River Hull Archive #15 1973

Open Bridges: A River Full Of Stories

Welcome to number 15 of our weekly selection of photographs from the HDM archive, 1973.  The view north to Banks Mill with the Thomas Waudby and Witwal in the foreground, two of the oldest warehouses in Hull and a damaged but dramatic aerial photograph. Click on an image to see the full picture and scroll along.

The view north to Banks Mill with the Thomas Waudby and Witwal in the foreground

Two of the oldest warehouses in Hull in 1973

July 1973 – taken by Times photographer Colin Grant

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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.