Discover a new Hessle Road feature about making, repairing and community creativity, including planned heritage gifts whose profits support Hull Creative Skills and Heritage CIC.
The skill behind a familiar shop
Making and repair belong in the story of the road as well as shopping. Henry Hird describes jewellery and watch repair services and work carried out in-house. A repaired family keepsake can carry memories across generations.
A memory to share
What was made or repaired for your family on or near Hessle Road?
Email this memory →What the objects can tell us
A tool, a receipt, a work apron or a carefully repaired object can be the starting point for a maker’s story. Tell us who used it, where they worked and what the skill involved. We will distinguish family recollection from a confirmed record.
A new chapter at the Vauxhall
Hull Creative Skills and Heritage CIC brings heritage and practical creativity together at the Vauxhall Tavern, 1 Hessle Road. The pub and café are part of the project, with a heritage centre and upstairs workshops and classrooms being developed or planned.
Heritage you can take home
Books, calendars, Christmas cards, mugs, T-shirts, plaques and prints are planned as limited edition project items. Further ideas include canvas prints, coasters, bookmarks and recreated street-name signs. Designs and releases will be announced as they are ready; ordering is not yet open.
A memory to share
Which Hessle Road subject would you like to see on a future heritage item?
Email this memory →Sources & illustration notes
The workshop scene illustrates the project’s creative direction. It is not a photograph of the current premises, an inventory of completed products or a claim that classes are already running. Merchandise remains planned; all profits from project sales are reinvested in community projects.
