The city of Hull has a population of around 250,000 residents and is situated in the East Ridings of Yorkshire. On the banks of the Humber estuary the city is just 25 miles from the North Sea.
Hull is a major port shipping bulky commodities and commercial road traffic to and from the Dutch ports of Rotterdam and Zeebrugge. The port accounts for 18.5% of UK imports and 15% of the UK’s seaborne trade. Major British industrial firms like BP, Seven Seas and Smith & Nephew have facilities in Hull. During the Second World War Hull was the second most bombed town or city behind the nation’s capital, London.
During the floods of June 2007 a local council leader for Hull Carl Minns declared hull the “forgotten city” as national media coverage focussed on the more dramatic but localised flooding in South Yorkshire.
Much of Hull lies below sea level and for this reason the city has a Tidal Surge Barrier which is located at the point the River Hull joins the Humber Estuary. Due to global warming the likelihood of further flooding has increased greatly.
Hull is a shopper’s paradise with 3 large shopping centres in the centre. The prospect Centre, the Princes Quay built on stilts over the Princes Dock and St. Stephen’s which opened this September. Major retailers in the area include H&M, Topshop, Zara and Jane Norman.
Kingston-Upon-Hull is home to the University of Hull which was founded back in 1927, 16,000 students account for a tenth of the city’s population, helping to support the creation of jobs directly and indirectly.
Hull is almost synonymous with the Humber Bridge, this structure was constructed between 1972 and 1981 and for a brief period was the longest single-span suspension bridge in the world. The Humber Bridge is the main route into and out of Hull by the M62 motorway, and provides a link to the rest of the country and the cities of Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool specifically.
Hull has an extensive and diverse nightlife to cater for all tastes. There has been an explosion in the number of pre-club bars and late bars that have opened in the city which has led to some of the long established clubs in the city to fold. Bars like V-Bar, Magma, Spiders and Zachariah Pearson have sprouted up around the University also.
Hull City AFC have the unenviable tag of being Europe’s largest city never to have played in the top flight. The team play their matches at the Kingston Communications Stadium and have big name players in the twilight of their careers. Players like Nicky Barmby (ex-Liverpool) Dean Windass (ex-Middlesbrough) Michael Bridges (ex-Leeds) and most notably of late Jay-Jay Okocha the ex-PSG and Bolton magician.
The city is twinned with Freetown, Sierra Leone, Niigata, Japan, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, Reykjavik, Iceland, Rotterdam, Netherlands and Szczecin in Poland.
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