Visited the old museum many a time as a youngster, the skeleton hanging from the ceiling was certainly an imposing feature but I have also visited the Dock Offices museum many a time as well. On the last occasion was after our confirmation as The City Of Culture thing and the museum had quite a few Dutch people looking around but it occured to me that there were no multi lingual leaflets for the Dutch to look at as they ambled their way around, I did ask but just got blank stares from the attendants.
there was a 70s film in Hull "Land of green Ginger" (maybe by Alan Plater) didnt they use the building for part of the movie
Makes sense that such an excellent building was associated with one of Hull's main industries. I guess Prince's Quay Dock was just outside the door at that point.
I've been to that museum twice , many years apart , as far as I can remember nothing had changed in about 15 years , it looked exactly the same
A great picture from 1925 that someone has just posted on Hull The Good Old Days... please log in to view this image Across the top of the picture you can see Queens Dock, Princes Dock and the marina, at the bottom right is the junction of Beverley Road and Spring Bank, you can see that the main road into the city centre was Prospect Street/King Edward Street from Spring Bank straight to the dock offices and at the time Ferensway didn't exist.
Classic Fail, OLM. What you call 'the marina' was, in fact, Humber Dock. And Railway Dock ran at 90 degrees to Humber Dock.
I got banned from The Whaling museum for scrapping with my mate Kenny whilst at Trinity. Banned for a week. I had the last laugh because I went in 6 days later.
I looked through Land of green ginger again, very dated acting, but nice to see the rock garden in Pickering park I used to go to, as well as some familiar sights down Hessle Road..
