Something about the name Mount Pleasant conjures up a vision of a gentle incline with trees and a bucolic ambience. In Hull, however, Mount Pleasant is a nasty cut through connecting the infamously horrible Hedon Road with the equally nasty Stoneferry. It is neither a mount nor pleasant. At the point where it crosses Holderness Road this architectural monstrosity has sprung up. As it is served by two main roads there's a large car park and it's almost always busy. These stores should be contrasted with the old shops I posted the other day which are just on the other side of Holderness Road and due to be replaced with the twin of this place.
Think what was there before it. A rundown branch railway station surrounded by slum houses from Waller Street to Ripon Street which were built in the mid-18C. On the north side of the road were Courtney Street and Beeton Street which were exactly the same. It is called progress. I am a local historian who has campaigned for the retention of old buildings, if they were worth saving. These streets were not worth saving.
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