Book captures final days of fruit market before move to new home

THE last days of one of the oldest street-based fruit, vegetable and flower markets in the country have been captured in a new book.
By The Newsroom
Published 9th Aug 2010, 01:54 BST
Updated 9th Aug 2010, 01:55 BST

Photographer Sarah Jane Daniels spent a couple of months recording the "undiluted character of a special group of people", the traders of Humber Street, in Hull, before they moved to new purpose-built premises in Priory Park.

For all the leaking roofs, dodgy electrics and walls dripping with damp, there is still huge nostalgia for their old home.

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Ernie Boyeson, of Barker Boyeson, who worked on Humber Street for 47 years, said: "The new facilties are beautiful, but there's no atmosphere, it's lost all its character. We used to be like agony aunts. People used to stop in for a chat and a cup of coffee, but you don't get that now."

Ms Daniels said: "It was a great project apart from getting up at the crack of dawn and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

"The new place is built for function and is very clinical and probably has to be in this day and age; the real loss is in all the individual buildings and the memories of the generations who were down that street."

Hull Fruit Market, Last Days on Humber Street is available, priced 8.50 from Hull Forward, 48 Queen Street, Hull, tel 01482 387450.

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