141 Kingston-upon-Hull Local Information
Unlike many other aged English cities, Hull has no cathedral.
It does, however, contain the Holy Trinity Church, which claims to be the largest parish church in England.
Hull has an extensive museum and visitor quarter which includes Wilberforce House, Hull and East Riding Museum, the Ferens Art Gallery, the Maritime Museum, Streetlife and Transport Museum, the Spurn Lightship, the Arctic Corsair and the Deep. It also features the University of Hull and the associated Hull York Medical School, as well as a small campus of the University of Lincoln.
There is also a large FE college, Hull College. Hull is the home of the Queens Gardens, the Hull Marina and is close to the Humber Bridge, the fourth-longest single-span suspension bridge in the world. The city centre streches from Paragon Railway Station to the Old Town (the main area of town unaffected by World War Two bombing) and is a mixture of shops, bars and clubs.
The area boasts two large shopping centres; the Prospect Centre and Princes Quay Shopping Centre, the latter of which is built on stilts in the former Princes Dock. There is also the indoor Trinity Market featuring around fifty stalls.
Hull’s larger nightclubs in the city centre include Waterfront, Heaven and Hell, Pozition and, until recently, LA’s. There is a concentration of bars and pubs in and around Old Town.
The city has a football team playing in the Championship (second tier), Hull City AFC, who play at the Kingston Communications Stadium. The city has two Rugby League teams, Hull FC in the Super League who, along with Hull City AFC, play at the Kingston Communications Stadium; and Hull Kingston Rovers in League One of the National Leagues playing at Craven Park.
The city also boasts Hull Ice Arena, a large ice rink and concert venue, which is home to the Hull Stingrays ice hockey team.
Hull is the only city in the UK with its own independent telephone network company, Kingston Communications, with its distinctive cream telephone boxes. Formed in the 1910s as a municipal department by the City Council, it remains the only locally-operated telephone company in the UK, although now privatised. Kingston Communications were one of the first telecoms operators in Europe to offer ADSL to business users, and the first in the world to run an interactive television service using ADSL and as such Hull has a modern telephone infrastructure.
The local accent is distinctive and noticeably different from the standard Yorkshire accent.
Hull’s daily newspaper is the Hull Daily Mail. BBC Radio Humberside, Viking FM, Magic 1161, the University of Hull’s Jam 1575 and Kingstown Radio, the hospital-based radio station, all broadcast to the city.
Transport within the city is provided by two main bus operators — Stagecoach in Hull and East Yorkshire Motor Services. A smaller operator, Alpha Bus and Coach, provides one of the two Park and Ride services in the city, whilst East Yorkshire Motor Services provide the other. The port of Hull provides a nightly ferry service to Zeebrugge and Rotterdam. Hull, Massachusetts in the USA is named after this city, as is Hull, Quebec, which is part of the Canadian national capital region.
Hull has often been voted as the least popular place to reside in the UK. Much of this is based on reputation alone without firsthand experience of the town.
Hull is home the one of the UK’s oldest independent youth orchestras - Hull Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, established in 1952.
Source: www.wikipedia.org
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