The white pages for Hull was a widely used thick book directory listing all the landline telephone owners names, addresses and telephone numbers. Over the years it has been phased out to online listings on many websites.
Whether you’re looking for a Mr A Smith or a Mrs D Brent it had some detail in there to find who you were looking for.
You could request to be white pages ex-directory not listed and think they actually charged for this service not to be listed!