Our First Book ...

Hull Then & Now was published to raise funds for the continued promotion of our aim to make heritage available to the people of Hull and the public at large. Lavishly illustrated with over 250 old photographs in sepia, the majority previously unseen, the book illustrates the changing face of our city over the last century. An additional 130 modern photographs, in full colour, show some of the changes that have taken place. The book was produced to a very high standard and measures 240 mm by 220 mm, with 172 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 £14.99 and can be posted for an extra £4.00 for addresses on the UK mainland, £6.00 for European addresses, and £10.50 for the rest of the world. To order your copy please use the Paypal facility above, send us an e-mail or telephone on 01482-561216.  

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 Heritage Centre any week day between 8.30 am and 11.30 am.

Volume two is coming ...

How quickly two years passes, and the 2,000 copies of our first book are all but gone. We are grateful to everyone who has supported us by buying their copy. Thank you.

If all goes to plan the second volume of images will be available to buy in June 2010. Hull Then & Now 2 will have even more pages, more old images than volume one, and more text. The images are taken mostly from the personal collection of our trustee Paul Gibson, who has also written and designed the book once again on our behalf. 

In this second volume Paul has tried to respond to the many requests we had to feature other areas of Hull. 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 will be: - Prince's Avenue (featuring the Dukeries and Pearson Park) - St John's Wood & Newland Avenue - Newland & The Cottingham Road - The Road to Stoneferry (featuring Cleveland Street, Wilmington and the Groves) - Market Gate, Low Gate & High Gate (three old town streets in detail) and Myton (featuring images from North and South Myton) - and ...

The introduction will feature an appreciation of a very important person in the history of our centre. Please consider buying a copy - and watch out for the release date.

Incorporation

Following professional advice during the summer 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 new official name is 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 our 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!