The building at 51-52 Market Place is a house from the Georgian era – 1807. The early Twentieth Century saw the opening of the Gaiety Picture House on this very site between 1911 and 1913: seating 600 people in the stalls and 100 in the small balcony. Shortly after it became a music hall until 1934, renamed the Playgoers from 1928. The building has stories to tell from the 1940s too.
So for those of an artistic persuasion, you’d be staying in a building of rich historical interest. Few pictures survive of that time, but we’re busy at Trinity Backpackers trying to find archive images showing how things used to be…
The building existed over many years as the likes of a chandlers shop, rehearsal space, storage site, becoming part of the indoor market site in the 1990s, our next door neighbour today. TRINITY MARKET HULL -A place to visit for fresh foods, drinks and somewhere itself having undergone complete renovation in 2017.
This building opened as a hostel in 2014: since being taken on and refurbished to what you see today as Trinity Backpackers in 2017. Glenn and team provide an independent place to stay, rest, take a drink, in the heart of Hull’s Historic Old Town. We welcome you to come and help make that happen…