. I thought it was Fountain Road School, then realised that that one had been demolished.
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christineblurton Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
Someone will be letting us know soon, I use to live on Fountain Road and to be honest I can,t even remember Fountain Road School unless it was near Bridlington st
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MikeCovell Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
Thanks Christine, I still have quite a lot of photo’s for this thread as I walked around for hours.
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christineblurton Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
My house use to back onto Beveley Road Hospital and opposite my house was a friut shop, (and wait for it) Doctors surgery in the back room nobody use to put there feet down on the floor in the waiting room there was so many mice lol Dr Jaff and Dr Exton
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This Mill has had numerous uses over the years, it’s frontage is a mixture of old and new.
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A mixture of Oil mills, Saw mills, and Grain stores both old and new.
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It is amazing to think that nestled among the mills and chimneys, were much smaller residential properties, with families.
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This old Oil mill had a crane that collected goods from the river. Sadly the crane has long gone, and nature is steadily reclaiming the mill.
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In the early 1900’s the corner of Oxford street and Wincolmlee was open land, with the Oil Mill dominating the horizon, and a Chapel further down towards Swann Street.
The warehouse closest to the camera, is a more recent addition, but the building being demolised occupies the spot of the old Oil Mill.
Sam Allon have a lot of contracts in the city, and have a wonderful archive available on request at their head office.
I managed to visit last summer, and was suprised at some of the locations they have worked on over the years.
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205 Wincolmlee is an attractive little building with a fine gable end.
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Sittng on Wincolmlee between Bromley street and Cumberland street is this lovely little house, dwarfed by the nearby mills. The roof looks quite modern but the boarded up windows and metal grates suggest it is no longer in use.
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Another view of the property in relation to the mill.
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Another angle of the house showing the mill at the opposite side. The miils appear to be joined but the walkway looks quite modern compared to the rest of the buildings.
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The mill’s windows suggest that it was for either storage or production. The height of the mill is illustrated by the parked cars. It is possible that this mill was either used for milling, or as a refinery. Both industries were in abundance here.
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The Whalebone is one of the many pubs still standing that are in the area. Back when the area was full of mills there were many more.
The earliest records of the pub date from 1814 when it was run by Edward Lilley. It’s address was given as 8 Church Street, East Sculcoates. Over the years it’s address changed fluctuating between 6 and 11 Church street!
Little has changed internally over the years except for the splitting of the main bar in the early 1900’s.
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The High Flags are a long raised walkway along Wincolmlee, and ran over, the now redundant, Cottingham Drain.
The local mill that was situated along the wharf also became known as "High Flags Mill" and nearby Duke of Cumberland was also affectionatly known as "High Flags".
Hull based artist F.S. Smith drew the High Flags from Grimsby lane in the late 1800’s.
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The Bay Horse pub sits on the corner of Machell street and Wincolmlee. The pub is first listed in 1802 as a public house, but the property is much older than that.
It was rebuilt in 1873 and partially rebuilt in 1943 after suffering minor damage during the Blitz.
It is one of the few pubs to be run continually.
The properties next to the pub are also contempory and the entry leads to a small yard, which is featured on several old maps of the area.
Machell street was named after Christopher Machell who married into the Scott family. It was the Scott family that owned the land on which Machell street is built on.
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Built in 1881 in the Gothic Revival style the school stands at the corner of Wincolmlee and Charterhouse lane.
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The Charterhouse was initially a Carthusian Monestery and was founded by Hull’s De-La-Pole family in the 14th Century.
During the Reformation the Monastery went but the Almshouse remained.
Both the Master’s House and the Chapel were rebuilt in the 18th Century.
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It’s unique cuppolla make this one of Hull’s most unique and beautiful buildings.
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Between 1378 and 1539 stood the Priory of St Michael.
John Rochester and James Walworth, who were Carthusians, were detained in the area prior to their execution in 1537.
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ennywun Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
A fascinating tour Mike; kept me quiet for half an hour! Did you notice if, in Machel Street, the flat-topped building is still there that used to have, I think, a tank on its roof that provided the fluid for a piped hydraulic sytem?
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ennywun Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
Here’s a compilation showing the demolition of Sculcoates concrete cooling tower. The old wooden ones had been previously taken down.
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MikeCovell Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
Hi Ennywun, glad you enjoyed the thread. I didn’t notice that building, but I will look next time I am in the area. I often walk to town using the route so I will see if I can find it.
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ennywun Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
Here’s the building I mentioned Mike. It provided the first public utility in Hull in 1876 and it was the first hydraulic system by act of parliament in England.
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ennywun Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
Funnily enough the blue plaque says something along those lines.
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MikeCovell Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
Thanks Ennywun, I had seen the pumping station in the "Breath of Sculcoates" book, but never actually seen it in person, even though I used to work off Scott Street and have walked around this area quite a lot.
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KenStarkey Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
Mike,interesting you should mention Hull artist F.S Smith and his work recording Old Hull, there is a more contempory artist who has recorded Hull for almost the last 50 years and that is James Neal, an old tutor of mine at Hull College of Art. His paintings of many of the old drains and waterways of Hull were once said to make the city seem like the venice of the North.
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MikeCovell Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
I will look for his work Ken, thank you. I stumbled upon F.S. Smith’s ost by accident as I was looking for pictures of Church Street in Sculcoates. The little section between York Street and Swann Street, and Smith had drawn an excellent picture of the Church Street Police Station!
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KenStarkey Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
Your Scultoates thread has stirred yet another memory MC. Some years ago now while driving down Clough Rd. I saw a huge mural /advert on the side of a building on the Sculsoates side that had been exposed by buildings around it being demolished, it featured two workmen carrying a ladder[?]. Made a mental note to take a picture next time I was in Hull and had a camera with me but of course by my next trip the building had come down! Anyone remember this advert and it’s subject? [think it might have been a paint company]
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MikeCovell Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
The imediate area next to Clough road was primarily paint and varnish factories, so it is possible that it was for one of these plants.
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ennywun Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
It was on the site by the river bank Ken, to the left as one crossed the bridge going west. I glanced across at it every day for years when I worked on Clough Road. I do have a photograph somewhere but it’s likely to be amongst the googolplex of transparencies awaiting digitisation. Wasn’t there a similar image in a field alongside the railtrack to Withernsea? But in that case, a cutout of the men and ladder. Sisson’s Paints springs to mind.
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KenStarkey Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
Thanks for that EW [and I promise to improve my spelling of Sculcoates in the future!].
The pictures of Barmy Drain in the Sculcoates area MC posted evoked a few memories one of which I’d been reminded of a couple of weeks ago when BBC4 showed the ‘Monitor’ arts programme from ‘64 which featured Philip Larkin. The end sequence showed Larkin walking along Barmy Drain heading toward the cooling tower at Sculcoates. The thing that caught my eye was the mist over the water’s surface probably caused by the water being heated by the cooling process at the power station. As kids fishing in the drain further up on North Hull we knew that the warm flow came through a couple of times a day and that was the time the fish were liveliest. I just wonder if anyone has ever navigated the length of the drain or even it would be possible these days.
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MikeCovell Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
Apart from a few low bridges it is still possible. The only thing stopping you reaching the River Hull is the sluice-gates at the High Flags.
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KenStarkey Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
Right then Mike next time I’m in Hull it’s you me and EW in the canoe looking for the source of Barmy Drain!
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MikeCovell Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
Sounds good to me, I know a documentary maker that would be more than happy to run along the bankside filming our struggles!
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ennywun Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
Ive de-loused my pith helmet in readiness.
I attach a picture showing the Sissons’ factory complete with ‘two men and a ladder’. Not the picture I referred to earlier. I took this a few year ago when both the elastics on the bungee at Hull Fair snapped <G>.
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KenStarkey Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
EW I always use blueiness for delousing and by the way that’s some tripod you’ve got there!
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MikeCovell Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
It is nice to see some barges still docked along the River Hull in that arial shot!
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KenStarkey Submitted about 1 year ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
Just wondering if East Riding Council are still considering using converted barges on Beverley Beck to provide office accommodation to rent. I must say if the barges look as good the ‘Syntan’ now moored there the Beck could prove a major asset to Beverley.
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