Open Bridges: A River Full Of Stories
Welcome to the next of our weekly selection of photographs from the HDM archive, two lovely photographs from 1971. Click on an image to see the full picture and scroll along.
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Thanks again to Angus Young. 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.
Yet more fantastic steps back into the past. Thankyou so very much for your hard work and dedication.
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Thanks Yvonne!
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i remember being on a dumb barge in 1948 , and there waas a slack tide, and my skipper had orders to get the load to beverly a,s,a,p, we couldnt get a two, and he had me pull it all the way , i had blood on my shoulders fr0m the ropes , pulling it , and my feet was bleeding, a couple of yrs later i was made skipper, and i had the pleasure, of haveing him as mate, the company i worked for was wm, bleasdale, and the name of the barge was wharncliffe,
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Hi Fred, thanks very much for leaving the comment, it’s always great to hear new stories and memories, best wishes, Rich and Lou
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working on the barges , in the 1949s, was a happy time of my life, i lived for my job, i was only 15 when i started, and only 17 hen i was made skiper, from all accounts i was the youngest skipper on the humber, its a long story , how i got it, w,m bleasdale was the company, mainly going from hull to sheffield, iether going trent, or the ouse i am now back in england after liveing abraude for many yrs, and i would love to do a trip up the humber , againt but to my disapointment , the old trafic on the river , has gone, i remember , more than once , i pened out of the lock , king george dock, arived sheffield basen , 24 hrs later, , i could go on and on , loved it
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Hi Fred, would you like to email us with a contact, if you’d like to chat about it further? Our email is richandlou@duffyhoward.karoo.co.uk
Best wishes, Rich and Lou
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