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26 September 2013: Theatrical elephants in Hull, East Yorks, are led through the city this afternoon. They were being filmed as part of the Hull's bid to become the UKâs City Of Culture in 2017. They were also filmed in Pryme Street multi storey car park and Hepworths Srcade.
The elephants were operated by performers from Newcastle theatre company Dodgy Clutch. They have performed in shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, on Broadway and in South Africa. If Hull succeeds in its attempt to win the City Of Culture 2017 title, the elephants will form part of a spectacular opening parade through the cityâs streets, which will also feature 3,000 lantern-bearing volunteers and dancing white telephone boxes.
Elephants were chosen as a theme for the opening ceremony because of their historical connections with the city. In Edwardian Hull, large zoological gardens in the Spring Bank and Princes Avenue area were home to a number of elephants, which could be seen walking along Spring Bank every morning to be washed in the River Hull.
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Hull Fruit Market Regeneration Area. Small business and organisations from the creative and digital sectors have been invited to express their interest in establishing creative businesses in the historic area when the wholesale Fruit Market relocates to Priory Park, Hull late 2009.
Hull Fruit Market Regeneration Area. Small business and organisations from the creative and digital sectors have been invited to express their interest in establishing creative businesses in the historic area when the wholesale Fruit Market relocates to Priory Park, Hull late 2009.
Hull Fruit Market Regeneration Area. Small business and organisations from the creative and digital sectors have been invited to express their interest in establishing creative businesses in the historic area when the wholesale Fruit Market relocates to Priory Park, Hull late 2009.
Hull Fruit Market Regeneration Area. Small business and organisations from the creative and digital sectors have been invited to express their interest in establishing creative businesses in the historic area when the wholesale Fruit Market relocates to Priory Park, Hull late 2009.
Hull Fruit Market Regeneration Area. Small business and organisations from the creative and digital sectors have been invited to express their interest in establishing creative businesses in the historic area when the wholesale Fruit Market relocates to Priory Park, Hull late 2009.
Kingston-upon-Hull, East Yorkshire
Kingston-upon-Hull, or Hull to give it its familiar name, must be one of the least visited cities in England. And yet, it is a fascinating and rather beautiful place, full of interest. It is a city built on a grand scale, the townscape often filtered by the fogs which regularly roll in off of the Humber.
The city of Hull is in Yorkshire, but in some ways not of it, having more of a feel of other East Coast industrial ports like Kings Lynn, Great Yarmouth and Ipswich. It is much bigger than any of these, having a population which now falls just short of 300,000 people, making it one of the dozen biggest cities in England, a position it has held for more than half a millennium.
The urban townscape is striking for the unusual number of domes and statues. Although the last twenty five years have seen a serious ravaging of Hull's industry and economy, there has been a great revival recently, thanks partly to money from the European Social Fund, but also the energy and determination of the city to prove that Hull is Not the Same, in both senses.
Hull is said to have more museums and art galleries per head of population than any other English city outside of Cambridge and Oxford. The latest is the Deep, a huge submarium at the mouth of the Humber. The Ferens Art Gallery is, to my mind, the very model of what a provincial city's art gallery should be. The Wilberforce House Museum of Slavery is world famous.
Hull had its self-image as England's forgotten city confirmed in the summer of 2007, when the worst floods for fifty years ruined more than 15,000 homes in the city. It took nearly three days for the magnitude of this disaster to reach the national news, which was concentrating on more fashionable Sheffield.
Any serious student of medieval urban England must visit Hull. Around every corner there are relics of the past, forgotten and unrecorded by anyone outside of the city, the ghost of a great European merchant port. At the heart of it all is Holy Trinity, built in the full confidence and prosperity of the late medieval period. Inside, its vast area makes it England's biggest parish church.
Hull's Marina is adjacent to the Hull Fruit Market Regeneration Area. Pictured are Clippers from the Clipper Round The World Yacht Race 2009/10. Small business and organisations from the creative and digital sectors have been invited to express their interest in establishing creative businesses in the historic area when the wholesale Fruit Market relocates to Priory Park, Hull late 2009.
Hull Paragon Railway Station.
South elevation, 1846-49.
By George Townsend Andrews (1805-1855).
For the North Eastern Railway.
Grade ll* listed.
Opened in 1848 and substantially enlarged to a design by William Bell in 1904, Paragon Station was the principal Hull passenger station of the North Eastern Railway which, with its dock, cartage, hotel and shipping interests, was a major local employer.
Hull Fruit Market Regeneration Area. Small business and organisations from the creative and digital sectors have been invited to express their interest in establishing creative businesses in the historic area when the wholesale Fruit Market relocates to Priory Park, Hull late 2009.