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Extract from the Hull Travel Guides:
HULL
's most famous adopted son, the poet and university librarian Philip Larkin, wrote "I wish I could think of just one nice thing to tell you about Hull, oh yes ?
it's very nice and flat for cycling
". Harsh perhaps, but it does capture something of the character of a town that reaches few heights, physical or otherwise. The town - rarely known by its full title of
Kingston-upon-Hull
- undoubtedly suited the poet's curmudgeonly temperament, but he might have mentioned Hull's self-reliant and no-nonsense atmosphere, or that the old docks and restored town centre are surprisingly appealing. Hull...
read the whole Hull Travel Guides...
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