Edition Descriptions
Sep-04
(Blue Plaque) Beverley Gate
The western end of Whitefriargate (Beverley Gate)
Sep-04
(Blue Plaque) Old Grammar School
The Old Grammar School
Sep-04
(Blue Plaque) Suffolk Palace
Lowgate Post Office (commemorating Suffolk Palace)
Sep-04
(Blue Plaque) Wilberforce House
Wilberforce House, appeared as long ago as 1953
Jun-07
Adam Fowler
Adam Fowler stepped down from the committee at the 2007 AGM after eleven years’ dedicated service as our Chairman,
Sep-18
Alexandra Dock Pump House
One of the most striking and interesting buildings on Alexandra Dock is the Grade II listed hydraulic pump house and tower, once used to provide hydraulic power to lock gates and cranes on the dock, opened in 1885
Nov-22
Allenby Commercial for Paragon Arcade & Danish Buildings & Bayles House
Good Mark to Allenby Commercial for Paragon Arcade and Danish Buildings & Bayles House Restorations
Jan-06
Annison's
sensitive and thorough restoration of Annison’s by Mr Paul Wheeler, the owner, the Ewbank Partnership, architects, and the builder Mr PM Nixon.
Mar-24
Astoria Bingo Club, Holderness Road
The Astoria’s award is for maintaining the building in a very attractive condition with a colour scheme that is sympathetic to the architecture and makes a positive contribution to the townscape of Holderness Road, and for creating a welcoming interior.
Jun-06
Beverley Road
76-78 Beverley Road
May-09
Bird Johnson Associates, architects)
The Steve Shearsmith Award Presented to Geo. Houlton & Sons Ltd for the reconstruction of The Maltings Unit 3a. (also a Good Mark to Bird Johnson Associates, architects)
May-12
Brewery House, the Maltings
Allenby Commercial, 15 Priory Tech Park, Hull, for the renovation of Brewery House at the Maltings in the city centre.
Sep-16
Brynmor Jones Library at the University of Hull
On 15th April 2016, the University of Hull was awarded a Good Mark for the redevelopment of the Brynmor Jones Library.
Mar-18
Central Fire Station
The new Central Fire Station is tucked away on Pearson Street in the heart of the city. It replaces the older Central Fire Station sited in Worship Street, which was re-built in 1927 on the site of the first purpose built fire station in Hull in 1867.
Sep-14
Cottingham Croxby Primary School
celebrates its Golden Jubilee this year, for the extension built to accommodate the Breakfast and After School Club, and the school’s new reception area.
Mar-19
Dinostar
Steve Plater of Dinostar, Humber Street, Hull, for his unique Dinosaur Experience visitor attraction, which celebrates its 15th anniversary shortly
Sep-19
Former Newland Avenue Primary School: Conversion into apartments
Nagra Properties for the sympathetic conversion of the former Newland Avenue Primary School buildings (Botterill & Bilson, 1896) into 24 apartments
Feb-12
FRUIT
Fruit space/Hull is Hull’s newest, most exciting Entertainment and Arts Space, situated in the Marina and Fruit Market area of the city
Mar-19
Holy Trinity (Hull Minster) and the Ferens Art Gallery
Geo Houlton & Sons were awarded a Good Mark for two important projects.
May-08
Hooper Building
There’s a three hundred year time-slip between the inside and the outside of Hull’s latest new office complex, the Hooper Building in Guildhall Road.
Jun-06
HULL CITY BUILD
Hull Citybuild has begun a programme of tidying up the derelict sites by masking the buildings in all-over cladding and fencing off the sites with attractive hoardings.
Jun-16
Criteria and procedures for awarding a Hull Civic Society Good Mark
by Paul Priestley- Leach
Sep-07
Hull Community Church
Hull Community Church at the corner of Cottingham Road and Newland Avenue.
Sep-10
Hull Daily Mail
During its 125 years of existence, the Hull Daily Mail has, day by day, observed, recorded and published the life and times of our city.
Jun-23
Hull Fishing Heritage Centre
Hull Fishing Heritage Centre for its work in documenting the story of Hull’s fishing community and presenting it to the public through photographs, paintings, ship models, objects such as ships’ bells and other equipment and sharing personal memories with people of all ages, whether from Hull or coming as visitors to the city. Corner of Boulevard and Hessle Road.
Sep-11
Hull History Centre
The winner of the Steve Shearsmith Award for “Best Hull Civic Society Good Mark” of 2010 is the Hull History Centre, awarded on 20th July 2011.
Mar-23
Hull's Humber Frontage Flood Defences
Awarded to Environment Agency and Contractors
Feb-10
Hull Truck Theatre
The location of this aspirational new theatre, unique to Hull Truck, was an acknowledged cultural contribution promised by the developers of the extensive Ferensway development.
Sep-08
Hull University Business School and Logistics Centre
No fewer than four listed buildings have been sympathetically refurbished and connected together through the use of modern ‘atrium style’ glass connecting walkways to produce one beautiful and functional business complex.
Feb-13
Inter Tech Media UK Ltd
Inter Tech Media UK Ltd - 8 Saltmarsh Court Priory Park Hull - for outstanding innovative and creative use of energy technologies in a commercial building
Jan-04
Judaeo-Christian Study Centre
the restoration of the former Western Synagogue, Linnaeus Street, Anlaby Road and creation of a Judaeo-Christian Study Centre
Jun-24
Kings Building
Hull Civic Society's Good Mark is awarded to Paul Luen for his vision in restoring the Grade II Listed King's Building in South Church Side
Sep-13
McDonalds Restaurant,St Andrews Quay
For a considerable time, we have been aware of the consistently high standard achieved in maintaining the surroundings of this prominent restaurant.
Mar-23
Makerspace
Awarded to Hull Culture and Leisure for Makerspace located on the top floor of Hull's Central Library
Mar-24
Mill Public House, Holderness Road
The award to The Mill is for the renovation of the historic windmill tower brickwork. The owners of The Mill are to be congratulated for conserving this windmill, which is not only an interesting part of Hull’s townscape, but also nationally significant in the history of flour milling as the birthplace of Joseph Rank
Jan-04
Museum Quarter
the creation of the Museum Quarter, High Street, Hull, which brings together four Museums - Streetlife, Hull & East Riding, Wilberforce House and the Arctic Corsair
Jun-06
NEST CAFÉ
Ideally positioned on the corner of Thoresby Street and Princes Avenue, the Nest is a step back in time to the ‘forties’, conjuring up visions of headscarved housewives queuing for rations.
Mar-15
Newland Homes new student accommodation
Ashcourt Properties and Ashcourt Construction have been awarded a Hull Civic Society Good Mark for their new development of student accommodation at Newland Homes
Jan-06
Octagon Building
new Octagon building in Ice House Road, Hull.
Feb-12
Old Town Trader
Mr. Steve Mathie, the proprietor of 'Spin It Records & Memorabilia' a music and memorabilia retailer in Hulls Market Hall for his book and In-store exhibition entitled 'The Famous Side of Hull'.
Jun-24
One-Stop Shop, Silver Street
A well-deserved Hull Civic Society Good Mark was presented to the manager and assistant manager of the One-Stop Shop, 4-6 Silver Street, at the Society's public meeting on Monday 11th December 2023. This One-Stop Shop opened on 21st April 2021 and provides for the everyday retail needs of the growing number of Old Town residents with an extensive range of food, drink and takeaway items in a very welcoming environment. Open 7 days a week from 6 a.m. to at least 11 p. m.
Jun-05
Osborne Street
110, 108 and 104 Osborne Street
Sep-08
Owner Hotel, Albion Street
This magnificent building of the 1840s was the home of Sir James Alderson M.D. Educated at Hull Grammar School, he followed his father, John Alderson, as Honorary Physician of the Infirmary,
Jan-08
Paul Gibson
Paul Gibson for his excellent book The Anlaby Road, published earlier this year
Sep-16
Paul Schofield
On 1st August – Yorkshire Day – we celebrated this and Paul Schofield’s many other contributions to the Society’s work with a Good Mark, presented in the Mission public house
Nov-22
Pearson Park Restoration
Good Mark to Hull City Council for Pearson Park Restoration
Sep-08
Pilot Office
The Pilot Office is an attractive Regency building, designed by John Earle junior, part of Hull’s maritime history since 1819.
Sep-16
Rank House, 371 Holderness Road
Hull Civic Society has awarded a Good Mark to Probe (Hull) Ltd for their development of the Rank House Property to provide homes of multiple occupation.
Feb-09
Riverside Building
This high specification building has an uplifting presence amongst the offices and showrooms of Hessle’s Livingstone Road.
Sep-19
Ron Dearing University Technical College (UTC)
Named after Lord Ron Dearing, the Hull-born Civil Servant and education reformer, this landmark building creates the most inspiring place in which to learn. Located within a conservation area next to the New Theatre,
Sep-05
Rugby Tavern
Rugby Tavern also talks about CALM awards
Feb-09
Sawmill
sits on the site of Danby’s Plumber’s Merchants which originally was a sawmill for timber coming into Hull by ship on the Queens Dock (now Queen’s Gardens).
Feb-15
Slipstream” in Heathrow’s new Terminal 2.
The artist Richard Wilson, the curators of the project Futurecity, the structural engineers Price and Myers, and the Hull-based fabricators Commercial Systems International
Feb-09
St Stephens
This sensational building is achieved through a combination of 21st Century materials, technology and architectural bravura
Mar-18
The Hideout Apartment Hotel
Hull Civic Society has awarded a Good Mark to Allenby Commercial Ltd for the Hideout Apartment Hotel recently opened in the heart of Hull's Old Town.
Sep-11
Tower Cinema Domes
O. Toffolo & Son Ltd., Temple Street, Hull for the restoration of the twin domes on the Tower Cinema. The ornate Edwardian building, designed by H Percival Binks and is Grade II Listed, was opened on 1st June, 1914 and closed as a cinema in 1978
Jun-23
Trinity Room at Hull Minster
A modern extension to the south side of the Minster to provide for refreshments, relaxation for visitors and worshippers alike. This is a truly amazing space.
Jun-14
'Walters', 'Lion and Key', Wm Hawkes' Public Houses
Alan Murphy and Chrissy Flemming moved to Hull in 2000 and began running pubs together in 2004 when they discovered 'Ye Olde Black Boy' on High Street. They took on the tenancy there for three years, after which they left to set up a free house of their own, specialising in real ale.
Sep-08
Whitefriargate
Good Mark Award to Trinity House for the restoration of 30-32 Whitefriargate.
Oct-12
Wilberforce Health Centre, Story Street
Hull Citycare for delivering the new Wilberforce Health Centre which provides a much needed drop-in venue for people living and working in the city, where they can seek medical advice or treatment, throughout most of the day, without making an appointment.
Jan-07
WISE Activities in High Street
WISE, Hull University’s Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation based at Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, an indication of the worldwide significance of Hull’s newest research institute.
Sep-09
YPI Building, George Street
Good Mark goes to Benjamin Hooson, his son Darren and his family for the restoration of the YPI building in George Street (formerly Charlotte Street).
Jun-06
Zilli’s
Zilli’s Continental Cafe is situated at the corner of Posterngate and Trinity Square, occupying a prime location opposite Holy Trinity Church.