Pickering Park, Kingston upon Hull

The park was opened 13 July 1911, a gift from Christopher Pickering, a successful trawler owner, and benefactor;^[2][3] part of a model village development including almshouses and a children's home.^[4] The city's first nautical museum, the Museum of Fisheries and Shipping opened in Pickering Park in 1912,^[5] later to move to the former Hull Dock company offices and become the Hull Maritime Museum.

The associated almshouses,^[6] the former museum (as of 2011 a boxing club),^[7] and a related pumping station,^[8] are all listed buildings, as are the original iron park gates,^[9] which are one of the few early 20th century ornamental iron structures in Hull to have survived the Second World War drive for scrap iron.^[10][11]

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