Meetings

Spoke to Paul Holloway and Liz Dorton also and they talked about some interesting ideas to do with Branshome and Hull.

Hull has a past of struggling with the elements for example flooding and sometimes feels a little left out; a forgotten city...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/6270236.stm

North Bransholme interestingly is 15 metres above sea level (the only place with a view in Hull!)

Bransholme is on top of boulder clay - there is a thick glacial moraine (ridge) running from north (Bransholme) to east.

"In 1935 Fishing boomed in Hull and the City became Britain’s third largest port and its main fishing port. It was also a major passenger port. In 1970 160,000 people travelled to or from Gothenburg in Sweden or Rotterdam in Holland.
In the late 20th century industries in Hull included flour milling. Oil cake was made in Hull. So were metal boxes, plastic bags, excavators and caravans."

Quoted from Paranorm Hull - The History of Hull website: http://paranorm-hull.webs.com/thehistoryofhull.htm

"In 1968 Noddle Hill Farm was demolished to make way for the building of Bransholme Estate."



Green Noddlehill Nature Reserve
There are fourteen species of Dragon Fly recorded at the Noddle Hill Fishing lake! (or as its sometimes called the Bransholme Fishing lake.) This site is likely to become the first local nature reserve in Hull.

http://wildathull.blogspot.com/2009/11/noddle-hill-fishing-lake-and-community.html

Slums of hessle road were knocked down - Has this exodus has led to a slight loss of community / identity?
Bombing during the war, Hull was described as a Northern Eastern Town (therefore perhaps feels a little forgotten about)
Disused railway line runs through Bransholme

Arts Related
"The hully bugle web site was created by Young People from the Bransholme area working with Bransholme Community Arts Enterprise (BCAE) and is now expanding into the rest of Hull."
www.hullybugle.co.uk

People Liz and Paul thought might be worth talking to:
Residents association for North Bransholme (Liz's husband, Andy Dorton)
Polish community - Richard Bentley (local social projects, Padstow house near ASDA, Bodmin/Bomband? Road)
Mary Carrick - Local Historian
Loz Wilson - Kingswood High School
Chris Smith - Dorcester Primary School
Anita Harisson - councillor (Re: nature reserve)