A man leans on a lamppost to drink a can of beer near a row of boarded up houses waiting to be demolished.
A man drinks a can of beer while waiting for a friend at the end of Mappleton Grove on the Preston Road Estate in Hull. The houses have been boarded up and fenced off. Kingston Upon Hull is a city in Yorkshire with a resident population of 257,000 located 25 miles from the North Sea on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary. Hull suffered heavy damage during the Second World War and went into decline suffering a wide range of social deprivation. Recently the city has embarked on a programme of regeneration and renewal.
Size: 6142px × 4096px
Location: Preston Road, Estate, Hull, UK
Photo credit: © Richard Splash / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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