georgefriedrich
Well John Hall was alive and living in Short Street in 1863, as according to Hull Packet on Friday July 31st
A warning to Coal Dealers:
On Saturday morning, at the Hull Police Court, Mr. Todd, clerk to the Local Board of Health, applied to the stipendiary magistrates for an order to destroy five coal bags which had been seized by Mr. Whitfield, one of the inspectors of the board, as being improper bags for use, the bye-laws requiring that coal bags shall be of a certain size and marked. Mr. Whitfield here produced the bags, which were certainly unworthy of the name, for they were so much worse for wear and tear that large pieces of coal would easily slip through them besides their other deficiencies-Mr. Travis said it was scandalous that such bags should be used; who could the owner be? Mr. Whitfield said the owner was a Mr. John Hall, of Short Street. He (Mr. Whitfield) seized the bags in Garden Street-An order was then made for them to be destroyed.
Tom