A mate of mine has just posted a photo on facebook of a new bird table down Ella Street which represents the link from Hull to New York (the original train used by people for this route passed by the back of Ella) anyway he did a little digging and found this, tis a good read from our friends in Norway. http://www.norwayheritage.com/articles/templates/voyages.asp?articleid=28&zoneid=6 I know most people have heard of the link, but the article in the link has a good take on it.
No probs - it is a good read - in my ignorance I've just found out were the name for the Steam Packet has come from...Quite a few of my mates have northern European family history, so I guess there was a fair few people who didn't move on to Liverpool.
The BBC1 series ''Coast'' covered this in one of their programmes. Ships docked in Princes Dock and the people were taken to Carmelite House, the white building down Posterngate, to be processed for their next leg of their journey. From there they was walked through the city to Paragon Station to board the trains to Liverpool. The Liverpool track is still there today although not used. Thanks for the link to the article, I found it fascinating.
"The Lair" club is the former de-lousing unit, for the emigrants. That's why the platform is so long at that side. Before they got on the trains everything had to be treated. Literally hundreds at one time would go through, all paid for as part of the ticket to Liverpool. The largest groups where from Russia, but my Dad when he was young saw the ledgers. He said that they listed everyone who came in and the ship that they expected to catch.
can you post a link to the bird table link.I have a picture in my mind of one from a garden centre.i hope its grander than my vision.
It's a pitty the place has been taken over by Tigers Lair. A place where you get beer that's weak as piss and where the pipes need sorting out everytime you go in it.
Kind of linked to this story, just found this: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/why-support-hull-city-202800998.html Americans should follow us apparently
I'm familiar with that link, theres still a fascinating story to tell of what became of these European immigrants that passed through Hull to the new world, I call them Wilson's Cowboys because the majority of them would have gone to America and the years coincide with the push out in to the wild west and the California gold rush after 1849, these pioneers built the West Coast where there are many famous German and Russian names from these first settlers helped across the North sea by the Wilson steamships, there are many Hull links on the west Coast, our Master Mariners navigated much of Canada and look up Gassy Jack Deighton if your interested, a Hull bloke who founded Vancouver!
There is the immigrants link with New York/America, but the Ella Street bird bed/house is all about Hull's links with Brooklyn. Hull and Brooklyn are 'twinned' - there are other bird boxes down the street which celebrate our twinning with other places - I think for example there is a windmill one to represent our twin city of Rotterdam.
Hull has plenty of links on the East Coast as well dazzar, much earliar than the Wilson Line transportation, much of New England was first settled by East of England Puritans, the local group from Rowley sailed from Hull in 1638 soon after the Mayflower and there is a Hull in Massachusetts.
It's odd that New York is thus called. Given it's port situation, surely New Hull should have been capital of the US?
