River Hull Archive #7 1962-1964

Open Bridges: A River Full Of Stories

Welcome to the seventh of our weekly selection of photographs from the HDM archive, 1962-1964.  High tides, flood warnings and planning for the future. Click on an image to see the full picture and scroll along.

From Banks new mill

Repairing the wall at High Flags Wharf just after high tide and cancelled flood warnings October 8th 1964

The Pier and Sammy’s Point – the opportunity is presenting itself for imaginative replanning

1963 Tug Bargeman

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All photographs used with permission. We’ve digitised and processed the original photographs, restoring them where possible.

Visit the River Full Of Stories memory page here for more stories, films and photographs.

Rich & Lou Duffy-Howard

Open Bridges made history when for the first time all 13 of the bridges over the River Hull in the UK’s City of Culture 2017 raised, swung or closed simultaneously splitting the city of Hull in two at 20:17 hours on 22nd September 2017.  Historic vessels sailed down the River to be met by 21st century tugs.

Open Bridges is an independent Hull/East Yorkshire based project.