Grade II Listed Buildings in the East Riding of Yorkshire - Hull Paragon Interchange (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hull Paragon Interchange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The station of 2.5 acres was opened by the York and North Midland Railway as "Hull Paragon Street station" on 8 May 1848 (though not officially until 1851) as a centrally-located railway terminal for Hull, with a three-bay pitched-roof trainshed. The name Paragon Station derives from a nearby street name. The adjacent hotel, named the Royal Station Hotel after a stay by Queen Victoria in 1854, but later renamed the Royal Hotel was added in 1851. Both the station and the hotel were designed by George Townsend Andrews who died in 1853, young and in poverty four years after the decline in fortune and death of George Hudson, the 'Railway King'. The Y