EPW012805 ENGLAND (1925). Queen Victoria Square, Kingston upon Hull, 1925

This photo shows Hull as a thriving and prosperous city nearly 100 years ago, with beautiful buildings, unlike the present day Hull, with its utilitarian buildings that where built after the city was badly bombed doing the second world war.

As an ex Trinity House lad (83-86), it's fantastic to see fellow Trinity boys in the school yard from back in 1925 (white trousers and black jackets). Scroll a little ways up, and you can see the "construction site" of what will become Ferens Art Gallery that opened two years later (?). Sad really how a unforeseen world war a decade or so later would change much of Hull's landscape. Wonderful photos.