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New and Complete History of the Town of Kingston-upon-Hull. Gray Battle, Robert. Battle's Hull Directory, for the Year 1791. Hull: J. and W. Rawson. 1885 reprint; Tickell, John (1798). History of the Town and County of Kingston-upon-Hull. Hull. Cooke, George Alexander (c. 1800). "Hull". Topographical and Statistical Description of the County of ...
Sculcoates power station supplied electricity to Kingston upon Hull and the wider East Yorkshire area from 1898. An earlier 1893 station in Dagger Lane had operated public lighting in Hull Old Town. Sculcoates power station was built and operated by Kingston upon Hull Corporation on a site in Sculcoates Lane adjacent to the Beverley and ...
Plans began to develop between Hull City Council and the University of Hull, and ultimately the Heritage Lottery Fund made the dream a reality by providing the Hull History Centre with a £7.7 million grant, [2] the largest ever lottery grant for a UK archive project [citation needed]. Building for the centre began in late 2007 and on 25 ...
Drypool (archaic Dripole [note 1]) is an area within the city of Kingston upon Hull, in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.. Historically Drypool was a village, manor and later parish on the east bank of the River Hull near the confluence of the Humber Estuary and River Hull; it is now part of the greater urban area of Kingston upon Hull, and gives its name to a ...
Sculcoates has a library, a post office, a high school, two primary schools and a swimming bath called Beverley Road Baths. The baths was opened in 1905, and underwent a £3.75 million refurbishment from June 2020 until reopening in August 2021. [5] The baths are a Grade II Listed building. [6]
Land of Green Ginger is a BBC Play for Today by Alan Plater about Hull, televised in 1973. [7] The Land of Green Ginger is a track on the 2004 album Bicycles and Tricycles by The Orb. The Land of Green Ginger was a participatory art project that explored encounters between refugees living in Hull and their host communities during 2008. [8]
Whitefriargate [note 1] is a pedestrianised street in the Old Town area of Kingston upon Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.During the 20th century, it was one of the main shopping streets in the city centre, but some of the major stores have closed down, which has been attributed to out of town shopping centres.
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