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The Streetlife Museum of Transport is a transport museum located in Kingston upon Hull, England The roots of the collection date back to the early 20th century, however the purpose-built museum the collection is housed in was opened in 1989 by the then Hull East MP , John Prescott . [ 1 ]
Wilberforce House was opened in 1906, the Pickering Park Museum of Fisheries and Shipping (1912), [note 1] the Commerce and Transport Museum (1925), the Easington Tithe Barn museum (1928), the Mortimer Museum (1929), and a Railway Museum in 1933. [note 2] An 'Old Times Street' museum was also under development but destroyed before opening ...
1987 – Spurn Lightship museum opens. 1989 – Streetlife Museum of Transport and new Craven Park (stadium) open. 1991 Princes Quay shopping centre opens. [34] Hull's population is 266,180. [1]: 311 1993 – Humber Mouth literature fest begins. [35] 1996 – Hull becomes a unitary authority area. 1999 – Arctic Corsair museum ship opens.
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The lightship was decommissioned in 1975 and bought/restored by Hull City Council in 1983 before being moved to Hull Marina as a museum in 1987. The museum closed in June 2018, in preparation for the vessel being relocated in September, to facilitate a footbridge being constructed over the adjacent A63. Initially it was expected that the museum ...
Spring Street Theatre, Hull, was the company's base for 26 years. In April 1983 the Hull Truck Company made the Spring Street Theatre its home. Originally converted from St Stephen's church hall (the church itself had been bombed in the Second World War), this tiny 150-seat theatre space was known as The Hull Arts Centre where Hull playwright Alan Plater co-founded the Humberside Theatre in 1970.
The museum, originally known as the Museum of Fisheries and Shipping, opened in 1912 in Pickering Park. [2] It moved to its current location, the Dock Offices building, in 1974. [3] The Dock Offices building is so-named as it is the former headquarters of the Hull Dock Company, which operated all docks in Hull until 1893. [3]
On 13 October 2017, a fault with the Power Tower ride at Hull Fair left more than thirty riders, aged between nine and 60, trapped about 70 ft (21m) in the air for five hours. Firefighters had to use an aerial platform to rescue those stuck, and it was the third time that the ride had broken down since the fair had opened that year.