150 Facts about Hull.

Zachariah was the last but one child of six, three girls and three boys, and was born in August 1821. The family lived on High Street in Hu...

Trade continued to increase in Hull, even after the completion of Victoria Dock in 1850 (see Fact 59). In fact docks to the west of Hull ha...

Hull is surprisingly twinned with Reykjavik which is the capital of Iceland and the most norther capital of a sovereign state. Solfari...

Hull Truck Theatre Company was founded in 1971 by Mike Bradwell. He was later to say that 'Hull was the least likely place in the world...

The Land of Green Ginger is an actual place although I never believed it when I was small. I put it in the same category as the Land of Nod...

The founders of Reckitts came from strong stock. Issac Reckitt was the founder of the business but his grandfather reveals the determinatio...

In 1842 Christopher Pickering was born. His father was also Christopher and his mother was Jane (nee Gibson). His father followed the trade...