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History and Architecture of Hull

Activities
Date
21 Apr 2012
Start time
12:00 AM
Venue
Hull (Royal Hotel)
Speaker
N/A
History and Architecture of Hull

Event Information

This YAYAS/YPS joint day-trip to Hull will be guided by David Neave, author of the latest Pevsner guide. We shall start at 11am from Hull Station Hotel having arrived under our own steam using steam, bus or car. Following the gaze of Philip Larkin’s statue, we shall first visit old Paragon Station (1848) and its splendid modern interchange (2007), and then proceed past the former Art College, Cenotaph and iconic “Hammonds” building (1950) to the 1890s Paragon Arcade. Regretfully passing several fine pubs, we soon reach Queen Victoria Square and may admire and even use the facilities of Hull’s “Very Convenient Queen”, immortalised in a risqué 1970s folk-song. Her full 360o vista includes the Ferens Art Gallery with its punning motto (“Lampada Ferens”), Punch Hotel, and City Hall (not to be confused with the Guildhall). After relaxing for a while in the magnificent Board Room of the Maritime Museum(former Dock Offices)we proceed past Beverley Gate where Charles I was refused admission to the City (despite being already “King’s town upon Hull”);thence via Prince’s Dock Side, Posterngate and Whitefriargate to Parliament Street where we break for lunch for an hour (fine pubs and fish & chips are nearby). In the afternoon we visit Holy Trinity Church and St Mary’s (if open); thence via High Street with its fine Georgian houses and Wilberforce’s abode, museum and monument to Charterhouse (specially opened for our group). By 4pm we shall be at the fine new Local History Centre, and those who wish may leave us there. (The total walk is less than 2 miles.) Others will stay to visit the New Theatre and the fine baroque of St Charles Borromeo church, after which we may repair to a pub before our return to York.