Friday, 28 November 2014

Fact 47. Railway Dock was the first in Hull to have direct rail access.

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Junction had been opened in 1829 completing a ring of docks around the centre of Hull. The Old Dock was first accessed from the River Hul...
Saturday, 22 November 2014

Fact 46. Earle's Ship Shipbuilders were world beaters.

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Charles and William Earle were millwrights, founders and general smiths before they bought the business of James Livingston, Junction Found...
Sunday, 16 November 2014

Fact 45. The Lion of Hull was Sir Leo Shultz, OBE.

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Joseph Leopold Shultk was born in 1900 to Polish Immigrant parents. His father Solomon had come over in around 1880. His mother was a Hille...
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Friday, 14 November 2014

Fact 36. Venn diagrams were conceived by an Hullensian.

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John Venn was born in Hull and he conceived the idea of using what became known as Venn Diagrams for use in probability, logic and statisti...
Sunday, 9 November 2014

Fact 44. A Hull FC player received the Victoria Cross.

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On this Remembrance Sunday one hundred years after the start of WWI I thought it appropriate to write about a recipient of the highest awar...
Wednesday, 5 November 2014

Fact 43. Tom Courtenay was born in Hull.

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Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay was born in Hull 25th February 1937. As thousands of others in the Hessle Road area of Hull his mother and fath...
Tuesday, 28 October 2014

Fact 42. Hull is twinned with Freetown, Sierra Leone.

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Cities are twinned to stimulate and foster commercial, educational and cultural links and the twinning of Hull with Freetown was instigated...