Boarded-up Kingston upon Hull: Gone Shopping
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Boarded-up Kingston upon Hull: Gone Shopping
Image: © Bernard Sharp Taken: 8 Dec 2022
According to the Hull Daily Mail, Kingston upon Hull has more empty shops than anywhere else in the country: https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/hull-most-empty-shops-out-6354310 I set out to record some of them. Bank branches are disappearing from our high streets in great numbers, and the Royal Bank of Scotland is amongst them. Its branch at No.10 Silver Street and Hepworth's Arcade was one of those to go in the last round of closures. If you like this image and others in this series, you may like this too. Photographer Martin Amis began a project in 2018 about the effects of Brexit on his native Kent. Here is his story in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/nov/27/closed-martin-amis-ghost-shops-kent-in-pictures
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Image Location
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53.742729
Longitude
-0.33406