1990 – 2021
All of the images and accompanying text are copyright Bernard Sharp and used with permission and under licence (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0). All of the photographs are numbered with the corresponding text by Bernard to accompany each photograph below the gallery.
- Old Harbour, River Hull, Kingston upon Hull. Friday, 16 March, 1990. At left, the former Trinity House Buoy Shed, occupied by Northern Divers. Centre, a ship is discharging sand/gravel.
- Dock Office Row, Kingston upon Hull. Saturday, 13 April, 2013. A relic of the former Queen’s Dock, 1778-1930, the dock basin was reused as a dry dock from 1957 to the end of the 20th century. The dock retains the last ‘Scotch’ type derrick in the Old Town, a distinctive port-related feature and a rare reminder of the city’s shipbuilding past. Included on the City Council’s ‘Local List’ of buildings.
- Lime Street, Kingston upon Hull. Saturday, 6 April, 2013. Far left: Chambers & Fargus, seed crushers and edible oil refiners, was established in Wincolmlee in 1854. In 1907, the Anglo-Egyptian Oil Mills & Refinery, Lime Street, next to the river Hull, depicted, were purchased from the late George Hodge. The milling operation closed down in 1991. Looking downstream towards North Bridge. Viewed from the junction of Scott Street and Wincolmlee.
- Old Harbour, River Hull, Kingston upon Hull. 2005. Moored on the west bank, adjacent to the Museum Quarter, is the trawler ‘Arctic Corsair’. In the foreground is the tanker ‘Humber Princess’. Drypool Bridge is in the centre background.
- Scale Lane Bridge, Kingston upon Hull. Thursday, 31 December, 2009. The work begins on piling for a new footbridge across the river Hull from Scale Lane Staithe to Tower Street. Originally named the Boom Bridge, it was officially opened as the Scale Lane Bridge on 28 June 2013.
- Old Harbour, River Hull, Kingston upon Hull. Tuesday, 23 October, 2012. On a misty morning, the tug ‘Gillian Knight’ moves upstream past the former buoy shed built for the Trinity House.
- River Hull, Kingston upon Hull. 2005. Looking between the girders of Drypool Bridge towards North Bridge House and a closed North Bridge.
- Old Harbour, River Hull, Kingston upon Hull. 1991. A vessel is moored at the harbour side. Lister Court and Pease Court are former warehouses converted for residential accommodation.
- Old Harbour, River Hull, Kingston upon Hull. Friday, 12 January, 2018. ‘Rix Owl’, an oil products tanker, built 2003 for Rix Shipping, approaches the pedestrian bridge over the river Hull on its journey upstream.
- Dock Office Row, Kingston upon Hull. Saturday, 12 June, 2021. The site of the former North End shipyard is to become the new home for the Arctic Corsair, the converted sidewinder trawler which operates as a fishing museum and is currently being refurbished at Alexandra Dock. A relic of the former Queen’s Dock, 1778-1930, the dock basin was reused as a dry dock from 1957 to the end of the 20th century. The dock retains the last ‘Scotch’ type derrick in the Old Town, a distinctive port-related feature and a rare reminder of the city’s shipbuilding past. Included on the City Council’s ‘Local List’ of buildings.
Thanks very much to Bernard for the permission to use both the images and text – all copyright Bernard Sharp and published under licence.
Rich and Lou Duffy-Howard