Exhibition captures city's lost Victorian streets

FS Smith sketched Hull's streets including this view of Anlaby Road

Drawings of Victorian Hull are to go on show to mark the centenary of an artist's death.

Frederick Schultz Smith sketched streets and buildings across the city – many now vanished – from the 1880s onwards.

A collection of his art is housed in the archives at Hull History Centre.

It is now holding an exhibition of his work to commemorate his death in 1925.

Smith's sketch of Sculcoates Bridge, dating from about 1885

Councillor Rob Pritchard, portfolio holder for culture and leisure, said the drawings "increase our understanding of the development of the city".

"FS Smith's drawings preserve a Hull that has now largely disappeared," he added.

"An early Victorian town of narrow streets and surviving medieval buildings on the threshold of the great changes that Edwardian redevelopment and the Second World War would bring."

The exhibition is open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays until 28 August.

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