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What is Hull?

by Anng 5 months ago
Last updated 3 months ago.

In the BBC website’s coverage of the david Davis resignation (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7451879.stm) there’s an interesting sidelight on what the rest of the country considers to be Hull’s boundaries. Willerby, according to this, is in Hull, and is part of "the more affluent area of Hull". Well, we all know that it is really, but try telling that to the boundary commissioners!

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  1. TheBreaker Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Thats because it’s now Hull, Hull.

    Not Hull East Yorkshire, Hull Humberside.

  2. Anng Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Sorry, Johnny, not with you!

  3. TheBreaker Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    We are now the City and County of Hull. So think of it like Manchester and Greater Manchester. It’s easier for the government then remembering all the other names of the local tons and villages.

  4. MarioTheGibbon Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    yes, willerby really is a suburb. as are hessle, cottingham etc etc etc.

  5. ChiefDragon Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Jn When did we drop the ‘Kingston’from our city name, has the queen rescinded the honour bestowed upon us by a former king(can’t remember who)?

  6. barrow Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    You wish!Don’t forget that Hull was once in the Parish of Hessle and was a suburd of Hessle Hull has expanded to the city boundary.And stops at that boundary,but Hull is also in East Yorkshire and no longer a County in its own right.That stopped in 1974. .And how many times is Hull still refered to as being in Humberside when it is in East Yorkshire

  7. theagitator Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    We had all this on various sites about three months ago.I expect the same boring people are all getting rev’d up again. Please change the record.

  8. barrow Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I agree.I’ve changed the record to Billy Fury’s Jealousy

  9. TheBreaker Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    It hasn’t CD.

  10. Chromosome23 Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    I like the western suburbs, some good banjo players out there.

  11. barrow Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    The King was Edward 1.He stayed at Baynard Castle n Cottingham and went hunting.He startled a hare on the banks of the River Hull and saw the small wool trading outlet known as Wyke upon Hull.He struck a deal with the Lord Abbot of Meaux monastery,then the landlords,to give them land in north Lincolnshire, who gave up the land to Edward,who then granted Hull a Royal Charter and commended his new borough be called Kynston Upon Hull.It is still Kingston Upon Hull,but the City Council choose to call it as only Hull many years ago.Boring topic on proud medieval Kingston up Hull,the city I was born in and promote wherever I go

  12. medsec Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Excellent, good for you barrow. Kingston upon Hull has a rich and varied history and much to be proud of.

  13. theagitator Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    What a boring person.

  14. MarioTheGibbon Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    "I expect the same boring people are all getting rev’d up again…" – yes, you certainly are, agit.

  15. Anng Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    At the risk of continuing all the boring stuff, I do wish the people who bang on about it being Kingston upon Hull would learn a bit more history. From very soon after it’s naming, the city was known in all sorts of documents, and by its inhabitants as just Hull as often as it got its longer title. Get over it.

  16. barrow Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Whats boring about being proud of my home town city of Kingston upon Hull.That was the name given by a king in a Royal Charter and no matter if people used the name Hull,Kingston upon Hull is still the correct name.Maybe those that think it is boring were not born in Hull

  17. Anng Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Barrow, I was born and bred in Hull, and the "correct" name is what people have been using for centuries. It’s a pointless argument.

  18. DawnChorus Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    All the above comments make interesting reading,I don’t think!

  19. TheBreaker Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Well maybe you should start, thinking can be useful.

  20. ChiefDragon Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Thanks for that Barrow, I always thought that it was bestowed for giving the king sanctuary during the civil war. I have always been interested in history so I don’t find you boring,weird really I’ve never really gone into the history of Hull, must do something about that now I’m retired,where’s the best place to start?. Got some wallpapering to do first though could take a while.

  21. barrow Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Best place to start is by walking the Fish Trail which takes you through the medieval Old Town and explains many of the buildings and street names.Hull is so rich in history that some may find boring,but worth finding out more. One last boring point.The picture in Holy Trinity. Church of the Last Supper,has only ten of the twelve disciples on it.It was given to Hessle church,but was too big to get in through the doorway,so one disciple was cut off.It was still too big,so another disciple was cut off.It was still too big,so was given to Holy Trinity in Hull which had a bigger doorway Yes agree that it s another boring fact,but interesting and a part of Hull’s heritage

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    ChrisHolmes Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Agitator has a point. This whole argument has been done (almost) to death and there is a risk that outsiders will form an opinion that we are a one-dimensional folk that get completely hung up over such a single issue that is small beer when compared with other matters on other topics.

    That said, perhaps the fact we discuss it so often could also suggest that it means Hull folk don’t really have that much to worry about. I mean, in the case of Greater Manchester there are far more pressing issues to contend with such as the CONgestion charge and our problem with gun crime, both of which i think Hull should be thankful for that it doesn’t have.

    As I live in Greater Gunchester I guess I am qualified to add to JonnyNoah’s point. He is absolutely right. Manchester and Greater Manchester are two different beasts entirely. When most people from outside of GM hear or think of Manchester they see the whole conurbation either side of the M60. This map helps to put it into perspective. As you can see, The City of Manchester (to give it its full title) forms only a small slice of the Metropolitan County of Greater Manchester albeit a densely populated one.

    Depending upon who you talk to in each of the Metropolitan Districts surrounding Manchester you will get a different perspective on what is Manchester. Interestingly though, there is a clear north-south dividein opinion. Most people in Oldham and Rochdale for example, view themselves as Mancunians and put Greater Manchester on their postal address whereas in towns such as Sale and Altrincham which are part of Trafford MBC, people prefer to deny the very existence of Greater Manchester instead opting to put Cheshire on their postal address even though they technically live in Greater Manchester.

    So it just goes to show that this whole debate on local identity is not unique to Hull. I don’t even think its more fiercely debated here than elsewhere its probably that we are so concerned with our own local identity that it just seems as though it is more hotly contested here than anywhere else and is something that only Hull people are interested in.

    In my case, as a resident of Radcliffe I am a Bury MBC taxpayer but I guess as I am only young enough to have ever remembered living on Humberside I naturally err towards these more modern political boundaries so I always include Greater Manchester on my postal address as I class myself as an adopted Mancunian. In fact, my online user name on the MEN website is eastridingmancunian. Divided loyalties admittedly, except when the tigers play at Old Trafford next season.

    However I am sure the anti-Humberside brigade on here will no doubt point out that strictly speaking I should be putting Lancashire and not Greater Manchester on my postal address. Ah well, each to their own I suppose.

  23. AR-T0NY Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    Maybe we should be relieved that t’ King in question was not inclined to give his name to our dear old ‘Ull. `King Edwards Town’, we would all now be referred to as Spuds. Ha!

  24. black Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

    then when we got drunk on a friday night, people would say.. those "mash get smashed!"

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