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The dock was extended by about 10 acres (4.0 ha) after the Hull Dock Company was taken over by the North Eastern Railway, with work beginning in 1894. This work included the construction of slipways for boat repair. [23] The new dock, St Andrew's Dock Extension, was connected at the west end via a channel; the slipways were at the far west end ...
1883 – St Andrew's Dock is established. [1]: 308 1884 – Hull Amateur Photographic Society founded. [25] 1885 Hull and Barnsley Railway begins operating. Alexandra Dock built. [1]: 308 Hull Daily Mail newspaper begins publication. [26] 1886 – Synagogue established. [27] 1887 East Park opens. First women's rugby match is played in Hull. [1 ...
English: Russian Outrage on the Hull fishing fleet on 22 October 1904, otherwise known as the 'Dogger Bank incident', the 'North Sea Incident', or the 'Incident of Hull', showing shell-damaged returned trawlers in St Andrews Dock, Hull.
9 January 1935 – The trawler, The Edgar Wallace, was coming into port at St Andrews Dock in Hull, when it hit a sandbank and capsized. Water rushed into the cabins and 15 members of her crew drowned, with the three survivors swept overboard, but being rescued by passing ships. [144]
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The Dock Offices building is so-named as it is the former headquarters of the Hull Dock Company, which operated all docks in Hull until 1893. [3] Built in 1872, it is a Grade II* listed building [4] [5] and a striking example of Victorian architecture. [3] The building stands in Queen Victoria Square, opposite the Queen's Gardens, in Hull's ...
A church, St Mary and St Peter was established on Hessle Road in 1902, north of the wagon works; in 1906 it became a chapelry of the parish of Newington (deconsecrated and demolished, 1962). [16] [17] [note 1] In 1912 the Eureka cinema opened on Hessle Road (closed 1959). [19] (see also Closed cinemas in Kingston upon Hull). Mechanical coaling ...
Lillian Marshall was born in 7 Welton Terrace, Wassand Street, Hessle Road, Hull [1] on 26 May 1929 to Ernest Marshall, trawlerman and former Royal Navy engineer, and his wife, Harriet, née Chapman. She left the Daltry Street Junior School, Hull at the age of 14 and worked as a cod skinner.