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The Bransholme Estate was originally planned to have a population of 26,000 but now has a population of over 30,000. [4] It was built mainly in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Bransholme Housing Estate was originally known as 'north of Sutton Road' or 'The Wawne Estate' until the current name was chosen in 1966 from a list including Soffham ...
In January 1548 English observers noted that cannon would be needed to capture Branxholme. [2] In 1570 the Scotts themselves slighted and burnt the castle. On 20 April 1570, an English army under the Earl of Sussex and Lord Hunsdon arrived and Branxholm was described as "a very strong house and well set, and very pleasant gardens and orchards ...
The novelist Sir Walter Scott, a close friend and relative of the 4th Duke of Buccleuch, chose Branxholme as the setting for his book The Lay of the Last Minstrel.. The castle had been the hereditary seat of the Scotts of Buccleuch since the 15th century, and it was the centre of power in Upper Teviotdale, on one of the main historic routes south towards England.
The Bransholme Estate has been built on the former RAF site. [21] The population of the ward in Sutton-on-Hull was 12,881 at the 2001 census. [22] This had dropped slightly to 12,649 by the time of the 2011 census. [1] The Sutton & Wawne Museum, [23] is inside The Old School, formerly the St James' Church of England School until 1977. It is now ...
Gibraltar farm was demolished by the beginning of the 1970s, by which time the Bransholme Housing Estate had begun to be developed to the south of the Wawne/Foredike Drain, with a large sewage works (see Bransholme water works) established on the south side of the Wawne Drain, adjacent to the River Hull. [29]
Bransholme water works is a surface water storage and pumping station serving the Bransholme and Kingswood estates in Kingston upon Hull, England. The facility was originally built in the late 1960s for both surface and waste water, and included a storage lagoon and sewage works – the sewage works was replaced c. 2000 by a large waste water ...
Estate Image Dates Location: Size (units) Notes/Description; 1: Churchill Gardens: 1946–62 built Pimlico area of Westminster. 1,600 Designed by architects Powell and Moya to replace Victorian terraced houses extensively damaged during the Blitz; won RIBA London Architectural Bronze Medal (1950); model for many later projects.
The site of the Balloon Centre is now part of the Bransholme estate. [18] The Bransholme estate is believed to be the largest Council estate in Yorkshire. [19] The main gates to the base were re-hung at Hull East Park and renovated in 1999 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the site being opened. [18]