Hair cut, madam?

Image: © Paul Glazzard Taken: 27 Mar 2009

Trimming a tree above the 'Hair Cut Hut' on the north side of Anlaby Road just east of Walton Street. The tiny building below the tree is a former Hull City Police fire box, built in around 1890 and converted into a hairdresser's shop about a hundred years later. The fire box originally had an adjoining shed and yard where ladders and firefighting equipment were stored by the police and fire service. It also had a telephone from about 1900. A couple of years ago the buildings immediately west of the storage yard were burned to the ground. The building in the background is the Carnegie Heritage Centre, formerly the Carnegie Public Library. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1194198 Also in the picture are two of Hull's distinctive cream coloured K6 telephone kiosks. Hull's telephone company, now Kingston Communications, never joined the national telecommunications industry and installed cream telephone boxes when the rest of the country had red ones. Perhaps as a result of this statement of individuality, Hull still had a reported 239 K series kiosks operating in 2006.

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