STILL OCCUPIED

Peter Marshall

A view of Hull

The Old Town


32p52: Joynson & Son, 75 Mytongate, 1982 - Old Town
 
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Still Occupied

Images on this site are arranged into rough areas by location as in my book 'Still Occupied', available on Blurb. Eventually this site will contain all the images in that book and more.


Joynson & Son, Scale and Slicing machine specialists, established in 1892 were at 75 Mytongate, on the north side of the street in a row of shops between the Rampant Horse Inn and Thomas Borthwick and Sons Ltd, meat exporters on the corner of Vicar Lane. Joynsons are still in business, now at 45 Anlaby Rd, as catering equipment specialists, providing food service solutions & catering disposables.
 
The only building in this section of the street to escape demolition was the former Mytongate telephone exchange and headquarters of the Hull Corporation Telephone Department from 1914-64, at No.65 - though the street has since changed its name to Castle St, and is considerably wider, part of a continuing Highways Agency scheme to turn much of the city into the near-motorway A63, with a giant swathe of the Old Town lost to tarmac and wasteland, still largely awaiting recovery - or perhaps to be submerged by further road schemes.
 
Fly posters on the boarded up windows include those for 'Rock Stateside' at the Live Wire Disco, events at the City Hall and Hull Tower and a poster protesting against the first visit to Britain of President Reagan in June 1982 with the message 'Neither Washington Nor Moscow But International Socialism'.
 
Hull demolition contractors D J Broady, 'Space-Made' went into administration in 2011. Together with Sam Allon they were responsible for demolishing many of Hull's most notable buildings. The wife of one of Hull's most prominent Aldermen was said to be a major shareholder in D J Broady.

 

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