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The title is given to one of J.S. Bach’s most well known cantatas No. 208 written in 1713, the reference to ‘safely’ is explained by the fact that this piece of music is but part of a larger cantata entitled ‘The lively hunt is all my heart’s desire’, hunting the potential predators to sheep. The […]

Above photo shows top of Guildhall tower, again needs to be enlarged to see stem of time ball. Picture taken from Queens Gardens on Saturday (see yesterday blog). A time ball was an aid to navigation, incorporated was a mechanical devise which caused the time ball to rise to the top of the pole just

The above picture was taken yesterday while attending a Hull Trade’s Council public event in Queens Gardens, Hull. Fortunately the event was blessed by the continuing fine weather and the atmosphere was really pleasant – not overcrowded and not over commercialised. A programme of poetry reading, speeches and music bands and solo artists was free

As is often the case in the English language the noun ‘citadel’ has taken on various meanings and inferences over time. The most common use for the term is to define a fortress (fort), a stronghold, a place of last stand if under threat or invasion and the Hull Citadel certainly fits that context. In some

The picture above is a copy of the bottom right part of Thew’s ‘Plan of the Town of Kingston upon Hull, from an Actual Survey, 1784’ and shows the ‘Citadel’ near the east bank of the lower River Hull. The Citadel was a roughly triangular fortified enclosure and was built in the 1680s as an improvement on

Last Tuesday’s lecture at Hull History Centre (s.p.b.) reminded me to check-out a booklet have had for years entitled Hull Castle Excavation 1970 (Hull Museum’s Bulletin No. 6, March 1971). The map above comes from this booklet and is entitled ‘Site of Tudor Fortification shown in relation to existing Victoria Docks’, 1970 – that is before