Discover A Poet s Landscape Welcome to The Larkin Trail!

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1 THE LARKIN TRAIL

2 Discover A Poet s Landscape Welcome to The Larkin Trail! Follow in Larkin s footsteps to see the diverse landscapes and rich architecture of Hull and the East Riding through a poet s eyes. Philip Larkin is widely regarded as the nation s favourite post-war poet. The Larkin Trail takes you on a literary journey through the city and countryside, taking in the buildings, streets and parks where Larkin lived, worked and visited, and which inspired his poetry. The Larkin Trail consists of 25 specially commissioned artworks, at sites across Hull and the surrounding countryside, featuring poetry extracts and information about the poet s life and work, linked to the location. You can also visit the Larkin Trail website to explore the writer s work and life through a unique, interactive archive of poetry, artwork and biographical information.

3 The Larkin Trail Discover a Poet's Landscape The Larkin Trail is made up of three parts: Larkin s Here (City Centre) starts at the Hull Royal Hotel, and takes in sites across the city. Discover the pubs where Larkin indulged his passion for jazz, and explore the literary and architectural history of this isolate city spread alongside water. Larkin s Here (Beyond the City Centre) enables visitors to explore the fringes of the city, particularly the University and Avenues area where Larkin spent much of his time. The trail takes in the houses Larkin lived in, the University Library which he oversaw the building of, and the parks and green spaces which inspired so many of his poems. Larkin s Elsewhere explores the wider countryside. From the quiet villages and churches that Larkin loved to visit, to the stark beauty of Holderness Plain and Spurn, the trail reveals the landscapes celebrated in Larkin s writing and captured in many of his photographs and letters.

4 Useful Information Planning your trip To help you to plan your visit to Larkin s Hull and East Yorkshire, and find great places to eat and stay during your trip, visit the official tourist information site: Hull Tours Tour Hull and the surrounding areas with a English Heritage accredited guide. Tel: info@tourhull.com Hull History Centre Hull History Centre holds a vast range of archive material about Larkin, Hull and the East Riding. Tel: Hull Museums & Galleries Some of the most visited museums and galleries in the region, from the Ferens Art Gallery to the many treasures in Hull s unique Museums Quarter. Tel: The University of Hull Enjoy the art collection, see poetry in performance at the Philip Larkin Centre, or enjoy a concert at Middleton Hall. East Riding Museums & Heritage Make time to explore the art, history and archaeology of East Yorkshire. Tel: Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - Spurn Point Spurn Point is the final point on the Larkin Trail. A unique coastal reserve stretching three and half miles into the Humber Estuary. Philip Larkin Society Promotes awareness of the life and work of Philip Larkin. Why not become a member? Faber & Faber Publishers of Larkin s poetry, biographies, audio and rare books by and about the poet.

5 Larkin s Here City Centre Trail Locations 1-13 Est. time 2hrs Here, the City Centre section of the Trail, leads you to places frequented by Larkin, both when he was alone and when in the company of others. It guides you to pubs where he enjoyed a drink, pauses at places where he indulged his passion for jazz and takes you to the point from which he could look back at this isolate city spread alongside water as he took the ferry over to Lincolnshire and back. This part of the trail is named after Larkin s hymn to Hull and the East Riding, the poem Here. The trail takes in a number of sites that feature in Larkin s poetry, beginning at the Hull Royal Hotel (Friday Night in the Royal Station Hotel), and taking in Paragon Station (Whitsun Weddings), the City Hall (Broadcast), and Marks and Spencer (The Large Cool Store). It provides an insight into Hull s architectural and literary history, and finishes at one of Hull s newest buildings, Hull History Centre, where you can grab a coffee, explore the city s heritage and delve deeper into the Larkin archives. As with any city centre, some parts have changed radically over the years. Other streets look almost the same as they did decades ago, during Larkin s time here, and before. Hull s fascinating Old Town, with its cobbles, porticos and intriguing staithes, is one such area. Tracing his footsteps across the city, you feel that wherever he was, Larkin was simply Here.

6 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. Whitefriargate / Marks & Spencer The sign can be found in store by the ground floor lift. Hull Royal Hotel 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.

7 Scale: 5 minutes walking time

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9 Larkin s Here Beyond the City Centre Locations Est. time 2 hrs Beyond the City Centre, the journey visits places that were at the heart of Larkin s life in Hull. From the lucent comb of Hull Royal Infirmary, where he stayed as an inpatient, the Trail guides you on up to the old General Cemetery of which he was so fond, then to Pearson Park, where Larkin lived in an attic flat for 18 years. Entering the long, leafy boulevards of The Avenues, the Trail pauses for reflection at the place where he went to the inevitable and died. The journey continues along Newland Avenue, the busy thoroughfare where Larkin liked to shop. With its lively café culture, this is the perfect place to recharge your batteries. Your journey then continues past the large house and garden he reluctantly bought, and guides you across to the University of Hull, where Larkin worked in its lifted study-storehouse as the University Librarian for 30 years. The Trail then takes a suburban direction and visitors can drive, cycle or take a bus to Cottingham, the large village where Philip Larkin is buried.

10 WEST END ROAD ARGYLE STREET RAWLINS WAY STATION ROAD PARK STREET INGLEMIRE LANE Larkin s Here Map Beyond the City Centre Hull Royal Infirmary The sign can be found on the boundary wall of the hospital by the pedestrian crossing on Argyle Street. Cemeteries Spring Bank West The sign can be found on the Spring Bank West Gateway to the General Cemetery. Pearson Park The sign can be found on the conservatory outbuilding near to the memorial bench. Nuffield Hospital The sign can be found at the front of the site by the staff entrance. Newland Avenue / Sharp Street The sign can be found at the junction of Sharp Street and Newland Avenue. 105 Newland Park The sign can be found at the second entrance to Newland Park travelling out of town. University of Hull The sign can be found at the entrance to the Brynmor Jones Library. Larkin s Cottingham The sign can be found on the front of The Duke of Cumberland pub facing up King Street. LONDESBOROUGH STREET FERENSWAY HULL ROYAL INFIRMARY Hull Royal Hotel ANLABY ROAD ANLABY ROAD WNS NORTHGATE NORTHGATE NEW VILLAGE ROAD BAYNARD AVENUE HALLGATE SOUTH STREET KING STREET NEWGATE STREET HALLGATE ENDYKE LANE SOUTHWOOD ROAD PRIORY ROAD THWAITE STREET HULL ROAD

11 CHANTERLANDS AVENUE AUCKLAND AVENUE CRANBROOK AVENUE UNIVERSITY OF HULL COTTINGHAM ROAD COTTINGHAM ROAD NEWLAND PARK VENTNOR STREET NEWLAND AVENUE BEVERLEY ROAD EXMOUTH STREET ALEXANDRA ROAD GRAFTON STREET SHARP STREET LAMBERT STREET GODDARD AVENUE MARSHALL STREET REYNOLDSON STREET ELLA STREET NEWLAND AVENUE DE GREY STREET QUEENS ROAD VICTORIA AVENUE SALISBURY STREET VICTORIA AVENUE PEARSON PARK PEARSON AVE BEVERLEY ROAD PARK AVENUE PARK AVENUE CHANTERLANDS AVENUE RICHMOND STREET WESTBOURNE AVENUE MARLBOROUGH AVENUE PRINCES AVENUE HINDERWELL STREET PARK GROVE CAVE STREET PERTH STREET NEWSTEAD STREET WHARNCLIFFE STREET BLENHEIM STREET BELVOIR STREET CLUMBER STREET THORESBY STREET WELBECK STREET DUESBERY STREET CEMETERIES SPRING BANK WEST SPRING BANK

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13 Larkin s Elsewhere West to East Locations Est. time 1 day Larkin s Elsewhere takes in locations across the surrounding countryside, from West to East. The Trail is no longer linear and marks several significant locations peppered around the East Riding. They could form the basis of a fascinating short break exploring Larkin s dear landscape Larkin took many days out, alone and with friends, visiting these locations, which informed many of his poems. Six miles from Cottingham lies Hessle, former home of Larkin s first publishers, George and Jean Hartley. A short distance away, Hessle Foreshore stretches along the banks of the broad Humber, dominated by the suspended giant step of the Humber Bridge. Beyond, inland and further to the west, amongst the thin and thistled fields around the Humber estuary, lie the quiet villages where Larkin loved to cycle. From one of these villages, Blacktoft, the Trail moves on to the delightful market town of Beverley, as Larkin liked to do when returning home on his bicycle. To the east of Hull the Trail heads out across the ever-lonelier Holderness Plain, where silence stands / Like heat, calling at Patrington to admire its exquisite church. Finally, the Trail enters the dunes and rough grasses of Spurn Point, a remote spit of land curving into the North Sea, where Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach / Of shapes and shingle.

14 NORTHOME ROAD CLIFF ROAD HUMBER BRIDGE HEADS LANE WOODFIELD LANE Larkin s Elsewhere Map West to East 253 Hull Road, Hessle The sign can be found on the garden wall of number 253 Hull Road (please respect that this is a private residence). The Humber Bridge The sign can be found on the north tower of the Humber Bridge at the level of the east path of the pedestrian walkway. Access on foot, by bicycle and wheelchair, is from the Humber Bridge Country Park car park. FIRST LANE ANLABY PARK ROAD HESSLE ROAD HULL ROAD SAXON WAY SAINSBURY WAY SAINSBURY S SUPERMARKET PRIORY WAY PRIORY WAY HENRY BOOT WAY CLIVE SULLIVAN WAY A63 FERRIBY ROAD FERRIBY ROAD DAVENPORT AVENUE SOUTHFIELD STATION ROAD SOUTHFIELD CLIVE SULLIVAN WAY HUMBER BRIDGE COUNTRY PARK A15 A63 A63 CLIVE SULLIVAN WAY REDCLIFF ROAD CLIFF ROAD RIVER HUMBER

15 OLD LANE M62 NEWPORT Blacktoft The sign can be found on the gable end wall of the Old School House. MAIN ROAD M62 B1230 GILBERDYKE MAIN ROAD WALLINGFEN LANE Beverley Arms Hotel The sign can be found on the front of the hotel to right of entrance. BROAD LANE TOUNGE LANE BROOMFLEET Patrington & the Holderness Plain The sign is located on the wall of the car park at St Patrick's church. SPARROWCROFT LANE RIVER HUMBER Spurn Point The sign is located on the battery wall by car park at end of the Point. YOKEFLEET BLACKTOFT BLACKTOFT LANE RIVER OUSE FAXFLEET B1445 HULL ROAD EASINGTON SEASIDE ROAD FIRTHOLME ROAD EASINGTON ROAD NORTH SEA A1174 NORTH BAR WITHOUT NORTH BAR WITHIN YORK ROAD WYLIES ROAD WESTWOOD ROAD NEWBEGIN HENGATE SOW HILL ROAD LAIRGATE SATURDAY MARKET A164 NORWOOD CHAMPNEY ROAD NEW WALKERGATE WEDNESDAY MARKET LORD ROBERTS ROAD EASTGATE ARMSTRONG WAY KILNSEA SPURN ROAD ADMIRAL WALKER ROAD KELDGATE THE MINSTER B1230 FLEMINGATE RIVER HUMBER CARTWRIGHT LANE QUEENSGATE SPURN HEAD SPURN ROAD STATION ROAD INGS LANE HAVEN ROAD HUMBER LANE WESTGATE ST PATRICKS GREEN MARKET PLACE HIGH STREET GREENSHAW LANE A1033 SOUTHSIDE NORTHSIDE CHURCH LANE CHURCH TITHE BARN LANE HOLLYM ROAD KILN LANE EASTGATE B1445 WELWICK ROAD HOLMPTON ROAD

16 About the Trail The Larkin Trail was created as part of Larkin25, a commemoration of the life and work of Philip Larkin, widely regarded as Britain s greatest post war poet. The Larkin Trail was inspired by Jean Hartley s original walking guide, Philip Larkin s Hull and East Yorkshire (The Philip Larkin Society). Jean s advice and inspiration was invaluable in developing The Larkin Trail. The Larkin Trail is online at Visit the mobile site to access the trail on the move The Larkin Trail was created by Larkin25 in partnership with Groundwork in Hull, United Creatives and Human Design. Additional support was provided by the Philip Larkin Society, the Estate of Philip Larkin, the Society of Authors, Faber and Faber, Hull History Centre, the University of Hull, Visit Hull and East Yorkshire, Hull Tours, Hull City Council and East Riding of Yorkshire Council. Larkin Larkin s manuscripts, photographs and poems are 2011 The Estate of Philip Larkin. By permission of the Society of Authors, on behalf of the Larkin Estate. The website and signage includes audio and extracts from publications Faber and Faber. By permission of the publishers. Information correct at time of going to press. design: humandesign.co.uk