h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It was a County, then it wasn't, then it was again - we'd love to hear from anyone who can tell us all about this pretty part of the country and its tortuous boundary changes!

Paully

Formerly known as the East Riding and Humberside, East Yorkshire formed one third of the Ridings of Yorkshire (West and North being the other two).

'Scuse me. East Riding and _North Humberside_.

Actually an Entry about the forgotten county of Humberside would be a rather better idea than anything else.

B

Forgotten??? How can we forget, when the Post Office still franks our mail SOUTH HUMBERSIDE? Humberside was *only* abolished in 1996.

Sorry. I'm a Lincolnshire lass

East Riding of Yorkshire:

A1047890 - The Deep, Kingston-upon-Hull. The world's first submarium.
A287110 - Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire
A1045900 - Thwaite Hall, University of Hull
A583553 - Goole, East Yorkshire
A2349984 - Yorkshire Castles (that's the main page, with links to all the separate castles)
A1150390 - Yorkshire Day
A192683 - Yorkshire Pudding
A3393137 - Flamborough, Yorkshire
http://www.yorkshiretea.co.uk/ - Yorkshire Tea


The Humber Bridge, http://www.humberbridge.co.uk/ once the world's longest (now the fourth) single-span suspension bridge.
Before there was a Bridge, there was a ferry. The earliest records state:
In 1315 ferry tolls were a halfpenny for a man on foot, 1d for a man with his horse, 2d for a cart with two horses and 1d for every additional horse.

Hull has its own telephone directory, independent of the rest of the country. Their public phone boxes are a different colour - although I can't remember whatcolour they are. Grey I think, I'll look next time I'm over there

Hull is the UK’s leading timber port.


Born in Hull:
Ian Carmichael (actor)
Tom Courtenay (actor)
Amy Johnson (aviation pioneer)
Maureen Lipman (actress)
Brian Rix (actor)
William Wilberforce (slavery abolitionist)

The groups The Housemartins, The Beautiful South and Everything But the Girl hail from Hull.

Doesn't John Prescott live in Hull?

Only as long as he is re-elected. It says a lot about the citizenry, doesn't it?

Hull is also the largest city never to have hosted top-flight football.

B

...and the only City to not have a Cathedral.

Not true, I'm afraid. Sunderland, Newport and Southampton don't have one. Oxford and Cambridge make do with college chapels. York has a Minster.

B

Blimey. *One* of the few cities not to have a Cathedral then

Stoke doesn't have one either

Is Stoke a city?

B

Well what are their football team called?

Although technically, it's an amalgamation of Six Towns...

So do we have any takers to begin working this one up into an entry? Looks as though there's a fair amount of good information in this thread already...!

Paully

I'm delighted to announce that we already have two County entries in Peer Review, waiting to receive any bouquets or brickbats that people might lob in their general direction! If you're currently either working on or contributing to a County entry of your own right now, you might like to have a quick look to see how some other researchers have tackled this challenge. They are: County Fermanagh (A6092606) and Norfolk (A6108473).

Hope you enjoy reading them!

Paully

Still no takers for East Yorkshire, I'm assuming?

P

Being a pedant I have to reply that York Minster is actually a Cathedral (second in the country after Canterbury)

Also in case you are stuck in Hull or Beverley and need a phone box they are cream and still mostly the K6 originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott

Anyone interested in taking this one on? We have a T-shirt waiting for anyone willing to get this entry through PR and onto the Front Page. We'd really like to get all the counties down and dusted.