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  1. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator Staff Member

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    Anyone know why this old dry dock in Hull is famous?

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    East_Stand_Always Active Member

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    I'm guessing its where the Bounty was built!
     
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    Dr.Stanley O'Google, HCFC Well-Known Member

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    You've got me there, OLM - I thought you were posting the dock where (the ship that became) the 'Bounty' was built - Blaydes shipyard.
     
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    did it win x factor in 2011?
     
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  5. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator Staff Member

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    It is indeed the Blaydes dock where the Bounty was built, we ought to do something with it, it's just a piece of waste ground and it's not that far from the Arctic Corsair.

    We could even get a Bounty to moor there, there's a replica in Hong Kong...

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  6. Dr.Stanley O'Google, HCFC

    Dr.Stanley O'Google, HCFC Well-Known Member

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    I didn't think it was so derelict/silted up. It should be saved, even if not used as a dry-dock.
     
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  7. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator Staff Member

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    I didn't realise there we so many dry docks along the banks of the Hull, the overgrown Blaydes one is on the centre right of this image...

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    Are you positive? I ask, because I always thought it was behind the College, on the West bank of the Hull....

    [Edit: like in this pic - the one with the cranes, next to Blaydes House]
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  9. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator Staff Member

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    It was on Great Union Street according to the stuff I was reading earlier, but the blue plaque is on the other side, so the reference stuff I was looking at might be wrong(unless they were on both sides).
     
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    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator Staff Member

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    The blue plaque site would tend to suggest that it is indeed the bottom one on the left on the image I posted above.

    I was close. <doh>
     
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    It really does annoy me when things like this are brought up, in other city's these sorts of things would be preserved/regenerated, yet Hull City Council just seem to let things get ****.
     
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    Agreed <ok>
     
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  13. chien

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    Didnt mean to dislikr the post cracking picture, ment to like like
     
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  14. Stuart Blampey

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    That's what you get with this inept mixure of local socialist thickos and imported social worker types like Hale.

    No pride in their city.
     
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    We should mutiny <whistle>
     
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    I have no idea whether this has worked - however if it has - it's the replica bounty which sails around the Sydney harbour - and it is an impressive sight
     
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