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The Hull Maritime Museum
 The Hull Maritime Museum ... Dock Offices in 1974. Formerly the home of the Hull Dock Company and from 1893 the North Eastern Railway who took over the running of the docks. The shareholders Court Room, now used for temporary exhibitions, is a highly decorated piece of Victorian architectureis. The room has a frieze of cherubs displaying the coats of arms of the European Cities that Hull traded with. Hull dominated the Arctic whaling trade in the early nineteenth century and there is an outstanding collection of whaling artefacts. This includes skeletons of the whales themselves, the tools and weapons, as well as personalia, journals and logbooks.Newest Review: ... John Atkinson Grimshaw you may have seen his painting of Princes Dock from 1887. It is typical of his style at the time and shows a very different and atmospheric Hull. I'm 99% sure there is one of the dock offices also. There is a back entrance to the maritime museum but it is usually closed in winter. I think this was probably the main entrance from the docks many years ago . When these ... more ... doors are open, weather permitting, you can come out and sit near the flowerbeds and large stone fountain and enjoy an ice-cream or a picnic lunch. Of course you can sit out here any time of year but Hull does have icy winds which blow off the North Sea in...more |
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The Hull Maritime Museum: We are sailing . (1452 words)
by - written on 26/02/07 (Very useful, 234 readings)
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HULL CITY COUNCIL MUSEUMS ******************************* The free entrance museums and art gallery in Kingston-Upon-Hull are all maintained, run and funded through the Leisure Services Department of the local council, with additional funding when received. The Maritime Museum until the early seventies was housed in a small museum based at Pickering Park Hull. This was away from the city centre, on the road to a small village called Hessle . I remember the Pickering Park museum as a child in the fifties. Of course at that time it looked vast but really it was quite compact. In the grounds were huge whalebones; relics of our bygone fishing days, ... Read the complete review
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