New Hull attraction

I went to Hull High School for Girls. Imagine if I'd had to say Kingston upon Hull High School for Girls every time I was asked where I went to school.

One of the genealogy websites has had someone transcribe Kingston upon Hull as Kinston upon Hull.
That's very annoying.

I thought it could be a fake (plenty of that around these days) but apparently it is a genuine Banksy according to the Bristol Post:

The Bristol street artist Banksy has confirmed that a new piece of graffiti that appeared on a bridge is one of his.

That does sound interesting, Lazigirl.
Hull used to have its own telephone network too - maybe still does.
Husband spent most of his first 50 years in Hull, and I lived and worked there for 25 years.
Jen mentioned 'ull - I was a remedial reading teacher for a while, and it was hopeless trying to persuade children to sound the 'h'. They even called it 'haitch'.
But in the most part, it was a good place to live.

Posh or not the locals I met in Hull were great. What I was impressed with last year was the way so many, young and old became volunteers and ambassadors for their town and did it with such enthusiasm. Awake during the night and listening to the World Service I heard about an exciting initiative in Hull which they have been trialling, the "Hull coin" , which is a virtual currency (like Bitcoin). It is really innovative and unpaid community volunteers are given a few virtual hullcoins for certain duties. These are then used in (signed up) local businesses to obtain a discount. This enables them to buy things which they may not ordinarily be able to afford and boosts business. The hullcoin can then be passed on by the business to others they think are deserving. It's a bit more complex than this, but very interesting concept.

When my mum wanted to pretend we were posh and I referred to living in 'ull she would say "Hull is the river. The town is Kingston upon Hull"
We used to have a book of Yorkshire sayings which included the Beggar's Prayer and the Yorkshireman's motto.
"Hear all, see all, say nowt.
Eat all, drink all, pay nowt
And if tha' does owt for nowt do it for thysen.

People who were born in Hull thought that even Hull was too long to say, and usually called it 'ull.

The Halifax was the Halifax Gibbet.

Thank you trisher I knew it was something like that, defend or deliver, and I think the Halifax mentioned was an actual person and not the town.

Please tell me you you are joking durhamjen with the ‘jealous’ comment? Otherwise it was too childish for words.

At last! A definition of posh people: those who give children official, if not much used, information.

Any idea where he is, Vampirequeen?

You can borrow him but not keep him

lemongrove it's deliver us- The beggar's prayer "From Hell Hull and Halifax Good Lord deliver us"
It wasn't the first action of the civil war vampirequeen but arguably the action that defeated the Royalists. Hull was where the armaments the army needed were stored, offered a port to bring in soldiers and stores and closed it's gates to the king leaving him short of weapons and soldiers.

You're only jealous, lemon, because you haven't got a Banksy where you were born or live now.

Only posh people called it Kingston upon Hull. The rest of us just called it Hull, even my relatives who were there from the 1770s, which is as far back as I have been, although the oldest ones I knew were born in 1877 and 1900. They lived in big houses in the Avenues, but always called it Hull.

I thought the council in Hull told Banksy to ‘buy some canvas’ haha.
It is strange though, that so many people fall at his feet (Banksy) metaphorically speaking, when other ( quite good) art is condemned as graffiti and cleared away.

‘From Hell, Hull and Halifax may the Good Lord defend us!’
Or something like that.?

But you're right, vamp. Off with his head and all that.

It

I was still called Kingston upon Hull when I lived there in the first half of the sixties.

Does that mean things could only get better for me, as I was born in Hell?

My DH told everyone I was going to Hell when I visited last year, but I dragged him up there afterwards and he had to eat his words because he loved it too. I wonder why Banksy didn't do his pic last year?

Which is why we call it Hull after the river, and not Kingston after the king.

By the time of Charles I we'd seen through the monarchy and no longer felt the need to defer to it.

Banksy of course!
send him home