This street plays an important part in my family's history, as it housed many members of the Lamb family for many years.
I knew from the census records that 2 Abbey Crescent was the Lamb home for a long time - from the time of the 1881 census (or perhaps before that) until at least 1913 (documented) and into the 1930s. My mother remembers that Charlotte, Marcus's daughter, remained there with her uncles Frank and Edgar.
My mum told me that not only did the family live at number 2, but my great aunt and her sister lived at number 6 with Ann Jennison, who brought them up, and after my great aunt married, she moved into number 1. Martin James Lamb, my great-grandfather, ended up living at number 15. This was apparently next to a factory of some kind (Texel, perhaps, my great aunt said?).
All the houses faced the Cottingham drain - clearly visible on old maps - and presumably draining water rather than sewage, but still apparently rather smelly at times, according to my aunt, who remembers it.
Abbey Crescent is shown on older maps as north of Fountain Road. I guess it would be about where a street called Hadleigh Close is on my modern (well, 1980s-ish) map. Its main access seems to have been from Fountain Road, via a long lane or footpath. Wainfleet Terrace was first on leaving Fountain Road, with Abbey Crescent a continuation of it. Both had front gardens/forecourts.
Hull City Council's online image archive has a few photos of the houses before clearance - including the very house my mother tells me that my great-grandfather lived in. It was really good to find these photos, but although I've requested permission, Hull City Council won't let me include any here, in case they get stolen by people copying them (there are perhaps many people desperate for pictures of dilapidated terraced houses in Hull?) So the photo at the top of this page is of a terraced house in York, vaguely similar to the Abbey Crescent houses.