1950's rail map of Hull

[neilgow]

Could anyone point me in the right direction of where I can locate a detailed map of 1950's Hull and its rail network. To include street maps.

Many thanks

NG.

[PinzaC55]

Hi Neil, if you are local the obvious thing to do would be to go the local studies section of the library. They should have a stock of 25" to the mile OS maps from that period.

[Bryan]

Try Old Maps
and type in Kingston upon Hull.

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html

[bricam5]

Neil; I have an old 1952 Ordnance Survey map of Hull.
Sheet 99. It is one inch to the mile so it does'nt go right down to street names.
It shows the, then, rail routes out of the city. It covers from Driffield in the west, Withernsea to the east and Carnaby to the north.

If that is any use to you, then pm me and you can have it.
I don't know where you are located but Browns bookshop down George St. in Hull always have old maps and historical details of Hull and East Riding.

[md644]

Hi Neil - try "East Riding Archive Maps", they are a bit earlier than you need (1855-1927) but depending on what you are looking for they may be of help:

http://treasurehouse.eastriding.gov.uk/default.aspx

(You may need to download and manually install the two plugins shown on the left of the page).

There is a series of republished (1950s) Hull OS maps at a large scale (probably about the same scale as the ones linked above) - again, a bit earler than you need, and I have a feeling they haven't done all of Hull yet. For example:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hull-Hessle-Roa ... 0850541131

Failing that, Hull History Centre would be your best bet:

http://www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk/

[neilgow]

Many thanks for the replies but being south of the M4 does make it a bit awkward to visit the place.

I used to work at the end of Stepney Lane, off Beverley Road, and I have a 1966 memory of freight trains passing by on an nearby embankment and just down Beverley Road was a level crossing. Non, now shown on current maps and it was not the docks line that still crosses Beverley Road.

Thanks anyway.

Rgds

NG.

[md644]

The embankment line at the end of Stepney Lane was (I guess) the branch to Cannon Street station (parallel with Beverley Road). A large bowstring girder bridge carried this over the Victoria Dock branch. A few section of the embankment left and the station gates on Cannon Street (site now part of Hull College)

The level crossing was doubtless Stepney on the Victoria Dock branch line. No sign of the crossing now, but Stepney Station survives tot he west of Beverley Road complete with platforms, the pub across the road is still called "The Station".

Have a look at these pages:

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/b/be ... ndex.shtml

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/s/st ... ndex.shtml

(Scroll down to the maps, Stepney Lane is pretty much dead centre on both.)

[PinzaC55]

Theres a nice photo of disused Beverley Road station in Ken Hoole's book "Railways In Yorkshire 2-The East Riding".

Here's one of my photo's of Stepney station in 1977.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinzac55/3 ... otostream/

And the shattered remains of Botanic Gardens station http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinzac55/3 ... otostream/

[Boris]

Don't forget it's Kingston upon Hull.

[neilgow]

oh ay, it'll allus be 'ull.

Our man from Driffield.

[neilgow]

Many thanks MD644 for the maps, just what I needed.

Thanks to one and all.

NG.

[ten ten]

A bit late! www.rhaywood.karoo.net/bombmap.htm is a detailed map of Hull in the forties,with most if not all street names.

[Solario]

Hi ten ten (Wildebeeste?),

That is a really interesting map for several reasons. It is great for the railway detail but is quite sobering to look at all the bombs that were recorded "dropping on a north east town" (as it was reported during the war).

Not many people realise that Hull suffered, size for size, next to London in the amount of bomb damage. A huge percentage of properties suffered some sort of damage.

As a kid in the early '50s, I remember seeing many buildings shored up with huge baulks of timber, gaps in rows of buildings and hoardings covering up many of the derelict sites.

Solario

[kimballthurlow]

Hi,
An earlier map of Hull (Dairycotes) as it was in 1920 on the wharves, is contained here:
http://www.qldrail.net/lner/hulldairycotes.html

regards
Kimball