HULL

Hull is a relatively compact city, and over my visits in the next few years I walked along many if not most of its streets, often with my elder son for company, in a push chair and as he grew older walking around and taking his own pictures. I went out most days I was there, unless the weather was really poor, usually leaving my wife at home with her mother... I started making an extended study of the city of Kingston upon Hull in 1977, when Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many inner city areas being bull-dozed and instant slums being created on its outskirts. It was a process I had been active in opposing in Hulme and Moss Side in Manchester in the previous decade, and it pained me to see the same mistakes being repeated here... Over the next 35 or so years I returned regularly, coming with my wife and later also my sons to stay in Loveridge Avenue several times each year and I got to know the city well, and to appreciate it. After my mother-in-law moved into..

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