Bit late to this but here goes Five things otherwise I could go on past me bedtime! Hull City beat Japan 5-0 in a friendly in 1971. Winston Churchill was heckled and had stones thrown at him when he visited Hull during the 1911 strikes (most men, women and children all on strike in a given year). Possibly the loudest band ever to play in Hull was My Bloody Valentine who assaulted eardrums and rearranged internal organs when they played the Adelphi on Saturday 5th October 1988 Golden Ball a long demolished pub on Air Street, with Waggy for a time as the landlord. The highest score by any batsman in a cricket match played at the Circle was the 263 runs scored by Maurice Leyland for Yorkshire v Essex in 1936 and Johnny Wardle took 9-48 v Sussex in 1954. Hull Cheese (not the pub) was a strong ale rather like an intoxicating cake, described by Taylor the 'water poet' as 'cousin-germane to mightiest ale in England'. If you had partaken of Hull Cheese it also meant you were very drunk.
Lincoln was born in London, England;[2] his father is a civil engineer and his mother is a nurse.[3] His family moved toKingston upon Hull when he was 18 months old, and then moved to Bath, Somerset when he was eight or nine. Thank you Wikipedia!
And during their recent spell at Northampton Coventry rendered the "only" part inapplicable as well. Rotherham when they were having the new ground built as well, was it Don Valley they played at?
With 'personalized number plates' these days I don't know if this still applies but Hull's allocated Number Plate letters were AT, KH and RH which were prefixed through the alphabet. Consequently all 'Royalty' cars bore Hull Number plates (HRH) and I seem to remember that Prince Charles car (Roller) was HRH 2 at the time.
HRH 2 was on a Mini Metro down Westella Road and was bought by the crown in the 80's(the woman who owned it was my missus next door neighbour).
Just watched Jeopardy and in the categories, "English Cities," the $1000 clue was "part of a ship and a city in Yorkshire" none of the contestants got it.
You must watch a different Jeopardy to me because the guy on the left answered What is Hull and it was accepted. (not of course Kingston upon Hull)
After the show, I couldn't remember if anyone had answered correctly and I was advised "no" by a family member. I guess their recollection was wrong so perhaps we did watch the same Jeopardy. The point of my trivial post was the fact that Hull was featured on an American TV quiz program. Thank you for correcting me.
Who uses it as the Queen doesn't have to use number plates on state cars? And other Royals don't have plates which refer to this for security reasons. Princess Anne handed back 1 ANN to the person who gave it to her. Just done a quick Google to see who has HRH1 and it apparently on a private Rolls Royce. The Queen's own number plate for non state cars is AV7. 1 HRH went for £113,000 but 4HRH fetched over £400,000 for some reason. Some people have more money than sense. The American system allows you to order plates. A farmer called McDonald got EIEIO.
State cars don't need plates, but for some reason lots of them haver over the years, there's over 30 detailed on here(though none are HRH)... http://nice-reg.co.uk/number-plates/number-plates/royal-number-plates.html 1 HRH is currently for sale for £215k, 3 HRH for £65k and 4 HRH £225k, I've no idea how they decide these prices, they don't seem to follow any pattern.
Like everything else they are worth what someone is prepared to pay for them. How up to date is that site? I ask as another site states 4 HRH went for over £400,000.
Cheers. That wasn't the greatest of investments was it? Still, he can afford it. It broke the record for a number plate, for F 1, paid by the same person.
