The Day The City Split In Two / A River Full Of Stories
We were fascinated by the sheer power of the tugs on the Humber when we were lucky enough to be shown round SMS Towage Limited - both inside the vessels and in the dry dock - in the preparations for Open Bridges in 2017. SMS Superman was one of the tugs which attended the event, … Continue reading Working Life On Board The Tugs
Keith and Trevor Reminisce Former lighterman Keith Eastwood and Trevor Branton reminisce about thier working lives as lightermen on the River Hull. Filmed for Open Bridges, A River Full of Stories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti1cb-jMH3s&list=PL74mcE0JPVbl-HQARP2xEpD_7XiTC9v2M&index=2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk4olOXR0nU&list=PL74mcE0JPVbl-HQARP2xEpD_7XiTC9v2M&index=38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ofZypYvPeo&list=PL74mcE0JPVbl-HQARP2xEpD_7XiTC9v2M&index=31 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_AYmYTL48I&list=PL74mcE0JPVbl-HQARP2xEpD_7XiTC9v2M&index=26 Rich and Lou Duffy-Howard
Dean's Marine John Dean who owns the last working dry dock on the River Hull, Dean's Marine, in conversation about his working life on the river, for A River Full of Stories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR7PeAgsraw&list=PL74mcE0JPVbl-HQARP2xEpD_7XiTC9v2M&index=41 Working life on the River Hull: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd6W9PyxsEg&list=PL74mcE0JPVbl-HQARP2xEpD_7XiTC9v2M&index=1&t=192s Rich and Lou Duffy-Howard
John Whittles' Story John Whittles on the restored heritage barge MV Syntan talks about working on the River Hull, for A River Full of Stories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkIL4TJ4YnE&list=PL74mcE0JPVbl-HQARP2xEpD_7XiTC9v2M&index=34 Gallery of Rich's photos taken on the MV Syntan with John at the helm, for the Open Bridges trial run. Find out more about the Syntan: https://openbridgeshull.com/motor-barge-syntan/ Rich and … Continue reading Working on the MV Syntan
Family on Board Janet Anderson nee Webster in conversation about life growing up in a family working and living on the River Hull. Janet’s family – the Websters – have been connected to the River Hull for over 250 years. One of ten children, the oldest four were all brought up on a barge before … Continue reading Womens’ Working Lives on the River
Les Reid's commute to work to the Heritage Barge Leicester Trader on his workboat 'Ruffian' Newark's unique Heritage Barge 'Leicester Trader' is the last Trent size cargo barge built to fit the old locks of the Trent Navigation Company, and registered in Hull. Saved from being scrapped in 2008 and renovated by Les and a … Continue reading A Different Commute to Work
Woodwards Propellers Woodwards have been marine specialists in propeller manufacture and repair and stern gear for vessels in Hull for 100 years. Moving from Keighley to Salthouse Lane in Hull in the 1920s, surviving the blitz and moving to Lime Street with a birth on the river post war they have recently moved to offices … Continue reading Woodwards Propellers
A Steam Power Station Sculcoates power station was in operation from 1898 to 1976, with the cooling tower lasting another three years before being demolished. The plant towered over Sculcoates and can be seen in many photographs of the time, looming on the horizon. During the 1950s the plant employed about 260 staff. The photograph … Continue reading Sculcoates Power Station
Black & White Weekly, Saturday April 22, 1893 Probably before this issue comes into the hands of our readers, the great labour war which has been raging in Hull with such bitterness will be at an end, and employers and employed will be pretty much where they were before. Ostensibly the Hull Dockers have been … Continue reading The Great Strike at Hull
A Postcard from Hull The story starts with a postcard of Monument Bridge.There are many unposted and unwritten postcards of the time, but this one looked different, a bit posh with an embossed wood effect frame and an image of the bridge with the Wilberforce monument in its original position with new City Hall and … Continue reading Milly Bugler
A Commute from West to East Researching the Open Bridges project over the last few years we’ve come across a quite a few old glass plate negatives of the River Hull, and city either side of the river, which have needed some painstaking restoration work to get them to the point of being good enough … Continue reading Going to Work