Description | Includes references to Hull Port and shipping, commerce and trade, national and international, the Russo-Japanese War of 1904, the question of Free Trade versus Protectionism, the North Eastern Railway, Hull and Barnsley Railway, Derwent Valley Light Railway, proposed North Lincoln (Ackworth and Lindsey) Light Railway, electric lighting in Hull, the unemployed of Hull, the decline of Liverpool, the proposed building of second Suez Canal, the Rivers Trent and Ouse, Hull Conservancy and the River Humber, Sheffield. |