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Town Hall

Not far from the railway crossing you will see the Town Hall. 
 
The present building is on the site of Rose Villa, a mansion set in attractive gardens built in the 1830s for J.F.Lamplugh.
 
It became White Lodge and was bought by the Borough Council in 1925 and demolished. The new town hall was built in 1932 with fifteen bays and a marble staircase and is floodlit at night and today used solely by East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 
 
Victoria Gardens were originally Midway Green and the old properties next to the Crown Hotel were part of a hamlet round the green, which was half way between the Old Town and the Quay, with the moor separating them. Originally gravel pits the green was renamed in 1873 and was the terminus for the railway line from Hull.
 
After a rest in the gardens walk back down Quay Road past the railway station, right, opened in 1846. This was designed by G.T. Andrews the architect for George Hudson, who attended the opening ceremony. A new station was built in 1912 to accommodate the extension of the railway line.

Going back towards Old Town on the left is Christ Church built in 1841 in Early English style, with no spire, to designs by Sir George Gilbert Scott. The church had to be made larger in 1851 to cater for the increasing population and a spire was added in 1859.