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<p>[QUOTE="daveydempsey, post: 3616, member: 22"]Both sets of my grandparents lost businesses due to the bombings.</p><p>My mother and her family were bombed out of two homes, they lost everything apart from a case full of photographs.</p><p><br /></p><p>This city saw the first action of the English Civil War too.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>In April 1642 Charles I moved to secure the port of Hull, he found the gates firmly shut. Having considered it his divine right to gain access to Hull's extensive arsenal (the largest weapons cache outside the Tower of London, no less), Charles discovered that the MP, Sir John Hotham, refused to follow royal orders. After a siege, the citizens drove away the royalists under gunfire – and Hull witnessed the first military action of the English civil war.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="daveydempsey, post: 3616, member: 22"]Both sets of my grandparents lost businesses due to the bombings. My mother and her family were bombed out of two homes, they lost everything apart from a case full of photographs. This city saw the first action of the English Civil War too. [B]In April 1642 Charles I moved to secure the port of Hull, he found the gates firmly shut. Having considered it his divine right to gain access to Hull's extensive arsenal (the largest weapons cache outside the Tower of London, no less), Charles discovered that the MP, Sir John Hotham, refused to follow royal orders. After a siege, the citizens drove away the royalists under gunfire – and Hull witnessed the first military action of the English civil war.[/B][/QUOTE]
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