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Admin History:

The period after the Second World War saw much in the way of development throughout the city and many of these changes, commercial, industrial and residential are recorded here. In 1961 the long established Municipal Flower Show was extended to include agricultural events and trade stands and renamed the Hull Show. The first Lord Mayor's Parade was held in 1968.

The Station Hotel in Hull was originally built by the Hull and Selby Railway (leased at that time to the York and North Midland Railway) in 1848, with G.T. Atkinson as the architect; it opened in 1851, and became the Royal Station Hotel after a visit by Queen Victoria in 1854. A massive fire in 1990 saw much damage to the hotel but it was sympathetically restored. Trolley buses in the city ran from 1937, when the service was inaugurated, until 1964 when they were replaced by diesel buses

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Year books and press cuttings books relating to developments in Hull, 1950-1994; Catalogues and programmes for the Hull Show and the Hull Lord Mayors Parade, 1962-1984; Papers relating to the Royal Station Hotel, 1935-1989; Photographs of Hull Corporation buses, 1929-1980s