Why is hull not called kingston

You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. And I would pay triple if I could to get out of Hull and away from the atmosphere of it.

As explained above. This has posed a problem for me, and for anyone living here, in that, a full day trip is required to go anywhere worthwhile. It is faster to get to Edinburgh from London, than from London to Hull.

We must spend our lives watching forlornly as our more fortunate friends in far flung, exotic and un-reachable cities such as Manchester or perhaps Glasgow go to countless Gigs by our favourite bands. One of the inhabitants downfalls is that logic too is not exactly a strong point; Humberside police will confess that drugs and smoking are an exceptionally large problem with youth in Hull. This actually destroyed some pretty amazing buildings, the remnants of which can be seen in the town centre.

However, it has always been a port, so the remaining old town is a dreary boring mass of dark brick, efficient, cheap and effective, nothing else. These buildings are dwarfed by giant, monstrous concrete multi storey shops and flats; the worst offender here is the Hospital however.

It looks down upon it citizens, coughing and sputtering with one of the highest rates of lung cancer in Britain, a giant rectangular block of crumbling grey rock that exudes an air of defeat. There is also the shopping centre Princes Quay, imagine a giant egotistical, overrated corrugated garden shed floating precariously on muddy polluted waters. Sun Dec 23, am Sorry it's Naibourne, not Winterbourne. A nailbourne is the same as a Winterbourne.

Confucius Tue Jan 01, pm krollo wrote: Kingston-upon-Hull is a city which is often called Hull. Tue Jan 01, pm That's probably due to the huge gravitational field created by John Prescott. Page 1 of 1 QI. Profile Log in to check your private messages. Register Log in.

Sat Oct 27, am. Kingston-upon-Hull is a city which is often called Hull. Mon Oct 29, am. But I expect that not all citizens of Hull are as stridently anti-royalist as that. I would guess that the real reason no one in the city wants to hold a street party is a mix of indifference and general suspicion of authority. And yet the city never got the public sympathy that London received, partly because radio broadcasts never called the city by its name, referring only to "a northern coastal town".

When King George VI eventually paid a visit in , the reception was lukewarm at best. These days, when Westminster politicians come to town on the campaign trail, the locals tend to be sceptical: "Why are you suddenly so interested in us? You never invited us to come down to London. The people of Yorkshire are frugal types, and the citizens of Hull even more so.