The River in Colour by Bernard Sharp – Part 4

Posted on by Loudhailer Music in A River Full Of Stories, Bridges, Photography, Vessels

1982 – 1989

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.

  1. River Hull, Stoneferry, Kingston upon Hull Sunday, 15 August, 1982 Upstream of Ferry Lane bridge: warehousing and barges.
  2. River Hull, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday 3 October 1982. A Dutch coaster (left) and barge ‘Selby Janet’ (right) on the River Hull south of Scott Street bridge. No data available for either vessel.
  3. South Bridge Road, Kingston upon Hull Tuesday, 26 February, 1985. Boats on South Bridge Road between the river Hull and approaching the junction with Tower Street.
  4. Glass House Row, Kingston upon Hull Sunday, 13 May, 1984 The tower of the former Anglo-American Oil Mill, Glass House Row, now demolished.
  5. Ferry Lane Bridge, Kingston upon Hull Sunday, 21 July, 1985. This old bridge no longer exists. Due to its narrow carriageway and increased traffic flow, it was superseded by two adjacent bridges, one for each direction of flow.
  6. Glass House Row, Kingston upon Hull Sunday, 13 May, 1984. Detail of the tower of the former Anglo-American Oil Mill, Glass House Row, now demolished.
  7. River Hull, Kingston upon Hull Sunday, 8 August, 1982. The barge ‘Humber Star’ at moorings near the former Wilmington rail bridge, now for pedestrian/cycle use only. Viewed from the wharf near George Mansell’s premises.
  8. River Hull, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday 8 August 1982. General cargo ship ‘Victress’ was built 1963 and renamed ‘Thamwell’ in 1981. The vessel is moored at Spillers Mill, Cleveland Street. Following war damage, the mill was rebuilt in 1950. It was closed in 1983 and demolished in 2007.
  9. Wilmington, Kingston upon Hull Sunday, 21 July, 1985 Wilmington swing railway bridge, now a footbridge and cyclepath, spanning the river Hull. It replaced the original single-line bridge of 1853, by a double-line bridge, opened 1907, for the North Eastern Railway. Grade II Listed Building.
  10. Shipbuilding Yard, Lime Street, Kingston upon Hull, 1983. The general cargo ship ‘Hoo Willow’ was launched 21 November 1983 at the Lime Street shipbuilding yard of the Yorkshire Dry Dock Company.
  11. Bank Side, Kingston upon Hull Sunday, 21 July, 1985. Steel bowstring span swing bridge, built for the Hull & Barnsley Railway, 1885; still used by freight trains to King George Dock and Salt End chemical works. Grade II Listed Building.
  12. Shipbuilding Yard, Lime Street, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday 10 July 1983. The tanker barge ‘Fleet Enterprise’ was built in 1983 for John Whitaker Ltd. in the Lime Street shipbuilding yard (also shown) by the Yorkshire Dry Dock Company. By 2010 the vessel had been renamed ‘Humber Energy’, in 2015 ‘Ango Star’, and in 2016 ‘Petrojamas’.
  13. Tower Street, Kingston upon Hull Tuesday, 26 February, 1985. Deposits of aggregates, brought by ship to a wharf on the east bank of the River Hull, for grading and subsequent shipment to customers. The site has been redeveloped for other commercial purposes.
  14. Blaydes’ Staith, High Street, Kingston upon Hull Sunday, 25 July, 1982. The disused Phoenix warehouse, fronting the river Hull, was subsequently demolished. The site remains undeveloped at March 2013.
  15. Charlotte Street, Kingston upon Hull Tuesday, 5 March, 1985 North Bridge House, former ship supplies warehouse, adjacent to the river Hull, 1870, by R.G. Smith. It was refurbished and redeveloped for residential use c 1985. Grade II Listed Building.
  16. Blaydes Staithe, High Street, Kingston upon Hull Thursday, 17 August, 1989 A site bounded by Blaydes Staithe, High Street, Alfred Gelder Street and the river Hull was archaeologically evaluated in 1989 in advance of a proposed development. The survey produced extensive evidence of the original medieval waterfront and medieval timber vats most likely to have been used to store fish. Further reading: ‘Land at Blaydes Staith, Little High Street’ by Humber Field Archaeology, 2004. Illustrated is the water-filled cellar of the former Phoenix warehouse.

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

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