Boarded-up Kingston upon Hull: Gone Shopping
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Boarded-up Kingston upon Hull: Gone Shopping
Image: © Bernard Sharp Taken: 14 Jan 2023
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. The Zetland Arms public house, No.139 Portobello Street, was built 1939 for Moors' & Robson's Breweries Ltd. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3614931 By 2021 it had closed, when the Hull Daily Mail reported a police raid on a cannabis farm: https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/hull-pub-centre-huge-cannabis-6077357 By May 2022 the premises were being utilised by the East Hull Food Bank or Beannie Bank (see banner to left of building) but appears to have closed the same year. It is not known whether the building is currently operative. 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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53.762914
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-0.286534