Historical makeover for main road
MORE Victorian-style iron railings, gates and stone plinths are set to make a comeback along one of Hull’s main roads.
Many original boundary features outside properties in Beverley Road have disappeared over the years. Almost all the railings were removed to help the war effort in the 1940s.
Historians have subsequently claimed only around a quarter of the iron work was actually reused in the manufacture of munitions, with the rest simply ending up being dumped in council depots or railway sidings.
Now, six sites have been earmarked for boundary restoration work worth £250,000.
The cost of the work outside a total of 15 properties is being split between Hull City Council and the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
It forms the latest project in the Beverley Road Townscape Heritage Scheme, which aims to restore some of the road’s longneglected historic features.
The works include repairs to stone plinths, the reinstatement of railings, gate posts and gates outside Kingston Youth Centre, new railings and gates infront of two nearby terraces and new timber fencing at the former Stepney Station.
There will also be new railings and gates to enclose an open plot of land between Pendrill Street and Station Drive and stone plinths and railings will reappear outside Beverley Road Baths.
The work outside the oldest public swimming pool in Hull will also see a replacement for a missing balustrade on one side of the building’s southern staircase being installed.