Interesting vaguely Hull related facts anyone? 09:49 - Apr 12 with 1718 views | Keno | Inspired by Hypy and cos I'm bored does anyone know anything interesting vaguely Hull related? All I can think of is Rod Hull, although he came from Kent and Emu, which come from Australis | |
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Interesting vaguely Hull related facts anyone? on 11:46 - Apr 13 with 562 views | WeWereZombies |
Interesting vaguely Hull related facts anyone? on 11:39 - Apr 13 by blueasfook | Housemartins (and latterly Beautiful South) hail from Hull. Paul Heaton could regularly be found drinking in a pub called the Grafton Arms when I was a student there. |
Also, Everything But The Girl formed in Kingston upon Hull whilst both Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt were students at the university. When I fact checked this on Wikipedia just now I found out that they took there name from a slogan used by a local furniture shop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_but_the_Girl | |
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Interesting vaguely Hull related facts anyone? on 11:53 - Apr 13 with 544 views | mylittletown |
Interesting vaguely Hull related facts anyone? on 11:46 - Apr 13 by WeWereZombies | Also, Everything But The Girl formed in Kingston upon Hull whilst both Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt were students at the university. When I fact checked this on Wikipedia just now I found out that they took there name from a slogan used by a local furniture shop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_but_the_Girl |
Well that's one very good thing that came out of Hull, anyway. (Although they were both from in and around London originally) | | | |
Interesting vaguely Hull related facts anyone? on 12:28 - Apr 13 with 519 views | WeWereZombies |
Interesting vaguely Hull related facts anyone? on 11:53 - Apr 13 by mylittletown | Well that's one very good thing that came out of Hull, anyway. (Although they were both from in and around London originally) |
True, I always thought Tracey was right (sorry, reet) Northern and was surprised to find out when she was on Desert Island Discs that she is from Brookman's Park. Perhaps an even bigger noise in rock music from Kingston upon Hull is the main Spider From Mars, Mick Ronson. Hull also gets name checked in the BE Bop Deluxe song 'Axe Victim': 'Be careful, I'm an axe victim Hung up on these silver strings Like wings, like time machines Like voices on the winds We hit the road to Hull You came to watch the band To see us play our parts We hoped you'd lend an ear You hoped we'd dress like tarts' | |
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Interesting vaguely Hull related facts anyone? on 12:46 - Apr 13 with 499 views | mylittletown |
Interesting vaguely Hull related facts anyone? on 12:28 - Apr 13 by WeWereZombies | True, I always thought Tracey was right (sorry, reet) Northern and was surprised to find out when she was on Desert Island Discs that she is from Brookman's Park. Perhaps an even bigger noise in rock music from Kingston upon Hull is the main Spider From Mars, Mick Ronson. Hull also gets name checked in the BE Bop Deluxe song 'Axe Victim': 'Be careful, I'm an axe victim Hung up on these silver strings Like wings, like time machines Like voices on the winds We hit the road to Hull You came to watch the band To see us play our parts We hoped you'd lend an ear You hoped we'd dress like tarts' |
I think that it is a fair bet that Tracey is the most interesting thing to come out of Brookman's Park | | | |
Interesting vaguely Hull related facts anyone? on 13:21 - Apr 13 with 482 views | Tangledupin_Blue |
Interesting vaguely Hull related facts anyone? on 11:30 - Apr 12 by blueasfook | What is interesting in North Lincs? Grimsby? Lincoln is nice mind. |
S[censored]horpe. | |
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Interesting vaguely Hull related facts anyone? on 13:41 - Apr 13 with 475 views | jontysnut | The Hull Pattie, deep fried mashed potato and sage, is a chip shop favourite. | | | |
Interesting vaguely Hull related facts anyone? on 15:41 - Apr 13 with 439 views | OldTimer2 |
Interesting vaguely Hull related facts anyone? on 11:27 - Apr 12 by blueasfook | Cream-coloured telephone boxes were unique to Hull. Not sure if they still have them. |
Yes, the cream coloured phone boxes are still there. | |
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Interesting vaguely Hull related facts anyone? on 17:47 - Apr 13 with 403 views | jeera | Home to the Kirkella, a British supertrawler which sat there for quite some time in dock redundant after certain fishing laws didn't go our way. Whilst foreign-owned supertrawlers ran up and down the UK's coastline catching and then selling back to the country English-speaking fish. Apparently as much as 10% of all of our fish & chips shop fish were caught by the Kirkella before this crisis hit. I have no idea if it's operational again yet and am too lazy to look right now. [Post edited 13 Apr 2022 18:02]
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Interesting vaguely Hull related facts anyone? on 17:54 - Apr 13 with 397 views | Father_Jack |
Interesting vaguely Hull related facts anyone? on 11:25 - Apr 12 by blueasfook | Journalist and Lebanese hostage John McArthy is an alumni of Hull university and the Students Union bar is named after him. Also, William Wilberforce MP who was instrumental in abolishing slavery. |
Yes I was roughly contemporary with him I think. I certainly played tennis with his then girlfriend Jill Morrell who was a leading light behind the friends of John Mccarthy campaign. Other famous alumni include John Prescott and more notably Phil Ham. Also Everything But The Girl (named after a local furniture shop). Phillip Larkin was also the librarian whilst I was there, and Andrew Motion (novelist and poet laureate) was my English tutor for a while. | |
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Interesting vaguely Hull related facts anyone? on 18:13 - Apr 13 with 391 views | jontysnut |
Interesting vaguely Hull related facts anyone? on 17:47 - Apr 13 by jeera | Home to the Kirkella, a British supertrawler which sat there for quite some time in dock redundant after certain fishing laws didn't go our way. Whilst foreign-owned supertrawlers ran up and down the UK's coastline catching and then selling back to the country English-speaking fish. Apparently as much as 10% of all of our fish & chips shop fish were caught by the Kirkella before this crisis hit. I have no idea if it's operational again yet and am too lazy to look right now. [Post edited 13 Apr 2022 18:02]
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