The River Hull and Yorkshire Dry Dock at night by Andy Hazell

Andy lived in Grosvenor Mill overlooking Scott Street Bridge between 1988 and 1999 and recently sent us another set of his remarkable photographs:

“It is minus 18 here and being outside isn’t much fun. So I have found another box of mislabelled slides and found the River Hull illuminated by the late shift at the shipyard.

The shipyard was busy, often late into the night, alive with the chorus of hammers and the scream of grinders.

One time they were building a ship from Polish steel and had progressed well. Each night the ‘straightening crew’ would realign the vessel, pulling it plumb with pull-lifts. Some nights there’d be a bang as the steel tore, rather than bending. They had to cut it up for scrap and start again.

The River was a good place to live”.

Andy Hazell 2026

You can see more of Andy’s night time photography on his website here: Andy Hazell Night Time Photography

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