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Everything looked so rosy. A bright future ahead. Where did it all go so wrong...?

A marvellous look back, thanks for sharing...

Brilliant!

Gonna be 2stroke scooters and rickshaws in 20yrs.

Good luck+!#

Ah yes I remember East Park so well....went as an 8 year old boy on the bus clutching a toy yacht. Launching the boat, promptly fell in so someone had to phone my Dad to come and collect me. Happy days (sort of). Lovely park mind you!

Brighter future my arse.

What an enormous amount of planning and organising must have been entailed in the reconstruction. Gotta doff my hat to all those involved, cos it's so easy to take it all for granted. Though they still haven't fixed the National cinema in Beverley Road...!

Great news. Thank you from Australia.

Fantastic thanks

3:26 Does anybody recognize what street this is?

Excellent and informative !!

George F Holmes the etchings artist referred to above - is in fact George Foster Holmes born Hornsea 1860 died 1940 at Hessle - son of the prominent Hull industrialist Thomas Barton Holmes - he was a director of the Holmes Hall Tannery business (famous for Mantan) , designer and originator of the Humber Yawl sailing vessel , founder of the Humber Yawl Club at Brough and subject of an excellent recent biography "Holmes of the Humber" in addition he was an accomplished marine artist specialising in etchings and some watercolours. His subjects mainly covered inland waterways but he also travelled abroad and there are etchings of the Port of Antwerp, Hamburg and Bruges. He was , in 2015, subject of a special exhibition by East Riding Council at the main library in Beverley.

My great uncle. My grandfather worked alongside him conducting all electrical work. Both men served in WW1 on the Western Front and were pragmatic men. not ones mired in detail. They possibly over trusted others’ competence at times. Not a bad trait but a risky one.

I'm sure this is interesting, but I can't hear it without turning the volume up so high that when an advert came on, it almost popped my ears and speakers

The audio is very quiet - too quiet to watch the video.

Given By The Grace of GOD = I am sure also Is Edward the 8ths? So still Hulls History & its links to the Monastic Catholic Monks who Built the area & Ministries, still to this day are heavily embroiled & ordered by Royalty & Royal Monies that Hull Really Never Had a Chance because of. Also Heavily illuminated Charters Reeks of Round Table, Rotary, Masonic, Royal Chartered Power that through their own share holding greed from the early riverside Merchants would of course always leave a massive defersit to Hulls Loss, that still to this day we are Paying through the Nose for. So from the Marketing grazing fields of Old Summergangs that once was.~~~~~~~

I always thought they were ducal coronets???

Compared to the cretins that influence the shape of this city now, he MUST have been a hero. The villains are alive and kicking today 👍

Thanks you. Very informative. I look forward to the next episode

These pictures brought back many vivid memories for me. As a youngster I was often taken into Hull by my mother during this period. The city center had been devastated. Amongst the ruins I can remember a ruined church on King Edward Street and the bombed remains of Hammonds. Very few shops were still trading. The picture at 8:10 of the bombed Barclays building is particularly poignant as 12 years later the building had been rebuilt and my girlfriend started her first job there. By then the city center had come back to life and was a vibrant place to live and work.

I remember visiting an "aunt" who lived on Eastmount estate in the 90's and she said that the place had been open fields and informal pasture before the war, she grew up in a house not far from there on "Holderness highroad" I used to be cheeky and just called it "Holderness road"

Fab! 🏙

Enjoying these videos 👍

A very solid run-through of the city's post war regeneration. Perhaps a "talking head" format would enliven the presentation somewhat (with the right presenter of course!). Photos etc could still be used. What came across to me was the sheer scale of physical, social and economic regeneration that was required. And the very proactive role that the City Council took, necessitated by the fact that the country was bankrupt and really exhausted after 6 years of war. It's difficult to imagine local government today being in a position to take such a leading role. I'm very fortunate to possess a copy of the Lutyens/Abercrombie plan. Its an amazing piece of work, considering that it was commissioned whilst the war was still raging and completed very soon after its end. It was more a plan for much of the East Riding, not just the city, and took the role of the city's rural hinterland very seriously. It was very ambitious. With hindsight, clearly very overly-ambitious, but it conveyed the spirit of post-war optimism and was never intended to be a rigid blueprint. The Foreword, by the then Alderman J L Schultz (later Alderman Sir Leo Schultz, Leader of the City Council in the 1960s), acknowledges that "Few of us will see the completion of the plan. But may we point out the road to a destiny that will be not unworthy of the great victory that the heroism and faith of our people has helped to secure." The style of design it envisaged looks very dated now, but the city would have been a grander and more spacious place if more of it had been implemented. It's a shame, but unsurprising, that most of the proposals floundered amid vested interests and lack of money and ambition.

I spent the majority of my apprenticeship working around Stoneferry. Happy times a long time ago.

Given the early Baltic connections, I've always wondered about the similarities in colour and form with the Swedish coat of arms?

Really interesting! I'd suggest the videos would be improved if you start or tease the main points of interest in the first minute of the video (and the title).

I hope I too will be remembered for my waggery.

Loving these videos!

Fascinating, thank you. I grew up in Aldbrough but had no idea there was a castle there. That said it makes sense if the name derives from Auld Burgh which is just a guess. I'd love you to a video on that.

Never before heard of Bransholme Castle, but remember visiting Castle Hill primarily to fish in the Holderness Drain. Sometimes wondered why Castle Hill was so named.