NATIONAL CIVILIAN WWll MEMORIAL TRUST

Welcome to the website of the National Civillian WWII Memorial Trust (NCWW2MT)

The aim of the trust is to establish a Home Front Tribute on the site of the former National Picture Theatre in Kingston Upon Hull.

We beleive that the site, with its existing ruins, should be developed for use as a memorial and for educational and community use, and the next door Swan Inn restored and brought back into sympathetic use. The Beverley Road area and the city as a whole will then benefit. It would make a major contribution to the local community, education for children and adults and tourism. The National Picture Theatre, with its national and international significance, is a unique and distinctive survival, and has the potential to draw visitors from the region, the UK and abroad. 

In our view the current development application fails to take account of the significance of the National Picture Theatre either as a historic building, or as a powerful symbol for local people and those further afield. It fails to see the value of the cinema ruins to the local community, local pride or power of place, or to education and tourism.

The National Picture Theatre is a focus for the city's wartime memories and for the remembrance of those who served on the Home Front.  People and communities matter, and the Council must take the strong feeling of people living in the city in to consideration.  The proposal to build a restaurant and flats behind the frontage of the National Picture Theatre, and the disregard for the site's significance for local people especially is an insult and affront to those who served on the Home Front, and to the memories of the many that died during that struggle. It denigrates Hull and the great sacrifices that the city and its people made in wartime.  

We should never forget that it was the courage and bravery of the previous generation of our city and nation that stood together against tyranny, death and destruction to allow us the freedom to speak out.  We are using this freedom now to urge the council to acknowledge the value of this building which, more than any other stands as a unique and powerful reminder and symbol of Hull's extraordinary fortitude during the war.

NEW LEAFLET

A leaflet was launched on the 17th March 2010 to raise awareness of the Trust's aims and to raise much needed funds. A copy can be viewed and/or downloaded from this site. Click on 'Downloadable PDF Files' in the menu on the lefthand side of this page.

TESTIMONY FILMS

If you are over 75 and lived in Kingston upon Hull duing the Blitz, Testimony Films would like to hear from you. Please click on 'Testimony Films' in the menu on the lefthand side of this page. 

THIS WEBSITE

This website was established on Saturday 22nd August 2009.

It was last updated on Thursday 8th July 2010.

Cheers.

Alan Canvess