History of Hull: Parks - East Park
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- Опубликовано: 9 окт 2021
- The history of one of Hull's oldest, and certainly Hull's largest, public park! Built alongside West Park in the 1880s and opened in 1887, East Park looms large in the childhood memories of generations of Hull residents!
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Hi. Another great trip down memory lane. I went to malet lambert school. Until 1971.then started work at Hammonds. Like you spent a long day in the park. Great times.. Thank you for the video.... Glen.... 😊😊😊😊
We used to holiday in Hull in the 60s and early 70s staying with my Dad’s auntie in Westcott st so East Park is a huge part of the joys of my childhood.
The swing park to the right f the entrance on Summergangs was a particular favourite.
Still remember being terrified by the peacocks.
Thank you for showing your love of this wonderful place.
The times I walk over that bridge to mally, I lived off Southcoates ave, I got caned for throwing bangers in the goldfish pond, which was in the secret garden bit, fished in the lake, had a go on the speed boats, twaged off school in the bushes, next to the splash boat, and my mates mam own one of the couple of shops on the corner of East Park ave so I got a free pop, climbed them Rockies, played tennis on the courts, and later years played a game of balls with me dad, visited on Hull show days, and collected loads of useless leaflets, happy days, I must have a walk round soon....thanks for these memory's you brought back
Oh wow, you did east park ,thank you ! I’m not a native so never went to this park as a child, but I love this park so much and 15 years in east Hull has ingrained it as part of my life 😁
East Park was such a huge part of my childhood with so many happy memories. Thank you for this video, I had no idea that it had such an interesting history behind it :)
Neither did I until I started researching the city's parks! Once again, made me look at things I'd known since childhood with new wonder, like the Khyber Pass!
Another well produced look at the history of Hull.
I was so lucky to grow up round the park in the '70s and early '80s. I even had a bedroom on Summergangs looking over the park, right up to the point where I left home - and Hull - in 1984.
Thanks again for another walk down memory lane. During my research of my family history I found an article describing the construction of East Park and the fact that the unemployed workers of the town employed in its construction so unfit through starvation and deprivation that workers from the East Riding, farm labourers and the like were brought in to finish the project. I do not think people are aware of how hard times were at the turn of the 20th century when we were at the zenith of Empire.
Thank you, this video brought back many childhood memories from visits to my Grandparents on Abbey Street. A walk down Holderness Road to East Park meant a ride in the motor boats, although the first stop was always the "Splash Boat". Back at my grandparents house I would spend many an hour at the attic window watching the trains to and from Withernsea at Southcoates Station as well as the shunters in the many sidings around the station which served the wood yards in the area. One of the yards {Hollis if i remember correctly) had funny vehicles on long legs which carried stacks of wood between the legs.
When I was very little, about 3 until I was about 4, my mum and I lived on Brazil Street and I had no idea that there was a whole bunch of abandoned railway stuff around there. I still remember the used car lots and billboards that, I realise now, were there to cover up the decaying station building and wasteland behind them!
Watching from Hong Kong. Brings back so many memories. Playing on the Rocks, the Splash Boat and the Lido.
I really love that there are so many Hull folk all over the world who watch these videos and are reminded of happy memories! That's certainly not something I ever expected when I started the channel, but it's awesome nonetheless.
As a non native of Hull it’s great to discover the rich and fascinating history of my adopted locale, especially from such an well researched source and eloquent guide.
Also - “Alpacalypse” 🤣🤣🤣
Just be glad I didn't also shove the llamageddon in there too this time!
@@hullhistorynerd 🤣🤣
another fine gem east park remember the animals the splash boat and the little cruise boat and feeding the ducks and swans the one thing that happens now that i live in lancashire is my memories of hull get stronger and your videos really help thank you
Loved watching this. I still go often. .remember the lido and going on the lake when is froze
Interesting, East Park, somewhere I've always wanted to visit.
I have fond memories of East park from my years at Mallet Lambert high school 92-96, remember the lake freezing over and someone parked an old mini on it! Ooh and the old lido buildings remaining in 95 smooching my girlfriend round the back of the graphitied walls and a teacher catching us 🤣 hated running around the boating lake for the mandatory cross country run too
Love your feed mate, great work
Hull born family still live there but I now live in Norfolk great to know the history of my home city
Alpacalypse! 😁 I love your humorous asides.
At least this time out I didn't drag the Llamageddon joke out...
Excellent! I loved going to East Park as a chid - especially loved the splash boat and playing on The Rocks 😊
Wonderful. Fond memories as I lived 10 mins walk away. Splash boat, model boats, bonfire night, rockery favourite memories from 65 years ago.
Just been introduced to this channel today and I can not wait to catch up on your content
Welcome to the channel, and I hope you enjoy what you see!
Very nice film! The 'alpacalypse' reference did not escape our notice..
I like my running gags, what can I say?
Having been a student, I never ventured into East Hull. I do vaguely remember the animals in that park though. There is a still functioning Splash Boat in Wicksteed Park in Kettering.
On behalf of my daring Mary (Hull born and bred) and myself, thank you, and we hope we have passed the audition!
Another nostalgic winner, Jamie.
You never fail to 'hit the spot'. To you and yours, from me and mine.
Stay free. Rab 🍻 😎 🌠
Edit: I must admit, Pearson Park has extra special remembrances re Mary and me (Autumn 1971, when we first met, via serendipity, at hallowed Pearson Park.) R 💚
I enjoyed this enormously, having been a student at Malet Lambert in the early '60s. I lived on De Grey Street, just off Beverley Road, so had to get a bus to Paragon followed by another bus to the street that leads to park. I walked past the water slide and over the bridge twice a day, except during the bitterly cold winter (1963?) when everyone walked over the pond. The ice was at least 3ft thick.
Another lovely video, thanks. Having moved to Leeds 30 years ago I haven't seen East Park in a very long time and you video brought back all sorts of memories seeing it again. I'm particularly pleased to see that the splashboat still exists - even though I only dared go on it once :)
I remember East Park before those brutalist gates. There was just a metre-high red brick gateway, with no actual gates (they might've been pinched for the war effort). Instead, there were just chains, which the park keeper padlocked across the entrances every night. I'd forgotten about the model yacht pond's clubhouse though...
Thank you for a wonderful informative video done in a relaxed manor, with a wonderful Hull accent thrown in for free. The duck food you could buy wasn’t that much fun as a youngster it would either sink to the bottom of the pond, or the ducks were far more interested in bread, can remember a greedy Canadian goose attacking me as a small boy and put me off ever wanting to feed the ducks again!
Those geese terrified me as a kid after one nipped my fingers going for a piece of bread!
Thanks for that. As a Hull boy growing up on Preston Road (now in Australia) in the 70's and 80's the park was a major part of my childhood. The lido in the 80's was also an amateur boxing club which was a great use. Looking forward to visiting it later in the summer.
another great video brought back so many memories i am 74 now but watching your video i was back at school,thanks brian d.
Interesting. My Nan & Granddad had a house on Ings road, so the park was just round the corner. Memories from the very early 80s there, including being told I could watch the Lord Mayors parade from the corner, but well i followed it into the park, found some free army cadet stickers, sold them for a penny to people and the Police found a very happy kid with a big bag of sweets wandering home from the corner shop!
Very enterprising!
Very informative and well presented, many memories of the Lido as a child and now I'm lucky enough to live near East Hulls green gem.
Marvellous video! My childhood playground! We called the rocks “Rockies”! I also went to Malet, now that is a building well worth a video??? Many happy Saturdays spent at the Lido, and winters on the ice of the lake….we had “proper” winters then!! Thankyou for bringing back happy memories!! 👍👍
I relived plenty of my own happy childhood memories making this video, believe me, it was a pleasure!
Informative and entertaining as always.
Very interesting, love the history of Hull thanks
Sitting here in New Zealand's South Island, watching you walking around a very special place in my heart. Are the bowling greens still there?
They are indeed, still in that corner of the Old Park where they've been for about a hundred years now!
I too remember the gates. They seemed in keeping with the zeitgeist, or leaning towards Americana even then.. They are reflected in some of the University buildings, I seem to remember..
Great video and memories of the rocks and the splash boat. Do I remember wallabies there in the early 80s?
Certainly do, me too! They still have them in the new animal compound!
Another exellent episode, memories of running along the walls and splash boat, have recently took my own children on the boat when it was open briefly...still great fun
Lots of memories for lots of people in that park, myself included!
Literally clicked the like button before I even clicked start, always enjoy HHN videos.
Thank-you for this video - I've been waiting to see how East Park had faired since I last visited, but a special thank-you for making mention of the gates from RAF Sutton on Hull. As a former cadet of 152 City of Hull Sqn ATC I can remember when the Sqn was based on the fast-disappearing remnants of the station before moving to East Park Barracks, over the road from the Holderness Road entrance to the park.
Mick Ronson finally gets a mention, that guy is a legend to many of us, best guitarist in the world ever in my opinion. How about a short video on his life story?
Well, I do have a series of videos about Hull's famous historical figures planned...
Another great video.
Another well presented video :)
nice work,thanks
Beautiful memories .
Great video!
I always wondered what was going on with the weird rocky paddling pool/water feature opposite the cafe though
I’m a West Hull lad but found it really interesting. Keep up the good work HHN
Another good video have some nice memories of the park ,as a side point mum met dad while he was stationed at Sutton after he came back from Egypt to do his advanced fire fighting the rest is history as they say
great stuff
An alpacalypse haha. I love these videos!
Great video.
Living just opposite I know what a great asset East Park is. Long may it be so.
I'm so glad I have come across your videos. Love them. Would love to see you do a video about James Reckitt and Garden Village history.
I've had the idea of an episode on Garden Village and James Reckitt for a while now, I need to do some more reading on it and see if I can put something together!
@@hullhistorynerd Excellent. I studied this Gentleman and what he did for his workers as part of my degree. Very very intresting fellow. Wish we had more people like him today. Look forward to seeing the video.
@@hullhistorynerd Also Rank Hovis is another intresting fellow.
@@hullhistorynerd If you do, remember there was a BOCM garden village too (Broadway, Bowling Green, Seafield Ave ) - just across the road from East Park.
We called it "The Rockies" - Where did those gates go? Why? Don't recall them closed.
In winter it seemed like all the pupils from Mally would play on the frozen lake. I know it wasn't too deep but, still, I'm surprised the school allowed it. That watchtower was used as more than a urinal!
As ever another great interesting video, beautiful park is East park too. As your main interest is the railways, have you done hull's goods line video yet, there's a video from the cabs pov all the way from saltend.
I have, check out the History of Hull: Railways episode 6 - the Hull and Barnsley Railway!
thanks mr hull history nerd. good to learn that the alpaca numbers are kept down 10:37. let's hope they don't introduce any lamas as that could lead to lamageddon :) love the music yo use for these too - mysterious and a little foreboding. i learned a lot there. good subject. thanks again.
Ragnarockies.
I absolutely agree about the brutalist entrance. Ugly but iconic and somewhat perplexing. I always wondered, as a child, why the walls were like that.
I grew up in Hull and enjoy your videos. Can I suggest, as a fellow RUclips content provider, that you use photos instead of old maps for your thumbnails? The maps are all but identical to someone just browsing their newsfeed. Photos might attract more views😊
You make a very good point that Kate has been trying to get me to acknowledge for a while now. There may well be a change coming in the near future on this front!
No, use photos if you like but, please, keep the maps
@@johnraggett7147 I agree, maps add context.
Maybe.
Drone footage too.
But keep the maps. - I love em.
In fact maps with as little to obscure them and old ones morphing into progressively more recent ones would be great to see - especially in a piece on Sutton village/Tweendykes Road where I grew up.
(Orchards, farms, abandoned mansions, cricket fields, old aerodrome, Medieval footpaths, hidden Alleys, Playing fields, toboggan hill, blacksmith etc.)
Being a West Parker I enjoyed this episode more than expected. I have vague memories of East Park having been there several times as a child with my gran in the 50's. Pleased to see that in the intervening years and in the successful regeneration, this park is in rather better shape than I imagined. I still have a vague itch for the past, and although I never saw one here, a brass band would be just the ticket. A modern audience would no doubt blanch at the idea, but a brass band made a park in my view, and I would love to have been around in their heyday...
Brilliant episode. Another irresistible HHN video. Looking forward to a West Park follow-up. Perhaps even a Pickering Park and the tiny Peter Pan park at some future time...?
Pickering and West Parks most certainly have episodes coming, as well as the old Botanical Gardens, which were Hull's first landscaped park!
I was a West Park lad and we seldom went to East Park but the splashboat was the highlight when we did.
I hadn't been to West Park for years but I had to go to the stadium for my jab not so long back and I walked through the park and barely recognised it tbh. I suppose change is inevitable, but still. I noted the Carnegie library building was still there but I don't know it's purpose now. Also, the police box which I remember as a kid mainly being used by traffic wardens...it's a hairdresser's shop now.
@@hullhistorynerd 1,800 views in 3 days thats awesome, well done,
I seem to remember as a kid that one or two of the plants in our own garden *may* have been ‘borrowed’ from East Park. Different times, wouldn’t condone such things nowadays 😬 Happy memories though, feeding the ducks was always a pleasure, and yes; that turret from the Citadel always had an interesting smell about it!!
Feeding the ducks is a pleasure until a huge gang of angry geese decides *they* want the food. They used to terrify me when I was little!
@@hullhistorynerd oh, the geese, I’d forgotten about them! They were terrible 🤣
Just like my local parks Victoria Park Wanstead Park etc like you we sadly lost our huge lido..once asvantage we gave is Wanstead Park is excstately hone as big Versaille at its peak us part of the park is enclosed medieval forest Park of Epping Forest part if the great Essex Forest used by elizaeth the 1st..so that part is original pristine forest..
Hey Hull History Nerd I've just watched this video for the first time ☺️ At the end you make reference to the gates taken from RAF Sutton on Hull , so as someone who grew up living in Sutton Gardens in an ex RAF house can you do a history on it please ?? I know North Point shopping centre sits on what was the airfield site but other than that I know very little.
Thanks Hull History Nerd as ever a brilliant watch ☺️
Sadly there isn't a lot of info about RAF Sutton, I'm afraid, and I generally stay clear of modern military history anyway for the most part as it's not really my thing. It will get a mention in next year's List Villages of Hull: Sutton episode, and hopefully I can find a little more about it during my research!
@@hullhistorynerd hey thanks for the reply ☺️ !! Anything would be much appreciated I love all your stuff .
Thank you Jamie & Kate for all your videos as hully gullies we find them very informative about our birth place and its vast history. I also remember going on the splash boat in the 60,s as Paul B suggested now & then photos would i think make your videos better content
if you look at a you tuber called ADVENTURE ME a fellow yorkie to get a idea of the now and then photos blending together idea.
I do follow AdventureMe, really enjoyed his recent videos on Ravenscar, which is a destination on one of my future Lost Railways videos! I'm currently looking at alternatives for thumbnails that make them distinctive but different.
Made me feel slightly melancholy this one Jim . memories
Great vid. Could you do one about hull fair? There must be tons of intersting stories about it
Filming Hull Fair is a tricky one, I'm not too thrilled by crowds at the best of times, even less so when I'm carrying video gear! Add into that the covid situation (even though I'm double jabbed, I'm still at risk of getting it worse than most for various reasons) and this year wasn't a great time for me to film anything about the Fair. I suspect I'll have to do it during the day when everything is closed in another year!
@@hullhistorynerd I wouldnt have thought you could do all the research in one day! Next year, If necessary, we can club together on patron to rent you a pod on the big wheel for the day to do your bits to camera!
@@hullhistorynerd but yeah I wouldnt want to go around with my phone out. I went on Saturday at lunch time and the crowds were reasonably light. It would be intersting to see if the history centre have any copyright free photos of fairs gone by. I also wonder what sort of mad attractions the victorians had there!
Lots of memories of East park I still go to the model boat lake soo if I'm right soo north park is Pearson park but how come there is no south park or was it there for very short time but great information about East park history can't wait for the next video
There's never really been a north or south park; Hull is really separated on an east/west axis rather than a north/south one; what you might call 'south Hull' used to just be 'Hull'!
Telly star too 😀
My visits to this park have always felt like entering a fairytale.
I lived around East park all through my childhood, living down Westminster ave when I was in school at Market Lambert. Feel almost like it's an extension of my garden.
Im almost certain the lido wasn't demolished in the 1980s, at least the indoor pool was still around in the late 90s although it was surrounded by trees and lay abandoned and in a terrible state of disrepair until the regeneration project.
The Peter Pan lake is also still there, only it was bought and is now a private fishing pond owned and operated by willows club.
You might be confusing Willows Pond with the Peter Pan pond, they are different bodies of water; the Peter Pan lake used to be at the top, and slightly to the east of Lake View, but was filled in in 1956, whereas Willow Pond is closer to Tower Grange, and is square rather than oval. If you pause the video when the 1950s OS map comes on screen, you'll see both ponds present. The land where the Peter Pan pond used to be is still within East Park itself.
The Lido was most certainly demolished in 1988, though there may have been rubble or parts of the pools left for a few years afterwards.
@@hullhistorynerd I believe you are right about the willows pond / peter pan pond mixup, thanks for the correction...
However Me and many of my school friends used to frequent the abandoned lido buildings when I attended Malet Lambert in 1996, they were still roofed (mostly) and were still definitely there, long abandoned and occasionally frequented by some homeless people.
I have vivid memories of the building and structure, including an indoor pool? and changing rooms. What I will say it that the long abandoned buildings themselves were entirely surrounded by trees and heavily overgrown foliage and and surrounded by an earth embankment. The outdoor pool WAS indeed filled long before then though.
As far as I can make out, the main outdoor pool was filled in 1988, but the buildings were left in place, in a terrible state of disrepair.
Whoa! So that splash boat was real. I was sure I remembered seeing it when I visited the park in the late 70s as a kid but then started to question if it was real or something I'd dreamt.
Cheers for the trip down memory lane.
Very definitely real!
@@hullhistorynerd It appears so. My Aunt used to live on James Reckitt Avenue back then and I saw it maybe 77-78ish and it looked in a tired state and rather dilapidated, Looks like some money and TLC has been thrown it's way since then.
Yeah, they've been renovating it over the last few years, it's back in full working order once more!
@@hullhistorynerd I need to come back and revisit these places as it must be 35 years since I was last in Hull. Oh! Have you got a visit and maybe a video planned on Hull Fair and it's history?. If so, I'd love to see that.
I was planning a Hull Fair episode before covid, but even though I'm double jabbed now, I still have some vulnerabilities to it so I'm playing it safe. Certainly on the slate for the future, though!
Mine too lived in East Park Ave fab times in the Rockies. There used to be a rock bridge not the metal bridge in the rockies and there was 2 giant wooden gates with spikes on them, never saw them shut but we used to climb up them. Any idea what happened to them?
No idea I'm afraid!
Thank you Hull History Nerd!
Will there be a movie about Pickering Park?
Regards
Certainly will, I'm planning to cover all of the major landscaped parks, including one on the Botanical Gardens, when I can find some decent historical images of it!
Does your avatar purposely make me think I have an eyelash on my screen?
If so bravo!
@@CraigRobinson1979 I'm so glad I'm not the only one who did that...
great episode. what camera do you use?
A combination of a Gopro Hero 7 for most of the walking PTCs and a Fuji X-T3 for the rest.
@@hullhistorynerd thanks, I was also wondering what equipment you use. I use also gopro, but always get that fisheye effect.
@@tiberiusinuk You just have to select Linear in the video options to straighten that out - though that's not always available in some resolutions and frame rate settings.
Do West park or picky park please :)
They are in the pipeline, but not for a few months yet!
Unfortunately, pond weed was introduced into the model boat lake and has completely clogged it up. It's unfit for it's original purpose nowadays. The council add green dye to the water to block light from the weeds but they still thrive. 😞
Ah, the "Pass"...!
Used to spend ages climbing those rocks and fell off more than my fair share, I shouldn't fancy. I remember one time a rock came loose under my foot, I fell from the very top to the bottom and slammed into the ground head first - next thing I remember was three different consultants checking me 8 hours later in HRI
Oof! I came close a couple of times myself, luckily never more than a barked shin or grazed hands though.
@@hullhistorynerd Those were the days...
I seem to recall a few years ago that there was talk of removing them after somebody was very badly injured
@@Trek001 Fencing them off, perhaps, would be better; removing them would be terrible. They're one of the last original features of the Victorian era of the park!
I remember going once with my great aunt (who was a nurse) and going off for a ride on the splash boat. When I came back my aunt (and the inside of her car) were covered in blood. Apparently someone had fallen from the rocks and suffered a compound fracture to their leg, so my aunt had administered first aid whilst they waited for the ambulance to arrive. I remember being very impressed at how matter-of-factly she had dealt with the whole situation and also incredibly proud of her. Weirdly, I don't recall it putting me off playing on the rocks myself!
Doesn't surprise me in the slightest, the carefree way I've seen kids hurl themselves around on those rocks!
What about the large boat that ran down a slipway?
Sadly I couldn't find much about the pleasure boat, certainly nowhere near enough to talk much about it.
Who didn't have a wee in that turret!!
Well, I mean I never did, I couldn't even go in without gagging!
Sad our lido in London was smashed up. WHIPPS CROSS LIDO.
Alpaca-lypse! 😂😂😂😂😂 genius!
Another interesting video, Love how the park has actually expanded over the years rather than shrunk. Ive been to East park a few times and still yet to have found the Ronson memorial !
When did you film this? I did a video of the Wicksteed splash boat in June, it was open then : ruclips.net/video/JxwicckRbUc/видео.html
Thanks again for making another great video.
I filmed it last week, could be the splash boat was only closed because it was midweek, then! The Mick Ronson memorial is just behind the cafe in the middle of the old park.
@@hullhistorynerd Ah yes perhaps its only open at the weekends then. Yes will have to check out the memorial next time.
Are you doing a film about the history of Hull fair?
@@comedyhunter It's on my list of things to do, but even double jabbed I still have some vulnerabilities to covid, so I'm playing it safe this year and avoiding the crowds. To be fair, it's the crowds that put me off filming at Hull Fair before covid anyway! I should just go round it during the day, when it's empty...
@@hullhistorynerd ok, yes only do stuff you feel comfortable doing.
"… alpacalypse"
OH NO YOU DIDN'T?!! 😂
I surely did. Too good an opportunity to miss, like llamaggeddon
Anybody remember the budgies in Boyes?
What has that got to do with East Park ?
Alpacalypse. 😂
The main reason you don’t see model boats anymore is because the main gates are permanently locked ! For some bizarre reason the labor council won’t open them ! Due to their words pollution in the park ! Due to the thousands and thousands of cars that use east park every day .
The decline in model boats in the pond predates the closing of the gates by several decades. I
I'm sure that if people really wanted to use it, they could carry an RC boat the few yards from James Reckitt Avenue!
Hull History Nerd The model boat pond was very popular until the gates were closed . Some model boats are very large and are to big just to carry from the Outer roads, also me included are disabled and have problems getting to the pond . It’s just the council being silly buggers .As usual a few ( the travelers ) have meant the gates are permanently closed, because the council don’t have the balls to prevent them setting up on site . Meanwhile do keep up with the videos. Most enjoyable Tony .
According to a chap I was speaking to who runs Hull Model Boat club if you ask at the local library you will be given a key to access the gates for the pond. No point though as the pond is clogged with weed which is why the club moved away and now uses two other available locations
Hopefully the gates will be open soon , If common sense prevails !
History of Hull: Hull Fair?????
Sadly, whilst I'm double jabbed, I do still have some vulnerabilities to covid so I'm very much avoiding big crowds, outdoors or otherwise, just to be on the safe side! It's definitely on the to-do list, though!