City of Hull

We came home from Hull yesterday after wife's successful operation in the Royal Infirmary.

I was able to stay nearby in the historic Royal Hotel where Queen Victoria stayed and addressed the crowds from suite balcony at the front of the hotel facing Paragon Square.

During three free mornings I have been able to explore the main central area of the city and endorse the content of this letter from yesterday's Telegraph:

SIR - Reading that Hull is apparently the least cultured city in Britain(report, August 25), I can only say that surely there must be some mistake.

It is a city renowned for its recently refurbished museums' quarter, including the Wilberforce House Museum of Slavery, the Hull and East Riding Museum with arguably the best collection of Roman mosaics, and Streetlife, an excellent transport museum. The Deep is a highly successful millennium exhibition and research centre. The Maritime Museum has impressive whaling industry exhibits, and there is a hands on museum in the old Tudor Grammar School. So clearly a cultural delights awaits the visitor.

The City Hall provides excellent classical concerts by orchestras from all over Europe, and there is the traditional New Theatre and the very popular Hull Truck Theatre.

I encourage readers to come to this cultural desert and find out more for themselves.

David Brunt, Beverley, East Yorkshire.

I would want to add the Ferens Art Gallery with its first class permanent and temporary exhibitions;
libraries, poetry groups, film societies;
churches, historic and architectural wonders.
Add to these the open spaces, shops, docks, marina, seascape and much, much more and you have a proud city with plenty to delight and surprise residents and visitors alike.