Hull Facts: Largest To Smallest - Many places like to claim to have the largest or smallest in the world, or in the country of something. Here are some things that Hull can claim to have.
Made In Hull: The Dark Knight, Hull Batman - Not the brooding vigilante of comic books and movies, but a self confessed "grumpy bugger" and all round good guy, doing charity work in the city.
One Hull Of A Fragmented Story: The WWI Book From The Trenches - A small autograph book found in a box, reveals an insight of one person's journey from the trenches back to Hull.
One Hull Of A Story: Elephants In The City - The city of Hull has always been a unique and quirky place, on the edge of the world. This is one story of when they had elephants parading through it.
One Hull Of A Story: Paul Burwell & The Boathouse - The semi-secret playground of Hull's more eccentric artists and musicians in the 2000s, and the mad genius who created it.
One Hull Of A Story: Quick Histories Of Hull - Found on YouTube, a series of short quirky animations, based on the life stories of 4 of Hull's most famous personalities.
One Hull Of A Story: The History Of Chip Spice - The glorious golden spice that has been a regular feature of the culinary landscape of Hull since 1979, beloved by many in the city.
One Hull Of A Story: The Naked Truth - Naturism in the UK has a long history going back to the late 1800s. Today one of the biggest and best nudist camps in the UK is in Hull. Who knew?
One Hull Of A Story: The Phantom Cannons Of Hull - The bizarre account of hundreds of people in and around the city, hearing the sound of war, but there was no war or armies in the area.
One Hull Of A Story: The Snakeman Of Southcoates - Sightings of reptiles in the city have become a mainstay of local media. Yet the strangest of all is that of the Snakeman.
One Hull Of A Story: Venn You Are From Hull - One of Hull's famous sons, and inventor of the diagram named after him, John Venn. A fun look at the Venn diagram, Hull style.
One Of The World's Earliest Flash Mobs Was In Hull - Over ten years since the first flash mob, millions have witnessed and taken part in one. But in the summer of 2003, no-one hardly had.
Ten Foot Titans - A short-story about long summer days, larkin' out in the back ten foots of Hull. First published in an anthology of stories and poems in 2008.
The Kraken Of Hull Museums - An article by Hull historian and writer Mike Covell, on the mystery of the infamous "Humber Monster" otherwise known as the "Humber Sea Serpent".
The Revolution Started Here: Beneath A Steel Sky - The "revolutionary" adventure game from a small software house in Hull, that went up against the big U.S. software houses, and kicked arse!
The Wreckers Of Western Civilisation: COUM Transmissions - The subversive avant-garde art collective, founded in Hull, that became Throbbing Gristle the industrial music pioneers.
WingMen: A New Hull Based Movie Production - A mockumentary telling the story of a not so dynamic duo from Hull, as they inadvertently foil the plans of a manipulative film-maker.
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Made In Hull: 8-Bit Beethoven: Rob Hubbard - Hull born and one of the most famous and prolific music composers of the 1980s. Yet little known outside of the world of computer gaming.
Made In Hull: TV & Films Based In Hull - Hull is being hailed as the place to come for film-crews, as part of the push as the 2017 city of culture. I look back at films and TV shows based in Hull.
One Hull Of A Story: Annison's The Haunted Funeral Parlour - Said to be the most haunted building in the city, and possibly haunted by the spirit of a Jack the Ripper victim.
One Hull Of A Story: Hull's Dark History Museum - Nestled in the unique upstairs stable blocks is a quirky and macabre pop-up museum, telling the dark history of our grisly little city.
One Hull Of A Story: Priestman Oil Engine - Invented and produced in Hull, the first commercially produced oil driven internal combustion engines in the 1880s.
One Hull Of A Story: The French Convent School - All that remains is the original entrance gates and walls of the French convent that once stood on Park Grove in Hull.
One Hull Of A Story: The Made-Up Major General - The story of one of Hull's famous eccentrics, the self-appointed American military Major General, who went to war against the city council.
One Hull Of A Story: The Oldest Sex Shop In Britain! - The notorious Gwenap adult shop in Hull, was thought to be the oldest sex shop in the UK, and possibly even in the world.
One Hull Of A Story: The Pig Man Of East Hull - Throughout the centuries urban legends have abound the city of Hull. Read the story of the latest mystery to come from the city's dark streets.
One Hull Of A Story: The Syphilitic Monks - Evidence that points to Hull being the epicentre of the Great Pox of the Middle Ages, syphilis! Pre-dating the Columbus theory by decades.
One Hull Of A Trip: Time-Lapse Train Journeys - You don't have to be from Hull to appreciate this. Two brilliant and unusual time-lapse railway journeys. That should be played together.
Pattie Butties: The Food Of Kings, Made By Slappers! - Unique to the city of Hull, the humble yet glorious pattie. The inspirational snack food for generations of Hullies.
The Gargoyles: Better Than The Bloody Housemartins! - One of the 3 best bands in Hull, The Gargoyles brought a Hull-centric sense of fun and frivolity to the music scene at time.
The Mystery Of The Wold Newton Meteorite - In 1795 a meteorite struck the earth near a hamlet in the county of Yorkshire, during a thunder storm. This is the "mysterious" truth behind it.
Throbbing Gristle: Three chords? You Can Start A Band With No Chords! - Provocative pioneers of industrial noise music, formed from Hull based art collective COUM Transmissions.
Top Ten: Quirks Of Character That Make Hull Folk - What started as an irreverent look at aspects of Hull, turned somehow into a bit of a love letter to my home town.
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