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The first plaque was erected to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. As befits a maritime city, they have a nautical appearance, with their characteristic gold ropework rim and inner circle. As well as plaques to famous people, families and events, they also mark the Old Town walls and gates, docks and other features of the city's maritime and industrial heritage. As at 2025 there were approximately 83 plaques citywide; a definitive list had been requested from the City Council but to no avail. 35 of them feature in the Blue Plaque Trail in the Old Town: Link

Postscript: The plaque relating to High Flags Mill, No. 192 Wincolmlee appears to have disappeared. Fortunately, a photo survives in 'Hull Camera 1964-1991' by Ted Tuxworth, p. 74. The plaque reads: '1986 / Seed crushing is one of Hull's oldest port based industries, first recorded in 1525. HIGH FLAGS MILL (c1856) occupies a riverside site for ease of import, the industry being traditionally concentrated in the Wincolmlee area. / HULL CITY COUNCIL'

William Wilberforce (1759–1833) was a British politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. Born in Kingston upon Hull, at the house in High Street that is a museum dedicated to his life and the slave trade, he attended the town’s grammar school, South Church Side. Wilberforce was elected Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull in 1780. In 1789, he made his first major speech in the House of Commons on the subject of abolition of slavery, in which he reasoned that the trade was morally reprehensible and an issue of natural justice. He headed the parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade for twenty years until the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807. Britain abolished slavery throughout its empire by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (with the notable exception of India).

Further reading:
Wikipedia: Link
Hull History Nerd: Link

The oldest continuous school in the city is Hull Grammar School which originated circa 1340. From 1583 to 1878 it was housed in South Church Side; from 1878 to 1892 in Baker Street. A new building was erected in Leicester Street in 1892, accommodating the school until 1953, when it moved to Bricknell Avenue.

The history of education in the city is recorded within ‘The Victoria History of the County of York East Riding Volume I’ (1969) pp 348 to 370, which, inter alia, includes a list of schools up to 1963. British History Online: Link

For an up-to-date account, see Wikipedia: Link

The following are owned and managed by the City Council: Link

Ferens Art Gallery, Carr Lane: Link Grade II Listed Building: Link

Hands on History Museum, South Church Side: Link Grade I Listed Building: Link

Maritime Museum, Queen Victoria Square: Link Grade II* Listed Building Link

Hull & East Riding Museum of Archaeology, Chapel Lane Staith and High Street: Link

Streetlife Museum, High Street: Link

Wilberforce House Museum, High Street: Link Grade I Listed Building Link and adjacent Nos. 23 & 24 High Street: Grade II Listed Building Link

Arctic Corsair & North End Shipyard, Dock Office Row: Link

Link Hull Marina: Link