THE LARKIN TRAIL Discover A Poet’s Landscape Welcome to The Larkin Trail!
Follow in Larkin’s footsteps to see The Larkin Trail consists of 25 the diverse landscapes and rich specially commissioned artworks, architecture of Hull and the East at sites across Hull and the Riding through a poet’s eyes. surrounding countryside, featuring poetry extracts and information Philip Larkin is widely regarded about the poet’s life and work, as the nation’s favourite post-war linked to the location. poet. The Larkin Trail takes you on a literary journey through the You can also visit the Larkin Trail city and countryside, taking in the website to explore the writer’s work buildings, streets and parks where and life through a unique, interactive Larkin lived, worked and visited, archive of poetry, artwork and and which inspired his poetry. biographical information. The Larkin Trail Discover a Poet's Landscape
The Larkin Trail is made up where Larkin spent much of his time. of three parts: The trail takes in the houses Larkin lived in, the University Library Larkin’s Here (City Centre) starts which he oversaw the building of, at the Hull Royal Hotel, and takes in and the parks and green spaces sites across the city. Discover the pubs which inspired so many of his poems. where Larkin indulged his passion for jazz, and explore the literary and Larkin’s Elsewhere explores the architectural history of this ‘isolate wider countryside. From the quiet city spread alongside water’. villages and churches that Larkin loved to visit, to the stark beauty of Larkin’s Here (Beyond the City Holderness Plain and Spurn, the trail Centre) enables visitors to explore reveals the landscapes celebrated the fringes of the city, particularly in Larkin’s writing and captured in the University and Avenues area many of his photographs and letters. Useful Information The University of Hull Enjoy the art collection, see poetry in performance at the Philip Larkin Centre, or enjoy a concert at Middleton Hall. www.hull.ac.uk/accessart Planning your trip www.ihull.org/larkin To help you to plan your visit to Larkin’s Hull and East Yorkshire, East Riding Museums & Heritage and find great places to eat and Make time to explore the art, stay during your trip, visit the history and archaeology of official tourist information site: East Yorkshire. www.visithullandeastyorkshire.com Tel: 01482 393939 www.eastriding.gov.uk/cs/culture- Hull Tours and-information Tour Hull and the surrounding areas with a English Heritage Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - accredited guide. Spurn Point Tel: 01482 878535 Spurn Point is the final point on Email: [email protected] the Larkin Trail. A unique coastal reserve stretching three and half Hull History Centre miles into the Humber Estuary. Hull History Centre holds a vast www.ywt.org.uk range of archive material about Larkin, Hull and the East Riding. Philip Larkin Society Tel: 01482 317500 Promotes awareness of the life and www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk work of Philip Larkin. Why not become a member? Hull Museums & Galleries www.philiplarkin.com Some of the most visited museums and galleries in the region, from Faber & Faber the Ferens Art Gallery to the Publishers of Larkin’s poetry, many treasures in Hull’s unique biographies, audio and rare books Museums Quarter. by and about the poet. Tel: 01482 300 300 www.faber.co.uk www.hullcc.gov.uk/museums Larkin’s Here Locations 1-13 City Centre Trail Est. time 2hrs
Here, the City Centre section of the Weddings), the City Hall (Broadcast), Trail, leads you to places frequented and Marks and Spencer (The Large by Larkin, both when he was alone Cool Store). It provides an insight and when in the company of others. into Hull’s architectural and literary It guides you to pubs where he history, and finishes at one of Hull’s enjoyed a drink, pauses at places newest buildings, Hull History where he indulged his passion Centre, where you can grab a coffee, for jazz and takes you to the point explore the city’s heritage and delve from which he could look back at deeper into the Larkin archives. this ‘isolate city spread alongside water’ as he took the ferry over to As with any city centre, some parts Lincolnshire and back. have changed radically over the years. Other streets look almost This part of the trail is named after the same as they did decades ago, Larkin’s hymn to Hull and the East during Larkin’s time here, and Riding, the poem Here. The trail before. Hull’s fascinating Old Town, takes in a number of sites that with its cobbles, porticos and feature in Larkin’s poetry, beginning intriguing staithes, is one such area. at the Hull Royal Hotel (Friday Tracing his footsteps across the Night in the Royal Station Hotel), and city, you feel that wherever he was, taking in Paragon Station (Whitsun Larkin was simply Here. Larkin’s Here Map City Centre Trail
Royal Hotel Welcome to the Larkin Trail The sign can be found in the Hotel lounge.
Royal Hotel The sign can be found at the front entrance of the hotel.
Paragon Interchange The sign can be found at the end of the station concourse beyond the Larkin statue.
City Hall The sign can be found at the front entrance of the City Hall. Hull Royal Whitefriargate / Marks & Spencer Hotel The sign can be found in store by the ground floor lift.
Land of Green Ginger The sign can be found on the frontage of Shackle Chambers, 7 Land of Green Ginger.
Trinity Square The sign can be found on the front of the Woollen Warehouse where KallKwik is located.
The Pier & Booking Office The sign can be found on the sea defence wall approaching Victoria Pier adjacent to the former ferry waiting room (now café).
High Street & Ye Olde Black Boy The sign can be found on the gable end wall of the pub.
The White Hart The sign can be found on the side wall of the pub.
Hull History Centre The sign can be found on the public open space in front on the History Centre.
Scale: 5 minutes’ walking time Hull Royal Hotel
Scale: 5 minutes’ walking time
Larkin’s Here Locations 12-19 Beyond the City Centre Est. time 2 hrs
Beyond the City Centre, the thoroughfare where Larkin liked journey visits places that were at to shop. With its lively café culture, the heart of Larkin’s life in Hull. this is the perfect place to recharge your batteries. From the ‘lucent comb’ of Hull Royal Infirmary, where he stayed as Your journey then continues past an inpatient, the Trail guides you the large house and garden he on up to the old General Cemetery reluctantly bought, and guides you of which he was so fond, then to across to the University of Hull, Pearson Park, where Larkin lived in where Larkin worked in its ‘lifted an attic flat for 18 years. study-storehouse’ as the University Librarian for 30 years. Entering the long, leafy boulevards of ‘The Avenues,’ the Trail pauses The Trail then takes a suburban for reflection at the place where direction and visitors can drive, he went ‘to the inevitable’ and cycle or take a bus to Cottingham, died. The journey continues the large village where Philip Larkin along Newland Avenue, the busy is buried. BEVERLEY ROAD
INGLEMIRE LANE
INGLEMIRE LANE
INGLEMIRE LANE
CRANBROOK AVENUE
AUCKLAND AVENUE
UNIVERSITY OF HULL
COTTINGHAM ROAD
COTTINGHAM ROAD
BEVERLEY ROAD
NEWLAND PARK
VENTNOR STREET
CHANTERLANDS AVENUE NEWLAND AVENUE
EXMOUTH STREET ALEXANDRA ROAD
GRAFTON STREET SHARP STREET
LAMBERT STREET GODDARD AVENUE BRICKNELL AVENUE DE GREY STREET MARSHALL STREET REYNOLDSON STREET
ELLA STREET
NEWLAND AVENUE
QUEENS ROAD
SALISBURY STREET VICTORIA AVENUE VICTORIA AVENUE PEARSON AVE BEVERLEY ROAD
PEARSON PARK
PARK AVENUE PARK AVENUE
RICHMOND STREET
CAVE STREET WESTBOURNE AVENUE CHANTERLANDS AVENUE Larkin’s Here Map HINDERWELL STREET
BeyondMARLBOROUGH the AVENUE CityPRINCES Centre AVENUE PARK GROVE
Hull RoyalBLENHEIM STREET Infirmary Newland Avenue / Sharp Street
The signBELVOIR can STREET be found on theDUESBERY boundary STREET The sign can be found at the junction of PERTH STREET wall of the hospital by the pedestrian Sharp Street and Newland Avenue. crossingCLUMBER on STREET Argyle Street. THORESBY STREET NEWSTEAD STREET 105 Newland Park WHARNCLIFFE STREET CemeteriesWELBECK STREET The sign can be found at the second entrance to Newland Park travelling out CEMETERY Spring Bank West The sign can be found on the Spring Bank of town. BEVERLEY ROAD CEMETERIES West Gateway to the General Cemetery. SPRING BANK WEST SPRING BANK University of Hull Pearson Park The sign can be found at the entrance to SPRING BANK WEST The sign can be found on the conservatory the Brynmor Jones Library. outbuilding near to the memorial bench. Larkin’s Cottingham SPRING BANK Nuffield Hospital The sign can be found on the front of The The sign can be found at the front of the Duke of Cumberland pub facing up King site by the staff entrance. Street. FREETOWN WAY
PARK STREET
LONDESBOROUGH STREET
FERENSWAY
ARGYLE STREET
HULL ROYAL INFIRMARY
Hull Royal Hotel ANLABY ROAD ANLABY ROAD
RAWLINS WA
HARLAND WAY DUNSWELL ROAD UNIVERSITY OF HULL Y LAWNS
NORTHGATE NORTHGATE
STATION ROAD
WEST END ROAD CEMETERY
EPPLEWORTH ROAD NEW VILLAGE ROAD
HALLGATE HALLGATE
ST MARGARETS AVENUE
KING STREET ENDYKE LANE GREEN LANE
SOUTH STREET NEWGATE STREET
BAYNARD AVENUE THWAITE STREET
HULL ROAD OOD ROAD SOUTHW
PRIORY ROAD
INGLEMIRE LANE CASTLE ROAD BEVERLEY ROAD
INGLEMIRE LANE
INGLEMIRE LANE
INGLEMIRE LANE
CRANBROOK AVENUE
AUCKLAND AVENUE
UNIVERSITY OF HULL
COTTINGHAM ROAD
COTTINGHAM ROAD
BEVERLEY ROAD
NEWLAND PARK
VENTNOR STREET
CHANTERLANDS AVENUE NEWLAND AVENUE
EXMOUTH STREET ALEXANDRA ROAD
GRAFTON STREET SHARP STREET
LAMBERT STREET GODDARD AVENUE BRICKNELL AVENUE DE GREY STREET MARSHALL STREET REYNOLDSON STREET
ELLA STREET
NEWLAND AVENUE
QUEENS ROAD
SALISBURY STREET VICTORIA AVENUE VICTORIA AVENUE PEARSON AVE BEVERLEY ROAD
PEARSON PARK
PARK AVENUE PARK AVENUE
RICHMOND STREET
CAVE STREET WESTBOURNE AVENUE CHANTERLANDS AVENUE HINDERWELL STREET
MARLBOROUGH AVENUE PRINCES AVENUE PARK GROVE
BLENHEIM STREET
BELVOIR STREET DUESBERY STREET PERTH STREET CLUMBER STREET
THORESBY STREET NEWSTEAD STREET
WHARNCLIFFE STREET WELBECK STREET CEMETERY
CEMETERIES BEVERLEY ROAD SPRING BANK WEST SPRING BANK
SPRING BANK WEST
SPRING BANK
FREETOWN WAY
PARK STREET
LONDESBOROUGH STREET
FERENSWAY
ARGYLE STREET
HULL ROYAL INFIRMARY
Hull Royal Hotel ANLABY ROAD ANLABY ROAD
RAWLINS WAY
Larkin’s Elsewhere Locations 20-25 West to East Est. time 1 day
Larkin’s Elsewhere takes in Beyond, inland and further to the locations across the surrounding west, amongst the ‘thin and thistled’ countryside, from West to East. fields around the Humber estuary, The Trail is no longer linear and lie the quiet villages where Larkin marks several significant locations loved to cycle. From one of these peppered around the East Riding. villages, Blacktoft, the Trail moves They could form the basis of a on to the delightful market town of fascinating short break exploring Beverley, as Larkin liked to do when Larkin’s ‘dear landscape’ – Larkin returning home on his bicycle. took many days out, alone and with To the east of Hull the Trail heads friends, visiting these locations, out across the ever-lonelier which informed many of his poems. Holderness Plain, where ‘silence stands / Like heat ‘, calling at Six miles from Cottingham lies Patrington to admire its exquisite Hessle, former home of Larkin’s church. Finally, the Trail enters the first publishers, George and Jean dunes and rough grasses of Spurn Hartley. A short distance away, Point, a remote spit of land curving Hessle Foreshore stretches along into the North Sea, where ‘Ends the the banks of the broad Humber, land suddenly beyond a beach / Of dominated by the suspended ‘giant shapes and shingle.’ step’ of the Humber Bridge. Larkin’s Elsewhere Map West to East
253 Hull Road, Hessle The Humber Bridge The sign can be found on the garden wall The sign can be found on the north tower of number 253 Hull Road (please respect of the Humber Bridge at the level of the that this is a private residence). east path of the pedestrian walkway. Access on foot, by bicycle and wheelchair, is from the Humber Bridge Country Park car park.
ROAD SOUTH
FIRST LANE
ANLABY PARK
HESSLE ROAD
NORTHOME ROAD
HULL ROAD PRIORYWAY SKEFFLING B1445 HULL ROAD SAINSBURY WAY EASINGTON SEASIDE ROAD SAINSBURY’S SUPERMARKET
HENRY BOOT WAY FIRTHOLME ROAD FIRTHOLME NORTH SAXON WAY
PRIORYWAY SEA
A63 EASINGTON ROAD CLIVE SULLIVAN WAY
HEADS LANE KILNSEA CLIVE SULLIVAN WAY FERRIBY ROAD FERRIBY ROAD
SPURN ROAD
DAVENPORT AVENUE HEADS LANE
FERRIBY ROAD FERRIBY ROAD
WOODFIELD LANE
SOUTHFIELD DAVENPORT AVENUE RIVER HUMBER WOODFIELD LANE
STATION ROAD STATION ROAD SOUTHFIELD
SOUTHFIELD
CLIVE SULLIVAN WAY SOUTHFIELD HUMBER BRIDGE A63 HUMBER BRIDGE CLIVE SULLIVAN WAY A15 COUNTRY SPURNPARK ROAD A15 COUNTRY PARK A63
REDCLIFF ROAD REDCLIFF ROAD A63 A63 CLIVE SULLIVAN WAY CLIVE SULLIVAN WAY
CLIFF ROAD CLIFF ROAD
CLIFF ROAD CLIFF ROAD HUMBER BRIDGE RIVER HUMBER
HUMBER BRIDGE SPURN HEAD
RIVER HUMBER NEWPORT ROAD
M62
NEWPORT
WALLINGFEN LANE
MAIN ROAD Blacktoft M62
The sign can be found on the gable GILBERDYKE B1230 end wall of the Old School House. MAIN ROAD Beverley Arms Hotel
The sign can be found on the front TOUNGE LANE of the hotel to right of entrance. BROAD LANE BROOMFLEET
Patrington & the
SPARROWCROFT LANE
Holderness Plain OLD LANE The sign is located on the wall of the car park at St Patrick's church. RIVER HUMBER YOKEFLEET BLACKTOFT BLACKTOFT LANE
Spurn Point FAXFLEET The sign is located on the battery RIVER OUSE wall by car park at end of the Point.
NORTH BAR WITHOUT
NORWOOD
WYLIES ROAD
NORTH BAR WITHIN
SKEFFLING B1445 HULL ROAD YORK ROAD EASINGTON A1174 HENGATE SEASIDE ROAD
NEW WALKERGATE SOW HILL ROAD
SATURDAY FIRTHOLME ROAD FIRTHOLME MARKET NORTH NEWBEGIN LAIRGATE WEDNESDAY SEA MARKET
ARMSTRONG WAY A164 EASINGTON ROAD WESTWOOD ROAD LORD ROBERTS ROAD EASTGATE CHAMPNEY ROAD
FLEMINGATE KILNSEA THE MINSTER
SPURN ROAD B1230
ADMIRAL WALKER ROAD KELDGATE
CARTWRIGHT LANE
QUEENSGATE
RIVER HUMBER A164
HOLLYM ROAD STATION ROAD NORTHSIDE
TITHE BARN LANE A1033
SPURN ROAD WESTGATE MARKET PLACE HIGH STREET
EASTGATE HOLMPTON ROAD KILN LANE KILN INGS LANE CHURCH
ST PATRICKS GREEN CHURCH LANE HUMBER LANE
GREENSHAW LANE B1445 SPURN HEAD SOUTHSIDE WELWICK ROAD
HAVEN ROAD About the Trail
The Larkin Trail was created as part Additional support was provided of Larkin25, a commemoration of by the Philip Larkin Society, the the life and work of Philip Larkin, Estate of Philip Larkin, the Society widely regarded as Britain’s greatest of Authors, Faber and Faber, Hull post war poet. History Centre, the University of Hull, Visit Hull and East Yorkshire, The Larkin Trail was inspired by Hull Tours, Hull City Council and Jean Hartley’s original walking East Riding of Yorkshire Council. guide, Philip Larkin’s Hull and East Yorkshire (The Philip © Larkin25 2011 Larkin Society). Jean’s advice and Larkin’s manuscripts, photographs inspiration was invaluable in and poems are © 2011 The Estate of developing The Larkin Trail. Philip Larkin. By permission of the The Larkin Trail is online at Society of Authors, on behalf of the www.thelarkintrail.co.uk Larkin Estate.
Visit the mobile site to access The website and signage includes the trail on the move audio and extracts from publications www.thelarkintrail.mobi © Faber and Faber. By permission of the publishers. The Larkin Trail was created by Larkin25 in partnership with Information correct at time of Groundwork in Hull, United going to press. Creatives and Human Design. design: humandesign.co.uk