Hull, England
Hull Yeah, Actually
"Deeper than you think, wetter than you'd like"
Official Coat of Arms
A shield rendered in municipal cream and maroon, quartered with the Humber Bridge suspended above a shoal of confused fish, flanked by a pair of the city's famous cream telephone boxes standing defiantly in the drizzle. The crest bears a KC Stadium floodlight crossed with a pint of bitter, motto beneath reading 'Lantern-Held, Bridge-Crossed, Bus-Missed'.
TripAdvisor Review
★★★☆☆ 3/5
"Came for the City of Culture legacy, stayed because my train back to Doncaster was cancelled. The Deep aquarium is genuinely brilliant and I mean that sincerely, but the wind coming off the Humber estuary nearly took my head off outside Princes Quay. Locals were lovely and pointed me toward Fruit Market like it was Shoreditch, and honestly, give it a few years. Three stars because the fish and chips by the marina redeemed an otherwise soggy weekend."— BarryFromBarnsley_Weekender
Property Listing
Nestled where the River Hull kisses the mighty Humber, this vibrant maritime gem offers UNRIVALLED access to the UK's most dramatic suspension bridge and a genuinely world-class aquarium, all at prices that will make your Leeds-dwelling friends weep with envy. Cultural regeneration is well underway, the marina views are stunning on the four days a year it doesn't rain sideways, and you're only a bracing walk from some of the best chippies in Yorkshire.
Twinned With
Grimsby — Both towns spend their days staring at each other across the Humber wondering who got the worse deal on the estuary.
Supporting Evidence
Hull has its own unique cream-coloured telephone boxes instead of the standard red ones, because even in the 1980s the city decided it would simply do its own thing regardless of what everyone else was up to.