9 Queen’s Gardens 11 City Walls & Citadel Hull Road, HU1 2AB Hull’s fortifications were established in the early 14th century, consisting of the city walls, four main gates and Hull’s flying high.. up to thirty towers. ! Demolished during The future’s bright! the 1860s, the lasting 13 Paragon Interchange segment of Hull’s Amy Johnson,Wow!! the first Civil engineers shape our world and we built this city... Ferensway, HU1 3UT female pilot to fly alone citadel - now to be seen from Britain to Australia, was improve lives. If you want to make born in Hull on Wow!! at Victoria Dock - is all 1st July 1903. a real difference, why not become a that remains of a vast triangular fort dating civil engineer? Photo courtesy of Hull Daily Mail back to 1681. This area - once known as Queen’s Dock - was the site of Which of these are examples Princes Quay Shopping Centre, Hull’s first enclosed dock - excavated between 1774 and 12 Q: of Civil Engineering? 1778. The dock was the first of its kind outside London and HU1 2PQ covers a total area of 11 acres. The original name of the Dams, reservoirs, drains and sewers; transport by road, rail, dock was ‘The Old Dock’ but it was re-named ‘Queen’s’ water and air; bridges for vehicles, trains and pedestrians; when Queen Victoria visited Hull in 1854. seaports, docks, airports, canals and aqueducts; power stations, renewable energy, pipelines and the structures that support towers and buildings. The Paragon Interchange, refurbished Queen Victoria Square 10 in 2000, links the bus station to the Hull, HU1 3RQ 150-year-old Victorian train station and Queen Victoria Square was now serves over 2.25 million people. For more information on the stops on part of a scheme to form a It houses a bronze statue of poet and this walk, scan the code on the left or central square in Hull and University of Hull librarian Philip Larkin. visit: www.ice.org.uk/HullWalk was officially opened by the Princess of Wales in 1903. The space in which Princes Quay is built was formerly them! of All Answer: © Institution of Civil Engineers, 2017. Registered Charity GREATWALKS CITY No. 21025. Charity registered in Scotland No. SC038629 The City Hall was badly known as Princes Dock and was a fully functional dock 14 The Humber Bridge bombed during WWII and Huge Wow!!air-conditioning for merchant ships. Princes Quay was built over the systems keep the remained closed before water, supported by columns, in a similar fashion to oil bridge’s cables dry and When opened by the Queen in restoration work led to its rust-free! rigs, with the water remaining in the 1981, having taken 8 years to build, reopening in 1950. Photo courtesy of Hull Daily Mail dock beneath. the Humber Bridge was the world’s longest single span suspension bridge. The central span is almost a mile long ... a plaque in Queen’s Gardens depicting Robinson Crusoe and its landmark towers are over 150m from the novel by Daniel Defoe? Crusoe started his voyage from Take our guided city walk high. It contains enough cable to circle Can you Hull and, according to the novel, he remained on his desert island for 28 Kindly sponsored by: and discover Hull’s wealth of the world twice! It is also notable in that years, 2 months and 19 days - wishing he could return to Hull! fantastic engineering landmarks - it is possible to walk or cycle across it. spot..? Hocus Design past and present Design: 1 The Deep C4DI and Amphitheatre Holy Trinity Church ‘Commercially Tower Street, HU1 4DP 3 6 ‘Pinch me 31-33 Queen Street, HU1 1UU 10a-11 King Street, HU1 2JJ someone. Is this and industrially it makes absolute we built this city... Humberside or sense to be in Hull’ Milan? Hull is full of - Sarah Beeny, inspirational places TV presenter Start our to visit’ Wow!!From clean, cutting-edge contemporary Take a walk through Hull’s tour wherever - The Guardian unique and rich history designs to the timeless engineering of you land! our industrial-age heritage, join us on a - through its wealth of If you visit by train The Deep is home to 3,500 fish! remarkable, innovative journey of discovery and find out why - start at the station - The dramatic building was opened SeeWow!! sharks, rays, we’re so proud of this city we’ve built! in 2002 and has become an turtles, penguins engineering landmarks! (number 13) and more! internationally recognised landmark - C4DI is Hull’s new centre for digital innovation. Housing tech even featuring on a Royal Mail stamp! companies in state of the art offices, C4DI is putting Hull’s tech The building’s design was inspired by the industries on the map, providing local job opportunities for technologically-minded individuals. form of a whale breaching the water’s surface. Gleaming The church dates back to about 1300 and contains glass and aluminium thrust into the dramatic landscape what is widely acknowledged to be some of the on the confluence of the two rivers marking the historic Ferry Terminal & Minerva Pier finest medieval brick-work in the country, particularly Our tidalWow!! barrier holds entry to Kingston upon Hull with a brand new future. 4 back 18 million litres Hull, HU1 1UZ in the transepts. The font was carved in 1380 from a of water every hour! solid block of marble and has been used to baptise Hull Tidal Barrier This pier marks the spot where the 2 thousands, including William Wilberforce (above). Hull Road, HU1 2AB ferry ran for over 150 years between Hull and Lincolnshire from 1825 - River Channel & Hasholme Boat 1981 until the service ended with 7 the opening of the Humber Bridge. East Riding Museum, High St, HU1 1NQ Although the first recorded instance of The Humber Valley a ferry for this area dates as far back as has been populated Scale Lane Swing Bridge 1315, over 700 years ago! since the early stone 8 age. The river itself River Hull, HU1 1QJ 5 Disposal Main, Blanket Row, HU1 1TB has been important Movable bridges are a for transportation common thing. But a As you walk down Blanket Row you since prehistoric bridge that moves while The huge steel Wow!! will notice two metal covers in the times. people stand on it - now tidal gate weighs road which are shafts down to the The Tidal Barrier on the River Hull is 202 tonnes ! In 1984 the that is a rarity! Hull disposal main; a sewer leading Hasholme boat, an Completed in 2013, the built on the site of the old Ha’Penny Picture courtesy of ‘Hull Museums’ to the Saltend treatment plant, over bridge, called after the toll charged for crossing. important Iron Age west end of the swing 5 miles away. The sewer lies 22m The present structure was completed in 1980. The Hull boat and the largest of its kind, was discovered by chance in bridge houses a cafe and below ground level and is so large a acts as a pivot from which Tidal Barrier takes about 24 minutes to lower, protecting a field by a farmer digging drainage. The boat is 12.5m long car was driven through it prior to its it swings a full 90° when 63,000 properties. and was constructed from a tree cut down around 325BC, opening in 2000. and is now on display in the East Riding Museum. open..