Wenceslas Hollar’s 17th-century map of Kingston shows the Old Town within its walls, with the Tudor fortifications on the east bank of the Hull river ( at the top of his bird’s eye view plan).īy the 18th and 19th centuries the city had expanded outside the now demolished walls, with the moat enlarged to create new docks for increased trade. Wenceslas Hollar’s The Towne of Hull (north is to the left, Hull river at top and Humber right) In fact, I’m going further by basing Blastburn on Hull’s Old Town, the core of the medieval settlement bounded by the river Hull to the east and the Humber estuary to the south. This time I’m taking a closer look at the fictional industrial town of Blastburn, making an assumption that it’s in the region of Kingston upon Hull in East Yorkshire, maybe even contiguous if not actually occupying the same equivalent space. Kingston Upon Hull as Blastburn, in Joan Aiken’s Midnight is a Place (credit here)Īnother post in my series exploring the ins and outs of Joan Aiken’s paracosm Midnight is a Place (1974) set in an alternate Britain she calls Albion.
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