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Pickering Park is a park in the western suburbs of Kingston upon Hull, on the north side of Hessle Road, near the former Kingston High School in Anlaby, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Pickering Park is a council run park of 25.62 acres (103,700 m2) with an ornamental and sensory gardens, aviaries, and a playground and paddling pool. Sport facilities at the park are four football pitches, and an 80 peg lake for fishing.[1]
The park was opened 13 July 1911, a gift from Christopher Pickering, a successful trawler owner, and benefactor;[2][3] part of a model village development including almshouses and a children's home.[4] The city's first nautical museum, the Museum of Fisheries and Shipping opened in Pickering Park in 1912,[5] later to move to the former Hull Dock company offices and become the Hull Maritime Museum.
The associated almshouses,[6] the former museum (as of 2011 a boxing club),[7] and a related pumping station,[8] are all listed buildings, as are the original iron park gates,[9] which are one of the few early 20th century ornamental iron structures in Hull to have survived the Second World War drive for scrap iron.[10][11]
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