EAW028630 ENGLAND (1950). St Stephen's Church, the Bus Depot and the city centre, Kingston upon Hull, 1950

Air Raid Shelters

Air Raid Shelter

I cannot remember the name of this pub,,, but I use to work down spring st (Hothem electrical) and on leaving to join the air force, I had my leaving do here...circa 1973..can,t remember much about it..

Now the site of Hull College

So much of Hull was destroyed by bombing in WW2 and too much had to be rebuilt.

Star of the West, West Street. Demolished 1997.

Station Hotel, Middle Street/Brook Street. Demolished 1959

Mostly A.E.C. Regent 3's but there are strangers in the camp.

F.R.Scott's ironmongers. This building and the company within still exist and trade here.

"Electricity show rooms".

The A.B.C. "Regal"cinema. By Paragon railway station stood the ABC Regal. Completed 6 weeks ahead of schedule and opening on 26 January 1934, the vast Regal Cinema with 2,553 seats in stalls and single balcony, was the centrepiece of a £95,000 development mixing leisure, retail and office units. Three years after opening it was acquired by Associated British Cinemas (ABC) on 8 November 1937. In 1989, amid talks of closure the ABC was renamed Cannon, before finally closing 29 June 1989. The building was demolished in 2004, to make way for the St Stephens development.

Duggleby's model shop.

To catch a bus in these times, you had to weave between all these arriving buses and across the roadway, to gain the stands where they loaded. I don't remember hearing about anyone being "knocked down".

The entrance and exit to the railway station to and from the bus station was here.

Here was to have been an ice skating arena. It was finally built some 80 years later and about a mile to the right of this site.

Hull has always had a thing about towers on the top of buildings. This is the City Registrar's offices and at the other side of the building, in Trippett Street, the motor vehicle documents (Road tax, driving licences etc) office.

Trolleybus inbound from Holderness Road is about to circuit the city centre. From here in Saville Street, around the outer circuit in Queen Victoria Square, Carr Lane, a short distance down Anlaby Road and then a right turn into Fernsway before the final right turn into Jamieson Street.

Trolleybus on route 64 will be heading for Holderness Road when it has collected it's passengers from the terminus stop in Jamieson Street.

Pre-fabs, what would post war Britain have done without them?

Hull Brewery Ales.

Mortal remains of badly bombed St.Stephen's church. Not due to last much longer.

Household coal drops

Penna's Icecream

#70 trolley bus awaits to depart for the Hessle Road.

Nothing out of the ordinary in 1950 is this horse and rully.