| Kingston General Hospital | |
|---|---|
 Sculcoates Union Workhouse from Beverley Road (c. 1913) | |
  Shown in the East Riding of Yorkshire | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Coordinates | 53°45′21″N0°20′48″W / 53.755765°N 0.346649°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS |
| Type | District General |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| History | |
| Opened | 1844 |
| Closed | 2000 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
Kingston General Hospital was an acute general hospital in Kingston upon Hull, England.
The Sculcoates Union Workhouse was built for the Poor law union of Sculcoates in 1844. The building was mostly influenced by the Tudor architectural style in red brick with stone dressings, and had accommodation for 500 paupers. The cost of the building was £11,000. [1] The architect was Henry Francis Lockwood. [2] The front of the building (facing Beverley Road) was 220 feet (67 m) and was particularly ornamented. [1] In the 1860s a fever ward (later an infirmary) was constructed at the rear of the building. [1] [3] The workhouse was extended in 1889 making space for 800. [4] The Sculcoates Union also built homes in Hessle in 1897 for children. [5] It was taken over by Hull Corporation as the Beverley Road Institution in 1930. [4]
The workhouse joined the National Health Service with 310 beds as Kingston General Hospital in 1948. [2] The number of beds was increased to 464 in 1963 after extensive reconstruction. [6] The front range of the workhouse was demolished to make way for a day hospital in the 1970s. [7] The hospital closed in 2000 [8] and the rest of the building was demolished to allow the construction of Endeavour High School in 2001. [2] [9]
The East Riding of Yorkshire, often shortened to the East Riding and alternatively known as East Yorkshire, is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and west, South Yorkshire to the south-west, and Lincolnshire to the south across the Humber Estuary. The city of Kingston upon Hull is the largest settlement.
The River Hull is a navigable river in the East Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England. It rises from a series of springs to the west of Driffield, and enters the Humber Estuary at Kingston upon Hull. Following a period when the Archbishops of York charged tolls for its use, it became a free navigation. The upper reaches became part of the Driffield Navigation from 1770, after which they were again subject to tolls, and the section within the city of Hull came under the jurisdiction of the Port of Hull, with the same result.
Cottingham is a large village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies 4 miles (6.4 km) north-west of the centre of Kingston upon Hull, and 6 miles (9.7 km) south-east of Beverley on the eastern edge of the Yorkshire Wolds. It forms part of Hull's Urban Area. It has two main shopping streets, Hallgate and King Street, which cross each other near the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, and a market square called Market Green. Cottingham had a population of 17,164 residents in 2011, making it larger by area and population than many towns. As a result, it is one of the villages claiming to be the largest village in England.
Dunswell is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, and in the civil parish of Woodmansey.
Endeavour Learning and Skills Centre is a centre operated by Hull Training & Adult Education offering adult education and further education.
The Hull History Centre is an archive and local studies library in Hull, England, that houses the combined collections of both the Hull City Council and Hull University archives and local studies resources. This collaboration between Hull City Council, Hull University, and the Heritage Lottery Fund made Hull the first city in the UK to unite local council and university collections under one roof.
Stoneferry is a suburb of Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was formerly a small hamlet on the east bank of the River Hull, the site of a ferry, and, after 1905, a bridge. The area is primarily industrial, and is situated on the east bank of the river, as well as close by areas on the west bank.
Newland is a suburb of Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in the north-west of the city, a former village on the Hull to Beverley turnpike.
Zachariah Charles Pearson (1821–1891) was an English shipowner, best known today for the gift of land to Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, which was used to establish the City's first public park, later known as Pearson Park.
The fortifications of Kingston upon Hull consisted of three major constructions: the brick built Hull town walls, first established in the early 14th century, with four main gates, several posterngates, and up to thirty towers at its maximum extent; Hull Castle, on the east bank of the River Hull, protecting Hull's river harbour, constructed in the mid 16th century and consisting of two blockhouses and a castle connected by a curtain wall; and the later 17th century Citadel, an irregular triangular, bastioned, primitive star fort replacing the castle on the east river bank.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Stepney is an area of Kingston upon Hull within the larger area of Sculcoates, north of the city centre on the (A1079) Beverley-Hull main road. Before the mid-19th century the place was a small hamlet outside the urban area of Kingston upon Hull.
The Hull Trinity House, locally known as Trinity House, is a seafaring organisation consisting of a charity for seafarers, a school, and a guild of mariners. The guild originated as a religious guild providing support and almshouses for the needy, and established a school for mariners in 1787. By the 18th century it had responsibilities including management of the harbour at Hull, and buoys and pilotage in the Humber Estuary.
Hull General Cemetery was established by a private company in 1847 on Spring Bank in the west of Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. In 1862 the Hull Corporation established a cemetery adjacent, now known as Western Cemetery, and in c. 1890 expanded the cemetery west across Chanterlands Avenue onto an adjacent site.
Sculcoates power station supplied electricity to Kingston upon Hull and the wider East Yorkshire area from 1898. An earlier 1893 station in Dagger Lane had operated public lighting in Hull Old Town. Sculcoates power station was built and operated by Kingston upon Hull Corporation on a site in Sculcoates Lane adjacent to the Beverley and Barmston Drain. The power station was increased in size as demand for electricity grew, it was redeveloped several times: including major rebuilds in 1927–29 and in 1938–1952. The power station was closed in 1976 and was subsequently demolished.
Bethel Jacobs (1812–1869) was born in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, becoming a prominent member of Hull's Jewish community, and highly regarded in the Town's civic circles. A successful silversmith and polymath who lived in a large house on George Street, he was son of jeweller and synagogue president Israel Jacobs, and son-in-law to Joseph Lyon, president of the rival synagogue. He married Esther Lyon in 1836, by whom he had 14 children. He died of liver disease in 1869 age 57, and was given a major public funeral. Amongst many talented descendents, his son Charles M. Jacobs constructed under-river tunnels in New York and Paris.
