Kingston upon Hull Audio Tour: Working Hull

Name: Kingston upon Hull Audio Tour: Working Hull
Brand: AudaTours
Price: 2.99 USD
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Hull's skyline belongs to the merchants. The streets between the docks, the river and the Minster belong to a different city — the medieval craftsmen who laid the earliest brick Gothic church in England course by course, the seafarers' brotherhood men who built almshouses for the wrecked and widowed, the whaling captains whose Arctic log-books became science, the trawlermen's wives who stood on a dock in January and refused to let another crew sail without a radio operator, the dock labourers who shifted a city's worth of trade by hand across the quays, and the abolition campaigner born in a High Street merchant house who spent thirty years dismantling a trade his own city had profited from. Heritage Open Days 2026 theme is 'Everyday Histories': the unsung and the missing from the picture. This tour names them.

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Sobre este tour

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Duración 30–50 minsVe a tu propio ritmo
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4.1 km de ruta a pieSigue el camino guiado
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UbicaciónKingston upon Hull, Reino Unido
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Funciona sin conexiónDescarga una vez, úsalo en cualquier lugar
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Acceso de por vidaReprodúcelo en cualquier momento, para siempre
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Comienza en Hull Minster, Minster Yard, Kingston upon Hull

Paradas en este tour

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Hull MinsterThe largest parish church in England by floor area and one of the earliest examples of medieval brickwork in the country. The transepts and lower tower were built between roughly the early 14th century and the nave completed in the early 15th century, all in English-bond brick worked by craftsmen whose names appear in no surviving record. The merchant guilds who paid for the work got the glory; the bricklayers who laid it did not.

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Queen's GardensA tall Doric column topped by a statue of the abolitionist William Wilberforce, moved to its current position in Queen's Gardens in 1935. The gardens themselves are laid out on the filled-in hull of Queen's Dock, Hull's first enclosed wet dock, which operated from 1778 until its closure in the early 20th century. The dock workers who worked the quays around this basin for over a century and a half are almost invisible in the written record; their monument is the grass itself.

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Hull Maritime MuseumMaritime museum in Kingston upon Hull, England

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Hull Trinity HouseA guild founded in 1369 as a religious brotherhood, now a Grade I listed complex on Trinity House Lane. In 1457 the guild absorbed the Shipmans Guild, acquiring its seafarers' mutual-aid function: supporting mariners and their families 'impoverished by some misfortune relating to seafaring.' It is still operating as a charity for seafarers and their families, and still running the school for mariners it established in the 18th century.

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Land of Green GingerA narrow medieval lane running off Whitefriargate in Hull's Old Town, whose name has never been satisfactorily explained — the leading theory is that it refers to the storage or trade of green (undried) ginger here between roughly the 17th and 18th centuries. The world's smallest window, formerly the gatekeeper's peephole for the George Hotel, looks onto the lane from the south side.

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Ye Olde White HarteOne of Hull's oldest licensed premises on Silver Street in the Old Town, with a timber-framed core dating from the mid-to-late 17th century. Victorian tradition attached a 'Plotting Parlour' legend to the upstairs room, connecting it to the Civil War, but Hull History Centre's 2024 research confirms the building post-dates 1642 and the Plotting Parlour story is a Victorian invention. The pub's genuine history is working-class: a licensed alehouse with named landlords recorded from the 18th century, serving dockside trades.

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¿Cómo empiezo el tour?

Después de la compra, descarga la app AudaTours e ingresa tu código de canje. El tour estará listo para comenzar de inmediato - solo toca play y sigue la ruta guiada por GPS.

¿Necesito internet durante el tour?

¡No! Descarga el tour antes de empezar y disfrútalo completamente sin conexión. Solo la función de chat requiere internet. Recomendamos descargar en WiFi para ahorrar datos móviles.

¿Es un tour guiado en grupo?

No - esta es una audioguía autoguiada. Exploras de forma independiente a tu propio ritmo, con narración de audio reproduciéndose en tu teléfono. Sin guía, sin grupo, sin horario.

¿Cuánto dura el tour?

La mayoría de los tours toman 60–90 minutos para completar, pero tú controlas el ritmo completamente. Pausa, salta paradas o toma descansos cuando quieras.

¿Qué pasa si no puedo terminar el tour hoy?

¡No hay problema! Los tours tienen acceso de por vida. Pausa y continúa cuando quieras - mañana, la próxima semana o el próximo año. Tu progreso se guarda.

¿Qué idiomas están disponibles?

Todos los tours están disponibles en más de 50 idiomas. Selecciona tu idioma preferido al canjear tu código. Nota: el idioma no se puede cambiar después de generar el tour.

¿Dónde accedo al tour después de comprarlo?

Descarga la app gratuita AudaTours desde App Store o Google Play. Ingresa tu código de canje (enviado por email) y el tour aparecerá en tu biblioteca, listo para descargar y comenzar.

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