Hull After the War: 1945-1951 (Stories from the Strongrooms)

Welcome to the latest in our Stories from the Strongrooms. This month we’ll look at Hull’s post-war years through photographs, from the end of the war in 1945 to April 1951 and the building of the first permanent building in the city centre since the war.
For an overview and a history of this period see one of our earlier videos called 'Rationing and Regeneration: Hull's Post-war years' - • Rationing & Regenerati...
The History Centre holds a vast collection of records relating to Hull in the years following the Second World War, as well as a considerable collection of records relating to the Second World War, including records relating to the Civil Defence in Hull, damage to property, and photographs of the aftermath of the 86 raids which reveal the true devastation of the City after the conflict.
To discover more about our records relating to Hull’s post-war years, the work we do, and the collections held within our walls, head over to our website at: www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk.
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[@logotrikes]

A marvellous look back, thanks for sharing...

[@msgretrogamer]

Brilliant!

[@logotrikes]

Everything looked so rosy. A bright future ahead. Where did it all go so wrong...?

[@prestoniap3838]

Decades of Labour council just building council houses making it the largest council estate in Europe. Demise of the docks including the fishing industry. Major companies moving south. Little investment. Location is not useful you don’t go there unless you need to it does not lead to anywhere. Very sad but no real future it’s a hollowed out city.

[@velorog]

These pictures brought back many vivid memories for me. As a youngster I was often taken into Hull by my mother during this period. The city center had been devastated. Amongst the ruins I can remember a ruined church on King Edward Street and the bombed remains of Hammonds. Very few shops were still trading. The picture at 8:10 of the bombed Barclays building is particularly poignant as 12 years later the building had been rebuilt and my girlfriend started her first job there. By then the city center had come back to life and was a vibrant place to live and work.

[@tedthesailor172]

What an enormous amount of planning and organising must have been entailed in the reconstruction. Gotta doff my hat to all those involved, cos it's so easy to take it all for granted. Though they still haven't fixed the National cinema in Beverley Road...!

[@benbinks2012]

Enjoying these videos 👍

[@davidgraemesmith1980]

I remember visiting an "aunt" who lived on Eastmount estate in the 90's and she said that the place had been open fields and informal pasture before the war, she grew up in a house not far from there on "Holderness highroad" I used to be cheeky and just called it "Holderness road"

[@tedthesailor172]

It is only Holderness Road, though my mother referred to it as Holderness High Road out of snobbishness, I suspect...

[@davidgraemesmith1980]

@@tedthesailor172 apparently from the junction of Ings Road and Maybury road out eastward to Bilton and Ganstead it was considered higher ground because it didn't flood out as often as the stretch between Somergangs and the railway bridge.

[@jimthompson939]

3:26 Does anybody recognize what street this is?

[@HULLDUDE666]

Fab! 🏙

[@TheCraigy83]

Gonna be 2stroke scooters and rickshaws in 20yrs.

[@luke8329]

Brighter future my arse.