Think Hull is just about fish and Philip Larkin? It's got bugger all to do with fish now. Yes, Larkin, below, enjoyed a pint here, in Ye Olde White Hart, in the architecturally fabulous Old Town. He enjoyed a pint in most places. The barman shows us a skull: "Was asleep in the plotters' room."

Plotters' room?

"Where Hull's leaders started the civil war …"

Hull's history is one bloody thing after another. The skull was found under the stairs a couple of centuries ago. A ship's boy, killed by a drunk? Or a woman the landlord got pregnant?

This 16th-century watering hole is on the Larkin Trail (download it free from thelarkintrail.co.uk), along with many places associated with the poet.

• What to see: Ye Olde White Hart, 25 Silver Street (yeoldewhiteharte.com)