Eh, there isn't a railway track at Hessle Haven, there's no railway tracks on the southern side of the Clive Sully?
The pub became San Luca Italian restaurant, it was well done out, but the food was **** and it's shut down now.
The first and last time I went in San Luca's was 7 years ago, most of the staff were from Medios on Anlaby Common where I used to go quite regularly.
Now you are splitting hairs. But I concede that years of neglect, no dredging and road building could pile up mud and **** between the railway line and Hessle Haven. When I was a lad the railway crossed Hessle Haven on a bridge.
Had a trip to down english street and called at security on the docks. The guy was helpful and told me yhe walkway is closed for flood dfence work It was well over the path earlier this year. The work is about finished late sept early oct. tHey are opening back up when done
I'm sure you'll correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't the pub Hull Brewery's Ferry Boat? And wasn't Hull Brewery's chairman Charles Henry Seymour Cooper, a bigwig in the Territorial Army and Deputy Lieutenant with a silly blue uniform, and bigwig in the Hull Chamber of Commerce that is largely responsible for the city's decline? And didn't he live at The Red House, close north east of Elloughton on Dale Road? Thank heavens we don't have to put up with such people any more. Or do we?
I wasn't splitting hairs, as far as I'm aware the only way to cross Hessle Haven now, is by using Livingston Road.
And what did I put? You cross Hessle Haven at the railway track. Isn't Livingston Road as close to the railway track as close as you can build it? If you are not splitting hairs I don't know what else to call it.
It was indeed The Ferryboat Inn, being at the original site of the old Hessle to Barton ferry. I don't know anything about the bloke you've mentioned, but a Hessle history sites mentioned one owner of note - One of the more enigmatic characters to held the licence was John Spicer. Spicer who was something of a local entrepreneur, having his finger in many pies during his working life.
Okay if you insist. But since you do, it isn't a motorway, it is the A63. My point is that the railway line is, or was, at the head of Hessle Haven and crosses it by a substantial bridge of steel or cast iron.
There's a free ebook about a fictional walk from there that takes in part of the Wolds Way and the Horseshoe, the Beverley 20 and then finally round through Wawne to Sutton. I think it was called the Ghost Walk. EDIT. It's the Haunted Way. http://www.thewalkingcaveman.com/2012/10/the-haunted-way.html Now, while this thread was, like the trail seemingly stuck in the East Riding, I had a squint on a GPS website that uses OS maps, and the OS maps now show the trail running along the foreshore. I know the direction signs are still up around Cambridge St, but as the route wasn't along the foreshore, and now is, and as I contacted them, I'm going to claim all the credit for the apparent change. http://www.gps-routes.co.uk/routes/...e=trans-pennine-trail-walking-and-cycle-route
Fair enough, but it's not there now, so is largely academic with regard to how you get from one end of the foreshore to the other.
Looking at chunks of the GPS trace in various places, I reckon he's done it on a drone. The underlying path on the OS map is along the foreshore though, which is a distinct improvement.
It shows crossing Hessle Haven via Livingston Road, which as I believe I've stated already, is the only bloody way to cross it. It's a very odd route map though, as it doesn't actually follow the route, it just shows roughly the direction.
The OS map shows the route. The red thing is just the trace, either off someone's GPS or what they've drawn on. At the point your referring to, the bridge is the waterfront. Similar to the buildings on St Andrews Dock, lock gates, Marina, River Hull etc. The obstacles there are the couple of buildings part way along to the east. The footpath takes you most of the way along. I'm not sure why the east riding stopped it short. Shame really, but it does seem to be improving.
