I did not know that Hull had a zoological garden. Brilliant video..... Thank you..... Glen.... 😮😮😮😮😮

I used to go to the 'zoo; pub as I remember, Iam just an old folkie who played for years the song 'Zoological gardens' (so I said to me mot etc etc lol) Thank you for this Mr. H. Nerd!

I now discover that when I moved to Hull in 1969. it was into a B&B on the site of the Gardens!

Amazing! Didnt realise such awesome history was on my door step. Keep it up!

Dear Mr. Nerd, greetings from Leipzig. Thank you for another interesting post. Looking forward to the one about Beverley.

Great video. I’m currently researching Enderby Jackson and the brass contests he did at the gardens.

Wonderful to see all those old artefacts from the gardens. Well made video HHN thankyou!

Why did the elephant cross the road, because he’d seen the gingerbread man, well I thought it was funny......😉 if only we could go back in time I’d love a walk around this exotic Hull park. Love all your videos, keep up the good work 😍

nice to see ya back great vid as always

Brilliant video, not only about the Zoological Gardens, but also about the area of Spring Bank. How about the Botanical Gardens? That would be an interesting one!

brilliant as always ps my first house was no 1 flamborough ave middleton st. same as you we had water under the floor boards .we tried bailing it out ,but the level stayed the same. my wifes father worked at the water board,soo he took a sample to have it tested. the results were as you said. take care, brian

Brilliant video, as always. I have enjoyed many. Like a previous comment has stated, I would be interested in the history of the botanic gardens. Will keep my eye out. I cycle along Spring bank and snuff mill lane every weekday to work and back. The videos have made the journey even more special. Thank you for posting.

As always, excellent, so interesting and it's the way you tell it and explain that makes it so good. Could listen to you all day !! Keep them coming. 👍

Fantastic film.

I lived on Cranbourne Street next door to what is now (and was then) the Mosque. Always wondered why that area seemed to be almost enclosed in its own little rectangle from the rest of Spring Bank. Guess that's why none of the houses around there have cellars!

Fascinating, thank you. 👌💕

Thank u m8 been looking forward to this 1

Enjoyed that one. Fascinating insight into something with no evidence left behind today.

Brilliantly written, thankyou, loved the terrible jokes!!!😂😂

Ooh yay! I was saying to my family the other day you should do a video on this!! 😁

A firework display in a zoo - I wonder what genius thought that one up...

oh this series looks good , hope theres an east park episode or two

Just watching back on this one, and already have my misunderstanding of parks dispelled. Great video , even better (?) jokes....

That was excellent. There seems to have been a vogue for such schemes around 1840, because Leeds had its own grandiose plans for a Zoological and Botanical Gardens in Headingley, which opened in1841 and finally closed in 1858 - so the Gardens in Leeds and Hull were pretty much contemporaneous. Hull though did actually manage to acquire enough animals to justify the "Zoological" part, whereas in Headingley they balked at the cost of lions and elephants and eventually - and grudgingly - bought a bear (the Bear Pit is still there, on Cardigan Road). Like Hull, the Headingley Gardens struggled to persuade enough people of the "right sort" to pay its entrance fee, and that sealed its fate; but perhaps unlike Hull there was also prolonged and vocal opposition on religious grounds to opening the Gardens on Sundays - the only day when working people had any leisure time - and there was intense suspicion that allowing in the "lower sort" - among whom might be what were sniffily described as "abandoned females" - would endanger the moral fibre of the respectable middle classes .. was that a problem in Hull as well when the Gardens' opening times were being decided? "See the kind of company into which our youth are likely to be thrown on the afternoon of the Sabbath as a means of improving their morals and cultivating their piety. .." www.headingleyleeds.com/historic-headingley-zoo

the ending was a little sad :( on a more positive note, despite the ending of "sometimes theres nothing left apart from written record" there is now another historical record which could last forever in the form of this video.

Very interesting as usual

Everyone loves a bit of gingerbread right? Thanks for this, my wife and I really look forward to your videos on our fair city's history 👍

Interested in railways more than Hull but you are a good narrator so watched it anyway. Another interesting program.

Thank you for this especially as I live in view of the river horse 👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏

Very interesting, my cousin is descended from alderman Henry Hodge 1813-1889. He would maybe have been in charge at the time of the zoo, enjoyed the humour too. Keep em coming.

Really enjoyed the video. Have you considered having your face in the thumbnail? I've heard it really helps views. I'm going to binge the Hull Railways series now

I hope you do West Park, History Nerd, my stomping ground as a child. Perhaps you can satisfy a mystery for me. I've looked and then looked some more for some evidence that there was once a miniature steam railway running across the wide expanse of the main park, probably 7 1/2 inch gauge and running diagonally across the park. I remember the trackbed as a child so this would have been early to mid 50''s. I know I remember it, it's not a phantom memory and it's definitely West Park, the only park I ever visited as a child.This memory refuses to budge, yet I can find zero info about it. I've asked the knowledgable folks on "Hull the Good Old Days" and no-one has any memory. There was and probably still is, a model railway system near the old band stand, adjacent to Walton Street. I was invited along, it would have been 2004, to watch a 5 inch 0-6-0 in action. We had driven past the house where it was displayed in the front window and I made the mistake of knocking on the door to enquire about it. The owner insisted we drive to West Park to watch it in steam. We could hardly refuse even though we were on our way somewhere at the time. It was nice to watch, but the wife wasn't best pleased... Speaking of us peasants, you'll notice that the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals has Royal patronage, yet the society for the prevention of cruelty to children is only "National." Me being a dodgy old cynic again....

It's interesting that the old ordnance survey maps show that the city's outskirts were not completely built up at the same time. The map of Spring Bank shows that there was a lot of undeveloped land in between the new streets. Argyle Street had several smaller streets leading from the main street, but it was almost completely separate from the nearby streets and buildings. Coltman Street and many other streets were the same, still close to the main buildup area but completely surrounded by open land.

This is just FANTASTIC. I mean, really good, rather than a product of fantasy, not that. Llamageddon and Alpaccalypse though? Watch out, Hull History Nerd; everyone has thier limits, especially people from Beverley..

I remember the zoological pub on the corner of spring bank & Beverly road

Hi mate great series i grew up at number 1 hutt st the main entrance gates to the gardens where between numbers 10 and 11 hutt st

Great video , I’m watching it again 😁

Well, well..... statues on Albany Street. I never heard any mention of a zoological park in Hull. I thought the name Spring Bank had something to do with primroses and crocuses. Hull was a swamp until it was drained as everybody knows. I was up near Walkington some years ago and from the road could clearly be seen the extent of what must have been the old River Hull delta in the distance. Whitefriargate would flood regularly and at high tide it was said that barrels would float in The George Hotel cellar in Land of Green Ginger.

Lhamageddon lol

That was very interesting I didn’t know about it before. Have you thought about doing the history of Hull’s workhouses

Covid Has proved that we were so short sighted to shut parks and gardens and concrete over everything. We have some large parks which were packed during lockdown and our jewel in the crown Epping Forest was packed and all roads gave been made Red Routes so you couldn't park and all parking is now Expensive Pay and Display but it still packed as we have lost so much open space...

Sounds just the thing we need in Hull now Mr Nerd . A separate enclosure for wayward MP s would keep then at bay or don’t they do them that big lol cheers Rob

Llamageddon - 😂 I see what you did there 😮

My grandfather used to stop off for a drink in the Polar Bear, and we always getting teased about it. I assume it's still there?

Is the building down Hutt Street related to the gardens?

I Love the lama joke , classic 👌

Dear Mr Nerd Can u tell me ,why wen u make these films of Hessle rd why u always miss out Scarborough str out .please and l love ur stories of my home town thanks M Day.

Hello , how about the history of some of the ,shall we say more notorious public houses !

i always thought it was where hymers is.

My mam told me they had chimpanzees in East Park!

you put some weight on you are looking well :)