EAW028628 ENGLAND (1950). Queen's Gardens and the city centre, Kingston upon Hull, from the south-west, 1950

Story Street prior to the construction of Jordans new premises.

Bomb-damaged Hammonds building yet to be fully demolished.

Paragon Motors showroom. Morris dealership.

I believe this building was a pub. One of the few older buildings left in situ during the construction of Ferensway in the 1930s.

Cleared site of the Royal Institute destroyed in The Blitz

Cleared bombsite on Albion Street still a car park today.

Hull Co-op temporary store before large new building with the Three Ships mural erected.

Construction of Edwin Davis new building not yet started.

Bomb damage and older buildings cleared for the Triangle Trust complex of buildings on King Edward Street and Paragon Street

Site of Telephone House completed in 1964

Hammonds temporary store until new building constructed next door. This site then became C&A building.

Advertising hoarding BEECHAMS POWDERS

Family Bingo, formerly Albert Hall (music hall), Midland St.

This area was cleared pre-war for new housing and you can see that has not started yet!

The "Hull Brewery".

The "New Theatre".

The "New Theatre".

Bombed out remains of the "Cecil" cinema. It will rise again on a site diagonally across the road junction.

A trolley bus circling the Queen Victoria statue. Is it only Hull that will put a statue of a revered monarch on top of its public toilets? Looks like this trolley is taking the inner circuit so it must be on either a 61, 62 or 63 service.

Bus or Trolley bus? This one has no white stripe across the front because it has a radiator, therefore, it's a bus!

Bus or Trolley bus? This one has a white area or stripe across it's front because it doesn't have a radiator, therefore it's a trolley!

Generating station primarily for the Hull tramway system but it did supply DC current as well to the surrounding area. The ground floor of this building and it's walls (up to about 6 ft.)still survive as an enclosed car park for Telephone House which will be be built at the rear on Carr Lane

William Wilberforce stands proud in the centre of his own traffic island but not for long. With building of the College of Technology, the road will be moved to allow him to stand in the forecourt.

The new city centre police station takes shape. The "Queen's Gardens" station has now only just closed (2014).

The "Tivoli" at the side of who's stage the one and only "Old Mother Riley" dropped dead. Arthur Lucan is buried in Hull's Eastern Cemetery.

The "Regent" cinema, it had "double" or "twin" seats, not that I was old enough to realise what they were for!

Traffic in these days went around the rear of the Cenotaph.

New trawlers being fitted out.

Pre-fabs, what would we have done without them?