Pickering Park is a park in the western suburbs of
Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull, usually shortened to Hull, is a historic maritime city and unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence with the Humber Est ...
, on the north side of Hessle Road, near the former
Kingston High School in
Anlaby
Anlaby is a village forming part of the western suburbs of Kingston upon Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It forms part of the civil parish of Anlaby with Anlaby Common.
History
Anlaby is recorded in the ''Domesday Book'' as " ...
,
East Riding of Yorkshire
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, England.
Description and facilities
Pickering Park is a council run park of with an ornamental and sensory gardens,
aviaries
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, and a playground and paddling pool. Sport facilities at the park are four football pitches, and an 80
peg lake for fishing.
History
The park was opened 13 July 1911, a gift from
Christopher Pickering, a successful trawler owner, and benefactor; part of a
model village
A model village is a mostly self-contained community, built from the late 18th century onwards by landowners and business magnates to house their workers. "Model" implies an ideal to which other developments could aspire. Although the villages ...
development including almshouses and a children's home.
The city's first nautical museum, the ''Museum of Fisheries and Shipping'' opened in Pickering Park in 1912, later to move to the former Hull Dock company offices and become the
Hull Maritime Museum.
The associated almshouses, the former museum (as of 2011 a boxing club), and a related pumping station, are all listed buildings, as are the original iron park gates, which are one of the few early 20th century ornamental iron structures in Hull to have survived the Second World War drive for scrap iron.
References
External links
Pickering Park- Hull City Council
*{{cite web, url=http://www.friendsofpickeringpark.com/, title=The Friends of Pickering Park
Parks and open spaces in Kingston upon Hull