STILL OCCUPIED

Peter Marshall

A view of Hull

West & North Hull

Hessle Rd area
 


28k22: Tenfoot, near end of Essex St, Gipsyville, 1981 - Hessle Rd

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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.


A 'tenfoot' is any side or back alley, often 10 foot wide, though not always. There are also some 'twentyfoots' in Hull. Some tenfoots are now gated, while others have been recognised as public rights of way - restricted byways. In some places they were used by refuse collectors and others making deliveries, as well as play areas by the local children, but in other areas are seen as problem areas with fly tipping, access for burglaries, drug-taking and sex. Gating them is currently a controversial subject in some areas of Hull.
 
This tenfoot runs along the end of all of the 8 streets of terraced housing built around 1900 as workers housing for the Dairycoates industrial estate, with a long brick wall on the south side. There were a couple of entrances to the estate from it, from one of which I took the previous picture.

 

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