A couple of months ago I mentioned how I had stumbled across an old photograph showing a proposed winter gardens complex in Queens Gardens.
Apart from a date in the early 1970s, the black and white image was all I had to go on.
Now, thanks to park ranger Stuart MacDonald, I've got a copy of Planning In Action, An Account of Aims and Achievements in Kingston upon Hull.
Published by the city council and priced two shillings and sixpence, it was available from newsagents and branches of WHSmith.
Written when Hull's post-war rebuilding programme was still on the go, it said: "This booklet aims to show not only what is proposed for the future of the city but also what has already been achieved."
At the time, Queens Gardens was undergoing a facelift. A new police headquarters had just been built and a new Custom House was on the way.
Ironically, the police station is now largely empty and the Custom House was demolished some years ago to make way for an apartment block.
An extension of the Guildhall was also planned but would never actually be built.
New lawns, seating, flower beds and three ornamental ponds were included in the design for the gardens.
The booklet adds: "A further interesting feature will be a glass pyramid-shaped winter garden which will house exotic plants and a small restaurant.
"Advertisements will be excluded from all parts of the gardens."
I can only assume the winter garden project bit the dust because of the cost.
But the booklet echoes much of what has been said recently about the latest facelift plans for the city centre, including Queens Gardens.
"No one person or body can be the sole judge of good or bad taste," it says. "In the long run, the appearance of the city depends on the taste of the public.
"The planning authority will encourage good taste where it can but its main effort must be directed towards achieving harmony in scale, design and materials between neighbouring buildings.
"In other words, it must try to ensure that buildings fit in with their surroundings."
Maybe it wasn't down to money after all. Perhaps the prospect of a big glass pyramid being plonked right in the middle of Queens Gardens was one step too far even for those 1970s planners.
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