Our Second Book

How quickly two years have passed, and the 2,000 copies of our first book have now sold out (although a few copies remain in the stock of book dealer Alex Alec-Smith). The second volume is now for sale - Hull Then & Now 2 has more pages, more old images (over 300) and more text. The images are once more taken mostly from the personal collection of our trustee Paul Gibson, who has again been commissioned to write and design the book on our behalf.

In volume two you will be taken on a circular route around the city, beginning at the most requested area The Avenues. The other chapters of the book are Prince's Avenue (including the Dukeries and Pearson Park), St John's Wood & Newland Avenue, Newland & The Cottingham Road, The Road to Stoneferry (including Cleveland Street, Wilmington and the Groves), Market Gate, Low Gate & High Gate (three old town streets in detail), and Myton (with images from North and South Myton). The introduction features an appreciation of a very important person in the history of our centre - Joseph Hirst - Hull's first City Architect, and designer of the former Carnegie Library.

Book details

The book is produced to the same high standard as volume one, and measures 240 mm by 220 mm, with 180 pages. By purchasing a copy of the book you are also helping us to preserve a unique, Grade Two Listed building for the people of Hull. The book is priced at £16 and can be posted around the world by using the Paypal facility above.

Books can be be collected from the Heritage Centre on Monday afternoons 1.30 until 3.30 and from 9.30 until 3.30 on Tuesdays and Fridays. They can also be collected from The Bindery, located within the Carnegie Heritage Centre any week day between 8.30 am and 11.30 am. Copies are also on sale at Waterstones in the city centre, the Hull History Centre, the Hessle Bookshop, and Clements Newsagent on Prince's Avenue.

The official book launch took place on Saturday 31 August 2010. Our special guest was Mrs Audrey Howes, the grand-daughter of the architect of our building Joseph Henry Hirst. We thanks all of you who came for a glass of wine, cup of tea or just to buy a book and chat with the author who is seen here with the Lord Mayor and other guests. 

Larkin With Toads

The Carnegie Heritage Centre is proud to be associated with the Larkin With Toads event, celebrating poet Philip Larkin who had strong links with Hull. Our toad was designed by Carnegie Heritage Centre volunteers, working with artist Lynne Hutchinson. We were sponsored by Hull CIB.

The design is based upon features of our building such as the original leaded glass panels, and our timber framed tower. 

The toad will sit outside our centre for the next 10 weeks as part of the city-wide event - a map of the toad locations can be downloaded from the Larkin 25 web-site here: -

http://www.larkin25.co.uk/location-map.php

Avenues Open Gardens

The first two Sunday's in July saw the annual Avenue's Open Gardens event. The Carnegie Heritage Centre held a stall both days. Committee members Paul and Steve created a display of maps and images to attract passers by, which resulted in healthy sales of the new book and other publications.

Steve Ingram bravely manned the stall outside his home solo on the first Sunday, as it clashed with another event at our centre. The second Sunday (seen here) was attended by Liz, Paul, Steve and Charlie. Well done everyone.

Incorporation

Following professional advice regarding the future plans of the Carnegie Heritage Action Team, the trustees decided to incorporate the organisation. This enables the charity to adopt a legal form, more in keeping with our ambitions, and in particular our ability to own or lease land and property in our own name.

The process has resulted in a new name and a new charity number. Our official name is now Carnegie Heritage Centre Limited, although we will continue to use Carnegie Heritage Centre as our everyday operating name, as this is how the public and our members have come to know us.

The trustees are unchanged and we have simply adopted a legal form which is more in keeping with both our long term commitments and long term aims.

Carnegie Heritage Centre welcomes ...

In June 2009 the Hull & District Philatelic Society joined us at the centre and will be using our building as their base; their meetings are held on the first and third Wednesday of every month. A social evening was held in June when the society invited our members to one of their own meetings and we all got to know one another well.

New History Booklet

Hot off the press is our latest publication - 'THE CARNEGIE HERITAGE CENTRE - A BRIEF HISTORY' by our volunteer Paul Gibson. The 12 page booklet is printed in full colour on high quality paper and is A5 in size (15 cm x 21 cm). The informative text is illustrated with several historic photographs of our building, the former Carnegie Free Library, as well as an illustrated historical summary of Hull's few surviving original library buildings, and their current situation.

Please buy a copy when visiting the centre - the booklet has a minimum sale price of just £1 but any donation over and above that figure will help our cause even further. As with all of our publications, the total proceeds go directly to the charity and help secure the future of our building.

Civic Society Award

Following a well received talk to the Hull Civic Society in January 2009, our chairman Liz Shepherd accepted a Civic Society Good Mark Award for the Carnegie Heritage Centre. The award was given for "rescuing the building and preserving its place in the community as the Carnegie Heritage Centre". Malcolm Sharman of the Civic Society is seen here presenting Liz with the award - well done everyone!