161 High Street
East of Hailar
Limestone on the narrow gauge
Power station sunset
Forge Lane crossing
Drypool Bridge
The Pillars of Monaghan
Crossing the tank
Thoresby Colliery
North Bridge, River Hull
Logging sunset
The face of Crewe
Wilmington swing bridge, River Hull
Tuzla
Outside looking out
Richard Johnson, Clapham & Morris Ltd
Womens hostel
Saltend Chemicals Park
Burniston limekiln
Retort bench
A reason for bad language
Whiting mill
Passing Victoria Mill
Kellingley Colliery
Baslow Colliery
West Burton Power Station
Scarborough - police box
Oh yes!
Studley Park kiln
Thoresby - the end
Hatfield Colliery RIP
Limeburning
Winter gala
Departing Yue Jin Qiao
Night time on shed
Running round at Huanan
Kimmeridge Oil
Vulcan farewell
Harworth Colliery
Kilroot Power Station
New Sovereign
Worsley Turn
A Midsummer Night's Tram
Police Box
The Monton lighthouse
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Civic pride
As Kingston-upon-Hull was rapidly expanding in the second half of the nineteenth century one expression of municipal pride was the erection of a number of public fountains including a number in the middle of wide streets which comprised a cascade with several levels suported by herons above and mermaids with conch shells bvelow. Located in a ‘circus’ at the junction of Boulevard, Cholmley Street and Gordon Street this Avenue style fountain was constructed c.1871 and was described in Sheperdson’s Guide to Hull in 1875 as: - ‘about midway [of Boulevard] there is a large circular space with a colossal fountain in the centre’. It was very similar but not exactly the same, as the fountains along Prince's Avenue.
All of the fountains were prone to traffic accidents it seems and the Boulevard fountain was no exception; on the 27th August 1924 the fountain was hit by a car and was removed soon after. As the regeneration and conservation of the Boulevard area has taken place in the past few years a campaign to have a new fountain in the Boulevard was successful and in 2008 a fine new - and working - fountain was erected. This was cast by Durham Foundry (Sheffield) Ltd, using ductile iron to allow welding of the various sections. I think it looks great.
All of the fountains were prone to traffic accidents it seems and the Boulevard fountain was no exception; on the 27th August 1924 the fountain was hit by a car and was removed soon after. As the regeneration and conservation of the Boulevard area has taken place in the past few years a campaign to have a new fountain in the Boulevard was successful and in 2008 a fine new - and working - fountain was erected. This was cast by Durham Foundry (Sheffield) Ltd, using ductile iron to allow welding of the various sections. I think it looks great.
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