Portal:Yorkshire/Did you know . . ./2

Hull Maritime Museum

• ...that the Maritime Museum (pictured), in Kingston upon Hull, England, houses the largest collection of scrimshaw artwork in Europe?
• ...that the rivalry between Leeds United and Manchester United football clubs has its roots in the 15th century English civil war, the Wars of the Roses?
• ...that Denton Hall once the home of General Fairfax, the English Civil War commander-in-chief, was later sold for less than the value of the timber on the estate?