I found thisI heard something on RH a while ago about elephants which used to be walked from Ferensway down to where Zoological is now, and there was some story about one elephant ending up stuck in a shop after smelling ginger and sticking its head in. Since then I noticed there's loads of slabs in the pavement on Spring Bank which depict the story. It looks completely daft without knowing the back story, but very Hull.
http://www.weirdretro.org.uk/one-hull-of-a-story-elephants-in-the-city.html
That's beyond disgusting.