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Article: Look back with joy down memory lane ; More than a century ago, a Hull journalist, after many years working in the city, wrote a series of articles recalling the many changes he had seen.
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- Hull Daily Mail (UK)
- Article date:
- March 21, 2009
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More than a century ago, a Hull journalist, after many years
working in the city, wrote a series of articles recalling the many
changes he had seen.
The reporter was Henry Joy Corlyon and his articles appeared in
the Hull Times.
Many of the streets he mentions are as familiar today as they
were then. Flashback takes a look at some of them, 105 years after
they were printed.
One article said: "It was once said the most pleasant place in
Hull was the General Cemetery.
"That was probably an unconscious sarcasm, but its implication