The Avenues, Kingston upon Hull

The Avenues is an area of high status Victorian housing located in the north-west of Kingston upon Hull, England.

[1] To the adjoining south of the Avenues is an area of roughly contemporary Victorian terraces, with streets named after the seats of nobles; it is sometimes referred to as the Dukeries.

[note 1] The boundaries were formed by: Newland Tofts Lane (Princes Avenue), and the parallel Derringham Dike to the east; Setting Dyke to the north; Spring Bank and Spring and Derringham Dikes to the south; and to the west a field boundary between Newland Tofts and Ewe lands and Chanter Lands which eventually became Chanterlands Avenue.

[3] The site was laid out on a generous scale for the middle and prosperous classes; the largest street; Westbourne Avenue was 59 feet (18 m) wide.

[3] Early developments included houses by George Gilbert Scott the Younger, built 1877–79,[3] which are now listed buildings.

[note 6][13] In 1900 electric trams began to travel on Princes Avenue on a route that linked to the city centre by Spring Bank.

Others celebrated in the area by other plaque schemes include female pilot Amy Johnson,[39] poet and librarian Philip Larkin,[40] film producer Anthony Minghella,[41] Titanic fourth officer and survivor Joseph Groves Boxhall,[42] curator Thomas Sheppard,[43] marine artist Thomas Somerscales,[44] socialist and historian John Saville, artist James Neal, film directors Ralph Thomas and Gerald Thomas,[45] actress Dorothy Mackaill,[46] playwright Alan Plater CBE, writer and publisher of Philip Larkin's books Jean Hartley[47] and pioneering female cinematographer Kay Mander.