Hull Old Town Visitor Guide

and City Guid Visit beautiful historical buildings, bustling shops and lively bars and restaurants - discoer what Hull Old Town has to offer. Playing a leading part in The city is allegedly the place Britain’s commercial and where the English Civil War An political life for more than 700 started in 1642, where introduction years, Hull (or “Kings Town”, anti-slavery campaigner as it was named in the 13th William Wilberforce was born century) has continued to and it is home to England’s With a rich historical tapestry, beautiful thrive. In the 13th century, largest parish church (by area). Edwardian and Georgian architecture and a Hull formed part of an And that’s not to mention its number of fantastic museums, Hull Old Town economic and trade alliance successful trade history. called the Hanseatic League. Sitting along the banks of has many great features where you can learn This League had its own legal the River Humber, Hull was about the city’s significant past. system and furnished armies a principal port, acting as a for mutual production and aid. gateway to the rest of the world. Hull in 1880 The impressive docks - where Princes Quay and Queen’s Gardens sit now - saw all sorts of trade pass through, including wool, whaling, timber, coal and fish. Whilst every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of information contained in this guide, VHEY, Hull City Council and East Riding of Yorkshire Council can accept no responsibility for any errors or omissions, nor any consequences arising from the use of the information. Please note this guide is not an exhaustive list of 2 pubs, bars and restaurants within Hull’s Old Town. 3 YourJourney through What’s inside… Hull Old Town Old Town Journey ...........4 Hull is a city that knows how to combine a Attractions Listings ........6-11 rich culture with a fun and vibrant social History Timeline .............12-13 scene and Hull Old Town is at the heart of Did you City of Culture ................14-15 this. Take a trip down the cobbled streets, Fruit Market ....................16-17 including one of only two surviving Waterfront ......................18-19 medieval street patterns in Yorkshire, know… Shopping .........................20-21 and discover the city’s bygone era. Theatre ............................22 Nightlife ..........................23 Visit the Museums Quarter the world, and the state-of- Food & Drink ...................24-25 and follow the unique Fish the-art Scale Lane Bridge Places to Eat Listing Trail (you’ll spot sealife in are situated just a short walk the pavements) which leads away from the buzzing hub and Map ..........................26-27 to some of the city’s most of businesses at the Fruit Fish Trail & Map ..............28-33 stunning cultural locations. Market, next to the Marina, Ale Trail ...........................34-35 You can admire the where there are plenty of architecture on the old High places to dine out or enjoy Street, pop for a pint in one a drink. That Hull is home to of the historic pubs or check England’s smallest out the excavated remains of With beautiful historical window? Beverley Gate, where visitors buildings, bustling shops would gain entry to the city. and brilliant bars and That the Civil War is said restaurants, it’s a part of the to have started in Hull? Hull Old Town is also home city that you must visit. So to new, modern attractions. why not discover what Hull That there are life size The Deep, one of the most Old Town has to offer? spectacular aquariums in sculptures of fish in the pavements? That the HMS Bounty was built in Hull? That one of Mr Marks and Mr Spencer’s first penny bazaars was opened in Hepworth Arcade in Hull? 4 5 Ye Olde White Harte Hands on History Museum A E (South Church Side) The most historic pub in Hull, The historical pub also has Ye Olde White Harte has a “plotting rooms” upstairs, where The Old Grammar School, now and William Wilberforce, the mysterious skull housed behind talks that triggered the Civil the ‘Hands on History’ museum, leading light of the anti- the bar, which was found after War are believed to have taken was built in 1585 replacing slavery movement. Holy Trinity a fire there in the 19th century. place. an earlier school endowed by purchased the building in 1878 Bishop Alcock in 1479. Pupils at for a mission room and choir the school included politician school, but it is now a museum. and poet Andrew Marvell, Blaydes House F Built around 1740 for the 18th century merchant’s Blaydes family, who created the houses on High Street. Holy Trinity Church and B famous HMS Bounty, Blaydes Following restoration, it is now Trinity Square House is one of few surviving owned by the University of Hull. This magnificent building from around 1380 was used is more than 700 years old to baptise William Wilberforce Blaydes Shipyard and appears in the Guiness and is still in use. Outside is G Book of Records as England’s the beautiful Trinity Square, (High Street, across Alfred Gelder Street) largest parish church by area. home to a statue of Hull legend The marble font, which dates Andrew Marvell. The Blaydes Family owned a The Bounty began her career as number of shipyards - including the collier Bethia. She was built High Street Hull, Hessle Cliff and in 1784, and purchased by the Scarborough. Blaydes Shipyard Royal Navy in 1787 for £2,600 Beverley Gate/Civil War in Hull was in fact where the (roughly £260,000 in modern C famous HMS Bounty was built. currency). One of the first acts of defiance, Gate - the main entrance into which led to the English Civil the city. The excavated remains War, took place in Hull in 1642 of the gate, between Carr Lane when the city’s governor, Sir and Whitefriargate, can be seen Maister House H John Hotham, turned away today. King Charles I from Beverley Hull Old Town’s High Street is property has a superb Palladian home to the only National Trust staircase and hall, acting as property in Hull, Maister House. an impressive symbol of Hull’s Rebuilt in 1743, this historical 18th century heyday. Statue of King Billy D Neptune Inn (Custom House Buildings) I Less than 50 years after the 1688 is commemorated in the King was refused entry into Hull, city with a magnificent golden The Neptune Inn never fulfilled can see the head of Neptune the city had its second brush statue of the “great deliverer” its planned role as Hull’s leading - the Roman god of the sea - with the royal House of Stuart. King Billy on Market Place. hotel and, from 1815 to 1912, carved on the keystone to the The ‘Glorious Revolution’ of the building functioned as the archway. Custom House. However, you 6 Refers to location on map (see page 27) 7 Hull and East Riding J Wilberforce Museum N Museum (Museums Quarter) (Museums Quarter) Come face-to-face with a East Riding Museum, which Wilberforce House is the The story behind William majestic mammoth, encounter boasts some of the most birthplace of William Wilberforce’s campaign is told a mysterious crew of wooden spectacular natural history and Wilberforce, Hull MP and slavery through fascinating items warriors and discover a unique archaeology displays in Britain. abolishionist, whose campaign including his journal, Iron Age sword at the Hull and made the establishment of plantation records and Freetown, Sierra Leone, possible. personal stories. Arctic Corsair (Museums Quarter) K The Water Gate (Humber Street, across O A veteran of the Cod Wars, the Before each tour of the vessel Queen Street towards High Street) Arctic Corsair opened to the starts, a short 10-minute action public in 1999 and has since film of life at sea is shown in the had more than 20,000 visitors. Arctic Corsair Visitor Centre. Leading to and from the South century, it had developed a End Jetty through the 14th shipyard, dry dock and the century walls was The Water “foul” South End - a dumping Gate. By the end of the 18th place for the town’s rubbish. Hull People’s Memorial L The Hull People’s Memorial Learn about the Great War Exhibition Centre is located at Zeppelin raids and handle number 22 Whitefriargate (look real World War One and Two The Old Pier, Horse Staith P for the Spitfire in the Window), mementoes, documents, & Humber Ferry (Nelson Street) in the centre of Hull’s old town. weapons and munitions. Visit Inside you can explore the the ‘Hull Trench and Officers events that made Hull the UK’s Dugout’, remembering to keep Before The Humber Bridge from Hull. By the 17th century, most devastated city of World your head down in order to opened in 1981, a ferry provided this South Ferry ran from the War Two. avoid the snipers! access to the south bank of Horse Staith at the mouth of the River Humber. The earliest the Old Harbour, before a pier ferries left from Hessle, but from was built. 1315, a ferry was established Streetlife Museum (Museums Quarter) M Experience the sights, sounds George Hotel Q and smells of the past at Hull’s Streetlife Museum. Step back in The unusual sounding Land of time with 200 years of transport Green Ginger is home to the history by taking a stroll down a world’s smallest window, which 1940s high street and enjoying was used by the gatekeeper of a carriage ride. the George Hotel to look out for stagecoaches and potential customers. 8 Refers to location on map (see page 27) 9 R Maritime Museum Scale Lane V Bridge Explore Hull’s old Dock Offices Linking the east bank of the and discover superb ship River Hull to the Hull Old Town models and maritime art.

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