{"id":17122,"date":"2025-02-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=17122"},"modified":"2025-02-13T10:59:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T10:59:44","slug":"victoria-dock-the-old-town-hull-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=17122","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Dock & the Old Town – Hull 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Victoria Dock & the Old Town<\/strong>: We arrived in Hull for a visit during the the city’s Year of Culture on Thursday 16th February 2017, 8 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We had come partly because I was hoping to have a show in the city – it would have been my first there since 1983 when ‘Still Occupied – A View of Hull<\/a>‘ was in the Ferens Gallery. This one would have been on a rather less grand scale and fell through when the bailiffs evicted the group who had been squatting another city centre property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But we had also come to celebrate Linda’s birthday in the city where she was born and grew up and for which we both have a particular affection, as well as to see some of the things that were happening for the special year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Victoria Dock Half Tide Basin. The black area in the distant dock wall was the entrance to Victoria Dock, now completly filled in<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And as always I had come to take photographs, in particular to revisit some of the many places around the city I had photographed back in the 1970s and 1980s. You can see many of those pictures on the Hull Photos web site<\/a> where I posted a new photo every day throughout Hull’s year as City of Culture and beyond. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I wasn’t bent on a “re-photography” project. These often seem to me a rather lazy way for people who haven’t any real photographic ideas of their own to capitalise on those of other people – or even their own earlier work. Parasitical. Though I do have to admire a few projects that have been really well carried out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For me photography has always been about my immediate response to the subject. If the scene has changed so too will I respond differently; and if it hasn’t why bother to photograph it again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In particular I had moved over the years to seeing landscape and urban landscapes very much more in terms of panoramas. Forty or so years earlier had I worked almost entirely with tightly framed scenes using a 35mm shift lens. But now – with a few exceptions – I was working with the very different perspective of the wide sweeping view of a panorama. It forced me to think differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Victoria Dock, Hull’s timber dock had closed before I began making pictures there, although there were still a few small pockets of industry on and around the largely derelict site, as well as some remnants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now the dock has largely been filled in – the large timber ponds had already gone when I first visited. Much is now housing estates, leaving just the Outer Basin and Half Tide Basin and a slipway with water in them. And we were staying in a room of a house on one of the new estates. We arrived in early afternoon and after dumping our bags went out for a walk along the side of the Humber as the weather was fine for photography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The mouth of the River Hull<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I had walked along this footpath years before, going on past the still open Alexandra and King George V Docks more or less to the city boundary. Now the path is cut off by the Siemens wind turbine site on the former Alexandra Dock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We turned around and walked back towards the Old Town where a new footbridge took us across the River Hull and on to a drink and an early dinner at the Minerva. After the dramatic skies earlier the sunset was rather disappointing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After a long rest in the pub we decided to wander around the Old Town. In 2017 the area was still pretty empty on a Thursday night in winter, cut in half by the A63, the busy road to the docks (or rather dock), a reminder that Hull is still a significant port. But the footbridge I was then very sceptical about in my account on My London Diary was eventually built. Still something of a barrier, but far less frustrating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We walked as far as the city centre to admire (and photograph) the turbine blade on display there before turning round to walk back over the River Hull – this time we took the now seldom-lifting North Bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We walked south beside the river along the deserted riverside path to Drypool Bridge where the path was then closed off after the needless demolition of Rank’s Mill for a hotel that didn’t arrive and through the streets – another long wait to cross the A63 – and back to the house we were staying in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read more details of the walk and see more of the panoramas I made on My London Diary.
Victoria Dock Promenade<\/a>
Night in the Old Town<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flickr<\/a> – Facebook<\/a> – My London Diary<\/a> – Hull Photos<\/a> – Lea Valley<\/a> – Paris<\/a>
London’s Industrial Heritage<\/a> – London Photos<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All photographs on this page are copyright \u00a9 Peter Marshall.
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