Description | Includes articles: 'The Rev Thomas Dikes and the building of St John's church hall' by Jennifer Rowley, an account of the efforts of the Reverend Thomas Dikes (1761-1847) to build a new church in Hull and his struggle with the Corporation of Hull. St John's Church in Hull was finally completed in 1792 and Reverend Thomas Dikes went on to be the first minister and remained there for 56 years. 'A letter from Hull, 19 May 1848' by Arthur G Credland, a transcription of a letter from Neil Smith to his father relating his journey on the 'Helen Macgregor' an iron steamship and his journey to Hull in 1848 from Hamburg.
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