b'The Show BoxesMike PrattImages from two documents have been used to produce Figure:1:1.A hand-drawn plan from the Hull UniversityArchives 1of the dwellings and enclosing plots covering the area currently occupied by Nos 1 to 4 Main Street (including the Village Hall and the Old Show Field).2.A section of the OS map for 1854 covering a similar area.The two images have been manipulated to to give the best fit of common boundaries and dwellings.The hand-drawn plan is interesting in its own right: it shows plots extending back over what is now the Old Show Field and there are buldings where there arent any nowApart from this, the superimposition shows a possible, and interesting, juxtaposition of two structures, both at an angle to the main street, arrowed in the figure. The possibility is that an older building was knocked down, its end wall was keptFigure 1. Above.and incorporated into what we now know as the HuntSuperimposition of two documents from different Boxes. The end wall in question is significant becauseeras to show the close proximity of two buildings of its stone construction.which could share a common wall. The OS map is the lighter of the two.Below: The Show Boxes, c1979, before they were renovated and the roofline was brought down to the height of the section on the left. They were used to store paraphernalia for the Bishop Wilton Show, including the communal wooden loo seats that were placed over buckets or holes in the ground. It is possible that some people know them as the Hunt Boxes.1Hull University Archives. Ref: DDSY/4/94 (dated between 1700 & 1799 - probably c1770) - comprising10 separate hand-drawn plans showing dwellings, boundaries, acreage & names of occupiers.BULLETIN 14 251'