Bransholme Arts Centre

Front page of Hull Times 25th May 1973

'What facilities should a new arts centre have?
"It should have a snooker room" "If It had a billiards room my husband would be there every night."
"Table Tennis." replied Maureen.
Bransholme is more of a city now not an estate and up here people only have their gardens to do - there are are only three pubs...."!

Arc - Architecture for everyone

Met with Gisele Bone from Arc.
They currently have a blog discussing what is Hullness some of the points from the summary about the project I found interesting

"Some ‘Characteristics of Hull’ by John Netherwood, Chairman of the Hull Civic Society
• Human Scale
• Completely flat – therefore nearly all views are “man made”
• Outstanding water fronts
• Poor quality and attractiveness of paving out of city centre
• Being split in half by River Hull creates sense of place and identity
• By being largely cut off from the rest of the country, historically, it has the feeling of a “city state”.
• Rich architectural detail in centre/ high quality old buildings
• Many parts of the city still have a downtrodden feel.
• Intact medieval Old Town
• Seven radial roads
• Rich historical heritage (Civil War/ Pilgrim Fathers/ Bounty etc)
• Too few street trees
• Large pedestrian areas
• Wide tree-lined boulevards on outskirts
• Major central park- but looking neglected and needs opening up
• Lack of views over the city (being flat)
• Own train set – Hull Trains
• Old industrial area – Wincolmlee
• Twenty derelict railway bridges ring the city
• Water into the heart of the city
• Many good old historic pubs
• Very close to beautiful countryside and some of the best coastline in the country
• Lack of residents pride in their city and lack of appreciation of how good it is compared with very many places.
• Humber Bridge
• Its own ferry service
• Very close links to continental Europe "

www.hullness.blogspot.com
www.arc-online.co.uk

Trip to Orchard Park

As Gisele used to work on the LIFT arts programme she kindly took me to a health centre which she co-ordinated the arts for - the Orchard Park centre near to Bransholme.



I really liked the randomly placed coloured floor tiles. And the arrowed sigage made a nice change from the blue and white signage you usually find in hospitals and health centres.







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Trip to Oncology Wing

Not strictly research into Bransholme but we thought it would be interesting to see another example of arts in a health centre - the oncology unit at Castle Hill which is quite contrasting to the more urban Orchard Park. The oncology wing had a really nice feel to it and the building seemed to really reflect its surroundings well. The green views and curved roof make the atrium a pleasant and relaxing to be!