Owners of the Botanic Hotel in Hull, Kerry and Shaun Fitzgerald have been hit with a £70,000 bill for replacing the ...

Owners of the Botanic Hotel in Hull, Kerry and Shaun Fitzgerald have been hit with a £70,000 bill for replacing the 172-year-old windows with modern double-glazing.

The Polar Bear (like the Botanic next door) was named due to it standing opposite the former Hull Zoological Gardens, a forgotten Victorian attraction that stood on the corner of Spring Bank and ...

The Botanic Hotel underwent a mock-medieval makeover in 1920 and was added to Hull City Council's heritage list as a good example of 'Brewers Tudor' architecture.

It's now one of the busiest junctions in Hull for traffic but the area where Princes Avenue meets Spring Bank used to be home to a now long-lost railway station which closed almost 60 years ago ...

Hull author and historian Paul Gibson discovered how, in the early 1800s, dozens of whaling ships discharged their cargo in yards close to the pub. He hopes the future will be kind to The Whalebone.

An undated postcard showing the Botanic Gardens railway station, probably taken circa 1900, showing the ornate gate house and administration buildings of the Hull General Cemetery (left), which ...

Hull author and historian Paul Gibson discovered how, in the early 1800s, dozens of whaling ships discharged their cargo in yards close to the pub. He hopes the future will be kind to The Whalebone.