Kingston upon Hull (usually called Hull) is a port city in Yorkshire, England. As a port city, in the 19th century it was the site of industries such as passenger shipping and emigration of European settlers to North America as well as commercial shipping and the Wilson Line of Hull, which was by the early 20th century the largest privately owned shipping company in the world. Much of the city was bombed during World War II and subsequently rebuilt.
In London Labour and the London Poor edition:
Phase 1
No. 6, To Correspondents: "IMPORTATION INTO HULL, &c. — Received with thanks."
Of the Low Lodging-Houses. (Volume 1): "The revelations of the Blind Boot-Lace Seller concerning the low lodging-houses make me anxious to arouse the public to a full sense of the atrocities committed and countenanced in those infamous places. It will have been noticed that the blind man frankly tells us that he was "taught his business" as a mendicant in one of these houses of call for vagabonds of all kinds—beggars, prostitutes, cheats, and thieves. Up to the time of his starting to see his brother at Hull, he appears to have had no notion of living but by his labour, and, more especially, no wish to make a trade of his affliction."
The Negro Crossing-Sweeper, who had lost both his Legs. (Volume 2): [The place of publication of the speaker's book.]
Phase 2
Of the Life of a Blind boot-lace Seller. (Volume 1)