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Almost retired, resident of France, native of East Yorkshire, teacher, blogger, artist. Gay Jewish Viking with CPTSD. #Hull #lgbtq #Yorkshire
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Andy @andyinfrance2.bsky.social · 2d
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The Church of the Ascension, 110 Calvert Road, Hull, 1958 hullarchiteecture.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/t...
The Church of the Ascension, 110 Calvert Road, Hull, 1958
The Church of the Ascension is a modest, post-war Anglican parish church built in red brick, with a low-pitched gable roof and simple rectangular massing. The façade is symmetrical and unornamented…
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Andy @andyinfrance2.bsky.social · 6d
Flats, 46-60 Dayton Road, Hull, Mid-twentieth Century hullarchiteecture.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/f...
Flats, 46-60 Dayton Road, Hull, Mid-twentieth Century
A three-storey red-brick residential block with a shallow pitched roof and a symmetrical, linear footprint. The façade is rhythmically divided into horizontal strips for windows, each containing wh…
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Andy @andyinfrance2.bsky.social · 10d
Housing on Priory Road Estate, Hull, circa 1933* hullarchiteecture.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/h...
Housing on Priory Road Estate, Hull, circa 1933*
1933 HDM The Priory Road Estate was a popular housing development featuring two-storey red-brick terraces with projecting bay windows and small fenced front gardens. The homes were built for modern…
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Andy @andyinfrance2.bsky.social · 10d
Semi Detached Houses, 29-31 Ferriby Road, Hessle, 1900* hullarchiteecture.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/s...
Semi Detached Houses, 29-31 Ferriby Road, Hessle, 1900*
Nos. 29 and 31 Ferriby Road, built around 1900 and noted by Pevsner for their “shaped gables and eccentric facades, with a mixture of discordant features including ogee-heads to the top windows,” f…
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Andy @andyinfrance2.bsky.social · 10d
The Abbey, 141 Coronation Road North, Hull, 1966 hullarchiteecture.wordpress.com/2025/10/04/t...
The Abbey, 141 Coronation Road North, Hull, 1966
In December 1966, Hull Brewery opened The Abbey on Coronation Road North, the company’s first new public house since the war. The name was chosen to suggest local history and tradition, while the d…
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Andy @andyinfrance2.bsky.social · 10d
Padstow House, Padstow Close, Bransholme, Hull, date unknown* hullarchiteecture.wordpress.com/2025/10/04/p...
Padstow House, Padstow Close, Bransholme, Hull, date unknown*
Padstow House is a tall residential tower with a modernised exterior, clad in alternating panels of light turquoise and white that give the building a clean, geometric rhythm. The structure rises i…
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Andy @andyinfrance2.bsky.social · 10d
Roebank Shopping Arcade, Bodmin Road, Hull, 1969* hullarchiteecture.wordpress.com/2025/10/04/r...
Roebank Shopping Arcade, Bodmin Road, Hull, 1969*
I love this oddly retro precinct style shopping centre. The earliest mention I can find is from 1969. Roebank Shopping Arcade is a low, single-storey commercial block built in brown stretcher-bond …
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Andy @andyinfrance2.bsky.social · 11d
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Andy @andyinfrance2.bsky.social · 12d
Bodmin Road Church, Padstow Close, Hull,1968 hullarchiteecture.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/b...
Bodmin Road Church, Padstow Close, Hull,1968
Bodmin Road Church opened in November 1968, during the earliest phase of Bransholme’s development in Hull. It was built by members of the Lee Smith Street Gospel Mission, whose original building on…
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Andy @andyinfrance2.bsky.social · 12d
erriby House, 5 High Street, North Ferriby, 1770 hullarchiteecture.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/e...
erriby House, 5 High Street, North Ferriby, 1770
Ferriby House, now the North Ferriby Nursing Home, was built between 1760 and 1770 for Sir Henry Etherington, a wealthy merchant and shipowner who later became Lord Mayor of Hull in 1770. The house…
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Andy @andyinfrance2.bsky.social · 14d
Georgian Townhouse, 24 Albion Street, Hull, 1790* hullarchiteecture.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/g...
Georgian Townhouse, 24 Albion Street, Hull, 1790*
No. 24 Albion Street, Hull, is a town house from around 1790, now adapted as a shop and dental surgery. Built of brick with painted ashlar dressings and a slate roof, it presents a three-storey faç…
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Andy @andyinfrance2.bsky.social · 14d
Detached Villa, 38 Southfields, Hessle, circa 1867* hullarchiteecture.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/d...
Detached Villa, 38 Southfields, Hessle, circa 1867*
Southfield Villa at No. 38 Southfield, Hull, is a two-storey yellow brick mid-Victorian villa, likely built in 1862 as part of the development of Southfield as a modest, respectable suburban street…
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Andy @andyinfrance2.bsky.social · 17d
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Andy @andyinfrance2.bsky.social · 18d
Corner Building, Park Grove and 61 Park Road Hull, late Victorian* hullarchiteecture.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/c...
Corner Building, Park Grove and 61 Park Road Hull, late Victorian*
The house at the corner of Park Road and Park Grove in Hull is a traditional late Victorian or early Edwardian terrace, but its corner position gives it a slightly different layout from its neighbo…
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Andy @andyinfrance2.bsky.social · 18d
Georgian Town Houses, 6, 7 and 8 Wright Street, Hull, 1823* hullarchiteecture.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/g...
Georgian Town Houses, 6, 7 and 8 Wright Street, Hull, 1823*
These three attached houses (now offices and shops) date from around 1823* (tbc) and were later altered in the mid-19th and 20th centuries. Built of brick with painted ashlar dressings and artifici…
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Andy @andyinfrance2.bsky.social · 18d
The Brickhouse, former Victorian church schoolroom and lecture hall, Baker Street, Hull, 1867 hullarchiteecture.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/t...
The Brickhouse, former Victorian church schoolroom and lecture hall, Baker Street, Hull, 1867
Nos. 41–43 Baker Street in Kingston upon Hull is a striking example of mid-Victorian institutional architecture, built in 1867 as a church schoolroom and lecture hall for the Albion Independent (Co…
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Andy @andyinfrance2.bsky.social · 18d
Ann Watson College, College Street, Sutton, Hull, 1816 and 1865 hullarchiteecture.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/a...
Ann Watson College, College Street, Sutton, Hull, 1816 and 1865
The Ann Watson College for the widows and daughters of clergymen stands on College Street, with its original north-facing block of seven bays built in 1816 and a rounded south addition of 1864–65. …
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Andy @andyinfrance2.bsky.social · 18d
Dunedin House 45 Percy Street, Hull, 1979 hullarchiteecture.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/d...
Dunedin House 45 Percy Street, Hull, 1979
Dunedin House is a purpose-built three-storey office building occupying the corner of Albion Street and Percy Street. The only date of construction I have is 1979 but could be inaccurate. The groun…
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Andy @andyinfrance2.bsky.social · 18d
Row of Georgian Houses, 1-9 Jarratt Street, Hull, 1803* hullarchiteecture.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/r...
Row of Georgian Houses, 1-9 Jarratt Street, Hull, 1803*
Built c.1800 as part of Hull’s Georgian New Town, the Jarratt Street terrace is a cohesive row of late Georgian houses, later adapted in the mid-19th and late 20th centuries. Constructed in brick w…
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Andy @andyinfrance2.bsky.social · 18d
1960s shops 10-12 Albion Street, up to Prospect Street, Hull, 1961* hullarchiteecture.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/1...
1960s shops 10-12 Albion Street, up to Prospect Street, Hull, 1961*
This large building straddles the corner of Albion street, from 10 to 12 , and wraps round the corner onto Prospect Street, where it once housed Fine Fare. The numbers stop after 12 after which the…
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Andy @andyinfrance2.bsky.social · 20d
British Gas Light Company, now "Fuel", 6 Baker Street, Hull, 1879 and 1910 hullarchiteecture.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/b...
British Gas Light Company, now “Fuel”, 6 Baker Street, Hull, 1879 and 1910
Built in 1879 with a matching extension in 1910, this former gas company headquarters is a striking two-storey ashlar and brick building with garrets, now converted to pub use. Its frontage is stro…
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Andy @andyinfrance2.bsky.social · 20d
former Richard Baker’s Stables, 1 Union Street, Hull, late 1700s* hullarchiteecture.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/f...
former Richard Baker’s Stables, 1 Union Street, Hull, late 1700s*
The former Richard Baker’s Stables on Union Street are an 18th-century survival with strong ties to Hull’s mercantile past. Built in the late 1700s, with alterations in the late 19th century and ca…
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