Know which one you mean, can't think of it's name. Lived down Exeter Grove for 20years, just off Portobello Street, must have passed it most days lol
If i remember rightly its covered in ivy and think its now an all girls school although may be wrong! my grandad used to own a newsagents near it aswell whole my dad was at the school
Beverley-Hull-Beverley me, to be fair there's not much round here for me apart from the football team, which is the best in the world, and I don't mean Beverley AFC or whatever they are called nowadays
Have just recently had some correspondence from the current tenants of an old council house my mother-in-law resided in Marfleet Lane( East Hull) for over 60 yrs. Address includes the region 'North Humberside'. When did this region become official as previous addresses from the same house had either 'Humberside' or earlier 'East Yorkshire'?
Neither 'North' nor just 'Humberside' have ever been the postal address, it's just a peculiarity of the Post Office address system that most companies by their address database files from. The Post Office are aware and blame the companies that buy it, which makes me wonder why nobody's sued them under the sale of goods act. The Post Office say the 'Humberside' bit is in the section for 'previous admin areas' and ALL the companies that use it have dodgy data systems! They must do it for a reason. I can only assume there's some bigger scheme afoot because otherwise it makes no sense for the Post people to flog duff data.
I'm not sure it is "official" as it were, I rarely put a county when using my address in Hull, but if pushed I choose "East Yorkshire".
And strictly speaking of course, the name of our city is 'Kingston'. 'Hull' is the name of the river that runs through it. There is no city called 'Hull', other than in error/misonception that has become the norm. Previously to the town/city/settlement being renamed to 'Kingston' (upon Hull) it was called a number of different names. There are settlents dating back well over a thousand years going by the names of Myton and more recently Wyke. But never Hull, as Hull was and still is just the river.
It's a tricky one. The original settlements were just that, several distinct places, each with a claim to being the first, so we could be Myton, Drypool, Sculcoates, Marfleet etc. The accepted name for the collection tends to be Wyke and it was as Wyke we were granted the Town Charter. But even from the early days, the full gobfull of the City* and County of Kingston upon the River Hull, was only really used for ceremonies and official documents. Point being whilst it's not strictly right, it isn't strictly wrong to call it Hull. *Jumped a bit there, I appreciate the City bit didn't come while 1890something. (6?)
Always in correspondence I write Kingston upon Hull and never Hull. After reading other comments I am now a little confused as to what follows. Perhaps I'll just go with the official HU post code and leave it at that! Then, is it England, North East England, UK, variations of those or even none, but simply 'God's County in God's Country'.
It is Kingston upon Hull East Yorkshire England, United Kingdom?(Don't know about International) HU* ***
If I receive anything with Humerside on it, I just write 'no such place' and stick it back in a post box.
Not sure you can be classed as born in Hull if it's a town outside. But the rest of your post sounds about right
