Hull Docks 1980s Part 6 by Bernard Sharp

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Alexandra Dock

Thanks very much to Bernard for the permission to use both the images and text – all copyright Bernard Sharp and published under licence. All of the photographs are numbered with the corresponding text by Bernard to accompany each photograph below the gallery.

  1. Alexandra Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Monday, 19 July, 1982. The diesel-electric paddler Farringford operated B.R.’s ferry service between Hull Corporation Pier and New Holland, Lincolnshire, from 1974 until the day in 1981, when the Humber Bridge opened to road and pedestrian traffic. The Farringford was scrapped at Earle’s yard on the Humber estuary in 1983.
  2. Alexandra Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Monday, 19 July, 1982. The buoy tender vessel ‘Humber Guardian’, operational 1967 to 1993, was responsible for the maintenance of all the lightships and buoys in the Humber estuary. The vessel is depicted leaving Alexandra Dock. The ‘Humber Guardian’ was sold, converted to a cruise ship and renamed ‘Tropic Sun’ in 1994.
  3. Alexandra Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Monday, 19 July, 1982. Cranes and machinery adjacent to the locks.
  4. Alexandra Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Monday, 19 July, 1982. Alexandra Dock, built by the Hull & Barnsley Railway Company, opened 16 July 1885. The Dock closed to commercial shipping 30 September 1982, re-opening in 1991. Looking through a piece of machinery towards a travelling crane on one of the jetties.
  5. Alexandra Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Thursday, 26 April, 1984. Discarded machinery and timber on the jetty, east of the lock-pit.
  6. Alexandra Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Tuesday, 12 June, 1984. A deep lock entrance on the south side with three pairs of steel lock gates, the outer pair renewed 1927-28, the central pair constructed 1957 and installed 1958. Grade II Listed Building. 
  7. Alexandra Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 2 June, 1985. Alexandra Dock, built by the Hull & Barnsley Railway Company, opened 16 July 1885. The Dock closed to commercial shipping 30 September 1982, re-opening in 1991.
  8. Alexandra Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 2 June, 1985. A 3.25-ton travelling crane alongside Graving Dock No.2.
  9. Alexandra Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 2 June, 1985. At No.3 Berth, a fixed 100-ton steam crane. A plaque on the side of the crane cab reads: ‘James Taylor & Co. Engineers Birkenhead 1886’. The crane was last used in November 1977 to unload a steam locomotive for the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway. Grade II* Listed Building. Looking towards jetties A, B & C.
  10. As above.
  11. As above.
  12. Alexandra Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 30 June, 1985. Between the two graving docks, the pumping engine house, 1880-85. Grade II Listed Building.
  13. Alexandra Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 2 June, 1985. The two graving docks at the N.E. corner of the dock. My late father was employed as a cranedriver here for several years.
  14. Alexandra Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Thursday, 4 July, 1985. Viewed through machinery on the lock side are travelling cranes and sheds on an adjacent quay.
  15. Alexandra Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Thursday, 4 July, 1985. Entrance to the lockpit from the Humber estuary.
  16. Alexandra Dock, Kingston upon Hull, Sunday, 30 June, 1985. Travelling crane and pumphouse at the graving docks.

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).

Rich and Lou Duffy-Howard

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