ABSTRACT
Hull was the seventh largest county borough in 1931, with a population of 314,000. Situated in the East Riding of Yorkshire on the North Sea coast, the city had developed as the most important port of the north-eastern seaboard of England. By the inter-war period it was the third largest port in the country after London and Liverpool. From its incorporation as a borough in 1299 it had been known officially as Kingston-upon-Hull, but this title was seldom in popular usage, and for the purposes of this volume the name Hull has been used throughout.
