Land of Green Ginger
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The Land of Green Ginger (grid reference TA099287) is a narrow street at the bottom of Whitefriargate in the old town area of Kingston upon Hull, England. It was formerly known as Old Beverley-street.[1]
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[edit] Activities
There are a variety of commercial and residential buildings along the street's length. The Land of Green Ginger is also where what may be the world's smallest window can be seen. It was used by the gatekeeper of the George Hotel to look out for stagecoaches and customers.[1][2]
[edit] Etymology
Various suggestions have been proposed for the derivation of the name. It may simply refer to the sale or storage of the spice ginger in the medieval period. An 1853 record indicates that a Mr. Richardson "has made it most probable that the designation 'Land of Green Ginger' took place betwixt 1640 and 1735". The unknown writer then goes on to speculate that as a Dutch family with the surname Lindegreen (meaning "green lime trees") was known to live in Hull during the earlier part of the nineteenth century that the modern name might be a corruption of Lindegroen jonger (Lindegreen junior). Another idea, dating from 1880, is that it is a corruption of "Landgrave Granger", meaning a walk or pathway approaching the home of the family Landgrave.[3][4]
[edit] Media and the arts
- The Land Of Green Ginger is a 1927 novel by Winifred Holtby set in Lancashire.[5]
- The Tale of the Land of Green Ginger, a children's novel by Noel Langley, concerning the son of Aladdin (1936).[6]
- Land of Green Ginger is a BBC Play for Today by Alan Plater about Hull televised in 1973.[7]
- The Land of Green Ginger is a track on the 2004 album Bicycles and Tricycles by The Orb.
- The Land of Green Ginger was a 2008 participatory art project that explored encounters between refugees living in Hull and their host communities.[8]
[edit] Other uses
- Green Ginger Shopping Arcade (formerly called The Land of Green Ginger) an arcade inside a converted 19th century Congregational church on Front Street in Tynemouth.
[edit] See also
- Green ginger wine
- Gladstone's Land
- Artemisia absinthium a species of wormwood known as "Green Ginger".
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b "Welcome to land-of-green-ginger.com " land-of-green-ginger.com. Retrieved 13 February 2009.
- ^ "Kingston-upon-Hull: Land of Green Ginger" Riverhumber.co.uk. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
- ^ "Land Of Green Ginger " Rootsweb. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
- ^ "Observer: Land of Green Ginger" (24 September 1853) Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Number 204. Vol. viii., pp. 34, 160, 227. The Project Gutenberg EBook of Notes and Queries. (Release Date: 24 October 2008) Retrieved 14 February 2009.
- ^ "The Land Of Green Ginger" fantasticfiction.co.uk. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
- ^ Langley, Noel (1938). The Tale of the Land of Green Ginger. New York: Morrow. ISBN 0571226183.
- ^ "Land of Green Ginger (1973)" screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
- ^ "The Land of Green Ginger" Refugee Council. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
