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Keith Easton Pier & Miscellaneous Road Service Licence No’s: BH101/20, /28, /43, /44, /59, /96, /154, /155, /156, /162, /163 BH101/164 to /183 (HCC contracts) There was only one Municipal tram and bus route that ran southwards from the city centre and this was to serve the cross-Humber ferries of the Great Central Railway and…

Keith Easton Outer Circle Road Service Licence No’s: BH101/104, /105, /125, /126, /127. Due to the complexity and large number of services in this group it will be described under each licence number, relating transfers on and off as they occur and further development of each of these transfers can be followed on the new…

Keith Easton Inner Circle Road Service Licence No’s: BH101/1, /13, /14, /15, /27, /62, /116, /128. The chapter heading is rather misleading as the term “Inner Circle” was not used in this group until 1980, and it concerned only one licence, even then. The licence concerned was the one that had its origins in the…

Keith Easton Bransholme Special Services Road Service Licence No’s: BH101/135, /136, /140, /141, /160. In May 1974, a new licence, BH101/135 was granted for a circular bus service which traversed the main areas of Bransholme estate. It commenced and terminated at the Bodmin Road timing point and was numbered 99. There was a similar school…

Keith Easton Sutton (Via Holderness Road) Road Service Licence No’s: BH101/29, /36, /45, /46, /57, /132, /133, /142. Sutton-in-Holderness was a village some few miles north east of the centre of Hull and due to it being situated outside the city boundary; it was not served by vehicles of the Corporation. Consequently, the first bus…

Keith Easton Stoneferry Road Road Service Licence No’s: BH101/30,/31,/37,/129,/130,/131,/137,/139,/143,/144,/157. The village of Stoneferry was the northernmost outpost of the town boundary at the turn of the century, as Sutton-in-Holderness had not yet been incorporated into the town. The Corporation had applied for Parliamentary Authority to build a tramway along Cleveland Street and Stoneferry Road, and…

Keith Easton Spring Bank West Trams: SW, SWCTrolleybuses: 61, 61ARoad Service Licence No’s: BH101/2, /3, /4, /11, /12, /23, /24, /47, /48, /49, /54, /83, /84, /95,/121, /124 Municipal public transport arrived along Spring Bank West when a branch of the Prince’s Avenue tramway service ‘S’ was extended from Botanic Gardens Station to the railway…

Keith Easton Prince’s Avenue and Newland Avenue Trams: S, SB, SC, QSTrolleybuses: 62, 62ARoad Service Licence No’s: BH101/5, /50, /70, /77, /93, /113, /114 The fourth electric tramway in Hull travelled westwards along Spring Bank and terminated at the Botanic Gardens railway crossing. Operation had commenced in June 1900, but by October further tracks had…

Keith Easton Holderness Road Trams: H, TH, IRH, IRTHTrolleybuses: 64, 64ARoad Service Licence No’s: BH101/6, /7, /41, /42, /52, /53, /64 /66, /67, /68, /69, /78, /85, /90,/101, /102, /103, /112, /134. Public transport along Holderness Road commenced under Corporation auspice on April, 1099. This was in the form of an electric tramway service from…

Keith Easton Hessle Road Trams: D, DPTrolleybuses: 70Road Service Licence No’s: BH101/17, /56, /87, /92, /108, /150, /151, /159, /160. It was Hessle Road long with Anlaby Road which, as already stated earlier, lay claim to the first municipal public transport in Hull, when the service from St John Street to Dairycoates commenced operation by…