Monday, 6 February 2017

Fact 89. A cure for seasickness?

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Earle's Shipbuilders in Hull were the constructors of one of the strangest ships ever seen. SS Bessemer was designed by Sir Henry Besse...
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Fact 88. A route to fame.

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Not many people have made such  large and lasting change to their city as Alfred Gelder. So much so that a main thoroughfare in the city ce...
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Tuesday, 10 January 2017

Fact 87. City's son on a pedestal.

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Everybody knows William Wilberforce was one of the main movers in getting slavery abolished, but not so many know the story of the monument...
Saturday, 7 January 2017

Fact 86. Hull's own Dorothy.

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Hardly known at all, but born in Hull four months before the much venerated Amy Johnson Dorothy Mackaill went on to carve a career in one o...
Monday, 2 January 2017

Fact 85. Safer old age with help from Hull.

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With the 'Baby Boomers' of Britain, and the Rest of the World, reaching a certain age many will be fortunate that Christian Langton...
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Friday, 30 December 2016

Fact 84. Model Makers Magic, from Hull

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Humbrol started out in Kingston upon Hull, or just plain Hull, in 1919, under the name of the Humber Oil Company. It started as a maker of ...
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Thursday, 22 December 2016

Fact 83. Ronnie Hilton was the cover version king.

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Ronnie Hilton was born in Hull on 26th January 1926. I have seen his father as being a soldier or a seaman, but he left Paisley Street Scho...
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