What the hell can you do in Hull? The Museum Quarter. Statues of anti-slaver William Wilberforce and poet Andrew Marvel

 

Hull has a museum quarter featuring William Wilberforce, who campaigned against slavery.

Kingswood Retail Park, Kingston upon Hull. Details from Wikipedia'

Dress sculpture, Kingswood, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. This metal sculpture of a dress is in front of the Next store and the Gino D'Acampo My Restaurant at Kingswood Retail Park. There is nothing nearby that I could see to explain its provenance or relevance to the site.

Two famous characters came from Hull and contributed to the history of Hull and the history of England. William Wilberforce trail starts at the house where he was born and ends at the monument to him.

Anti-slaver William Wilberforce

William Wilberforce statue in Westminster Abbey, London, England.

William Wilberforce statue outside his birthplace in Hull, on the east cost of Yorkshire, England.

My other favourite is the marvellous Andrew Marvel, honoured by a statue.

Having heard all of this you may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know.

• Close of a speech in House of Commons (1791), as quoted in Once Blind : The Life of John Newton (2008) by Kay Marshall Strom, p. 225.

Andrew Marvel Statue in Hull. From Wikipedia.

He wrote a poem, to his coy mistress:

The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.

He also wrote:

Art is long but life is short.

• Upon the Death of Lord Hastings (1649), last line.
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Useful Websites

https://wikitravel.org/en/Kingston_upon_Hull

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilberforce

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Marvell

https://www.visithull.org/to-do/streetlife-museum/

About the Author of this blog post

Angela Lansbury was born in Britain and toured around Hull, helped by the tourist board.

About the Author

Angela Lansbury, is a semi-retired travel writer still researching bucket list countries and seeking out the special, unusual, people, places,  landmarks, hotels, museums and trails, fabulous foods, recipes, clothes and online souvenir shopping.

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Where To See Statues, Stories And Museums About Dr David Livingstone, I presume

Statue of David Livingstone, Scotland

Memorial to David Livingstone, Scotland.

Statue of David Livingstone, Africa

Blantyre in Scotland, where David Livingstone was born.

David Livingstone was a Scottish missionary and explorer who left Scotland for Africa, searching for the source of the Nile. He was known for being outspoken against slavery.

He studied medicine with the intention of becoming a medical missionary.

In Africa he attempted to shoot a lion which was killing the animals of the local African people. the lion managed to leap on Livingstone and injure his left arm permanently, before a local African speared it. That is why statues show Livingstone with a lion.

In one statue his left arm is damaged but he holds a bible in his right arm.

His wife followed him to Africa where she died of Malaria, as did other missonaries who followed him.



Mary Moffat burial site in Mozambique.

He stayed in Africa until he died at the age of 60. In the last few years he was ill, and his letters did not all reach home. After he 'disappeared' a US newspaper sent Stanley to look for him. Stanley was not the man's first name but his surname. Full name

Statue of David Livingstone

Finding the only white man for several hundred miles, Stanley is supposed to have greeted Livingstone with the words, 'Dr Livingstone I presume'.

Whether or not he actually said these words no longer matters. After I researched my book on quotations, Who Said What When, I found that a great number of famous sayings were not said by the person to whom they were attributed, or were said by many people. Whether or not it was said then, by that person, the memorable phrase is now in the English language.

A fascinating story. As a modern traveller who is relieved to return to civilisation, in an era, April 2020, when citizens worldwide enduring the horrors and lockdown of coronvirus, and fights over toilet paper, I can only admire somebody who travelled through rural Africa in more primitive times.

Statues of Livingstone are in Scotland, in Glasgow, and Africa near the Victoria Falls.

He is buried in Westminster Abbey, London, England.

Livingstone Museum, near Victoria Falls, Zambia.

The easiest to read article about Livingstone is the one catchily entitled, the Man With Three Wives. The three wives were the river, slavery and religion. Lvingstone had only one wife.

Useful Websites
UK

ZAMBIA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livingstone_Museum
https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/man-with-three-wives

About the Author
Angela