history

Hull Savings Bank from anngodden 1504 days old

Banks for working people were formed in the late eighteenth century. The first Savings Bank was attributed to the Rev. Henry Duncan of Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire, ...

Digby Willoughby - Corruption in the Council from anngodden 1504 days old

[ ... ] family history. Willoughby became Chair of the Housing and Town Planning Committee and was one of the visionaries behind the scheme to ...

Alfred Gelder - Hull's Architect from anngodden 1505 days old

Few people have left their mark so obviously on the city of Hull as William Alfred Gelder. He was born in the village of North Cave in 1854, the son ...

Francis Askew - Hull's First Labour Alderman from anngodden 1505 days old

Now remembered only in the name of a primary school and a street in the west of Hull, Francis Askew was an unusual politician. He was born in Bethnal ...