Hull or Kingston-upon-Hull, is situated on the north side of the Humber, at the mouth of the river Hull.

The high street, formerly called Hull-street, is the most ancient part of the town; it is above a thousand yards in length, but narrow and disagreeable. On the east of this street, the houses belonging to opulent merchants are elegant; and there are some good houses on the west side. The Custom-house stands nearly in the middle of the High-street. On the east side of this street, a number of stairs, or staiths, run to the river. Many of the streets that branch off to the south and west, are well built, open and airy. Near the south end of the market-place, stands a fine equestrian statue of William III. erected in 1734. The remains of the Monastery of St. Augustine have been removed, the shambles better arranged, and the market-place rendered more open and airy. Similar improvements have been made at the southern extremity of the town, on the banks of the Humber. A spacious theatre has also lately been erected. The ditches, drawbridges, and other formidable military works opposed to Charles I. are no longer to be seen, being all levelled with the ground. White Friars is very broad and airy, but the narrow alleys on the north side, are the abodes of vice and misery. Most of the best streets are well-paved with flagged footways. The suburbs contain many new streets, and the whole town has for many years past displayed all that ornament and improvement which an extended commerce, and an influx of wealth never fail to introduce; and bricks have been made here, both for home use and exportation.

The bridge over the river Hull, commonly called the North-bridge, has two handsome arches of free stone at each end, with a drawbridge in the middle, wide enough to admit any vessels used to come into this port, and decorated with an iron balustrade on each side, with a flagged path for passengers. From the bridge a smooth gravel-walk, nearly three quarters of a mile in length, extends outward along the east bank of the river Hull to the Humber; and at the southern extremity of this walk is an entrance to the citadel, close by the south block-house, which is situated in the west bastion, at the acute angle formed by the rivers Hull and Humber. A formidable battery faces the Humber, and in time of war all the embrasures on the mounds facing the water, are generally well furnished with cannon: here is also a magazine, and the fortress is surrounded by a ditch filled from the haven. In peace a few companies of invalids are lodged in barracks. Steam-boats now ply between Hull and Selby. The public buildings in Hull, excepting the church of the Holy Trinity, do not display any great degree of magnificence; this is stately, large, well proportioned, and of exquisite workmanship, forming one complete range of Gothic architecture. The church of St. Mary was built in the year 1333, about twenty years after the foundation of that of the Holy Trinity. It was once much larger that it is now; it is well lighted, and is divided into three aisles by two rows of Gothic columns: the church of St. John is new, being opened for service in May 1792. It is built of brick, upon arches raised seven feet above the surface, and contains a number of vaults for interment. All the windows open at the top, and two large patent stoves warm it in winter. The pews, containing near 1200 places, are all sold, or let. The most ancient of the chapels for Protestant Dissenters, is that of the Presbyterians in Bowl-alley: the Baptists, Methodists, Roman Catholics, the Quakers, and Jews, have also their places of worship. The Grammar School here, founded in the reign of Richard III., has had several celebrated masters. Besides this, there are three Free Schools, a Lancastrian School, and several spinning schools for girls.

Mr. Wallis in Myton-gate, has a valuable museum of curiosities, both natural and artificial, particularly a dagger brought from India, said once to have belonged to the great Tamerlane; a sword of Edward the Black Prince, with a large black pommel; another of Henry VIII.; ornamented with gold, with a large assortment of ancient spurs, &c.

The charitable institutions at Hull are numerous, and under judicious regulations; as the Trinity-house, for decayed seamen and their wives, or widows. In this two curious boats are preserved, one of which was taken up on the Greenland coast in the year 1613, with the clothing and accoutrements of the man who was found in it, who refusing to eat, died in three days.

The Trinity-house is a corporation of itself, composed of a society of merchants. It was begun by voluntary contribution, for the relief of distressed and aged seamen, and their wives and widows; but was afterwards improved by the government, and incorporated. They have a government by twelve elder brothers, and six assistants. Out of the twelve they choose annually two wardens (but the whole eighteen vote in electing them), and two stewards. These have a power to decide disputes between masters of ships and their crews, in matters relating to sea-affairs; with this limitation, that their judgment be not contrary to the laws of the land; but such deference is paid to it, that in trials at law in such affairs, they are often called to give their opinions.

Near the Trinity-house is an ancient hospital called God’s House, with a chapel near it; both of which were pulled down in the wars of 1643, but rebuilt in 1673.

The Charter-house was founded by Michael de la Pole, the first Earl of Suffolk; the present spacious brick edifice was built in the year 1780. Here the poor have commodious apartments, and live in a comfortable manner. Greg’s Hospital, Watson’s, Harrison’s, Weaver’s, and Ratcliffe’s, were all founded by persons whose names they bear. Charity-hall, a spacious and convenient structure, was erected for the residence of the parish poor. The shipping belonging to the port, are assessed for poor-rates, and the stock in trade of every person in the town; and here is a General Infirmary for the cure of the sick and lame poor, where, in cases of sudden accident, no recommendation is required. Lastly, here is a Society for the Suppression of Vice and Immorality. The whale fishery constitutes a prominent feature in the trade of Hull, which sends more ships to Greenland than any other port in England, London excepted. The inland trade of Hull has also been reckoned greater than that of any other English port. This extensive and multifarious commerce, naturally causes a considerable influx of people, and according to the returns of 1811, the population of Hull, including Drypool, Sutton, and Sculcoates, amounted to 38, 000, without the fluctuating population at sea. The government of Hull is vested in a Mayor, Recorder, and Aldermen; the former on all public occasions appears in a rich scarlet gown, with a gold chain round his neck, the sword borne before him erect, &c. In fact, the corporation have two swords; one a present from King Richard II. and the other from King Henry VIII. one of which is carried before the mayor on all public occasions, and a cap of maintenance, and oar of lignum vitae, as ensigns of honour: the last being also a badge of his admiralty within the limits of the Humber.

The environs of Hull for several miles round, present one uniform level, almost entirely destitute of wood, except a few trees thinly scattered; though the Humber, from two to three miles in breadth, with the vessels constantly sailing on its bosom, is a grand feature. Sculcoates is so nearly joined to Hull, that their respective limits cannot be distinguished by strangers. This place is of greater antiquity than Hull, being mentioned in Doomsday Book as one of the lordships of Roger de Mortimer. Its ancient church was taken down in 1761, and rebuilt wholly of brick.

Hull sends two members to parliament, and the right of election is in the burgesses from birth or apprenticeship, or from donation for public service. The sheriff is the returning officer, and the number of electors is computed at about 2000, and that of the houses, 4166.

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CITY OF HULL, or, more exactly, Kingston-upon-Hull, is a municipal and parliamentary borough, a county of itself, principal seaport, and the chief town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and on July 6th. 1897, was raised to the dignity of a City. It is the head of a suffragan bishopric, in the Holderness division of the East Riding, head of a union and county court district, in the south Hunsley Beacon petty sessional division, deanery of Hull, archdeaconry of the East Riding and diocese of York. It is entered by three Railways, viz., the North-Eastern; the Hull, Barnsley and West Riding Junction, and the Great Central (formerly the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire). The last-named Company gains access to the City by a steam ferry across the Humber. The Lancashire and Yorkshire, the Great Central, and the London and North-Western Railway Companies have also running powers over the lines of the North-Eastern Company. Hull is situated 20 miles from the sea; and by railway is 132 miles from Birmingham, 223 from Bristol, 40 ½ from Doncaster, 247 from Edinburgh, 29 from Grimsby, 120 from Liverpool, 196 from London (via Goole and Doncaster), 45 ½ from Lincoln, 89 from Manchester (via Leeds), 53 ½ from Sheffield, and 42 ½ from York.

The earlier historians ascribed the foundation of this City to Edward I., in 1296, but Mr. Charles Frost, in his elaborate work on its early history, has proved its existence as a town and port-more than a century prior to that period. Its original name was Wyke; but, being at the time of the Domesday survey (1086) only a portion of the Manor of Myton, it is not noticed in that record. Its importance, both as a town and place of trade, in 1278, is shown by the petition of the Abbot of Meaux, praying that he and his successors might have a market, and a fair. In 1296 this part of the country had a royal visit, and in 1299 Hull received its first Charter and became a free borough, and in the same year a Mint was established in the town. A ferry was established across the Humber, and in 1316 vessels began to sail at fixed periods between Hull and Barton, for the conveyance of passengers, cattle and articles of trade, which intercourse has continued to the present day, the passenger traffic alone excepted. Ten years afterwards the town was fortified, and so rapid was its improvement, that in the reign of Edward III., who visited the town in 1332, it supplied 16 sail of ships and 466 men towards an armament for the invasion of France. Henry VI. came here in the autumn of 1448, and in Dec. 1460, the last year of his reign, the town furnished him with a contingent of troops: in 1472, 1476 and 1498, it was ravaged by the plague: in 1534 Hull was made the titular see of a suffragan bishop, a distinction revived in 1891: in 1541 it received a visit from Henry VIII. and his Queen, Katharine (Howard), afterwards beheaded. In 1598 Hull fitted out vessels for the whale fishery in the seas by Greenland, a country discovered by Icelanders in the 9th century: seen by Frobisher in 1576, and surveyed along the coast by Davis, during 1585—8; the whaling trade here became extensive, but reached its height in 1819, when 64 vessels were equipped for the fisheries. After that year the number of ships sent out began to decrease, until in 1865, but one ship, the “Diana,” sailed for the Davis straits. Charles I. came here in 1639, but the town declared for the Parliament, and the years 1642 and 1643 are memorable in Hull on account of the siege the town sustained, the King being denied admittance by Sir John Hotham, who was afterwards executed, with his son, on Tower Hill, London: the place was besieged from 2 sept. to 11 Oct. 1643, by the Marquess of Newcastle, but successfully defended by Fairfax. After the Restoration it was visited, in 1663, by James, Duke of York, subsequently James II., and in 1680 the fortifications of the town were renewed. On the flight of James II. it was held by a Jacobite garrison, but this force was surprised and William of Orange proclaimed on 3—4 Dec. 1688. In 1775 the first stone of the first dock was laid. In 1796 the first steamboat constructed in England was built in Hull, and in 1840 the Hull and Selby railway was opened. Since the time of the opening of the first dock to the present day the growth of the City has been rapid, the population at the beginning of the last century being only 29,000. On 15 Aug. 1864, a great fire occurred in the town, the estimated damage amounting to about £100,000. The streets in what is called the Old Town, that is, the portion formerly comprised within the town walls, were narrow, but modern necessities have very much assisted in their improvement, and large buildings are taking the place of cramped dwellings; while those streets in what may be termed modern Hull are spacious and regular, a large number being planted with trees.

The government of the City is vested in a Corporation, consisting of a Mayor, sixteen Aldermen, forty-eight Common Councillors, a Recorder and sheriff. By the Hull Extension and Improvement Act, 1882, 44 and 45 Vict., c. cxv., which came into operation April 1, 1883, the Municipal borough was extended, and now comprises the ancient parish of Holy Trinity and St. Mary, which forms the centre of the town and contains within its limits the Albert, Humber, Princes and Queen’s docks, Sculcoates parish forming the northern part of the borough. Drypool, with Garrison side and Southcoates, comprising one parish, forms the eastern part, and is separated from the above by the river Hull, and contains within its area the Victoria and Alexandra docks. Newington, which is the western portion of the borough, is a parish formed by a Local Government Order, dated December 14, 1877, comprising all that detached part of Swanland township which adjoins the parish of Holy Trinity, Hull, and by a Local Government Order, dated December 16, 1878, detached parts of the townships of Kirk Ella, North Ferriby, West Ella and Willerby were amalgamated with Newington. Stoneferry, part of Sutton parish, is the north-eastern limit of the borough, and Marfleet parish on the extreme eastern boundary, and Newland, originally part of Cottingham parish, form the north-west portion of the borough. These parishes and parts of parishes were incorporated with Hull in 1883 by Act of Parliament.

There is a Commission of the Peace and a Court of Quarter sessions, the assize cases being taken to York and Leeds.

The Borough returned two members to Parliament from 1305 until the “Redistribution of seats Act, 1885” increased the number to, three in three divisions.

The suburb of New Holland is in Lincolnshire, where is the station belonging to the Great Central Railway. There is also a good pier, from whence the railway company’s steamboats leave several times a day for Hull, by means of which the distance by rail to London is reduced 40 miles, and there are also locomotive engine works and shipbuilding yards belonging to the Great Central Railway Company.

Port of Hull.-Under a Treasury Order the limits of the Port of Hull from the 1st of Jan. 1882, are now defined by a straight line drawn from Flaxfleet Ness, on the north side of the river Ouse, at or near its junction with the river Humber, to a point of land on the opposite side of the said river Ouse, called Bosom Cross (being the eastern boundary of the port of Goole) and extending up and including both sides of the river Trent as far as the bridge at Gainsborough, and from Bosom Cross extending down the river Humber on both sides to a supposed straight line drawn from Skitter Ness, on the Lincolnshire bank of the said river Humber, to Paull Lighthouse, on the Yorkshire side (being the northwestern boundary of the port of Grimsby), and continuing thence along the coast of the river Humber at low-watex mark at spring tide to the spurn Point (being the northern boundary of the port of Grimsby), and then along the coast of Yorkshire, in a northerly direction to Flamborough Head (being the Southern boundary of the port of Scarborough), and extending a distance of three miles seaward.Stolen from Fore bears

Before the docks were constructed the shipping lay in the river Hull (more often termed the Old Harbour). The first docks were made on the site previously occupied by the town walls. The growth of the importance of Hull as a port has been phenomenal, and at present it ranks as the “third port in the kingdom.” The docks constructed at present cover a total water area of about 193 acres, and are—

In connection with the foregoing there are three graving docks, one of 550 feet, one of 500 feet and one of 420 feet. These docks are fitted with every modern appliance, including warehouses of immense size for the storage of grain, large tanks for storing oils, and cellars for keeping provisions, &c. There is an ample supply of railway sidings and cranes, some of the latter being capable of lifting 80 tons dead weight. The following is the nett registered tonnage which entered the port during the years ending 31st December, 1911 and 1912.

showing an increase of 346,220 tons.

The North-Eastern Railway.-The passenger terminus, named the Paragon station, is in Paragon street, where, in addition to a commodious station, a well-appointed hotel, under the management of the Company, is to be found. Other stations have been provided for passenger traffic at Botanic Gardens, stepney, Wilmington, and Southcoates. The Docks of the Company, eight in number, covering over one hundred acres of water space, with about twenty-four acres of timber-pond space, and many miles of quays and land storage, were formerly the property of the Hull Dock Company, amalgamated with the North-Eastern Railway Co. on the 1st July, 1893. At these docks there is every facility for the conduct of a large import and export business, including splendid warehouses for the storage of grain and seed; cold storage for 100,000 carcases of sheep or a corresponding quantity of frozen beef; a foreign cattle depot with chill rooms; sheer legs; steam and hydraulic cranes for the lifting of weights up to eighty tons, coal hoists and tips for the shipment of coal; a dry dock, five hundred feet in length; slipways for trawlers; and numerous quays, lines, and sidings, at which railway traffic can be loaded or discharged. The commercial manager of the Hull Docks, who is likewise divisional goods and mineral manager for the Hull district, is Mr. J. W. B. Wilcock, the Dock Offices being in Victoria Square, close to the Whitefriargate Bridge, in one of the best positions in the City. These offices are of Ancaster stone, in the Italian style, from designs by Mr. G. C. Wray, architect, of London, and have three facades corresponding with the frontages, and at the three angles towers with domed roofs. Over the main entrance is a sculpture representing Commerce, Prosperity, and the river Humber, and over this is grouped a trophy of the arms of the late Hull Dock Company, of the borough of Hull, and of the Trinity House. On the ground floor are the wharfage offices of the docks and those of the divisional goods and docks manager, and on the first floor the offices of the dock engineer. The principal Goods stations of the North-Eastern Railway Company are admirably situated close to the docks in Railway street and Kingston street, and there are subsidiary goods and mineral stations at stepney, Wilmington, Drypool, and Sculcoates; while there are other stations for the delivery of coal exclusively, at Kingston street, St. James’s street, Chalk Lane, and Botanic Gardens. Since the Hull Docks have become the property of the North-Eastern Railway Company, many additions and improvements have been undertaken and completed. Additional hoists and cranes for the quick shipment of coal have been recently erected at the Albert and Victoria Docks, and in 1911 the N. E. Railway erected belt conveyors which will snip coal at the rate of about 700 tons per hour. At the Victoria Dock adequate quayage for the landing of timber cargoes has been provided.

The N. E. Ry. have constructed a new riverside quay 2,500 feet in length with a width varying from 85 to 150 feet, and as there is a continuous line of shedding, goods can be handled under cover and loaded direct to railway wagons. The quay is well lighted, and equipped with electric cranes, ensuring a rapid discharge of goods from the ship. There is also a passenger station at the west end of the quay, with waiting rooms, booking office, Customs examination room, &c., for the convenience of passengers arriving at, and departing from, the quay by the special boat trains which run alongside. The depth of water at the quay at low water spring tides is about 16 feet.

The Hull and Barnsley Railway forms a direct line of communication between the Port of Hull and the south and West Yorkshire Coalfields, by Junctions with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, at Hensall; the Great Northern Railway, at Hemsworth; the Midland Railway, at Cudworth (near Barnsley); and the Great Central Railway, at Stairfoot (near Barnsley); and with all the great seats of trade and manufacture in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, the Midlands, and throughout the country.

During 1902 an extension of about 8 miles was opened from Wrangbrook Junction to Wath-upon-Dearne, by which access is afforded to the Hickleton, Wath Main, Manvers Main, and Frickley Collieries.

The south Yorkshire Junction Railway, worked by the Hull and Barnsley Co., forms a new route from Denaby and Conisborough, and from the Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries, and was opened 1st September, 1894, for the conveyance of goods and mineral traffic. The stations, are Denaby, Conisborough, Sprotborough, Pickbum and Brodsworth. The Brodsworth Colliery is also connected with this line.

The Alexandra Dock has sufficient depth of water to admit large vessels at any state of the tide, an advantage hitherto unknown at Hull or any Humber port. It is furnished with the most improved hydraulic appliances for dealing with cargoes of every description-capstans, jiggers, cranes carrying up to 10 ton weight and steam cranes ranging in power from 20 to 100 tons weight. There are also seven hydraulic coal hoists, each capable of shipping at the rate of 350 tons per hour; two of these are movable, so that when used in conjunction with the fixed hoists it is possible for a vessel to coal from two hoists at the same time. A new river pier was erected in 1911 as an adjunct to the above-mentioned dock; this pier has a river frontage of about 1,300 feet, and is provided with electric coal conveyors, each with a potential shipping capacity of 600 tons per hour; the minimum depth of water at the pier at any state of the tide is about 18 feet. The Company has adopted a carefully revised scale of tonnage dues and charges. Water space, 53 ½ acres; area of storage grounds, 210 acres; length of quays, 2 ½ miles. Entrance lock-length. 550-ft.; width. 85-ft.; depth of water on sill, 34-ft. 0-in, H.W.O.S.T.; ditto, 28-ft. 0-in, H.W.O.N.T.; ditto, 18-ft. 0-in, L.W.O.N.T.; ditto, 12-ft. 0-in, L.W.O.S.T. There is good anchorage in 40-ft. at low water in the roadstead opposite the entrance. The lock gates are opened by hydraulic power, and ships can be passed in or out at all times with expedition. The entrance is lighted with powerful lamps. Fresh water is obtainable, and can be taken in direct by ships requiring it from the mains laid along the quays. The dock having been largely extended, affords greatly increased facilities for the berthing of vessels and dealing with their cargoes.

Two graving docks open out of the main dock. No. 1 is 500-ft. long on the floor, 60-ft. wide at the entrance, and 19-ft. deep on the sill. No. 2 in 550-ft. long on the floor, 65-ft. wide at the entrance, and 21-ft. 6in. deep on the sill. These depths on the sills of the graving docks may be increased under special arrangement with the Company. A shipbuilding yard and engineering works adjoin the dock.

The Albert Dock, the property of the North-Eastern Railway Company, was opened by His late Majesty Edward VII. then Prince of Wales, 21 July, 1869.

In 1847, a pier, in the form of the letter T, was erected in front of Nelson street.

In 1881, the reconstruction of the pier and construction of the new river wall was commenced. The widening of Nelson street, and the erection of a splendid promenade pier, from which a magnificent view of the Humber and the Lincolnshire coast can be obtained, and the reconstruction of the Vittoria jetty, were amongst the alterations. They were completed in 1883, at a cost of £20,000, borne by the Corporation.

The water supply was for more than 400 years merely the natural outflow from springs near the village of Anlaby, but in 1842 and in 1844—5 new works were opened at Stoneferry. After a time additional wells were sunk at springhead, thus obtaining an almost inexhaustible supply of water from the chalk of the Yorkshire Wolds. In 1890 a pumping station was erected at Cottingham, three engines being provided, each capable of pumping 3 million gallons per day. Additional adits were constructed in 1896, at a cost of over £10,000. In 1897—8 there was a thorough overhauling of the machinery at springhead pumping station, and new engines, capable of pumping 10 million gallons per day, were erected Extensions have also been carried out for the purpose of affording a more satisfactory supply to the high-level part of the suburban district which includes Willerby, Kirk Ella and parts of Anlaby and Hessle. During 1906 additional adits were constructed at Cottingham, and five new wells sunk, and in 1908 a service reservoir was made at Keldgate to hold 10 million gallons. The average daily supply to the City and outlying districts for the year ended 31st December, 1912, was over 11,852,000 gallons, which, after deducting for trade consumption, is equivalent to over 31 gallons per head per day of the entire population.

Gas is supplied to the City by two companies. The British Gaslight Company, Ltd., whose works were erected in 1826, Hear to the present Sculcoates Hull and Barnsley Railway station, have five gasholders, holding respectively 469,000,433,000, 94,000, 2,105,000 and 3,553,000 cubic feet, and offices in Baker street and show-rooms in King Edward street. The East Hull Gas Company, formed in 1847, and incorporated 1867, have two gasholders, one holding 1,800,000 and the other 1,100,000 cubic feet, and their offices are in st, Mark street.

Electricity supply.-The supply, of electric power and light throughout the City is in the hands of the Corporation, and controlled by the Electricity Committee. The first generating works, in Dagger Lane, were opened in 1893, and in 1898 an additional power house was erected in Sculcoates Lane, supplying on both the low and high tension systems, the Dagger Lane station being converted into a sub-station. Sculcoates Lane, now the only generating station, has since that date been twice extended, and now has a capacity of about 10,000 I.H.P. At the present time (1913) the extension of the power station at Sculcoates Lane is in progress, which, when completed, will, by the installation of modern extra high-tension three-phase turbo alternating plant, more than treble the capacity of the works. There are also direct current substations in Dagger Lane, Argyle street, Albion street, Osborne street. North Bridge, St. George’s Road, Buckingham street, New George street, Earle’s Yard, The National Radiator Co.’s works, Messrs. Reckitt’s works, Dansom Lane; Blundell, Spence & Co., Alexandra Dock, &c., and static transformer sub-stations at the Hull Oil Manufacturing Co., Stoneferry;-Messrs. Atkins’ Tin Works, Dairycoates; Messrs. Wray, Sanderson, Morley street, and Reckitt’s, Morley street. The Corporation has also recently agreed with the Joint Dock Committee to supply the whole of the power for driving the machinery on the Joint Dock. There are nearly 4,000 consumers connected to the mains, and all new or improved thoroughfares are lighted with electric light. The Corporation has a motor hiring scheme, enabling the smallest user to take advantage of the benefits of electric driving at the least possible expense. There are show rooms in Waterworks street, equipped with all the latest electrical apparatus and devices. There are now over 200 miles of the Department’s feeder and distributor mains laid down in Hull. The City Electrical Engineer is Mr. H. Bell, M.I.E.E. Sculcoates Lane Generating station.

The Corporation Tramways were inaugurated July 4th. 1899, the first cars running on Hessle and Anlaby Roads, and since this date they have contributed £168,500 to the relief of the City rates. There are 27 miles of permanent way, and 3 miles of extensions are now (1913) being laid down; there are 160 cars, and others in course of construction. The total receipts for the year ending March 31st, 1912, were £151,164. The tramway power station is in Osborne street, and the offices are at Queen’s Dock Chambers, Alfred Gelder street. Mr. W. J. McCombe, manager; Mr. J. Wilkinson, M.I.E.E., M.I.Mech.E., City tramway electrical engineer, and Mr. A. E. White, permanent way and City engineer.

The trade of Hull is principally in shipping, although its manufacturing industries are not unimportant. The chief countries and ports traded with are Russia, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France, Portugal, Spain, the Mediterranean, the Black sea, India, Australasia, and North and south America, besides which a very extensive coasting trade is done with other English ports. The fishing trade is very prosperous, a large number of steam trawlers being employed.

The staple industry of Hull is seed-crushing for oil and cake-making. It possesses extensive shipbuilding yards, engineering works, foundries, large tanneries, sail-lofts, rope-works, flax and cotton mills, breweries, and chemical works; there are also manufactories for paints, colors and varnishes, starch, blue, black lead, cement, soap, phosphate of lime, paper, furniture, and organs.

In 1891 Hull was constituted the seat of a bishop suffragan to the archdiocese of York.

Holy Trinity Church, situated on the west side of the Market Place, is a cruciform building, dating from the 13th century, and consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, transepts, and a massive and lofty tower 150 feet high, with angle buttresses, pinnacles, and an open parapet and containing; 10 bells. The church is 272 feet long, the breadth of the choir being 70 feet, and of the nave 72 feet. The chancel, of brick, is in the Early English style, but the rest of the fabric, including the tower, is of stone, and chiefly of Late Perpendicular date: the nave and aisles are both embattled, and relieved by pinnacled buttresses, and the elaborate west doorway is similar to that of Beverley Minster. The east window and several others are stained. South of the chancel is the Broadley Chapel, containing the Broadley tomb, surmounted by an effigy and canopy: here also is the recumbent effigy of a female in an arched recess, long built up in the south wall and discovered by accident in 1821; on the same side is a tomb of alabaster, with recumbent effigies of Sir William de la Pole, knight, merchant and some time mayor of Hull, ob. 1367, and Catherine (Norwich), his wife, with a lion at the feet of the former and a dog at those of the latter. Sir William, who is represented as bare-headed and reclining his head on two cushions, is habited as a merchant of the period, and at his breast hangs a dagger. The lady is represented as wearing an untied head-dress, falling down in plaits by the side of her face. In her hands she holds a heart, and her head rests on two cushions, supported by angels. The modern monuments include one to the Rev. Joseph Milner, author of a “History of the Church of Christ,” and formerly vicar of this parish, who died 15 Nov. 1797. The altar is of carved oak, the chancel floor is laid with encaustic tiles, and the steps are of polished black marble. The stone screen is a magnificent and elaborate work, erected as a memorial to the late Colonel Pease, J.P. (for 23 years chairman of the Restoration Committee) by members of his family. There are also other screens carved in oak, and presented by Mr. M. W. Clarke. Mr. and Mrs. John Briggs, Col. Wellsted, Major Judge, and Mr. W. T. Owbridge. A pulpit, in oak, by Elwell, of Beverley, was presented in 1888 in memory of the late Lumley Cook, Esq., and there is another pulpit of Caen stone. A carved oak door, inserted in one of the tower piers, shows the position of the ancient pulpit, which was approached by a staircase within the pier. The brass eagle lectern was presented by Messrs. Parker, to commemorate the 50th year of the incumbency of the late Rev. J. H. Bromby, M.A. The font, of Purbeck marble, is sculptured with a curious figure of a huntsman. The organ cost £2,000. The church was thoroughly restored under the direction of the late Sir G. Gilbert Scott at a cost of about £33,000, and has since been renovated and embellished and the bells recast and increased to ten in number, at a cost of about £4,500. In 1907 the foundations of the church were entirely relaid under the direction of Mr. F. S. Brodrick, architect, at a cost of nearly £8,000. The church seats 2,200 persons. The register dates from the year 1552. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value of £650, with residence, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1904 by the Rev. Arthur Blackwell Goulburn Lillingston, M.A., of Queens’ College, Cambridge.

All saints’ Parish Church Sculcoates, in Margaret street, Beverley Road, built in 1869, on a site presented by the Rev. Canon J. Jarratt, M.A., vicar of North Cave (1830—90), at a cost of over £9,000, is an edifice of red brick with white stone facings, in the Early Gothic style, from the designs of Mr. G. E. Street, R.A., and consists of apsidal chancel with organ chamber and vestries, nave, and a tower, erected in 1883 as a memorial to the Rev. Canon Chirles; Walsham, M.A. vicar here 1866—82, and containing 8 bells, 5 of which were given in 1899 by Mrs Foster Earle. There are several memorial windows to the Walsham family and others, and a brass lectern The pulpit is of carved stone, and the chancel is separated from the nave by a screen of carved oak. A vestry built in 1898 was converted into a lady chapel in 1911. The organ erected in 1878 at a cost of £700 was reconstructed and enlarged in 1909 to a cost of £500. The church affords 1,100 sittings The register dates from the year 1576. The living is a vicinge, yearly value £ 4, with residence in the gift of the Lord Chancellor and held since 1911 by the Rev Arthur Edward {missing} B.A. FitzWilliam Hall, Cambridge. A Mission Hall was built in 1879, at a cost of £1,000. Near the old church there is a burying ground of three acres, with a mortuary chapel, opened in 1818, at a cost of £4,000, and since enlarged. The mortuary chapel was restored in 1907 by the Hon. Sir John Hall, K.C.M.G, (d. 1907).

Christ Church is an ecclesiastical parish formed by Order in Council in May, 1886; the church, situated in Worship street, and erected at a cost of nearly £8,000, was consecrated 26 sept., 1822, and is a structure of brick, with Roche Abbey stone dressings, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and a western tower. Thera are several memorial windows, and at the east end is a bust of the Rev. John King, M.A. The church was restored and beautified, and the organ enlarged in 1904, at a cost of £1,100, and affords sittings for 1,654 persons. The register dates from the year 1822. The living is a perpetual curacy, net yearly value of £350, in the gift of Trustees, and held since 1913 by the Rev. Arthur Henderson Huntley, M.A., of St. John’s College, Cambridge.

St. Andrew’s (the parish church of Drypool), on the Holdernss Read, erected at a cost, including the organ, of £6,000, and opened and consecrated by the Archbishop of York, in July, 1878, is an edifice of red brick with stone dressings, in the Early Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, aisles, vestry and organ chamber. There are sittings for 700 persons, half of which are free. The register dates from the year 1574. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £300, with residence, in the gift of the Simeon Trustees, and held since 1886 by the Rev. John James Beddow, Th.Assoc, K.C.L. and surrogate.

St. Augustine’s, Newland, was erected in 1892, and had a parish assigned to it in 1896. The church, designed by Mr. Temple Moore, architect, is in the Decorated style of the 14th century, and has several stained windows, and sittings for 900 persons. The total cost, including site, amounted to £8,500. In 1910, carved oak choir stalls, altar rails and a lectern were placed in the church. The living is a perpetual curacy, net yearly value £344, with residence, in the gift of the Archbishop, and held since 1907 by the Rev. Edward Charles Cree, M.A., of University College, Durham, and chaplain of Sculcoates Union. The vicarage house, in Queen’s Road, was erected at a cost of £1,900, from the designs of Mr. Temple Moore.

The Mission Church of St. Cuthbert, in Marlborough Avenue, was erected in 1906; in 1909 a site was acquired for a permanent church, the designs for which have been prepared by Mr. Hubert Boden, architect. The Parish Hall, in Prince’s Road, was erected at a cost of £2,400.

The Church of St. Barnabas, situated on the Hessle Road, at a corner of the south Boulevard, and erected in 1873, is an edifice of red brick with white stone facings, in the Early English style, and cost about £8,000, exclusive of the site, presented by H. S. Constable, Esq., of Wassand. The church consists of chancel, nave, aisles, baptistery, vestry, and an organ chamber containing an organ, built at a cost of £650. There are sittings for 550 persons. The register dates from the year 1874. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £305, with residence, in the gift of five trustees, and held since 1907 by the Rev. Arthur Mostyn-Robinson, M.A., of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In 1882 the vicarage house was built, at a cost of £2,500, and in 1887 a Sunday school and Mission Hall were erected at a cost of £2,000. The latter, seating 1,000 persons, was, by Queen Victoria’s permission, called the Victoria Jubilee Hall.

The Church of St. Giles, Marfleet, was rebuilt in 1793, and again rebuilt on the same site in 1883—4 at a cost of £1,450, towards which Mrs. Fletcher, widow of the former vicar of Bilsdall, left £1,100, and the Master and Fellows of St. John’s College, Cambridge, contributed £300: it is a plain building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, west porch and a belfry with one bell: there are sittings for 150 persons. The registers date from the year 1713. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £200, with residence, including 23 acres of glebe, in the gift of Simeon’s trustees, and held since 1905 by the Rev. George Brittan.

St. James’s Church, in St. James’s square, near Hessle Road, and erected at a cost of £6,500, was consecrated in 1831, and is an edifice of white brick and stone in the Early English style, and has a tower containing bells. In 1871 the church was reseated and the aisles relaid, and in 1883 a new gallery was erected and the interior cleaned and re-decorated. The church affords 1,150 sittings, those in the gallery being free and unappropriated. The register dates from the year 1832. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £490, including pew rents, in the gift of the vicar of Holy Trinity, and held since 1887 by the Rev. David Keys Moore, M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin.

St. John’s Church, constituted a parish church in 1868, and situated near the north-west corner of the Prince’s Dock, is a plain edifice of red brick with cut stone dressings, and was consecrated by Archbishop Markham, of York, 30th August, 1791, and opened for divine service May 13th. 1792, as a proprietary church; alterations and additions have since been made at a further expense of £4,000, a chancel built, and the interior re-seated; the organ cost £600. There are 1,600 sittings, and the register dates from the year 1868. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £290, in the gift of the vicar of Holy Trinity, and held since 1909 by the Rev. William Talbot Hindley, M.A., of Christ’s College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge.

The Church of St. John, Newland, erected in 1836, was originally a plain structure of brick with stone dressings, consisting simply of nave, with pinnacles at the angles, but was enlarged in 1893 by the addition of a chancel and the insertion of decorated windows in the south front, and other internal improvements, at a cost of about £1,800: during 1902 'the church was extended westward and a north aisle added at a cost of about £2,600, and it will now seat 420 persons. The register dates from the year 1863. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £335, including 10 acres of glebe, with good residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Chester, and held since 1912 by the Rev. Llewellyn Wynn Thomas, M.A., of St. John’s College, Cambridge.

The Church of St. John the Baptist, Newington, situated in St. George’s Road, and erected at a cost, including site, of £8,000, was consecrated by the Archbishop of York in 1878, and is an edifice of brick with stone facings in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and vestries. There are sittings for 730 persons. An organ was provided in 1886. The register dates from the year 1878. The living is a perpetual curacy, net yearly value £330, with residence, built in 1884, in the gift of the Archbishop of York, and held since 1909 by the Rev. William John Peacey, M.A., of Merton College, Oxford. In 1883 Parish Rooms and Sunday schools were erected.

St. Jude’s Church, on the spring Bank, erected at a cost, including site, of £5,000, and consecrated by the Archbishop of York in 1874, is an edifice of red brick, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north and west porches and vestry; arcades of six bays each separate the nave from the aisles. The organ, provided at a cost of £600, was opened in 1887. There are sittings for 900 persons. The register dates from the year 1873. The living is a perpetual curacy, net annual value £200, in the gift of the Archbishop of York, and held since 1874 by the Rev. Elmitt Browne, M.A., of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

St. Luke’s Church, situated in St. Luke’s street, and erected in 1861 at a cost, including site, of nearly £5,000, is a structure of Ted brick with stone facings in the Early Decorated style, and consists of chancel, clerestoried nave of six bays, aisles, vestry and a tower, added in 1878; the organ cost about £300, and there is a fine stone reredos. There are 786 sittings, more than half being free. The register dates from the year 1857. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £268, in the gift of the vicar of Holy Trinity, and held since 1893 by the Rev. Alfred Curtis, who is also chaplain of the union.

St. Mark’s Church, situated in St. Mark’s street, Groves, and erected in 1843, is an edifice of red brick with stone dressings, in the Early English style, and consists of nave, aisles, sanctuary and a lantern tower. The organ was provided in 1899. There are sittings for 700 persons. The register dates from the year 1844. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £300, with residence, in the gift of the Crown, and held since 1905 by the Rev. John Butler Cholmeley, B.A., of Selwyn College, Cambridge.

St. Mary’s Church, Lowgate, originally built by the Knights Templars of North Ferriby, dates from c. 1327, and is an edifice of stone, consisting of chancel with aisles extending to the east wall, nave, three aisles, porch, organ chamber and vestry, and a tower containing 6 bells. It was restored in 1863 under the direction of the late Sir Gilbert Scott, at a cost of nearly £10,000, when the tower was cased with stone, and an archway pierced through it to serve as a public footway, a new carved oak pulpit and lectern provided, choir stalls, and an exquisitely decorated reredos of stone erected, and the interior reseated in oak. In 1904 a new organ was provided in memory of Dr. J. B. Dykes, the well-known church musical composer, at a cost of over £1,000, and incorporates some stops from the old organ by Snetzler. In 1908 a side chapel was erected in memory of the late Canon Scott. The chancel screen was erected in 1912 in memory of His late Majesty King Edward VII. The south screen is in memory of some former members of the congregation. There are sixteen stained windows, and sittings for 1,000 persons. The register dates from 1564. The living has been held by three vicars in succession of the same name-John Scott. The first was the eldest son of Thomas Scott, the Commentator; the second was the restorer of the church; and the third the late Canon John Scott, vicar here 1865—83, and rector of Wanstead, Essex, 1898—1906. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £408, with residence, in the gift of Mrs. Soott, and held since 1899 by the Rev. Stephen Adye Scott Ram, M.A., of St. John’s College, Cambridge. The vicarage house was built in 1868, and a parish room and soup kitchen added in 1878. The original “Hull National schools” belong to this parish, and have 250 scholars.

St. Mary’s Church, Sculcoates, formerly the parish church, was built in 1760, on the site of a very ancient structure, then removed, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, vestry and organ chamber. In 1862 it was new roofed, and in 1876 the gallery was removed and the church re-seated. There are sittings for 450 persons. In the church and churchyard are many ancient monuments. The living is a vicarage, net annual value £240, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Sculcoates, and held since 1904 by the Rev. Arthur Creyke England, M.A., of St. John’s College, Cambridge.

St. Mary and St. Peter, the parish church of Dairycoates, Hessle Road, built in 1902, and consecrated May 2sth in same year, is an edifice of brick with terra cotta mouldings, in the Romanesque style, and consists at present only of nave, aisles and vestry. The living is a perpetual curacy, yearly value £177, without residence, in the gift of the Archbishop of York, and held since 1906 by the Rev. William Henry Butler.

St. Matthew’s Church, situated on the Anlaby Road, at the corner of the Boulevard, and erected in 1870, at a cost of over £7,000, is an edifice of white brick, with red brick and stone dressings, consisting of chancel, nave of six bays, aisles, and a hexagonal tower with spire, reaching a height of 156 feet. The chancel has three stained windows, one of which was presented in 1897 by the congregation, and the others in 1900 by Mr. and Mrs. J. Travis-Cook and Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Kendall. There are sittings for 800 persons. The register dates from the year 1870. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £430, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Holy Trinity, and held since 1907 by the Rev. Arthur Fawssett Alston, M.A., of Clare College, Cambridge. The vicarage house, nearly opposite the church, was erected at a cost of £2,300. The Parish Room, in Bean street, in used for parochial purposes. The Parish Hall, in the Boulevard, was built in 1905 at a cost of £3,860, and is used for Sunday school and other purposes.

St. Paul’s Church, situated in St. Paul’s street, at the corner of Cannon street, erected at a cost of £8,000, was consecrated by the Bishop of Bangor, Oct. 27, 1847, and is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and a tower with octagonal spire. The east window and others on the south side of the nave are filled with stained glass. In 1878 the chancel was re-furnished and decorated, at the cost of Col. Gleadow, and in 1886, T. S. Whitaker, Esq., restored a portion of the exterior walls. There are sittings for 900 persons. The register dates from the year 1847. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £255, with residence, in the gift of the Archbishop of York, and held since 1903 by the Rev. William Prescott-Decie, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge.

St. Peter’s Church, formerly the parish church of Drypool, was erected in 1824 on the site of an ancient fabric taken down in 1822 and then found to incorporate fragments of monuments and carved stone of the 12th century. The present church, an edifice in the Perpendicular style, consists of an eastern apse, long nave, and a western tower containing dock and 3 bells. There are 850 sittings, half of which are free. The register dates from the year 1880. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £200, with residence, in the gift of the Simeon Trustees, and held since 1912 by the Rev. Nathaniel John Poole, M.A., of St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge.

St. Philip’s Church, Sculcoates, situated in Charlotte street, at the corner of Paradise Row, and erected in 1883, at a cost of £4,900, on a site given by R Jackson, Esq., was consecrated 27 Jan. 1885, and is a structure of brick in the Early English style, from designs by Messrs. Botterill, Son & Bilson, consisting of apsidal chancel, nave and aisle: the organ was provided in 1897, at a cost of £450. There are sittings for 570 persons. The living is a vicarage, net annual value of £300, with residence, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1905 by the Rev. Edward Harold Phillips, B.A., of Ayerst Hall, Cambridge. The vicarage house was built in 1888, at a cost of £1,650.

The Parish Hall, which seats 500, was provided in 1911 at a cost of £1,500.

St. Philip’s Mission Room, Nelson square, New George street, was erected in 1892, at a cost (including a portion of the site) of about £1,000. It contains a hall, with sittings for 200, and a classroom for 50, the latter being separated from the main room by a sliding partition.

St saviour’s is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1905; the church, in stone Ferry Road, Wilmington, consecrated in 1903, is an edifice of Ted brick with terra-cotta dressings, in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave and aisles, and has a fine alabaster pulpit with panels of Sicilian marble, and an organ in oak case, both the gift of George Earle, Esq.: the communion table was presented by Mrs. Miller, of Winestead, and the ornaments for the same by Mrs. Arthur Reckitt: there is also a carved oak lectern, provided by Mr. E. Starkey Wade and family: the church has been endowed by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners with £200 per annum, and affords 650 sittings. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £180, in the gift of the Archbishop of York, and held since 1904 by the Rev. Ernest Victor Dunn, formerly curate-in-charge.

St. Silas’ Church, Sculcoates, situated in Barmston street, was erected in 1870—71, and is an edifice of brick, faced and relieved with red and blue brick bands and tracery, and consists of apsidal chancel, with vestry and organ chamber, clerestoried nave and aisles. There are sittings for 660 persons. The total cost of the church and vicarage house was £5,680. The register dates from the year 1871. The living is a vicarage, net annual value £260, with residence, in the gift of the Archbishop of York, and held since 1894 by the Rev. William Henry Baker B.A., of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford.

St. Stephen’s Church, situated in St. Stephen’s square, and erected in 1844, is a building of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of apsidal chancel, nave, aisles, transept, and a western tower with spire containing 8 bells; the spire rises to a height of 180 feet. On each face of the tower are finely moulded doorways, surmounted by a series of small arches, and above these are triplet windows of great height; the spire is branded, and crowned with a finial and cross. There are sittings for 1,000 persons. The register dates from the year 1844. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £250, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Holy Trinity, and held since 1889 by the Rev. Thomas Heany, M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin. The vicarage house, in Park street, was built in 1860 at a cost of £1,600.

St. Thomas’s Church, situated in Campbell street, off the Anlaby Road, and erected in 1882 at a cost of £6,000, consists of apsidal chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, double transepts, vestry, organ chamber, and an octagonal bell turret containing bells. The organ was the gift of Colonel Saner, J.P. The church will seat 750 persons. The register dates from the year 1882. The living is a vicarage, net annual value £240, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Holy Trinity, and held since 1912 by the Rev. William Samuel King, M.A., of University College, Oxford. A house in Balmoral Terrace, Anlaby Road, was purchased and adapted in 1886 as a vicarage house at a cost of over £1,800. The temporary iron church now serves as a parish room.

The parish of the Transfiguration, North Newington, was formed from the parish of St. John the Evangelist, Newington, on January 7th. 1906. The church, in Albert Avenue, was erected in 1904, and contains 600 sittings. The register dates from 1904. The living is a perpetual curacy, net yearly value £195, with residence, in the gift of the Archbishop of York, and held since 1911 by the Rev. Thomas Frederick Jones, of St. Augustine’s College, Canterbury.

Hull is within the Roman Catholic diocese of Middlesbrough.

St. Charles’s Roman Catholic Church, Jarratt street, opened in 1829, is a spacious edifice in the Italian Renaissance style, and was thoroughly renovated in 1896 at a cost of about £3,000, when aisles and a lady chapel were added. St. Patrick’s Church, situated in spring street, and rebuilt in 1904, is a structure of red brick, in the Early English style. There are now attached to St. Charles’s Mission two sets of schools with 1,000 children on the books. St. Mary’s Church, erected in 1892, at a cost of over £2,000, is a structure in the Gothic style, from designs by Messrs. Smith. Brodrick & Lowther, architects, and has sittings for 500 persons. The old building is now used as a school, and will hold 850 children. St. Wilfrid’s Church, situated on the Boulevard, and erected in 1896, at a cost of £5,000, by the same architects, affords 550 sittings.

The Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Vincent is in Queen’s Road.

The Central Baptist Chapel, in Beverley Road and Trafalgar street, the foundation stone of which was laid Dec. 7th. 1904, is a building of flint and terra cotta, erected at a cost of about £9,000, and includes a baptistery and a tower 80 feet high. There are sittings for 830 persons; attached is a Sunday school, the memorial stone of which was laid on October 1sth. 1891, and which seats 450 persons. The Baptist Chapel in the Boulevard was erected in 1903, at a cost of £12,000, to seat 750; there is a Sunday school attached. In Holderness Road is an iron chapel, erected in 1909, to seat 250 persons. There is also a Baptist Mission Chapel in Dansom Lane.

The Congregationalists have seven chapels in the City. Newland Chapel, in Beverley Road, built at a cost, including site, of £9,000, is a structure of brick with terra cotta facings, in the Gothic style, and consists of an octagonal nave, chancel, and a tower, 120 feet in height, adorned with eight statues of Free Church leaders of the 1sth century.

There are sittings for 820 persons, all being free. Salem Chapel, in Cogan Street, erected in 1832, has a gallery all round, and sittings for 750 persons. Albion street Chapel, opened in 1842, has a massive stone portico of six columns, approached by a flight of steps, and within are spacious galleries, seating 1,350 persons; the lecture hall, adjoining, has been enlarged by the addition of a new storey, and seats 800. Wycliffe Chapel, on the Anlaby Road, opened in 1868, is an edifice of stone, in the Gothic style, erected at a cost of over £11,000, and consists of nave, transepts, and a tower with spire. Wycliffe Hall, attached to this chapel, was erected in 1909 at a cost of £3,500. Latimer Chapel, in Williamson street, Holderness Road, erected in 1873, has a small tower at the north-west angle, and affords 570 sittings. Hessle Road Chapel, erected in 1876, is of red brick in the Gothic style, and comprises nave and transept, with side galleries, and has sittings for 900 persons. The Memorial Congregational Chapel, Prince’s Avenue, founded in Pish street in 1769, and removed to the present building in 1899, is a structure in the Gothic style, consisting of nave, aisles, transepts, and a small gallery over the vestibule: the pulpit is of Caen stone. On the north side is a schoolroom with class-rooms, and in rear is a large parlour and an Institute for young people, comprising a hall seating 350 persons. The chapel will seat 700 persons, and cost, with the schools, over £7,000.

The Danish Lutheran Church of St. Nicolai, situated in Osborne street, consecrated in 1871, for the benefit of the Danish and other Scandinavian residents and foreign seamen, is an edifice of red brick with Ancaster stone dressings in the Gothic style, and will seat 300 persons.

The Friends’ Meeting House is in Mason street, and was re-built in 1880. Connected with this place of worship is a large adult school.

The German Lutheran Church, in Nile street, erected in 1827, and rebuilt in 1911 at a cost of about £2,000, is a, structure of brick and stone in the Romanesque style. The Rev. Georg Struckmeier is the present pastor. In connection with this church there is a Mission and Reading Room for sailors at 12 Charlotte street.

The Jews have three synagogues in Hull, one in Osborne street, opened in 1902, one in Linnaeus street and the other in school street, off Waltham street, opened in 1887.

The United Methodist society, formed sept. 1907, by the union of the Methodist New Connexion, the Methodist Church and the Bible Christians, has a chapel in Campbell street, erected in 1866, at a cost of about £2,566, of white brick in the Gothic style, and will seat 560 persons. The other chapels of this sect are Bethel Chapel, Charlotte street, opened in 1799, renovated in 1865, and seating 850 persons; stepney Chapel, on the Beverley Road, a building in the Gothic style, seating 550 persons.

The Presbyterian Church of England has churches in Prospect street. Spring Bank, Holderness Road, and Newington. That in Prospect street, erected in 1866 at a cost of £10,000, is an edifice of stone in the Geometrical Gothic style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, transepts and a tower. The gabled front contains a large rose window, with rich tracery. The three latter churches are all of red brick in the Gothic style.

The Primitive Methodist society in Hull dates from 1819. Great Thornton street Chapel, erected in 1849, was rebuilt, at a cost of £5,000, about 1858, and has sittings for 900 persons. Clowes Chapel, Jarratt street, opened in 1851, is a structure of brick in a modified Italian style, with brick pilasters, and has sittings for 1,420 persons. Holderness Road Chapel, opened in 1864, at A cost of £6,000, is of brick, with stone dressings, in the Italian style, and affords 1,000 sittings. There is also another chapel in Holderness Road. Bethesda school Chapel, Holland street, opened in May, 1902, at a cost of £6,000. will seat 500 persons. Jubilee Chapel, spring Bank, was opened in 1864, and school-rooms and a vestry were subsequently added at a cost of £6,100; the chapel affords 1,000 sittings. Lincoln street Chapel, a building in the Gothic style, with transepts, has 700 sittings. Bourne Chapel, Anlaby Road, erected in 1869, at a cost of £7,500, is of white brick, with stone dressings, in the Gothic style, and will seat 1,420 persons. Stoneferry Chapel was erected in 1871, at a cost of £822, and has 210 sittings. School premises have since been added. The Henry Hodge Memorial Chapel, Williamson street, Holderness Road, erected in 1872, at a cost of £7,886, is an edifice of white brick with stone dressings, and will seat 1,400 persons. Ebenezer Chapel, spring Bank, built in 1878, at a cost of £8,050, is of red brick with stone dressings, and has sittings for 1,000 persons. Fountain Road Chapel, built in 1877, at a cost of £4,000, seats 800 persons. Hessle Road Chapel, erected in 1881, at a cost of £8,196, is of white brick with stone dressings, in the Romanesque style, and will seat 1,000 persons. St. George's Road Chapel, erected in 1890, at a cost of £3,646, provides 650 sittings; adjoining the chapel is a school-room. Lambert street Chapel was built in 1894, at a cost of over £4,000, and seats 850: in 1906 schools were erected at a cost of about £2,000. Hedon Road Chapel, built in 1894, at a cost of £1,700, is in the Gothic style, and seats 500 persons. There are also Mission Rooms in Alexandra street, New George street and Mechanic Lane, Edgar street. The chapel in Selby street, erected in 1901, at a cost, including site, of £1,500, is of red brick with stone dressings, and affords 400 sittings.

The Swedenborgian (New Jerusalem) Chapel, situated on the spring Bank, is an edifice of red brick with small spire.

The Unitarian Chapel, in Park street, is in the Gothic style, and has also a spire.

The Wesleyan Methodists first met for worship in a portion of the tower of the Suffolk Palace, in Manor Alley. When the tower was removed a chapel was erected close to it, and opened by Wesley in 1772. The Queen’s Hall, Alfred Gelder street, erected in 1907, at a cost of over £20,000, will seat 2,600 persons. Waltham street Chapel, opened in 1815, is a structure of brick faced with cement, and the interior is surrounded by galleries; on the walls are a large number of mural tablets; it was in this chapel that the Rev. Dr. Beaumont expired, after giving out the first verse of the 316th hymn during the Sunday morning service of January 21, 1855; some of the windows are stained, and a new entrance in King Edward street was erected in 1894 at a cost of £5,000. Kingston Chapel, Witham, opened in 1841, at a cost of about £8,000, is of stone, and has a massive pediment resting upon four columns of the Doric order; a spacious gallery surrounds the interior, which seats 1,600 persons. Beverley Road Chapel, erected in 1862, at a cost of about £7,500, is an edifice in the Decorated style, from designs by Mr. W. Botterill, architect; the organ was provided in 1862; besides the schools connected with this chapel, there is a suite of rooms erected at a cost of over £1,000. Coltman street Chapel, opened in 1872, at a cost of about £8,000, is also in the Gothic style, from designs by Mr. Botterill, and consists of nave, with transepts; galleries surround three sides of the interior; the pulpit is of carved oak, and there is an organ which cost £2,000; the church seats 1,250 persons; attached are schools, erected from plans by Messrs. Gelder & Kitchen, architects, and including a large assembly hall, parlour, infants’ room and several additional class-rooms. Queen’s Road Chapel, opened in 1878, at a cost of £9,000, will seat 1,200 persons; attached are school buildings, consisting of large assembly hall, infants’ room, parlour and 17 classrooms. Brunswick Chapel, on the Holderness Road, is a structure of white brick with stone dressings, erected in 1876, at a cost of £4.500, and seating 800 persons; the attached Sunday Schools were erected at a cost of £3,000. St. George’s Road Chapel, opened in 1883. at a cost of £4.000, is a building in the Italian style; it was enlarged in 1904 to seat 1,100 persons; attached is a large school-foom for 1,000 children. George Yard Chapel, built in 1788, is now used as a Sunday school. Argyle street Chapel, erected at a cost of £3,300, is an edifice of red brick with terra-cotta dressings, in the Renaissance style, seating 1,000 persons; schools, with a house for a caretaker, were erected in 1910, at a cost of about £3,500. Anlaby Road Chapel, erected in 1910, at a cost of £9,500, is a building of red brick and Ancaster stone, in the Gothic style; there are 950 sittings. Plane street Sunday school, a building in the Tudor Gothic style, erected at a cost of £2,900, consists of assembly hall, 16 classrooms, parlour, infants’ room, &c., and will hold 900 children. The Groves Mission Hall, in Jenning Street, will seat 600 persons, and the building includes an infants’ room and several class-rooms. Newland Wesleyan schools, at the corner of Newland Avenue, opened in 1901, at a cost of about £7,000, and will hold 700 scholars; the school is also used for services. The Kings Hall, in Fountain Road, erected in 1909—10, at a cost of about £30,000, comprises a large hall with 2,000 seats, a minor hall with 800 seats, a lecture hall with 200 seats, and about 25 class-rooms; services are held in the hall on Sunday; there is also a suite of rooms used as a working men’s club. There are smaller Chapels, or Mission Rooms, in Lower Union street, Barnsley street, Stoneferry Road, Marfleet, Wheeler street, Newland and Hamilton Place. The chapels are divided into five circuits, and sixteen ministers (exclusive of the supernumeraries) are resident in the city. The Thornton Mission Hall, in Great Thornton street, includes a large hall, seating 1,050 on the ground floor and 800 in the gallery.

The Hull General Cemetery, spring Bank West, was opened in April, 1847, by a company of shareholders, incorporated in July, 1854; it consists of about 13 acres, tastefully laid out and planted; a small chapel, in the Early English style, was erected and consecrated in 1861.

The City Cemetery. Hedon Road, laid out by the Corporation in 1873—4, at a cost of £18,000, and extended at a later date, has an area of 18 ¾ acres, 7 ½ acres being consecrated; it contains two chapels, one of which is for the Church of England and the other for Nonconformists, and there are lodges for the superintendent and foreman; it is under the control of the burial committee of the Corporation. Adjoining this cemetery is the Crematorium, opened in 1901, and the Columbarium for the reception of cremated remains.

The Western Cemetery, Chanterlands Avenue, laid out by the Corporation in 1886, has an area of 31 ¼ acres. There are two chapels.

Holy Trinity Cemetery, Division Road, was formed in 1862 at a cost of £3,000, and comprises an area of 8 acres: it has an iron mortuary chapel; the cemetery is under the control of the vicar and churchwardens of Holy Trinity Church.

Drypool Cemetery, on the Hedon Road, comprising an area of 3 acres, was opened in 1851, at a cost of £2,500; it contains a mortuary chapel: the cemetery is under the control of the vicar and churchwardens of St. Andrew’s.

The Jews have a burial ground in the Hedon Road, Marfleet, and a small one in Ella street.

The parish of Sculcoates has a burial ground in Sculcoates Lane, with an area of 8 ½ acres, and there is a churchyard attached to Newland Church.

The Mortuary in the disused burial ground, Castle street, was remodelled in 1892, and furnished at a cost of £800, and now comprises four mortuary compartments, a well-equipped post-mortem room and outbuildings.

The Grammar school, Leicester street, now a secondary school under the Board of Education, was founded (or, perhaps, more accurately, refounded) in 1486 by John Alcock, Bishop of Ely, and formerly occupied premises in south Church side, rebuilt in 1583. The present buildings, opened in Jan., 1892, stand in an acre of playground, and in 1908—9 were enlarged by the addition of new chemical and physical laboratories and an art room, at a cost of over £4,000, from designs by Mr. Hirst, architect, of Hull. A gymnasium and playing-shed were built in 1898. Attached to the school are six entrance scholarships awarded in July: there are now (1913) about 270 boys. The school is administered under a scheme of the Board of Education, dated 1910, by which the government is vested in the Mayor and Corporation, acting through a committee of the Town Council. Amongst the eminent men educated in this school were Andrew Marvel, M.P.; Dr. Thomas Watson, Bishop of St. David’s; William Wilberforce, M.P.; Isaac Milner, Dean of Carlisle; and Archdeacon Wrangham, scholar and poet.

The Girls’ High school (Church schools’ Company, Ltd.) Park street, formerly The Hull and East Riding College, was built in the Thirteenth Century Gothic style in 1886, and bought by the Church schools’ Company, Ltd., in 1893, at a cost of over £4,000. After extensive alterations, amounting to £2,000, the building was formally opened in September, 1894, by the Archbishop of York. It comprises a gymnasium, large assembly hall, numerous class-rooms and a music room. In the rear is a large playground.

Hymers College, Hymers Avenue, spring Bank, founded in 1889 by the Rev. John Hymers, D.D., F.R.S., was opened in J.893 by the 1st Baron Herschel (d. 1899), then Lord Chancellor. The school, which stands in beautiful grounds of over 30 acres, comprises class-rooms, science laboratories, art room, gymnasium, a centre hall capable of seating 1,000 persons, and a boarding house, to which is attached a large dining hall. New science buildings have been erected at the north end of the college at a cost of about £7,000. There are four entrance scholarships and one leaving scholarship to the value of £350 per annum. There are about 270 boys. There is a contingent of the Officers’ Training Corps in connection with the college. The school is controlled by a body of 30 governors, the Mayor of Hull being chairman; Mr. C. H. Gore, M.A., of Kings College, Cambridge, headmaster.

The Guildhall stands upon an island site, with a frontage of 560 feet, facing Alfred Gelder street. The facade is treated with detached composite columns, the centre feature being a large recessed arch with the entrance to the Law Courts under it. To the left of this entrance is the Law Courts block, comprising four courts, waiting hall and waiting rooms for witnesses. Upon the first floor are rooms for the judges, Recorder, magistrates, Clerk of the Peace, &c., with private staircases leading direct to the benches. On the right of this central entrance are the municipal offices; the council chamber and committee rooms are on the first floor. In the portion of the building now (1913) being erected will be offices for the City treasurer and accountant and the rating department; on the first floor will be a large banqueting hall, adjoining the Mayor’s private suite of rooms. The buildings will approximately cost £150,000, and have all been carried out under the chairmanship of Alderman George Hall, J.P. The whole of the buildings have been erected in Ancaster stone, and are designed in a simple Classic manner. The architect is Mr. T. E. Cooper, F.R.I.B.A., of London.

The City Hall and Municipal Art Galleries were erected in 1909—10, from the designs of Mr. J. H. Hirst, the city architect, at a cost of about £100,000; the Hall is built over shops fronting on Victoria square, and there are entrances to the Galleries in Carr Lane and Waterworks street.

The Corporation insignia include a plain silver mace of the Commonwealth period, 16 inches in length but without hall marks; it originally bore on the top the “state’s arms,” with the date 1651; but at the Restoration the plate was turned over, and the Royal arms engraved on the reverse side; there is also a larger mace of silver-gilt, 3 feet inches in length with crowned head, and the London hall marks for 1776—7, as well as the maker’s initials “W.G.;” and a third mace with silver-crested head and wooden staff, originally about 12 inches long; the head bears the town arms; there are no hall marks, but it dates from the 17th century: the Corporation further possess two water bailiff’s staves in the form of wooden oars: one of these dates from the 16th century; the other, of oak with silver mountings, is dated 1617: and there are two state swords-the earlier, of the 15th century, has a richly-adorned Lilt, the grip covered with blue velvet, relieved by silver-gilt mounts; the quillons, also silver-gilt, are beautifully engraved: the blade is modern, but the scabbard, covered with crimson velvet, and elaborately ornamented, is of the 16th century; the later sword, dated 1636, was presented to Charles I. on his visit to the town in 1639; it has a black grip, with longitudinal silver-gilt bands and a scabbard of crimson velvet, mounted in silver-gilt, with the crowned rose and crowned thistle.

The Merchants’ Exchange and Club is situated at the comer of Bowlalley Lane and Lowgate. The building, erected in 1866, from designs by Mr. W. Botterill, architect, is of stone and brick in the Italian style. The front portion of the building is occupied by business offices, and in the basement are extensive dining rooms and restaurant. The ground floor of the building is used as a merchants’ exchange and newsroom and is a splendid apartment, 70 feet by 40 feet, the walls and ceiling being richly decorated. Mr. Victor Dumoulin is the present chairman, and Mr. W. B. Wickman, secretary. The Hull Chamber of Commerce has offices in the Exchange.

The Corn Exchange, situated in High street, and erected in 1855. at a cost of about £5,500, is a building of stone in the Classic style, with a finely arched entrance supported by Corinthian columns. The Exchange hall is 158 feet long, 36 feet wide, and 36 feet high in the centre, and covered by a semi-circular glass and iron roof. Merchants’ offices occupy the front portion of the building.

The Pacific Exchange, in High street, opened in May, 1901, was built mainly to supply an exchange for the corn, flour, oil and seed crushing trades. There is a good supply of telegraphic commercial news, and a well appointed restaurant is open on the first floor. Mr. W. H. Carver, chairman.

The General Post Office, opened in 1909, is an extensive building, at the corner of Lowgate and Alfred Gelder street, in the Ionic style and of Portland stone, erected from designs by W. Pott, Esq., of H.M. Office of Works. The ground floor is used as the general postal offices, the first floor as the offices of the postmaster, telegraph engineer and chief superintendent, the second floor as the telegraphic and telephonic department, and the basement as the stores and cable testing rooms.

The Customs occupy premises in the Market Place, formerly used by the Post Office.

His Majesty’s Prison, on the Hedon Road, was erected in 1869 by the Corporation, at a cost of about £89,000, and in 1878 was transferred to the Government, under the provisions of the “Prisons Act.” It is a large structure of red brick, occupying a site of 15 acres, and attached are residences for the governor, chaplain, and other officials.

The Hull Royal Infirmary.-On the 26th of September, 1782, a Temporary Infirmary was opened in George street, and the active work of the institution dates from that period. In September, 1784, the present building, as then designed, with provision for 60 or 70 beds, was completed at a cost, including the site, of £4,316. In 1839, two new wings were erected, and others in 1858 and 1863, since which the New Wilson Wing, the New Bailey Out-Patient Department, the Victoria Wing and Casualty Department, and the Sir James Reckitt Circular Wing have been added. During 1912 the number of in-patients admitted was 3,560, and the daily number of beds occupied was 210. The number of out-patients under treatment was 11,982 and casualties, 20,361. The ordinary income for the same year was £16,407 and the expenditure, £16,337. In the board room there are portraits of Sir Henry Etherington, one of the original benefactors, and David Wilson, Esq., J.P., a member of the board of management, who, with his brothers, Charles Henry Wilson, Esq., M.P., and Arthur Wilson, Esq., erected the Wilson Wing; there are also portraits of the late Sir Robert Martin Craven, Kt., J.P., F.R.G.S.; Henry Simpson, Esq., chairman of the institution from 1881 to 1887; David Haughton, chairman from 1891 to 1900, and Sir James Reckitt, Bart., besides several busts of physicians, and in the entrance hall there is a statue of Dr. Jenner. On the lawn, in front of the building, is a statue of Dr. John Alderson, erected by subscription in 1833. A Convalescent Home at Withernsea was presented to the Infirmary in 1892, by Messrs. Francis and James Reckitt. There is also a Home for Incurables, which was bequeathed to the hospital by the late Alderman John Symons; the home was opened in 1912, and provides for 5 free and 5 paying patients.

The Victoria Hospital for sick Children was first established in 1873 in a private house in story street. The existing Hospital, in Park street, erected at a cost of £7,500, and opened 22nd July, 1891, is a structure of red brick with Ancaster stone dressings, in the Early French Gothic style. The building extends through to Clarendon street, where the out-patients’ department is situated, and constitutes an entirely separate building. In connection with the hospital is a convalescent home at Hornsea.

The City Hospital, Hedon Road, established in 1885, on a site of about 7 ½ acres in extent, has been added to from time to time since that date, the total cost of its erection (exclusive of site) being £22,865. It consists of administrative department, five ward blocks, nurses’ quarters, laundry, entrance ledge, &c. Beds are set apart for the treatment of patients suffering from scarlatina, typhoid fever and diphtheria, and also for the observation of doubtful cases. The Evan Fraser Hospital is at Sutton, for which refer to places in the Neighbourhood of Hull.

There is a temporary sanatorium for Consumptives, which contains 30 beds.

The Hull and Sculcoates Dispensary, in Baker street, opened July 6, 1887, is an edifice of red brick with stone dressings, in the Renaissance style, from designs by Messrs. Botterill, Son & Bilson, architects, and comprises a spacious waiting hall, consulting room, dispensary, board room, and house-surgeon’s residence. The Dispensary was first established in 1814, and is supported by voluntary subscriptions.

The City Lunatic Asylum at Willerby, 6 miles from Hull, erected in 1882, and extended in 1896 and 1907, at a total cost of £100,000, forms a complete block of buildings, planned as a double square.

The Hull seamen’s and General Orphanage, erected in 1866, on the spring Bank, occupies a site of over two acres of ground, and is a structure in the Elizabethan style, to which various additions have been made from time to time. The orphanage consists of boys’ and girls’ wings, with separate play-grounds, day rooms, dormitories, sick wards, baths, lavatories, and officers’ apartments; and has, in addition, a large school with class rooms, dining hall, gymnasium, boiler and wash houses, drying room, laundry, kitchen, store rooms, disinfecting chamber, and offices. The institution is designed for the orphans of seamen connected with or born within, the port of Kingston-upon-Hull, and its ancient limits, including Bridlington, Grimsby, Gainsborough, and Goole, and other places within seven miles of the Trinity House, Hull. The Orphanage provides 210 separate beds, and the number of children now resident is about 120 boys and 100 girls. In addition to the orphans received into the asylum, assistance is rendered to other orphans who reside at home with their mothers, by providing them with partial clothing, and educating them at the National and other schools of the City. There are at present about 200 orphans on this branch.

Hull Blind Institute was formed in 1864, chiefly with the view of affording regular employment to blind persons, and has a library of volumes in raised type, and a workshop in Kingston square, where about 15,000 baskets and other articles are made up annually. Attached to the Institute is a sick-benefit and entertainment society, and a visitor to the blind is also maintained. Connected with the Institute is the Rockcliffe Home for Blind Women in Charles street, which receives 10 inmates.

The Hull Medical society’s library at the Hull Church Institute contains 2,000 volumes.

The Hull Charity Organization society was formed in 1876, and has offices at, 3 Percy street. The objects of the society are the relief of deserving distress, the repression of mendicity, the improvement of the sanitary conditions of the poor, and cooperation with the Poor Law Officers, the Education Committee, and the various charities of the City. Office hours, 10 to 4 o’clock. The relief committee sits on Mondays and Thursdays.

The Hull Workhouse, on the Anlaby Road, was erected in 1852, at a cost of £15,000, and is of red brick with stone dressings, in the Italian style, and includes a dining hall, 80ft. by 40 in. and capable of dining 550 persons at one time, two infirmaries, board room, chapel, kitchen, and a building for cutting up timber, erected at a cost of £800. The board room contains portraits of the late Alderman Fountain and Councillor Wheatley. The wards are well ventilated and there are beds for 760 inmates. There are also nurses’ homes and ornamental gardens, the whole covering 6 ½ acres of land. The union comprises the parishes of Holy Trinity and St. Mary.

The Sculcoates Union Workhouse, situated on the Beverley Road, is a large building in the Tudor style. The original structure was erected in 1844 at a cost of £11,000, but several additions and extensions have since been made, including a laundry, kitchens, dining hall, infirmary and electric light works. The Sculcoates Union comprises the following places:-Anlaby, Cottingham, Haltemprice, Hedon, Hessle, Kirk Ella, Melton, North Ferriby, Preston, Sculcoates, Sutton, Swanland, Wauldby, Welton, West Ella, and Willerby.

The sailors’ Home, in Alfred Gelder Street, opened in 1860, formerly a bank, was rebuilt in 1904.

St. Vincent de Paul Home for Boys (Roman Catholic), now in Queen’s Road, was founded by the late Very Rev. Canon Sullivan, and has about 84 boys, waifs and strays, under the care of the sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul; principal, Rev. Francis J. Dean Hall, of St. Charles’s, Jarratt. St.

The Guild of the Holy Trinity, established by the masters, pilots, and seamen of the Trinity House, Hull, in 1369, for the relief of decayed seamen and their widows, and for maritime purposes, was incorporated by charter of the 20th of Henry VI. (1441—2) which has been renewed and confirmed by several others. The corporate body consists of twelve elder brethren, six assistants, and an indefinite number of younger brethren, who are pilots of a superior class; from the elder brethren two wardens and from the younger brethren two stewards are annually chosen. The Trinity House, rebuilt in 1754, forms a large quadrangle, surrounding a spacious area. The front is relieved by columns of the Tuscan order, and has a pediment, on which are the Royal Arms supported by figures of Neptune and Britannia. The house contains a splendid dining room, a council room, a good reading room, and a small museum. The offices, erected in 1844, adjoin the main building in Trinity House Lane, and there is a chapel, built 1839—43, in the Classic style, for the use of the pensioners of the Corporation. The Trinity House also maintains a navigation school for training boys for the sea service, founded in 1786, in which are about 150 boys who receive clothing and an excellent technical education free. There is also a school for adults, in which masters and mates are prepared for the Board of Trade examinations.

The Charterhouse, in Charterhouse Lane, at the East end of Sykes street, was built in 1777, on the site of a previous building dedicated to the same purpose; and the master’s house, on the opposite side of the road, was rebuilt at the same period, at a total cost of £3,000. The founder, Sir Michael de la Pole, established the original building, under the title of Maison Dieu, or House of God, in 1384, for thirteen poor men and thirteen poor women. During the Civil War it was pulled down, and a two-gun battery erected on its site for the defence of the town, the master and pensioners finding refuge in one of their houses in “Whitefryergate,” now the De la Pole Cafe. The second hospital and master’s house lasted till 1777. Since its first foundation its revenues have been increased, and its buildings extended, including 14 rooms, built in 1887 by W. T. Dibb, Esq., and four built in 1904 out of the revenue; the Charterhouse now provides rooms, coals, turves, medical attendance, &c., and 7s. per week for 47 poor men and 53 poor women. The revenue of this charity now amounts to about £3,900 a year, out of which the present master, the Rev. William Hay Fea, M.A., of St. John’s College, Cambridge, has a yearly salary of £250, with house and garden.

The Trust Almshouses, in Northumberland Avenue, opened in 1877, stand upon three acres of ground and are arranged round a quadrangle, 250 feet by 160 feet, with an entrance gateway occupying a central position in the south front. The quadrangle is laid out in walks, the centre being turfed, and a terrace runs round the building. The west and part of the north side on both floors is entirely occupied by the inmates of Sir John Lister’s Hospital, each having two rooms. The remainder of the north side is principally devoted to the chapel and preacher’s house. The ground floor on the east side is occupied by the inmates of Weaver’s and Greggs Hospital, and those of Bishop Watson’s and Crowle’s foundations on the upper floor. The south side west of the gateway provides for the inmates of Glee’s Almshouses on the ground floor, and of Fox’s and Ellis’s on the upper floor. On the east side of the gateway are rooms on the ground floor assigned to Harrison’s Hospital, and the remainder of the inmates of Bishop Watson’s Hospital occupy the upper floor. On the south side are also rooms for the inspector, the board room and a fireproof room. Each inmate, other than those in Sir John Lister’s Hospital, has a room, a recess for a bed, a small pantry, and a coal place. The chapel consists of nave, chancel and vestry, and will seat about 130 persons. The preacher’s house contains eight rooms, with the usual offices, and has a covered passage to the vestry. The whole building has been designed in the English Domestic Gothic style, and its appearance has been rendered effective by the varied manner in which it is treated. The entrance is emphasised by a tower, which can be used in connection with the ventilation of the whole of the buildings. The cost of construction was about £15,000.

Watson’s Almshouse is for 20 poor persons. Trinity Houses Almshouses, in Posterngate, are a handsome range of buildings in the Classic style, surmounted by a colossal figure of a river god, representing the Humber, and was built in 1828 by the Corporation. The Master Mariners’ Almshouses, in Anlaby Road, erected by the Corporation, form a range of buildings in the Classic style, and adjoining is another almshouse also built by the Corporation. In 1851 the Corporation purchased the building known as the Kingston College, on the Beverley Road, and converted it into an almshouse. There are also many out-pensioners of various classes.

The Wilberforce Museum, in High street, the birthplace (Aug. 24th. 1759) of William Wilberforce, Esq., M.P., was opened August 24th. 1906, and comprises relics of the great emancipator and objects illustrating the history of Kingston-on-HuIl. Admission is free on week days, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Sundays, from 3 to 5 p.m.

The Royal Institution, in Albion street, opened in 1854, is a handsome edifice of stone, and the home of several societies. The subscription Library, which occupies the western portion, was established in 1775, and contains upwards of 70,000 volumes, some of which are rare and valuable. Connected with the library is an excellent reading room, which contains portraits of Charles Frost, Esq., F.S.A., Thomas Lee, Esq., and Dr. Birkbeck. The Literary and Philosophical society, formed in 1822, occupies the eastern half of the building. In connection with this Institution is a museum, now controlled by the Corporation, and rich in geological and anthropological specimens; there is also a large semi-circular lecture hall, which seats 1.000 persons, and rooms for the use of scientific societies.

The Young People’s Christian and Literary Institute, founded in 1860, was transferred in 1864 to the present premises in Charlotte street, which had been purchased and altered at a cost of £2,000. New class-rooms and a gymnasium were built in 1888, at a cost of £2,400, and in 1891 the adjoining house was purchased and fitted up at a further cost of £4,000. In 1912 the buildings were further enlarged at a cost of about £3,500. The buildings comprise a large news-room, ladies’ and gentlemen’s reading rooms, a library of 17,000 volumes, drawing, social, billiard and chess rooms, and others for a young men’s club. There is also a gymnasium, photographic room and residential apartments, and in connection with the Institute are various clubs. The members now number over 2,000, and the number attending the different classes is about 2,800.

The Recreation ground, presented to the Institute by Rt. Hon. Thomas Robinson Ferens, P.C., M.P., is in the Cottingham Road; it provides for four cricket pitches, two football and two hockey grounds and 22 tennis courts, besides lawns for bowls and croquet.

The Church Institute was founded in 1845, and at first its members held their meetings in St. James’ schoolroom, and afterwards in St. John’s Infant school, Osborne street. In 1846 Albion House, an edifice of stone in the Classic style, erected by the late Dr. James Alderson, was purchased at a cost of 1,350 guineas, and opened in 1865; there is a good library, containing 15,000 volumes, and news, Billiard, chess, draught and whist rooms. A suite of rooms is also set apart for the use of lady members.

The Convent of sisters of Mercy, Anlaby Road, was founded in January, 1857, by the Rev. Dean Trappes and Canon Motlar. There is a large number of resident sisters as well as teachers and boarders. The sisters are engaged in teaching, visiting the prison, the workhouse and the hospitals, and also visit and relieve the sick and poor at their own homes. In 1900 a new chapel in the Gothic style was opened and class-rooms built, and an art room, laboratory and class-rooms for the secondary school were added in 1904. Dansom Lane Convent includes a Home established for the training of girls of good character in all forms of domestic service. The mansion house of Endsleigh, at Newland, acquired in 1900, is a Convent Training school, and was enlarged in 1904. Mrs. Teresa Frances Dawson is superioress and principal.

The central offices of the Hull Catholic Federation are in Charles street, near the Church. The building consists of library, committee, reading, news, chess and class rooms, and is used by the Charles’ Catholic Club and the Catholic social Guild.

The Port of Hull society for the Religious Instruction of seamen was established in 1821, and the hull of a merchant ship, named “The Valiant,” was first fitted up and used as a floating chapel, but there are now permanent buildings. The sailors’ Institute, in Waterhouse Lane, was opened in 1842, and has a reading room and news room in which religious services are held. Attached to the Institute are ten Cottage Homes, erected in the suburbs of the City on a site of 17 ½ acres, each receiving about 25 or 30 children. There are also an infants’ home, hospital, laundry, bakery, and workshops, together with substantial school buildings and a large hall, used for dining and for religious services and meetings. The operations of the society are fully chronicled in an illustrated quarterly magazine, called “Ashore and Afloat,” and in a history of the society, published officially.

Public Libraries.-in 1889 Sir Jaimes Reckitt, Bart., established a Public Library on the Holderness Road, in the Eastern portion of the City, and on the adoption here of the Public Libraries Acts, 10 Dec. 1892, he transferred the buildings, books, furniture, &c., together with a sum of £8,918 in stocks and shares, to the Public Libraries Committee, and the library now contains 15,000 volumes. The central public library in Albion street was erected in 1900-01, at a cost, including site and fittings, of £20,000, and was opened 6 November, 1901, by Lord Avebury. The building is of Ted brick with stone dressings, in the Renaissance style, from the designs of Mr. J. S. Gibson, architect, of London, and consists of two stories, with an octagonal tower at one angle, partly of stone, and finished with detached columns carrying a dome. In the gable, above the main entrance, is a figure of “Literature” carved in relief. The interior comprises a wide and spacious entrance hall, ladies’ reading room, magazine room, librarians and committee room, lending library, newspaper reading room and reference library. The library contains 45,500 volumes. The branch library, on the Boulevard, has 12,000 volumes; that in Anlaby Road 11,000 volumes, and that in Beverley Road about 12,000 volumes.

The Lecture Hall, Kingston square, has a floor area of 46ft. by 43ft., with a permanent platform, or stage, 25ft. by 15ft. From each side of the stage, and extending round the room, is a balcony, seating 350 persons, while the body of the hall will hold 450 persons. This hall is well adapted for lectures, drawing-room entertainments, concerts, &c. Above it are lodge rooms used for private social functions. Messrs. G. Peacock & son, whose offices are in the building, are the managers, and the whole premises are the property of Colonel Gleadow.

The Grand Opera House, in George street, was opened on January 9th. 1893. It was built from designs by Mr. Frank Matcham, London, and is admirably arranged and fitted up with all the latest improvements. The principal London companies are regularly engaged.

The New Palace Theatre, Anlaby Road, opened Dec. 6, 1897, is an edifice of stone and brick, designed by Mr. Frank Matcham, architect, and will hold about 1,800 persons: it is the property of the Moss’ Empires, Ltd. The manager is Mr. John S. Barnett.

The Alexandra Theatre, in Charlotte street, erected from designs by Mr. T. Guest, architect, and opened 26 Dec. 1902, is the largest in the City, and has a sliding roof.

The Assembly Rooms, in Jarratt street, let for concerts, entertainments, lectures, meetings, balls, bazaars, &c., include a large hall, with back and side balconies, 93ft. 6in. long; 51ft. wide on the floor; and 41ft. high; the full length of the room from the back of the orchestra to the back of the balcony being 140ft. The body of the hall will seat 1,016 persons, the dress circle 229, the back balcony 203, the orchestra 161, and the stage 53. The room is well lighted by electric light, and the ventilation and acoustic properties are exceptionally good. A three-manual organ occupies the back of the orchestra.

The St. George’s and Cobden Halls, 8 Albion street and 6—10 story street, were built by a company, formed in 1887, for the purpose of providing a building in a central position in the City for the meetings of Friendly, Trade and other Societies; the hall of the former is 65 feet long and 39 feet wide, with suitable retiring rooms, and is well adapted for entertainments, concerts, dinners, public meetings, &c.

Monuments.-The Wilberforce Memorial, of which the first stone was laid on the 1st of August, 1834 (the day of the abolition of slavery), occupies a prominent position at the foot of Whitefriargate Bridge. It consists of a fluted Doric column, rising from a square pedestal to a height of 90 feet, on which is a statue of Wilberforce in robes, with a folded scroll in his hand, making a total height of 102 feet. The total cost, £1,250, was defrayed by public subscription. The equestrian statue of King William III. in the Market Place, was erected by public subscription in 1734, at a cost of £893 10s. The work was designed by Peter Scheemaker, and has several times been re-gilded by the Corporation. The statue of William De la Pole, father of the founder of the Charterhouse, stands in the centre of the thoroughfare at the junction of Jameson street and King Edward street. In Pearson Park are two fine marble monuments erected to Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and H.R.H, the Prince Consort. The statue of Andrew Marvel, M.P., removed from the interior of the Town Hull and, is now placed at the junction of George Street Jameson street and Savile Street. In Victoria Square, opened May 12th. 1903, by H.M. King George V., then Prince of Wales, is a bronze statue of Her late Majesty Queen Victoriam modelled by Mr. H. C. Fahr, of London, and unveiled by His Royal Highness. It stands on a pedestal of Portland stone, the total height from the ground being 30 feet. The soldiers’ Memorial, in Paragon square, unveiled 5 Nov., 1904, was erected at a cost of £650, to natives of Hull who fell during the south African War, 1899—1901. The Fishermen’s Memorial, in Hessle Road, was erected by public subscription to the men who lost their lives on the Dogger Bank by the outrageous action of the Russian fleet, 22 Oct., 1904, and was unveiled 30 Aug., 1906.

There are Baths in Madeley street, Beverley Road, and Holderness Road (East Hull), all under the control of the Corporation. The Madeley street Baths, rebuilt in 1910, comprise two swimming baths, one 90 by 35 feet, and the other 90 by 30 feet, and 51 private baths. The East Hull Baths (opened 13th October, 1898) comprise two swimming baths, one 96 by 30 feet, and the other 60 by 30 feet, and 31 private baths. The large swimming bath at East Hull is reserved for ladies on Wednesday evenings. The Beverley Road Baths (opened 2sth May, 1905) comprise men’s swimming: bath. 100 by 35 feet: boys’, 60 by 40 feet; ladies’, 65 by 34 feet, and 48 private baths. The swimming baths are covered over during the winter and used for gymnastic and other purposes.

Public Parks.-Hull has four parks, comprising an aggregate of 158 acres of land, for the recreation of its citizens. Bandstands have been erected, and musical performances are given in each of them by the bands of the Hull Police Force and those belonging to the sailors’ Orphanages. The parks are controlled by the Parks Committee of the Hull Corporation, and are under the superintendence of Mr. H. B. Witty, who resides at Pearson Park. Pearson Park was the first laid out in Hull, and its site, covering upwards of 27 acres, was presented to the town in 1860 by Z. C. Pearson, Esq., then Mayor. In 1863, William Henry Moss, Esq., then Mayor, presented a white marble statue of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, and in 1868 a statue of H.R.H. Prince Albert, also in white marble, was subscribed for by the inhabitants, at a cost of 1,000 guineas; both are the work of the late Mr. Earle. An ornamental bronze fountain was presented by H. J. Atkinson, Esq., and a pillar of ironstone, weighing 19 tons, was the gift of Messrs. Bolckow, Vaughan & Co., of Middlesbro’. There is also here part of the pavement of a Roman villa, found near Lincoln in 1893, and given by Mr. J. G. Hall. Curious water fowl tenant the lake, and an out-door aviary, heated by hot-water pipes, contains an interesting collection of gaily-plumaged foreign birds. There are also some artificial ruins, removed from the old Zoological Gardens. A spacious refreshment pavilion, erected at a cost of £500, is open in the summer months. The park was laid out after the design of the late Mr. Niven. The West Park, on the Anlaby Road, opened 29 Aug. 1885, has an area of 31 acres, and contains an ornamental lake, shrubberies, several avenues of different varieties of trees, rockery, band-stand, refreshment pavilion, &c. The East Park, on the Holderness Road, opened on the occasion of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria’s Jubilee, in June, 1887, has an area of 52 acres, and contains an ornamental lake, yacht pond, extensive rockery, shrubberies, avenues of trees, a band-stand, refreshment pavilion, &c. There is also a large conservatory in each park, open to the public every day. The East and West Parks were laid out by Mr. J. Fox sharp, C.E., borough surveyor. In 1909 Christopher Pickering, Esq., J.P., gave to the Corporation for the purposes of a park 50 acres of land on the Hessle Road, besides providing entrance gates and shelters; the park contains a bowling green, tennis and croquet lawns, a bandstand and a lake. The same donor also built and endowed 12 almshouses in the park for persons over 60 years of age; the endowment provides the sum of 2s. 6d. per week to be paid to each individual or married couple occupying one of the almshouses. Mr. Pickering also gave the land for the building of a reading room adjoining the park.

Markets and Fairs.-The Markets are held on Fridays and Saturdays. The present Market Hall, built on the site of the old shambles, with shops in front, and opened in 1887 at a cost of about £20,000, is a structure of red brick with-Ancaster stone dressings, and includes a central hall 196 feet by 86 feet filled with movable stalls, and having a glass roof carried on wrought-iron standards and girders. On market days stalls are placed round Holy Trinity Church, and on the large open space at the west end of that building. A new covered market in Trinity House Lane was built in 1904, at a cost of £10,000. Early morning markets for vegetables are held on Tuesdays and Fridays in the Corporation Field, Park street. The cattle and pig market is located in Edward’s Place. Fairs for the sale of horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, &c., are held on the second Tuesday in April and on the 11th and 12th of October, a pleasure fair being also held on the two latter days. A wholesale market for fish and game is held every morning, during the season, in Park street.

The Municipal and Parliamentary limits are not co-extensive. The East Central Ward Districts, Nos. 1 and 2, are one for Municipal purposes, but for Parliamentary purposes East Central Ward District No. 2 is in the Central Division and East Central Ward No. 1 is in the East Division. Beverley Ward is wholly within the Municipal area, but for Parliamentary purposes that portion north of the Stoneferry Road is in the Howdenshire Division of Yorks. Newland Ward is also wholly within the Municipal area, but for Parliamentary purposes that portion north of the Cottingham Road is also in the Howdenshire Division of Yorks.

The population, area and rateable value of the civil parishes are as under:

The above areas do not include the portion of the river Humber, which is within the boundary of the City of Hull, south of general high-water line of the Humber.

The population of the Municipal borough in 1911 was: —

The population of the Parliamentary borough in 1911 was:-East Division, 90,007; Central Division, 52,760: West Division, 132,719; total, 275,486.

The number of electors on the Parliamentary register is 48,210, viz.:-East Division, 16,026; Central Division, 8,677; West Division, 23,507.